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===[[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters]]===
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At the beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing[[image:4star. In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, because of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
 Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Hendrix Keeley -->
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===[[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersThe Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]===
The night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy[[image:4star. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the band. In a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, she's determined to face the man who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
 In Victorian England, young Edward Fitzberranger is about to be infected with scarlet fever and die. Further back still in time, Sir Francis Fitzberranger is about to marry Tina, the love of his life. In the modern day, Henry and Luke are getting on with life. And in an alternate timeline, Ellie is working for a resistance movement and struggling under a Britain ruled by the Nazis... [[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Steve Burrows Wilson -->
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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune's most celebrated case was his rescue of the Home Secretary's daughter when she was kidnapped[[image:4star. It's always been his deep regret that he failed to rescue the man who was kidnapped with her and this has all resurfaced now that the case is being reviewed. Long-buried secrets are bound to come to light, even though the officer reviewing the case, DC Desdemona Gill, is a fan of his to the extent that it's almost embarrassing. The review isn't the only problem he has thoughjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: a body has been found on some waste groundConfident Readers|Confident Readers]], but it's so badly burned that identification is difficult - and made more difficult by the indecision of the Medical Examiner. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve BurrowsCategory:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Jago doesn't like Clementine. He knows there is something different about her and he doesn't like it. And he never lets her forget it. Clementine knows she's different too, and that the difference is magic. And as much as she tries to ignore it, Clementine's magic is getting stronger. So when Jago's bullying gets too much, it's not really surprising that Clem loses control of it and gets herself suspended from school. [[Snowglobe by Amy Wilson|Full Review]]<!-- Neil White Haig -->
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===[[The Darkness Around Her by Neil White]]===
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Year[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's Eve. It obviously wasncursed! She can't the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizziespeak unless it's friends at to tell the pubtruth. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, but before long Peter Box was arrested right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a white lie is okay and charged. Hesometimes it'd sought treatment s better to say nothing at the local hospital for an injury all. You might not want to his head which was attract the same shape as attention of the heel of Lizzie's shoe - school bully by calling him mean and her blood was on the shoe. Dan Grant was called in to represent Boxnasty, for example, but there's a problem. Box won't talk - won't talk to the police or you might not want to Grant, so how is he to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious tell someone that he hadn't known her - so why would he kill her? you think their brand new haircut looks awful. [[The Darkness Around Her Truth Pixie by Neil WhiteMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]===
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[[image:4starDr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[:Category:TeensJess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent|TeensFull Review]]
''When Tom Allenby, the 14 year-old boy who can control the elements, sees metal objects and cars rising into the air one night he knows he is facing a powerful enemy. The trail leads to stolen magnetic stones, sinister experiments in an old country house and a village hiding a secret. As each of his friends faces challenges of their own, can Tom fight a force which knows all about them?'' Of course he can! [[ Blue Sky Black by John Connors |Full Review]] <!-- Melissa Leet Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Landslide Nothing Lasting by Melissa LeetLaura Solomon]]===
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The area where Jill and Susie lived wasnWe never know the man's name but let't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with s call him ''herBoyo'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. JillIt's father was Jay Tutlewhat his mother used to call him, the photographer, but not least because he spent much of his time working away - often for months on endfound it annoying. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs SmithWhen we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''living''s alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still youngas most people would understand it. Joy She spends her days watching daytime television and tragedy would visit Jill's homedrinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'Landslide'' is the story d spent a couple of how years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hopeshe has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist. [[Landslide Nothing Lasting by Melissa LeetLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The House Across the Street Broken Things by Lesley PearseLauren Oliver]]===
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Have you ever found yourself staring out the window slightly longer than needed to see what your neighbours are up to? This is a common occurrence for Katy Speed who regularly watches 'The House Across the Street' as a frequent stream of women are brought there in the same black hummer and seen leaving a short while later. Although slightly unusual, not much is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossip, that is until Katy This is woken up in the early hours one morning to find out that the same house has been burnt to the ground, along problem with the woman who lives words and even stories: there. This situation is made a whole lot worse for Katy when her father is arrested for starting the fire. What follows is an engrossing depiction of Katynever one truth's quest to prove her father's innocence whilst dealing with her unbearable mother and ultimately having the safety of many people's lives in her hands. [[The House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse|Full Review]]
Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. They begin to believe it is real, that the world of Lovelorn is really materialising around them, and start writing their own fan-fiction sequel. One day, Summer is violently murdered in the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and Brynn did it. [[Broken Things by Lauren Oliver|Full Review]] <!-- Maitland Albertelli -->
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts What if It's Us by Karen MaitlandBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]===
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Witchcraft''I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the supernatural and the will to survive at universe, all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human natureit. The land is unhappy, But not how you're thinking. I don't mean it in the old spirits want revenge our souls were split and you're my other half forever and famine is kindling a resurgence ever sort of the old faithway. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne I just think you're meant to ignore that something rotten has taken rootmeet some people. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of changeI think the universe nudges them into your path. [[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland|Full Review]]''
''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character and their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. [[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]] <!-- Sedgwick Quentin Bates -->
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Marcus SedgwickQuentin Bates]]===
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Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (well, Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a bodyguard. It wasn't just the sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long the kind that is also mad, job took and dangerous with no contact with the family - she wasn't the only one to know)have doubts about the man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a spooky reading list and a few chance topics of discussion all led a young woman saint who devoted himself to start writing her firsthelping refugees escape the carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, and definitely her most famous ever, bookor a money-laundering gunrunner. The narrator truth was probably a combination of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine building, in the centre of that first novel's worldtwo, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates itbut whichever or whatever was correct, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems to only be there 's money on Osman's head and doing this for is the publisher to whom reason why he addresses and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a lot gun under her fleece and with a group of the script we readarmed police in a nearby house. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Marcus SedgwickQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick]]===
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The site was rumoured to have been the home [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a lot of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery time indoors by Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists of the graves of three women initially caused great excitementhimself. This worries his mother, which rapidly turned to horror when they realised that the women had died just over twenty years ago. The graves would bring some closure though - these were the bodies of the three missing victims of the 'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow in the early has engaged a therapist to mid nineties. It was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley try to confront a failure in help Evan with his pastextreme anxiety issues. HeEvan'd been on s therapist assigns him the original case task of writing a daily letter to himself as a way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the murderer had never been foundworld around him. He'd also lost But Connor Murphy, a close friend and made some enemiesrather scary boy at school, finds one of whom would return to taunt him when Police ScotlandEvan's Cold Case Unit arrived letters and gets the wrong end of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, the girl he has a crush on the sceneand who is Connor's sister. [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Novel by Denzil MeyrickVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[21 Lessons for Agatha Raisin and the 21st Century Dead Ringer by Yuval Noah HarariM C Beaton]]===
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Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us ''Sapiens'St Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a team of dedicated bell ringers, which told with the history of mankind keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and then when we first meet them they''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankindre preparing for the bishop's futurevisit. Now we have ''21 Lessons for the 21st Century'' which looks at the challenges we currently face and it's enlighteningyou might be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man, thought-provoking and occasionally just but this bishop is a little bit frighteningdifferent. ItOne description is 'sex on legs's unlikely that mankind will face what and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - eighty years ago at first - would have been thought but there's the merest whiff of as a traditional war, with armies, navies and air forces fighting it out hand to handscandal about the bishop. It's much more likely that the threats wemystery of the bishop'll face will be relatively new. Harari looks at them in some depths ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her body have ever been found. [[21 Lessons for Agatha Raisin and the 21st Century Dead Ringer by Yuval Noah HarariM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks Louisiana's Way Home by A N WilsonKate DiCamillo]]===
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In a country very much like New Zealand, but at It is the middle of the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her first attraction for up to tell her partner was that the only thing day of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to make sense middle of all those exaggerated songs the night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she'd heardrealises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that they will never return. Separated from her friends, Raymie and books Beverly and poems she'd readher cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and plays desperate. She is determined that she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbolewill find her way home somehow. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from But as her life becomes entwined with the off, because of something quite drastic – people living in a major earthquake very much like small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the one ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then she is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quakedestined only for goodbyes. [[Aftershocks Louisiana's Way Home by A N WilsonKate DiCamillo|Full Review]]
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In a world ravaged by Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the horrors possibility of the Second World War, two boys women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and two girls move Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the countryside to stay with need for a professorsperm donor or any other male intervention. They find What follows is a secret door story that shows the harshness and then a strange at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and enthralling world where they are neededthe general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to play a major role in an epic battlethe demise of men. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician XX by Piers TordayAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Amber Maze Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Christopher BowdenSally Gardner]]===
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Hugh Mullion goes away Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to Dorset for visit regularly, although she still lives in the weekend sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and, while waiting for his wife whether it would ever come to arriveher island and secondly, finds about a mysterious key down magical ice cream made from the back berries of an antique chairthe Gongalong bush. The grubby and torn label to which is attached readsOne scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true... [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|Full Review]]
And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] Tweet scheduled for 9.15clare@headofzeus.com <!-- Pickles Davies -->
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===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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When we This is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. Forster, ''[[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles Tirzah and the Prince of Crows'' has no great and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was stirring action but rather small ripples that make a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting peoplehuge impact. He's a bit better now and something which he really enjoys Tirzah is going for a walk. It's not just young girl of sixteen raised in a case small Welsh town in the 1970s by highly religious parents as part of attaching a lead strict religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she wants to be, and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things what she wants to think about firstdo with her life. [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House The problem with a craft which is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It largely based on traditional designs is told that what results from the perspective of Charleyyour labours is also traditional, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wildecollection of patterns from today's sister, Lydia, and top designers. As a French-Canadian lieutenantword of warning, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there. The perspective of 's nothing new in the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell but if you're new to the truth about what was happening during magazine this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning could well prove to unravel it herselfbe a delightful collection from the back catalogue. [[Bellewether Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Susanna KearsleyVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Legend Chaos of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure (Legend of Kevin 1) Now by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreErin Lange]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends offer him the chance to enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a sting in its tail. How many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, the very presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, to grow. Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange|Full Review]]
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Meet Kevin. He's a flying pony, and he's a little on the plump side. He loves biscuits too much is why, but he's happily living in the middle of nowhere, in the wild, wet hills of the Outermost West. Now meet Max. He's a simple human being, not flying anywhere, and wishing for a pet to share his time in his top-floor flat with, something his Byronically goth sister and parents don't agree with. One night, however, the wild and wet hills are wilder and wetter than usual, and an enormous storm blows Kevin out of his nest, and on to the balcony outside Max's window. The two are bound to become friends, but they might not be able to relax just yet, for the bad weather has not finished… [[The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure (Legend of Kevin 1) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre|Full Review]]
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===[[The Murder of Harriet Monkton Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Elizabeth HaynesMichael Pronko]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]]
''But that's just it'', she said[[image:4. ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harriet5star. It's some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquestjpg|link=Category: something to be summed up like a spirit, to be examined and pored over, to be sneered at and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrion.''{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
And that was the problem: it seemed that The funeral is a good time to rob a house in Tokyo - and even better when they're famous as most people will be there were two Harriets. There was Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the one her friends - a fellow teacher, her wouldgreat political thinkers -be lover, her seducer and renowned for his support of the man who American bases in Japan. One of the great tragedies of his murder was her landlord who that he was also just a few days short of meeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and her lover - knewmother divorced she took the teenager to the USA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Some spoke of Jamie and her as kindly, virtuous and piousmother came back for the funeral, but that was her mother departed as soon (or even before ) she decently could, leaving Jamie to settle her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromleyfather's affairs. SheThe only problem is that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson'd been poisoned s legacy - or had taken her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the chaste life expected of a young, unmarried woman in 1843they're prepared to be violent to get their hands on it. [[The Murder of Harriet Monkton Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Elizabeth HaynesMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[You Only Live Once Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by Jess VallanceJohn Clare]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]
[[imageI was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling:4starThe Presenter's Secret Weapon''.jpg|link=Category After all, the majority of presentations which I've seen or given were in a business context and what was required was absolute professionalism, not an act put on for light entertainment. I needn't have worried though:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]the book is an essential guide to preparing and giving your presentation, with or without what has now come to be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or more years and I did wonder if the book would be able to teach me anything. It did.
Gracie Dart is a studious, responsible student with a colour coded timetable and French verbs covering her walls. She's hardworking and smart but once her final school exams are over, Gracie has a revelation. After she mistakenly thinks she's contracted a fatal illness (the perils of looking up symptoms on the internet) Gracie decides to start living her life. Her studies are finished for the summer so Gracie wants to say yes to every opportunity that comes her way, and just like her meticulous study timetable, Gracie Dart doesn't do anything by half measures. [[You Only Live Once by Jess Vallance|Full Review]]
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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|FantasyTreasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley]]===
Sancia Grado is just about to pull off [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the same format, separated by comma + space)Sponge and Mildew are not the biggest heist fans of her fugitive life for more money than she has ever seen before in all her gruelling years on Tevannetheir school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's streetsrun down. The job: steal a small wooden box from a safe deep inside the Waterwatch-patrolled harbour and deliver it untouched to the clientIt's gloomy. Fearless and quick, she is the best thief Foundryside has to offer and has never interfered with jobs before. Yet once she has the box in her possession, she You can't shake move for gargoyles and that's discounting the uneasy apprehensive feeling of what lies withinteachers. For Sancia is But when they find out that there's no ordinary thiefmoney left and the school might close they realise that, with tatty and morose as the magical ability to scrive and understand everything she touches she's about to discover a secret that will sent her fleeing for her lifeMaudlin Towers is, unearthing myths that are it transpires more truth than fairy-taleis ''home''. Working against the clock, Sancia will work to save her world and prevent So they set their minds on a descent into destructionrescue mission. .. [[Foundryside Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Robert Jackson BennettChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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