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===[[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier]]===
===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]
Nan is a climber, the best chimney sweep in London. She is growing fast, so what will happen to her when she gets too big to climb, when people realise she is a girl? Everything changes, when she is stuck in a chimney, set on fire, and saved by a golem. A story of outcasts, and friendships, told through two tales, the girl and the sweep, and the girl and her monster. Both intertwined beautifully, so that you have a fairy tale within a fairy tale. Moments of sadness slip easily into glorious happiness, then swiftly into heart-breaking tragedy. This is a heart-warming and engaging read for both young and old. [[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier|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]]<!-- Sarah Hilary Keeley -->
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===[[Come and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) by Sarah Hilary]]===
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There's no reason to think that Lara Chorley and Ruth Hull have anything in common, other than a rather strange infatuation with writing to Michael Vokey, a sadistic inmate of Cloverton Prison. They crave his attention and can't believe that he's as evil as his trial suggests. It might not have become important was it not for the riot at the prison, which ended up with Vokey killing two inmates, blinding and maiming more - and escaping under cover of the smoke from the fire he caused. Not surprisingly staff and inmates at Cloverton are unwilling to talk about where they think Vokey might be hiding out - they have wives, children and friends who might be at risk[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Come and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) by Sarah Hilary: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]]<!-- Rachel Lynch Wilson -->
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===[[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeSnowglobe by Amy Wilson]]===
The seventh earl of Lowesdale was found hanging in his study by his teenage grandson, Zachary[[image:4star. Initially everyone assumed that the nonagenarianjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], 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 though: 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. [[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch: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]]<!-- Davidson Haig -->
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[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Reference|ReferenceThe Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She''Oh Joy for mes cursed!She can't speak unless it' gives Coleridge credit for being s to tell the truth. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a white lie is okay and sometimes it's better to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the first person to walk attention of the mountains aloneschool bully by calling him mean and nasty, not because he had to for workexample, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted you might not want to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with tell someone that you think their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''brand new haircut looks awful. [[O Joy for me! The Truth Pixie by Keir DavidsonMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[The Ember Blade Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Chris WoodingM B Vincent]]===
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A land under occupation. A legendary sword. A young man's journey Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to find his destiny. Aren has lived by the rules all his lifesleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. He's never questioned it; that's just Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the way things arejudge. But then his father is executed Luckily for treasonJess, and he and his best friend Cade are thrown into a prison mine, doomed she doesn't have 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 try too hard to protect him, pursued by inhuman forces, Aren slowly accepts that everything he knew about his world was dodge her family's suspicions as a lie. The rules series of gruesome local murders are not there to protect him, or his people, but to enslave them. A revolution is brewing, taking place and Aren that's all anyone is being drawn into it, whether he likes it or nottalking about. The key to Jess accidentally finds herself in the revolution is thick of the Ember Blade. The sword of kingsinvestigation, the Excalibur of his people. Only with the Ember Blade in hand and to her delight finds that she can their people actually be inspired to rise up useful. . . but it's locked in an impenetrable vault in But with the most heavily guarded fortress in small population dwindling and the land. All they have sense of danger moving ever closer to do now is steal it... home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[The Ember Blade Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Chris WoodingM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[Crisis Nothing Lasting by Felix FrancisLaura Solomon]]===
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By training Harrison Foster is a lawyer, We never know the man's name but helet's working as a crisis manager for a London firmcall him ''Boyo''. He was called It's what his mother used to Newmarket after a fire in a stable killed six very valuable horsescall him, including the Derby favouritenot least because he found it annoying. On the surface When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it looked like . She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a simple fire, but it wasnforeign country. When she dies she't long before Harrison discovered that all was s not as it seemedmissed, not least firstly because there were human remains along with the charred bodies she'd spent a couple of the horsesyears in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. As all the staff were accounted for, who was the human victim? Harrison was completely new She wants him to the world of thoroughbred racingachieve something in his life: what she has in fact mind is that he knew little about horses and positively disliked themcould be a famous arsonist. [[Crisis Nothing Lasting by Felix FrancisLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater Broken Things by Tade ThompsonLauren Oliver]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image''This is the problem with words and even stories:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]there is never one truth''
Rosewater is Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a town on the edgenovel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. A community formed around They begin to believe it is real, that the edges world of a mysterious alien biodomeLovelorn is really materialising around them, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless start writing their own fan- people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powersfiction sequel. Kaaro One day, Summer is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside violently murdered in the biodome, woods where they all played and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history everyone thinks Mia and coming to a realisation about a horrifying futureBrynn did it. [[Rosewater Broken Things by Tade ThompsonLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[Charlesgate Confidential What if It's Us by Scott Von DoviakBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:3star''I believe in love at first sight.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Fate, [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]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.''
In 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist, making off with priceless works ''What If It's Us'' is one of art from those books that just gives you a Boston Museumboost when you need it. These missing art works are never foundA feel good, fun and easy read. In 1988, a student finds himself caught up in I was surprised at the mystery collaboration of the missing art Silvera and hot on the trail of Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the multi-million-dollar rewardother for tragedy – but they really work together well. In 2014, the art is still missing Each takes a character and now dead bodies their voices are turning up at the eponymous Charlesgateso distinct, so real, filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunionthat you are immediately sucked in. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? [[Charlesgate Confidential What if It's Us by Scott Von DoviakBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[The Turn of Midnight Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Minette WaltersQuentin Bates]]===
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At the beginning of 1349 there is Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a glimmer of a hope that bodyguard. It wasn't just the ravages sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long the Black Death might be passing. In Devilish in Dorset job took and with no contact with the population is well, because of Lady Annefamily - she wasn's strict rules t the only one to have doubts about quarantinethe man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, which are regarded as heresy as they go against Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the strict rules carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, or a money-laundering gunrunner. The truth was probably a combination of the churchtwo, but their stores of food whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is the reason why he and Gunna are dwindling holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leavewith a group of armed police in a nearby house. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Turn of Midnight Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Minette WaltersQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
The night manager [[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 Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappytherapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90Evan's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on therapist assigns him the task of writing a solo career, rocketing daily letter to stardom himself as ''Koffin''. When a shocking act way of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced getting Evan to look back to a past she has tried to forget – think more constructively about himself and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just the bandworld around him. In But Connor Murphy, a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festivalrather scary boy at school, shefinds one of Evan's determined to face letters and gets the wrong end of the man who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dearstick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, will Kris be able to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed girl he has a crush on the Earth…? and who is Connor's sister. [[We Sold Our Souls Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Grady HendrixVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Steve BurrowsM C Beaton]]===
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DCI Domenic JejeuneSt Ethelred's most celebrated case was his rescue 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 Home Secretarybishop's daughter when she was kidnappedvisit. It's always been his deep regret that he failed to rescue the Now you might be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man who was kidnapped with her and , but this has all resurfaced now that the case bishop is being revieweda little different. Long-buried secrets are bound to come to light, One description is 'sex on legs' and even though the officer reviewing the case, DC Desdemona Gill, Agatha Raisin is a fan little smitten - at first - but there's the merest whiff of his to a scandal about the extent that it's almost embarrassingbishop. The review isnIt't s the only problem he has though: a body has been found on some waste ground, but itmystery of the bishop's so badly burned that identification is difficult ex- fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and made more difficult by the indecision of the Medical Examinerneither she nor her body have ever been found. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Steve BurrowsM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[The Darkness Around Her Louisiana's Way Home by Neil WhiteKate DiCamillo]]===
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend It is the middle of the night when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Yeartwelve year old Louisiana Elefante's Evegranny wakes her up to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. It obviously wasn't Granny is prone to middle of the boyfriend as he was still being held night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by Lizzie's 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 at the pub, but before long Peter Box was arrested Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and chargeddesperate. He'd sought treatment at the local hospital for an injury to his head which was the same shape She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as the heel of Lizzie's shoe - and her blood was on life becomes entwined with the shoe. Dan Grant was called people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to represent Box, but thereworry about the 's a problem. Box won't talk - woncurse't talk to the police or to Grant, so how is he to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious that he hadn't known Granny told her - so why would he kill was upon her? head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[The Darkness Around Her Louisiana's Way Home by Neil WhiteKate DiCamillo|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Sky Black Moon by John ConnorsSally Gardner]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident 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.
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''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 enemyTweet scheduled for 9. The trail leads to stolen magnetic stones, sinister experiments in an old country house and a village hiding a secret15clare@headofzeus. As each of his friends faces challenges of their own, can Tom fight a force which knows all about them?''com
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===[[Landslide Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Melissa LeetDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friendsThis is a quiet but remarkable story, despite the fact that Susie was written in a year older than Jillstyle reminiscent of E. M. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholicForster, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, [Tirzah and the photographer, but he spent much Prince of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs SmithCrows''s alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy has no great and tragedy would visit Jill's homestirring action but rather small ripples that make a huge impact. ''Landslide'' Tirzah is a young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in the story 1970s by highly religious parents as part of how a strict religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she wants to be, and what happened determined the course of Jill's she wants to do with her life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. [[Landslide Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Melissa LeetDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[The House Across the Street Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Lesley PearseVivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeCrafts|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersCrafts]]
Have you ever found yourself staring out the window slightly longer than needed to see The problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your neighbours are up to? This labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a common occurrence for Katy Speed who regularly watches collection of patterns from today'The House Across the Street' as s top designers. As a frequent stream word of women are brought warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there 's nothing new in the same black hummer and seen leaving a short while later. Although slightly unusualbook, not much is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossip, that is until Katy is woken up in the early hours one morning but if you're new to find out that the same house has been burnt magazine this could well prove to the ground, along with the woman who lives there. This situation is made be a whole lot worse for Katy when her father is arrested for starting delightful collection from 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 handsback catalogue. [[The House Across the Street Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Lesley PearseVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering The Chaos of Ghosts Now by Karen MaitlandErin Lange]]===
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WitchcraftEli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the supernatural and radar. When new friends offer him the will chance to survive at all costs collide 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 story that never shies away from permanent online reminder, the darker side very presence of human nature. The land is unhappywhich refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faithto grow. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten Eli has taken root. The sacred well is tainteda few mistakes skulking online, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind moments of madness that if discovered would changehis life forever. [[A Gathering The Chaos of Ghosts Now by Karen MaitlandErin Lange|Full Review]]
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Two hundred years agoAs the blurb says, bad weather, bad company (well''In a cottage in Normandy, the kind that Lina Rose is also mad, and dangerous writing to know), the daughter she abandoned as a spooky reading list and baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel is a few chance topics series of discussion all led a young woman letters addressed to start writing Diane. Lina is now in her first, seventies and definitely her most famous ever, book. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to Diane is a remote Alpine building, in the centre of that first novel's world, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenarymother herself. He hates it, They have met just once since Lina gave her up for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biasesadoption. He seems to only be there and doing this for the publisher to whom he addresses It was not a lot of the script we readgood meeting. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve Reckoning by Marcus SedgwickClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[The Relentless Tide Moving Blade (DCI DaleyDetective Hiroshi 2) by Denzil MeyrickMichael Pronko]]===
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The site was rumoured funeral is a good time to have been the home of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery by Professor Francombe rob a house in Tokyo - and her team of archaeologists of the graves of three women initially caused great excitement, which rapidly turned to horror even better when they realised that the women had died just over twenty years ago're famous as most people will be there. The graves would bring some closure though Bernard Mattson had been famous - these were the bodies one of the three missing victims great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of the 'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow American bases in the early to mid ninetiesJapan. It One of the great tragedies of his murder was that he was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront just a failure in few days short of meeting up with his past. Hedaughter Jamie: they hadn'd t been on estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to the original case USA and the murderer had never been foundfather and daughter just drifted apart. He'd also lost a close friend Jamie and made some enemiesher mother came back for the funeral, one but her mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie to settle her father's affairs. The only problem is that an awful lot of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotlandpeople seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's Cold Case Unit arrived legacy - and they're prepared to be violent to get their hands on the sceneit. [[The Relentless Tide Moving Blade (DCI DaleyDetective Hiroshi 2) by Denzil MeyrickMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by Yuval Noah HarariJohn 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:4The Presenter's Secret Weapon''.5star 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category I needn't have worried though:Politics the book is an essential guide to preparing and Society|Politics 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 Society]]I did wonder if the book would be able to teach me anything. It did.
Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us ''Sapiens'', which told the history of mankind and then ''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind's future. 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 frightening. 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 hand. It's much more likely that the threats we'll face will be relatively new. Harari looks at them in some depth. [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks by A N Wilson]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionTreasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley]]===
In a country very much like New Zealand, but at [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the same time most avowedly format, separated by comma + space)Sponge and Mildew are notthe biggest fans of their school, two women will find loveMaudlin Towers. Who would be? It's run down. It's gloomy. Strong love too, You can't move for our narrator will say gargoyles and that her first attraction for her partner was 's discounting the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs sheteachers. But when they find out that there'd heard, s no money left and books and poems she'd readthe school might close they realise that, tatty and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some timemorose as the Maudlin Towers is, but it does burgeon, or so weis ''home''re promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – . So they set their minds on a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly notrescue mission.. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake. [[Aftershocks Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by A N WilsonChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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