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===[[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Teens|TeensSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
Raised in a small village surrounded by woodland on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have lived a sheltered life - although there are whispers of troubling times ahead for Jews. When their grandfather takes ill, their parents must leave the sisters behind while they travel to his sickbed, but life for Liba and Laya is about to drastically change. Before their parents leave, Liba discovers that the fairy tales she heard as a child are in fact true as she learns that her Tati can turn in to a bear and her Mami in to a swan. Liba must carry this secret in order to help protect her sister, but the arrival of a mysterious group of men in the village carries more danger as Laya is dragged under their spell. Both sisters must stick together if they are to survive what is happening around them and they soon realise that their new-found magical heritage may be what saves them[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner: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]]<!-- Auxier Keeley -->
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===[[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[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]]
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]]<!-- Sarah Hilary Wilson -->
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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[[image:4star. 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 wivesjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], children and friends who might be at risk. [[Come and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) by Sarah Hilary: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]]<!-- Rachel Lynch Haig -->
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===[[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeThe Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
The seventh earl of Lowesdale was found hanging in his study by his teenage grandson[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], Zachary[[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. Initially everyone assumed that She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell the nonagenariantruth. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, hard-partying aristocrat had finally realised that right? But sometimes the glories of his youth were long past truth isn't nice and sometimes a white lie is okay and had decided sometimes it's better to take the quick way outsay nothing at all. When forensics discovered signs of foul play DI Kelly Porter was called in. It's You might not want to attract the only problem she has though: two young hikers have gone missing on attention of the fells near Ullswater school bully by calling him mean and she is in charge of the search. When they're nasty, for example, or you might not found within a couple of days her team uncover links want to two other unsolved disappearances - and the girls all look startlingly similartell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. [[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) The Truth Pixie by Rachel LynchMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the first person prestigious Castle family has returned home to walk the mountains alonesleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, not because he had to her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for workJess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a minerseries of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted and to for pleasure and adventureher delight finds that she can actually be useful. His rapturous encounters But with their natural beauty, the small population dwindling and its literary consequencesthe sense of danger moving ever closer to home, changed our view of the world''. has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[O Joy for me! Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Keir DavidsonM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[The Ember Blade Nothing Lasting by Chris WoodingLaura Solomon]]===
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A land under occupation. A legendary sword. A young We never know the man's journey to find his destiny. Aren has lived by the rules all his life. Hename but let's never questioned it; thatcall him ''Boyo''. It's just the way things are. But then what his father is executed for treasonmother used to call him, and not least because he and found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo 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 mother is oath-bound to protect him, pursued by inhuman forcesalive, Aren slowly accepts that everything he knew about his world was a lie. The rules are if not there to protect him, or his ''living'' as most people, but to enslave themwould understand it. A revolution is brewing, She spends her days watching daytime television and Aren is being drawn into it, whether he likes it or notdrinking. The key to the revolution Housework is the Ember Bladea foreign country. The sword of kings When she dies she's not missed, the Excalibur firstly because she'd spent a couple of his people. Only with the Ember Blade years in hand can their people be inspired a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to rise up haunt Boyo. . . but it's locked She wants him to achieve something in an impenetrable vault in the most heavily guarded fortress his life: what she has in the land. All they have to do now mind is steal it..that he could be a famous arsonist. [[The Ember Blade Nothing Lasting by Chris WoodingLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Crisis Broken Things by Felix FrancisLauren 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:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]there is never one truth''
By training Harrison Foster is Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a lawyer, but henovel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''s working as a crisis manager for a London firm. He was called They begin to Newmarket after a fire in a stable killed six very valuable horses, including the Derby favourite. On the surface believe it looked like a simple fireis real, but it wasn't long before Harrison discovered that all was not as it seemed, not least because there were human remains along with the charred bodies world of the horsesLovelorn is really materialising around them, and start writing their own fan-fiction sequel. As all the staff were accounted forOne day, who was Summer is violently murdered in the human victim? Harrison was completely new to the world of thoroughbred racing: in fact he knew little about horses woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and positively disliked themBrynn did it. [[Crisis Broken Things by Felix FrancisLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater What if It's Us by Tade ThompsonBecky 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:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]Fate, 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.''
Rosewater ''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a town on the edgeboost when you need it. A community formed around feel good, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the edges collaboration of a mysterious alien biodomeSilvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless - people eager other for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powerstragedy – but they really work together well. Kaaro is Each takes a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, character and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himselftheir voices are so distinct, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answerso real, facing his dark history and coming to a realisation about a horrifying futurethat you are immediately sucked in. [[Rosewater What if It's Us by Tade ThompsonBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[Charlesgate Confidential Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Scott Von DoviakQuentin Bates]]===
[[image:3star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]
In 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist, making Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off with priceless works of art from police duties to become a Boston Museumbodyguard. These missing art works are never found. In 1988, a student finds himself caught up in It wasn't just the mystery sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long the missing art job took and hot on with no contact with the family - she wasn't the only one to have doubts about the trail of man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the multi-millioncarnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, or a money-dollar rewardlaundering gunrunner. In 2014 The truth was probably a combination of the two, but whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is the art is still missing reason why he and now dead bodies Gunna are turning holed up at the eponymous Charlesgatein an isolated house outside Reykjavik, filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunionGunna toting a gun under her fleece and with a group of armed police in a nearby house. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? [[Charlesgate Confidential Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Scott Von DoviakQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
At [[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 beginning task of 1349 there is writing a glimmer of daily letter to himself as a hope that the ravages way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the Black Death might be passingworld around him. In Devilish in Dorset the population is wellBut Connor Murphy, a rather scary boy at school, because finds one of Lady AnneEvan's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against letters and gets the strict rules wrong end of the churchstick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, but their stores of food are dwindling the girl he has a crush on and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leavewho is Connor's sister. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Turn of Midnight Novel by Minette WaltersVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[We Sold Our Souls Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Grady HendrixM C Beaton]]===
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The night manager St Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a Best Westernteam of dedicated bell ringers, Kris Pulaski is washed up with the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and unhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90when we first meet them they're preparing for the bishop's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatnessvisit. Now you might be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on this bishop is a solo career, rocketing to stardom as little different. One description is 'sex on legs'Koffin''. When and even Agatha Raisin is a shocking act of violence turns Krislittle smitten - at first - but there's life upside down – she is forced to look back to the merest whiff of a past she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just scandal about the bandbishop. In a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festival, she It's determined to face the man mystery of the bishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who ruined disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her lifebody have ever been found. But with dark forces rising [[Agatha Raisin 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 Dead Ringer by Grady HendrixM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery Louisiana's Way Home by Steve BurrowsKate DiCamillo]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune's most celebrated case was his rescue It is the middle of the Home Secretary's daughter night when she was kidnapped. Ittwelve year old Louisiana Elefante's always been his deep regret granny wakes her up to tell her that he failed the day of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to rescue middle of the man who was kidnapped with her and night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this has all resurfaced now but then gradually she realises that the case this time it is being revieweddifferent. This time Granny intends that they will never return. Long-buried secrets are bound to come to lightSeparated from her friends, even though the officer reviewing the caseRaymie and Beverly and her cat, DC Desdemona GillArchie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a fan of his small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the extent that it's almost embarrassing. The review isn't the only problem he has though: a body has been found on some waste ground, but itcurse''s so badly burned Granny told her was upon her head and fears that identification she is difficult - and made more difficult by the indecision of the Medical Examinerdestined only for goodbyes. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery Louisiana's Way Home by Steve BurrowsKate DiCamillo|Full Review]]
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New YearAngela Chadwick's Evedebut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It obviously wasn't the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizzie's friends at the pub, but before long Peter Box was arrested centres around Rosie and charged. He'd sought treatment at Jules who take part in the local hospital for an injury first ever clinical trial that would allow them to his head which was have a child of their own without the same shape as need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the heel harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of Lizzie's shoe - the media, and her blood was on the shoe. Dan Grant was called in to represent Boxgeneral public, but there's when faced with a problem. Box won't talk - won't talk controversial technique that could lead 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 her - so why would he kill her? demise of men. [[The Darkness Around Her XX by Neil WhiteAngela Chadwick|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
Of course he can! [[ Blue Sky Black by John Connors |Full Review]] <!-- Melissa Leet Davies -->
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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)]]===
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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]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends offer him the chance to enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a sting in its tail. How many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, the very presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, to grow. Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange|Full Review]] <!-- Clár Ní Chonghaile -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1787198146.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787198146/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Reckoning by Clar Ni Chonghaile]]===
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WitchcraftAs the blurb says, ''In a cottage in Normandy, Lina Rose is writing to the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel is a story that never shies away from the darker side series of human natureletters addressed to Diane. The land Lina is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge now in her seventies and famine Diane is kindling a resurgence of the old faithmother herself. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult They have met just once since Lina gave her up for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken rootadoption. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on It was not a wind of changegood meeting. [[A Gathering of Ghosts The Reckoning by Karen MaitlandClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Marcus SedgwickMichael Pronko]]===
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Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (well, the kind that The funeral is also mad, and dangerous a good time to know), rob a spooky reading list house in Tokyo - and even better when they're famous as most people will be there. Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of the American bases in Japan. One of the great tragedies of his murder was that he was just a few chance topics days short of discussion all led a young woman meeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to start writing the USA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Jamie and her firstmother came back for the funeral, and definitely but her most famous evermother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, bookleaving Jamie to settle her father's affairs. The narrator only problem is that an awful lot of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine building, people seem very interested in the centre of that first novelBernard Mattson's world, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates it, for he sees it as badly written legacy - and with some unwelcome biases. He seems they're prepared to only be there and doing this for the publisher violent to whom he addresses a lot of the script we readget their hands on it. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Marcus SedgwickMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Storytelling: The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Presenter's Secret Weapon by Denzil MeyrickJohn Clare]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]
[[imageI was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling:4starThe Presenter's Secret Weapon''.jpg|link=Category After all, the majority of presentations which I've seen or given were in a business context and what was required was absolute professionalism, not an act put on for light entertainment. I needn't have worried though:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]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.
The site was rumoured to have been the home 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 to horror when they realised that the women had died just over twenty years ago. The graves would bring some closure though - these were the bodies of the three missing victims of the 'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow in the early to mid nineties. It was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront a failure in his past. He'd been on the original case and the murderer had never been found. He'd also lost a close friend and made some enemies, one of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotland's Cold Case Unit arrived on the scene. [[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick|Full Review]]
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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and SocietyTreasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley]]===
Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us ''Sapiens''[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the same format, which told separated by comma + space)Sponge and Mildew are not the history biggest fans of mankind and then their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankinds run down. It's futuregloomy. Now we have You can''21 Lessons t move for the 21st Century'' which looks at the challenges we currently face gargoyles and itthat's enlightening, thought-provoking and occasionally just a little bit frighteningdiscounting the teachers. ItBut when they find out that there's unlikely no money left and the school might close they realise that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought of , tatty and morose as a traditional war, with armiesthe Maudlin Towers is, navies and air forces fighting it out hand to hand. Itis ''home's much more likely that the threats we'll face will be relatively new. So they set their minds on a rescue mission... Harari looks at them in some depth. [[21 Lessons for Treasure of the 21st Century Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Yuval Noah HarariChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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