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===[[Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak]]===
===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:3star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Crime (Historical)For Sharing|Crime (Historical)For Sharing]]
In 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist, making off with priceless works of art from a Boston Museum. These missing art works are never found. In 1988, a student finds himself caught up in the mystery of the missing art and hot on the trail of the multi-million-dollar reward. In 2014, the art is still missing and now dead bodies are turning up at the eponymous Charlesgate, filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunion. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? [[Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak|Full Review]]
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]]<!-- Minette Walters Keeley -->
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===[[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionConfident Readers|Historical FictionConfident Readers]]
At the beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. 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? [[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters|Full Review]]
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]]<!-- Hendrix Wilson -->
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===[[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix]]===
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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 dearjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], will Kris be able to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…? [[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix:Category: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]]<!-- Steve Burrows Haig -->
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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeThe Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
DCI Domenic Jejeune[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's most celebrated case was his rescue of the Home Secretarycursed! She can's daughter when she was kidnapped. Itt speak unless it's always been his deep regret that he failed to rescue tell the man who was kidnapped with her and truth. You might think 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 Gilla good thing because telling lies is bad, is a fan of his to right? But sometimes the extent that it's almost embarrassing. The review truth isn't the only problem he has though: nice and sometimes a body has been found on some waste ground, but white lie is okay and sometimes it's so badly burned that identification is difficult - and made more difficult by better to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the indecision attention of the Medical Examinerschool bully by calling him mean and nasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery The Truth Pixie by Steve BurrowsMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[The Darkness Around Her Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Neil WhiteM B Vincent]]===
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on Dr Jess Castle, the canal towpath on New Year's Eve. It obviously wasn't self proclaimed failure of the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizzie's friends at prestigious Castle family has returned home to the pubsleepy, but before long Peter Box was arrested and chargedidyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. He'd sought treatment at Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the local hospital judge. Luckily for an injury Jess, she doesn't have to his head which was the same shape try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as the heel a series of Lizziegruesome local murders are taking place and that's shoe - and her blood was on the shoeall anyone is talking about. Dan Grant was called Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and to represent Box, but there's a problemher delight finds that she can actually be useful. Box won't talk - won't talk to But with the small population dwindling and the police or sense of danger moving ever closer to Granthome, so how is he to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious that he hadn't known her - so why would he kill herhas Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[The Darkness Around Her Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Neil WhiteM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[Nothing Lasting by Laura Solomon]]===
===[[Blue Sky Black by John Connors]]=== [[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensHorror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|TeensFantasy]]
We never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoying. When Tom Allenbywe first meet Boyo his mother is alive, the 14 year-old boy who can control the elements, sees metal objects if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and cars rising into the air one night he knows he drinking. Housework is facing a powerful enemyforeign country. The trail leads to stolen magnetic stones When she dies she's not missed, sinister experiments firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in an old country house and a village hiding a secretmental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. As each of She wants him to achieve something in his friends faces challenges of their own, can Tom fight life: what she has in mind is that he could be a force which knows all about them?''famous arsonist. [[Nothing Lasting by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Landslide Broken Things by Melissa LeetLauren Oliver]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn'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 alcoholicSummer, Mia and Jill lived Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''herThe Way into Lovelorn'' mother, who dedicated herself . They begin to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutlebelieve it is real, that the photographerworld of Lovelorn is really materialising around them, but he spent much of his time working away and start writing their own fan- often for months on endfiction sequel. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' One day, Summer is violently murdered in the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life woods where they all played and how great tragedy can breed resilience everyone thinks Mia and hopeBrynn did it. [[Landslide Broken Things by Melissa LeetLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[The House Across the Street What if It's Us by Lesley PearseBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:5star''I believe in love at first sight.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Fate, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]the universe, all of it. But not how you're thinking. I don't mean it in the our souls were split and you're my other half forever and ever sort of way. I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path.''
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 What If It's Us'' is one of women are brought there in the same black hummer and seen leaving those books that just gives you a short while laterboost when you need it. Although slightly unusualA feel good, not much is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossip, that is until Katy is woken up in fun and easy read. I was surprised at the early hours collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one morning to find out that the same house has been burnt to the groundknown for happy endings, along with the woman who lives thereother for tragedy – but they really work together well. This situation is made Each takes a whole lot worse for Katy when her father is arrested for starting the fire. What follows is an engrossing depiction of Katy's quest to prove her father's innocence whilst dealing with her unbearable mother character and ultimately having the safety of many people's lives their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in her hands. [[The House Across the Street What if It's Us by Lesley PearseBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Karen MaitlandQuentin Bates]]===
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Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to survive at all costs collide in become a story that never shies bodyguard. It wasn't just the sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long the darker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, job took and with no contact with the family - she wasn't the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of only one to have doubts about the old faithman she was guarding. As fear risesInvited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to ignore that something rotten has taken roothelping refugees escape the carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, or a money-laundering gunrunner. The sacred well truth was probably a combination of the two, but whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is taintedthe reason why he and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, its healing waters run red with blood Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and strangers are blowing with a group of armed police in on a wind of changenearby house. [[A Gathering of Ghosts Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Karen MaitlandQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Horror|HorrorThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (well[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a lot of time indoors by himself. This worries his mother, who has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. Evan's therapist assigns him the kind that is also mad, and dangerous task of writing a daily letter to know), himself as a spooky reading list and a few chance topics way of discussion all led a young woman getting Evan to start writing her first, think more constructively about himself and definitely her most famous everthe world around him. But Connor Murphy, book. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine buildingrather scary boy at school, in the centre finds one of that first novelEvan's world, to revisit it in honour letters and gets the wrong end of its bicentenary. He hates itthe stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems to only be there and doing this for the publisher to whom girl he addresses has a lot of the script we readcrush on and who is Connor's sister. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Monsters We Deserve Novel by Marcus SedgwickVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Denzil MeyrickM C Beaton]]===
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The site was rumoured to have been St Ethelred's Church in the home idyllic Cotswold village of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery by Professor Francombe and her Thirk Magna has a team of archaeologists of dedicated bell ringers, with the graves of three women initially caused great excitement, which rapidly turned to horror keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them 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 're preparing for the bishop'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow in the early to mid ninetiess visit. It was also Now you might be expecting an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront older, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a failure in his pastlittle different. HeOne description is 'd been sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - but there's the original case and merest whiff of a scandal about the murderer had never been foundbishop. HeIt'd also lost a close friend and made some enemies, one s the mystery of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotlandthe bishop's Cold Case Unit arrived on the sceneex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her body have ever been found. [[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Denzil MeyrickM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century Louisiana's Way Home by Yuval Noah HarariKate DiCamillo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:4It is the middle of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to middle of the night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she realises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that they will never return. Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow.5starBut as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and SocietyLouisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo|Politics and SocietyFull Review]]
Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us <!-- Chadwick --> |-| style=''Sapienswidth: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;'', which told the history of mankind and then ''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind's future|[[image:0349700249. Now we have ''21 Lessons for the 21st Century'' which looks at the challenges we currently face and it's enlightening, thought-provoking and occasionally just a little bit frighteningjpg|link=http://www. It's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought of as a traditional war, with armies, navies and air forces fighting it out hand to handamazon. It's much more likely that the threats we'll face will be relatively newco. Harari looks at them in some depth. [[uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari|Full Review]]
 | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[XX by Angela Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson Gardner -->
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===[[Aftershocks by A N Wilson]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]Mr Tiger, [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionBetsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]===
In a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Aftershocks by A N Wilson:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
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 visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. 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 <!-- Torday Davies -->
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===[[The Lost Magician Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Piers TordayDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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In This is a world ravaged by the horrors quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of the Second World WarE. M. Forster, two boys ''[Tirzah and two girls move to the countryside to stay with Prince of Crows'' has no great and stirring action but rather small ripples that make a professorhuge impact. They find Tirzah is a young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in the 1970s by highly religious parents as part of a secret door and then strict religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a strange tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she wants to be, and enthralling world where they are needed, what she wants to play a major role in an epic battledo with her life. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Piers TordayDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden:Category:Crafts|Crafts]]===
[[image:4starThe problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's top designers. As a word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the book, but if you're new to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from the back catalogue.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Modern Patchwork Home:Category:General FictionDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)|General FictionFull Review]]
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a mysterious key down the back of an antique chair. The grubby and torn label to which is attached reads... [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|Full Review]] <!-- Pickles Lange -->
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===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? The Chaos of Now by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeErin Lange]]===
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When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was Eli, a rather frightened dog talented hacker, is one of those people who had difficulty meeting peoplemanage to fly below the radar. He's When new friends offer him the chance to enter a bit better now and something which prestigious competition he really enjoys is going for soon realises this golden opportunity has a walksting in its tail. It's How many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not just to have a case permanent online reminder, the very presence of attaching which refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, to grow. Eli has a lead and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot few mistakes skulking online, moments of other things to think about firstmadness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? The Chaos of Now by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeErin Lange|Full Review]]
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===[[Bellewether The Reckoning by Susanna KearsleyClar Ni Chonghaile]]===
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Flitting between As the present day and mid 16thcenturyblurb says, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspectsa cottage in Normandy, the Wilde House Lina Rose is being turned into a museum due writing to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin WildeChonghaile's sister, Lydia, and second novel is a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent series of letters addressed to live thereDiane. The perspective of the book Lina is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia now in her seventies and Jean-PhilippeDiane is a mother herself. They have met just once since Lina gave her up for adoption. The latter two tell the truth about what It was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herselfnot a good meeting. [[Bellewether The Reckoning by Susanna KearsleyClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure Moving Blade (Legend of Kevin 1Detective Hiroshi 2) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreMichael Pronko]]===
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Meet Kevin. He's The funeral is a good time to rob a flying pony, house in Tokyo - and heeven better when they's a little on the plump sidere famous as most people will be there. He loves biscuits too much is why, but he's happily living in the middle Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of nowhere, in the wild, wet hills of the Outermost West. Now meet Max. He's a simple human being, not flying anywhere, great political thinkers - and wishing renowned for a pet to share his time support of the American bases in Japan. One of the great tragedies of his top-floor flat murder was that he was just a few days short of meeting up with, something his Byronically goth sister and parents dondaughter Jamie: they hadn't agree with. One night, howeverbeen estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to the wild USA and wet hills are wilder father and wetter than usualdaughter just drifted apart. Jamie and her mother came back for the funeral, and an enormous storm blows Kevin out of his nestbut her mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, and on leaving Jamie to the balcony outside Maxsettle her father's windowaffairs. The two are bound only problem is that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and they're prepared to become friends, but they might not be able violent to relax just yet, for the bad weather has not finished… get their hands on it. [[The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure Moving Blade (Legend of Kevin 1Detective Hiroshi 2) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Storytelling: The Murder of Harriet Monkton Presenter's Secret Weapon by Elizabeth HaynesJohn Clare]]===
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I was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''But thatStorytelling: The Presenter's just itSecret Weapon'', she said. After all, the majority of presentations which I''It's ''ve seen or given were in a business context and what was required was absolute professionalism, not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harrietan act put on for light entertainment. ItI needn's some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquestt have worried though: something to be summed up like a spirit, the book is an essential guide to be examined preparing and pored overgiving your presentation, with or without what has now come to be sneered at and judgedknown as The Dreaded PowerPoint. Harriet deserves to 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 remembered as she was able to us, not picked at like carrionteach me anything. It did.''
And that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends - a fellow teacher, her would-be lover, her seducer and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke of her as kindly, virtuous and pious, but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromley. She'd been poisoned - 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 1843. [[The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Elizabeth Haynes|Full Review]]
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===[[You Only Live Once by Jess Vallance]]===
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Gracie Dart is a studious[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the same format, responsible student with a colour coded timetable separated by comma + space)Sponge and French verbs covering her wallsMildew are not the biggest fans of their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's run down. SheIt's hardworking gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and smart but once her final school exams are over, Gracie has a revelation. After she mistakenly thinks shethat's contracted a fatal illness (the perils of looking up symptoms on discounting the internet) Gracie decides to start living her lifeteachers. Her studies are finished for But when they find out that there's no money left and the summer so Gracie wants to say yes to every opportunity school might close they realise that comes her way, tatty and just like her meticulous study timetablemorose as the Maudlin Towers is, Gracie Dart doesnit is ''home''t do anything by half measures. So they set their minds on a rescue mission... [[You Only Live Once Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Jess VallanceChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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