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===[[The Syndicate by Guy Bolton]]===
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Set in Post War America, with a society finding its feet again, this thriller weaves its way through the glitz of Hollywood, the dirt of Mob rule and the birth of an American institution. Whilst most of this book is set in Hollywood the whole story sits in the shadow of the birth of Las Vegas. We open with the murder of a high level Mob boss and when the Police and FBI refuse to properly investigate, his associates decide to bring in their own detective. Retired legend, Jonathon Craine, only wanted a quiet life away from the Studios, the Police, and most of all The Mob but they wouldn't let him have that. From the shocking start to the dramatic conclusion this is a great and compelling read. [[The Syndicate by Guy Bolton|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]]<!-- Rossner Keeley -->
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===[[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]]
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. [[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner|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]]<!-- Auxier Wilson -->
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===[[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For SharingSnowglobe by Amy Wilson]]===
Nan is a climber, the best chimney sweep in London[[image:4star. She is growing fastjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], 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 AuxierCategory: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]]<!-- Sarah Hilary Haig -->
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===[[Come and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) by Sarah Hilary]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeThe Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
There[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's no reason to tell the truth. You might think that Lara Chorley and Ruth Hull have anything in common, other than this is a rather strange infatuation with writing to Michael Vokeygood thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a sadistic inmate of Cloverton Prison. They crave his attention white lie is okay and can't believe that hesometimes it's as evil as his trial suggestsbetter to say nothing at all. It You might not have become important was it not for want to attract the riot at attention of the prisonschool bully by calling him mean and nasty, which ended up with Vokey killing two inmatesfor example, 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 or you might not want to talk about where they tell someone that you think Vokey might be hiding out - they have wives, children and friends who might be at risktheir brand new haircut looks awful. [[Come The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) by Sarah HilaryChris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Rachel LynchM B Vincent]]===
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The seventh earl of Lowesdale was found hanging in his study by his teenage grandsonDr Jess Castle, Zachary. Initially everyone assumed that the nonagenarian, hard-partying aristocrat had finally realised that self proclaimed failure of the glories of his youth were long past and had decided prestigious Castle family has returned home to take the quick way out. When forensics discovered signs sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of foul play DI Kelly Porter was called inCastle Kidbury. It's not Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the only problem judge. Luckily for Jess, she has though: two young hikers doesn't have gone missing on the fells near Ullswater to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and she that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in charge the thick of the searchinvestigation, and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. When they're not found within a couple But with the small population dwindling and the sense of days her team uncover links danger moving ever closer to two other unsolved disappearances - home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and the girls all look startlingly similar. [[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) Eyeballs of Death by Rachel LynchM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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We never know the man's name but let's call him 'Oh Joy for me!'Boyo' gives Coleridge credit for being '. It'the first person s what his mother used to walk the mountains alonecall him, not least because he had to for workfound it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a minerforeign country. When she dies she's not missed, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driverfirstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because he wanted her ghost continues to for pleasure and adventurehaunt Boyo. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist. [[O Joy for me! Nothing Lasting by Keir DavidsonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Ember Blade Broken Things by Chris WoodingLauren Oliver]]===
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A land under occupation. 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 This is the way things are. But then his father is executed for treason, and he problem with words 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 even stories: there to protect him, 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 itnever one truth''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|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]] <!-- Felix Francis Albertelli -->
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===[[Crisis What if It's Us by Felix FrancisBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]] ''I believe in love at first sight. 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.''
By training Harrison Foster is a lawyer, but he''What If It's working as Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a crisis manager for a London firmboost when you need it. He was called to Newmarket after a fire in a stable killed six very valuable horsesA feel good, including the Derby favouritefun and easy read. On the surface it looked like a simple fire, but it wasn't long before Harrison discovered that all I was not as it seemed, not least because there were human remains along with surprised at the charred bodies collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the horsesother for tragedy – but they really work together well. As all the staff were accounted forEach takes a character and their voices are so distinct, so real, who was the human victim? Harrison was completely new to the world of thoroughbred racing: that you are immediately sucked in fact he knew little about horses and positively disliked them. [[Crisis What if It's Us by Felix FrancisBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Tade ThompsonQuentin Bates]]===
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Rosewater is Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a town on the edgebodyguard. A community formed around It wasn't just the edges sheer inconvenience of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, it - away from home for however long the hungry job took and with no contact with the helpless family - people eager for she wasn't the only one to have doubts about the man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a glimpse inside saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the dome carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, or a taste of its rumoured healing powersmoney-laundering gunrunner. Kaaro is The truth was probably a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside combination of the biodometwo, and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himselfwhichever or whatever was correct, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for there's money on Osman's head and this is the reason why he and Gunna are holed up in an answerisolated house outside Reykjavik, facing his dark history with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and coming to with a realisation about group of armed police in a horrifying futurenearby house. [[Rosewater Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Tade ThompsonQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak]]===
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In 1946 [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a gang lot of criminals pull off an audacious art heisttime indoors by himself. This worries his mother, making off who has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with priceless works his extreme anxiety issues. Evan's therapist assigns him the task of art from writing a Boston Museum. These missing art works are never founddaily letter to himself as a way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the world around him. In 1988But Connor Murphy, a student rather scary boy at school, finds himself caught up in the mystery one of the missing art Evan's letters and hot on gets the trail wrong end of the multi-million-dollar reward. In 2014stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, the art girl he has a crush on and who is still missing and now dead bodies are turning up at the eponymous Charlesgate, filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunionConnor's sister. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? [[Charlesgate Confidential Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Scott Von DoviakVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[The Turn of Midnight Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Minette WaltersM C Beaton]]===
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At St Ethelred's Church in the beginning idyllic Cotswold village of 1349 there is Thirk Magna has a glimmer team of a hope that dedicated bell ringers, with the ravages of keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them they're preparing for the Black Death bishop's visit. Now you might be passingexpecting an older, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a little different. In Devilish in Dorset One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - but there's the population is well, because merest whiff of Lady Annea scandal about the bishop. It's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules mystery of the churchbishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, but their stores of food are dwindling who disappeared very suddenly and they know that when they are exhausted they will neither she nor her body have no choice but to leaveever been found. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Turn of Midnight Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Minette WaltersM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[We Sold Our Souls Louisiana's Way Home by Grady HendrixKate DiCamillo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] 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 they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to middle of the night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she realises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that they will never return. Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick --> |-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:0349700249.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[XX by Angela Chadwick]]===
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The night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90Angela Chadwick's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on baby girl through a solo career, rocketing process called Ovum-to stardom as ''Koffin''-Ovum fertilisation. When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just child of their own without the bandneed for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. In What follows is a journey story that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festivalshows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, she's determined to face and the man who ruined her life. But general public, when faced with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able a controversial technique that could lead to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…? demise of men. [[We Sold Our Souls XX by Grady HendrixAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows]]===
===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident 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. And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|CrimeFull Review]]
DCI Domenic Jejeune's most celebrated case was his rescue of the Home Secretary's daughter when she was kidnappedTweet scheduled for 9. It's always been his deep regret that he failed to rescue the man who was kidnapped with her and this has all resurfaced now that the case is being reviewed15clare@headofzeus. Long-buried secrets are bound to come to light, even though the officer reviewing the case, DC Desdemona Gill, is a fan of his to the extent that it's almost embarrassing. The review isn't the only problem he has though: a body has been found on some waste ground, but it's so badly burned that identification is difficult - and made more difficult by the indecision of the Medical Examiner. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows|Full Review]]com
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===[[The Darkness Around Her Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Neil WhiteDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Year's EveThis is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. It obviously wasnForster, 't the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizzie's friends at the pub, but before long Peter Box was arrested [Tirzah and charged. He'd sought treatment at the local hospital for an injury to his head which was the same shape as the heel Prince of LizzieCrows''s shoe - has no great and her blood was on the shoestirring action but rather small ripples that make a huge impact. Dan Grant was called Tirzah is a young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in to represent Box, but there's the 1970s by highly religious parents as part of a problemstrict religious community. Box won't talk - won't talk The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to the police or decide who she wants to Grantbe, so how is he and what she wants to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious that he hadn't known do with her - so why would he kill her? life. [[The Darkness Around Her Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Neil WhiteDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
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[[image:4starThe problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's top designers. As a word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the book, but if you're new to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from the back catalogue.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Modern Patchwork Home:Category:TeensDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)|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 Lange -->
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===[[Landslide The Chaos of Now by Melissa LeetErin Lange]]===
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The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends, despite offer him the fact 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 Susie was they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a year older than Jill. Susie lived with her motherpermanent online reminder, an alcoholicthe very presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, and Jill lived with ''her'' motherto change, who dedicated herself to her gardengrow. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographerEli has a few mistakes skulking online, but he spent much moments of madness that if discovered would change his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hopeforever. [[Landslide The Chaos of Now by Melissa LeetErin Lange|Full Review]]
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Have you ever found yourself staring out As 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 blurb says, 'The House Across the Street' as In a frequent stream of women are brought there cottage in the same black hummer and seen leaving a short while later. Although slightly unusual, not much is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossipNormandy, that is until Katy Lina Rose is woken up in the early hours one morning writing to find out that the same house has been burnt to the ground, along with the woman who lives there. This situation is made daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole lot worse for Katy when her father is arrested for starting the fire. What follows is an engrossing depiction of KatyChonghaile's quest second novel is a series of letters addressed to prove Diane. Lina is now in her father's innocence whilst dealing with her unbearable seventies and Diane is a mother and ultimately having the safety of many people's lives in herself. They have met just once since Lina gave her handsup for adoption. It was not a good meeting. [[The House Across the Street Reckoning by Lesley PearseClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Karen MaitlandMichael Pronko]]===
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Witchcraft, The funeral is a good time to rob a house in Tokyo - and even better when they're famous as most people will be there. Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the supernatural great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of the will to survive at all costs collide American bases in Japan. One of the great tragedies of his murder was that he was just a story that never shies away from the darker side few days short of human nature. The land is unhappymeeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to the old spirits want revenge USA and father and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faithdaughter just drifted apart. As fear risesJamie and her mother came back for the funeral, but her mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne leaving Jamie to ignore that something rotten has taken rootsettle her father's affairs. The sacred well only problem is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and strangers are blowing in they're prepared to be violent to get their hands on a wind of changeit. [[A Gathering of Ghosts The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Karen MaitlandMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Storytelling: The Monsters We Deserve Presenter's Secret Weapon by Marcus SedgwickJohn 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:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[: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:Teens|Teens]]the book is an essential guide to preparing and giving your presentation, [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]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.
Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (well, the kind that is also mad, and dangerous to know), a spooky reading list and a few chance topics of discussion all led a young woman to start writing her first, and definitely her most famous ever, book. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine building, in the centre of that first novel's world, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates it, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems to only be there and doing this for the publisher to whom he addresses a lot of the script we read. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeTreasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley]]===
The site was rumoured to have been [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the home of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery same format, separated by Professor Francombe comma + space)Sponge and her team of archaeologists of Mildew are not the graves biggest fans of three women initially caused great excitementtheir school, which rapidly turned to horror when they realised that the women had died just over twenty years agoMaudlin Towers. The graves Who would bring some closure though - these were the bodies of the three missing victims of the be? It'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow in the early to mid ninetiess run down. It was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront a failure in his past's gloomy. HeYou can'd been on the original case t move for gargoyles and that's discounting the murderer had never been foundteachers. HeBut when they find out that there'd also lost a s no money left and the school might close friend they realise that, tatty and made some enemiesmorose as the Maudlin Towers is, one of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotlandit is ''home''s Cold Case Unit arrived . So they set their minds on the scenea rescue mission... [[The Relentless Tide Treasure of the Golden Skull (DCI DaleyMaudlin Towers) by Denzil MeyrickChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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