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===[[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
The seventh earl of Lowesdale was found hanging in his study by his teenage grandson, Zachary[[image:4star. Initially everyone assumed that the nonagenarian, hard-partying aristocrat had finally realised that the glories of his youth were long past and had decided to take the quick way out. When forensics discovered signs of foul play DI Kelly Porter was called in. It's not the only problem she has thoughjpg|link=Category: two young hikers have gone missing on the fells near Ullswater and she is in charge of the search. When they're not found within a couple of days her team uncover links to two other unsolved disappearances - and the girls all look startlingly similar. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch: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]]<!-- Davidson Keeley -->
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''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''. [[O Joy for me! by Keir Davidson|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]]<!-- Wooding Wilson -->
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===[[The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding]]===
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A land under occupation[[image:4star. A legendary sword. A young man's journey to find his destiny. Aren has lived by the rules all his life. He's never questioned it; that's just the way things are. But then his father is executed for treason, and he and his best friend Cade are thrown into a prison mine, doomed to work until they drop. Unless they can somehow break free . . But what lies beyond the prison walls is more terrifying still. Rescued by a man who hates him yet is oath-bound to protect him, pursued by inhuman forces, Aren slowly accepts that everything he knew about his world was a lie. The rules are not there to protect himjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], or his people, but to enslave them. A revolution is brewing, and Aren is being drawn into it, whether he likes it or not. The key to the revolution is the Ember Blade. The sword of kings, the Excalibur of his people. Only with the Ember Blade in hand can their people be inspired to rise up . . . but it's locked in an impenetrable vault in the most heavily guarded fortress in the land. All they have to do now is steal it... [[The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding: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]]<!-- Felix Francis Haig -->
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===[[Crisis by Felix Francis]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersThe Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
By training Harrison Foster is a lawyer[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], but he[[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's working as a crisis manager for a London firmto tell the truth. He was called to Newmarket after You might think this is a fire in a stable killed six very valuable horsesgood thing because telling lies is bad, including right? But sometimes the Derby favourite. On the surface it looked like truth isn't nice and sometimes a simple fire, but white lie is okay and sometimes it wasn't long before Harrison discovered that s better to say nothing at all was . You might not as it seemed, not least because there were human remains along with want to attract the charred bodies attention of the horses. As all the staff were accounted school bully by calling him mean and nasty, forexample, who was the human victim? Harrison was completely or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new to the world of thoroughbred racing: in fact he knew little about horses and positively disliked themhaircut looks awful. [[Crisis The Truth Pixie by Felix FrancisMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Tade ThompsonM B Vincent]]===
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Rosewater is a town on Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the edge. A community formed around prestigious Castle family has returned home to the edges sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of a mysterious alien biodomeCastle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, its residents comprise the hopefulespecially her father, the hungry and the helpless - people eager judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a glimpse inside the dome or a taste series of its rumoured healing powers. Kaaro gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is a government agent with a criminal pasttalking about. He has seen inside Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the biodomeinvestigation, and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to search for an answerhome, facing his dark history and coming to a realisation about has Jess made a horrifying future. grave mistake getting involved? [[Rosewater Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Tade ThompsonM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[Charlesgate Confidential Nothing Lasting by Scott Von DoviakLaura Solomon]]===
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In 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heistWe 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 we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, making off with priceless works of art from if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a Boston Museum. These missing art works are never foundforeign country. In 1988 When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a student finds himself caught up couple of years in the mystery of the missing art and hot on the trail of the multi-million-dollar rewarda mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. In 2014, the art She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is still missing and now dead bodies are turning up at the eponymous Charlesgate, filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunionthat he could be a famous arsonist. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? [[Charlesgate Confidential Nothing Lasting by Scott Von DoviakLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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At ''This is the beginning of 1349 problem with words and even stories: 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 Annenever one truth''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]]
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]] <!-- Hendrix Albertelli -->
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===[[We Sold Our Souls What if It's Us by Grady HendrixBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]===
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The night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy''I believe in love at first sight. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatnessFate, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo careerthe universe, rocketing to stardom as all of it. But not how you're thinking. I don'Koffin't mean it in the our souls were split and you're my other half forever and ever sort of way. When a shocking act of violence turns KrisI just think you's life upside down – she is forced re meant to look back to a past she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just meet some people. I think the banduniverse nudges them into your path. 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…? [[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix|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]] <!-- Steve Burrows Quentin Bates -->
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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery ) by Steve BurrowsQuentin Bates]]===
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DCI Domenic JejeuneGunna wasn's most celebrated case was his rescue of the Home Secretary's daughter t too keen when she was kidnappedtaken off police duties to become a bodyguard. Itwasn't just the sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long the job took and with no contact with the family - she wasn's always been his deep regret that he failed t the only one to rescue have doubts about the man who she was kidnapped with her and this has all resurfaced now that the case is being reviewedguarding. Long-buried secrets are bound Invited to come Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to light, even though the officer reviewing helping refugees escape the casecarnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, DC Desdemona Gill, is or a fan of his to the extent that it's almost embarrassingmoney-laundering gunrunner. The review isn't truth was probably a combination of the only problem he has though: a body has been found on some waste groundtwo, but itwhichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's so badly burned that identification head and this is difficult - the reason why he and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and made more difficult by the indecision with a group of the Medical Examinerarmed police in a nearby house. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery ) by Steve BurrowsQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[The Darkness Around Her by Neil White]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Crime|CrimeThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Year's Eve[[image:4.5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] It obviously wasn't the boyfriend as he was still being held Evan Hansen spends a lot of time indoors by Lizzie's friends at the pubhimself. This worries his mother, but before long Peter Box was arrested and chargedwho has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. HeEvan'd sought treatment at s therapist assigns him the local hospital for an injury task of writing a daily letter to his head which was the same shape himself as the heel a way of Lizzie's shoe - getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and her blood was on the shoeworld around him. Dan Grant was called in to represent BoxBut Connor Murphy, a rather scary boy at school, but therefinds one of Evan's a problem. Box won't talk - won't talk to letters and gets the wrong end of the police or to Grantstick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, so how is he to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious that girl he hadnhas a crush on and who is Connor't known her - so why would he kill her? s sister. [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Darkness Around Her Novel by Neil WhiteVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by M C Beaton]]===
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[[image:4starSt Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a team of dedicated bell ringers, with the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them they're preparing for the bishop's visit. Now you might be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a little different. One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - but there's the merest whiff of a scandal about the bishop. It's the mystery of the bishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her body have ever been found.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensAgatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by M C Beaton|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 DiCamillo -->
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===[[Landslide Louisiana's Way Home by Melissa LeetKate DiCamillo]]===
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The area where Jill It 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 Susie lived wasn't highly populated 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 was fortunate is different. This time Granny intends that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a year older than Jillwill never return. Susie lived with Separated from her mother, an alcoholicfriends, Raymie and Beverly and Jill lived with ''her'' mothercat, Archie, who dedicated herself to Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her gardenway home somehow. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, But as her life becomes entwined with the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslidecurse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hopedestined only for goodbyes. [[Landslide Louisiana's Way Home by Melissa LeetKate DiCamillo|Full Review]]
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===[[The House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Mr Tiger, [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersBetsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]===
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 is woken up in the early hours one morning to find out that the same house has been burnt to the ground, along with the woman who lives 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 Katy'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[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse: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 <!-- Maitland Davies -->
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===[[A Gathering Tirzah and the Prince of Ghosts Crows by Karen MaitlandDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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WitchcraftThis is a quiet but remarkable story, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide written in a story that never shies away from the darker side style reminiscent of human natureE. M. The land is unhappyForster, ''[Tirzah and the old spirits want revenge Prince of Crows'' has no great and famine stirring action but rather small ripples that make a huge impact. Tirzah is kindling a resurgence young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in the old faith1970s by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious community. As fear risesThe book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she wants to be, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne and what she wants to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red do with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of changeher life. [[A Gathering Tirzah and the Prince of Ghosts Crows by Karen MaitlandDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Marcus SedgwickVivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
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Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (well, the kind The problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also madtraditional, and dangerous to know), a spooky reading list and or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a few chance topics collection of discussion all led patterns from today's top designers. As a young woman to start writing her first, and definitely her most famous ever, book. The narrator word of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine buildingwarning, in the centre of if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that first novelthere's world, to revisit it nothing new in honour of its bicentenary. He hates itthe book, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems but if you're new to only be there and doing the magazine this for the publisher could well prove to whom he addresses be a lot of delightful collection from the script we readback catalogue. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Marcus SedgwickVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Chaos of Now by Denzil MeyrickErin Lange]]===
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The site was rumoured to have been the home Eli, a talented hacker, is one of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery by Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists of the graves of three women initially caused great excitement, which rapidly turned those people who manage to horror when they realised that fly below the women had died just over twenty years agoradar. 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 When new friends offer him the early chance to mid nineties. It was also an enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront has a failure sting in his pastits tail. He'd been 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 original case and the murderer had never been foundvery presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, to grow. He'd also lost Eli has a close friend and made some enemiesfew mistakes skulking online, one moments of whom madness that if discovered would return to taunt him when Police Scotland's Cold Case Unit arrived on the scenechange his life forever. [[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Chaos of Now by Denzil MeyrickErin Lange|Full Review]]
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Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us ''SapiensAs the blurb says, ''In a cottage in Normandy, which told Lina Rose is writing to the history of mankind and then daughter she abandoned as a baby''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind…the whole of Chonghaile's futuresecond novel is a series of letters addressed to Diane. Now we have ''21 Lessons for the 21st Century'' which looks at the challenges we currently face Lina is now in her seventies and it's enlightening, thought-provoking and occasionally just Diane is a little bit frighteningmother herself. It's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would They have been thought of as a traditional war, with armies, navies and air forces fighting it out hand to handmet just once since Lina gave her up for adoption. It's much more likely that the threats we'll face will be relatively new. Harari looks at them in some depthwas not a good meeting. [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century The Reckoning by Yuval Noah HarariClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by A N WilsonMichael Pronko]]===
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In The funeral is a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same good time to rob a house in Tokyo - and even better when they're famous as most avowedly not, two women people will find lovebe there. Strong love too, Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the great political thinkers - and renowned for our narrator will say his support of the American bases in Japan. One of the great tragedies of his murder was that her first attraction for her partner he was the only thing to make sense just a few days short of all those exaggerated songs shemeeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn'd heardt been estranged, but when Mattson and books her mother divorced she took the teenager to the USA and poems she'd read, father and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperboledaughter just drifted apart. It was entirely unrequited love Jamie and her mother came back for quite some timethe funeral, but it does burgeonher mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, or so weleaving Jamie to settle her father'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 nots affairs. This book then The only problem is the combined exploration that an awful lot of the lovers people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and the story of the quakethey're prepared to be violent to get their hands on it. [[Aftershocks The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by A N WilsonMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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[[imageI was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling:5starThe 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:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]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.
In a world ravaged by the horrors of the Second World War, two boys and two girls move to the countryside to stay with a professor. They find a secret door and then a strange and enthralling world where they are needed, to play a major role in an epic battle. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician by Piers Torday|Full Review]]
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Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the weekend same format, separated by comma + space)Sponge andMildew are not the biggest fans of their school, while waiting Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's run down. It's gloomy. You can't move for his wife to arrive, finds a mysterious key down gargoyles and that's discounting the back of an antique chairteachers. The grubby But when they find out that there's no money left and the school might close they realise that, tatty and torn label to which morose as the Maudlin Towers is, it is attached reads''home''.So they set their minds on a rescue mission.. . [[The Amber Maze Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Christopher BowdenChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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