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===[[The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Michael Pronko]]===
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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 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 days short of meeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to the USA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Jamie and her mother came back for the funeral, 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 people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and they're prepared to be violent to get their hands on it. [[The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Michael Pronko|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]]<!-- John Clare Keeley -->
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===[[Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by John Clare]]===
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I was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling[[image: The Presenter's Secret Weapon''4star. 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 thoughjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: 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.Confident Readers|Confident 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]]<!-- Priestley Wilson -->
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===[[Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) Snowglobe by Chris PriestleyAmy Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4Jago doesn't like Clementine.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the same format, separated by comma + space)Sponge He knows there is something different about her and Mildew are not the biggest fans of their school, Maudlin Towershe doesn't like it. Who would be? It's run downAnd he never lets her forget it. ItClementine knows she's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles different too, and thatthe difference is magic. And as much as she tries to ignore it, Clementine's discounting the teachersmagic is getting stronger. But So when they find out that thereJago's no money left and the school might close they realise that, tatty and morose as the Maudlin Towers isbullying gets too much, it is ''home''s not really surprising that Clem loses control of it and gets herself suspended from school. So they set their minds on a rescue mission... [[Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) Snowglobe by Chris PriestleyAmy Wilson|Full Review]]<!-- Bolton Haig -->
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===[[The Syndicate by Guy Bolton]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersThe Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
Set in Post War America, with a society finding its feet again, this thriller weaves its way through the glitz of Hollywood[[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 to tell the dirt of Mob rule and the birth of an American institutiontruth. Whilst most of You might think 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 good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the Police truth isn't nice and FBI refuse to properly investigate, his associates decide to bring in their own detective. Retired legend, Jonathon Craine, only wanted sometimes a quiet life away from the Studios, the Police, white lie is okay and most of sometimes it's better to say nothing at all The Mob but they wouldn't let him have that. From You might not want to attract the shocking start to attention of the dramatic conclusion this is a great school bully by calling him mean and compelling readnasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. [[The Syndicate Truth Pixie by Guy BoltonMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sisters Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of the Winter Wood Death by Rena RossnerM B Vincent]]===
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Raised in a small village surrounded by woodland on Dr Jess Castle, the border self proclaimed failure of Moldova and Ukrainethe prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, sisters Liba and Laya have lived a sheltered life - although there are whispers idyllic chocolate box town of troubling times ahead for JewsCastle Kidbury. When their grandfather takes illRather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, their parents must leave the sisters behind while they travel to his sickbed, but life judge. Luckily for Liba and Laya is about to drastically change. Before their parents leaveJess, Liba discovers that the fairy tales she heard doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a child series of gruesome local murders are in fact true as she learns taking place and that her Tati can turn in to a bear and her Mami in to a swan's all anyone is talking about. Liba must carry this secret Jess accidentally finds herself in order to help protect her sister, but the arrival of a mysterious group thick of men in the village carries more danger as Laya is dragged under their spell. Both sisters must stick together if they are investigation, and to survive what is happening around them and they soon realise her delight finds that their new-found magical heritage may she can actually be what saves themuseful. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[The Sisters Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of the Winter Wood Death by Rena RossnerM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster Nothing Lasting by Jonathan AuxierLaura Solomon]]===
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Nan is a climber, We never know the best chimney sweep in Londonman's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. She is growing fast, so It's what will happen his mother used to her when she gets too big to climbcall him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, when if not ''living'' as most people realise she would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a girl? Everything changesforeign country. When she dies she's not missed, when firstly because she is stuck 'd spent a couple of years in a chimneymental hospital, 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 but mainly because her monsterghost continues to haunt Boyo. Both intertwined beautifully, so She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is 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 he could be a heart-warming and engaging read for both young and oldfamous arsonist. [[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster Nothing Lasting by Jonathan AuxierLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Come and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) Broken Things by Sarah HilaryLauren Oliver]]===
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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 'This is the problem with writing to Michael Vokey, a sadistic inmate of Cloverton Prison. They crave his attention words and caneven stories: there is never one truth'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. [[Come and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) by Sarah Hilary|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]] <!-- Rachel Lynch Albertelli -->
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===[[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) What if It's Us by Rachel LynchBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4star''I believe in love at first sight.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]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.''
The seventh earl ''What If It's Us'' is one of Lowesdale was found hanging in his study by his teenage grandson, Zacharythose books that just gives you a boost when you need it. Initially everyone assumed that the nonagenarianA feel good, hard-partying aristocrat had finally realised that the glories of his youth were long past fun and had decided to take the quick way outeasy read. When forensics discovered signs of foul play DI Kelly Porter I was called in. It's not surprised at the only problem she has though: two young hikers have gone missing on the fells near Ullswater collaboration of Silvera and she is in charge of Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the searchother for tragedy – but they really work together well. When they're not found within Each takes a couple of days her team uncover links to two other unsolved disappearances - character and the girls all look startlingly similartheir voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. [[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) What if It's Us by Rachel LynchBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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Gunna wasn''Oh Joy t too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a bodyguard. for me!It wasn'' gives Coleridge credit t just the sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for being 'however long the job took and with no contact with the family - she wasn't the first person only one to walk have doubts about the mountains alone, not because he had man she was guarding. Invited to for workIceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, as Ali Osman was either a minersaint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, quarryman, shepherd or packa money-horse driverlaundering gunrunner. The truth was probably a combination of the two, but because whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is the reason why he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with their natural beauty, Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and its literary consequences, changed our view with a group of the world''armed police in a nearby house. [[O Joy for me! Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Keir DavidsonQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Fantasy|FantasyThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
A land under occupation[[image:4.5star. A legendary swordjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a lot of time indoors by himself. A young man's journey to find This worries his destiny. Aren mother, who has lived by the rules all engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his lifeextreme anxiety issues. HeEvan's never questioned it; that's just therapist assigns him the way things are. But then his father is executed for treason, and he and his best friend Cade are thrown into task of writing a prison mine, doomed daily letter to work until they drop. Unless they can somehow break free . . But what lies beyond the prison walls is more terrifying still. Rescued by himself as a man who hates him yet is oath-bound way of getting Evan to protect him, pursued by inhuman forces, Aren slowly accepts that everything he knew think more constructively about his himself and the world was a liearound him. The rules are not there to protect himBut Connor Murphy, or his people, but to enslave them. A revolution is brewinga rather scary boy at school, finds one of Evan's letters and Aren is being drawn into it, whether he likes it or not. The key to gets the revolution is wrong end of the Ember Blade. The sword of kingsstick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, the Excalibur of his people. Only with the Ember Blade in hand can their people be inspired to rise up . . . but itgirl he has a crush on and who is Connor's locked in an impenetrable vault in the most heavily guarded fortress in the landsister. All they have to do now is steal it... [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Ember Blade Novel by Chris WoodingVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[Crisis Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Felix FrancisM C Beaton]]===
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By training Harrison Foster is St Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a lawyerteam of dedicated bell ringers, but hewith the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them they're preparing for the bishop's working as a crisis manager for a London firmvisit. He was called to Newmarket after Now you might be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a fire in a stable killed six very valuable horses, including the Derby favouritelittle different. On the surface it looked like One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a simple fire, little smitten - at first - but it wasnthere't long before Harrison discovered that all was not as it seemed, not least because there were human remains along with s the charred bodies merest whiff of a scandal about the horsesbishop. As all It's the mystery of the staff were accounted forbishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who was the human victim? Harrison was completely new to the world of thoroughbred racing: in fact he knew little about horses disappeared very suddenly and positively disliked themneither she nor her body have ever been found. [[Crisis Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Felix FrancisM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater Louisiana's Way Home by Tade ThompsonKate 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]]
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Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless | style=''vertical-align: top; text- people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesnalign: left;''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 and coming to a realisation about a horrifying future. |===[[Rosewater XX by Tade Thompson|Full ReviewAngela Chadwick]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- von Doviak Gardner -->
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===[[Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak]]===
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In 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist, making off with priceless works of art from a Boston Museum[[image:5star. These missing art works are never found. In 1988, a student finds himself caught up in the mystery of the missing art and hot on the trail of the multi-million-dollar reward. In 2014, the art is still missing and now dead bodies are turning up at the eponymous Charlesgate, filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunion. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] Tweet scheduled for 9.15clare@headofzeus.com <!-- Minette Walters Davies -->
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===[[The Turn Tirzah and the Prince of Midnight Crows by Minette WaltersDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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At This is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. Forster, ''[Tirzah and the beginning Prince of 1349 there Crows'' has no great and stirring action but rather small ripples that make a huge impact. Tirzah is a glimmer young girl of sixteen raised in a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. In Devilish small Welsh town in Dorset the population is well, because 1970s by highly religious parents as part of Lady Anne's a strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the churchshe tries to decide who she wants to be, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but what she wants to leavedo with her life. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Turn Tirzah and the Prince of Midnight Crows by Minette WaltersDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[We Sold Our Souls Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Grady HendrixVivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
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The night manager of problem with a Best Westerncraft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappyor - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Few know Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of her past as guitarist of 90patterns from today's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – top designers. As a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo careerword of warning, rocketing to stardom as if you read ''KoffinModern Patchwork Magazine''. When a shocking act of violence turns Krisyou may well find that there's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just nothing new in the band. In a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festivalbook, shebut if you's determined re new to face the man who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able magazine this could well prove to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on a delightful collection from the Earth…? back catalogue. [[We Sold Our Souls Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Grady HendrixVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Tiding The Chaos of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery Now by Steve BurrowsErin Lange]]===
[[image:34.5star.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]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
DCI Domenic JejeuneAs the blurb says, ''s most celebrated case was his rescue of In a cottage in Normandy, Lina Rose is writing to the Home Secretary's daughter when she was kidnapped. Itabandoned as a baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's always been his deep regret that he failed second novel is a series of letters addressed to rescue the man who was kidnapped with Diane. Lina is now in her seventies and this has all resurfaced now that the case Diane is being revieweda mother herself. 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 embarrassingThey have met just once since Lina gave her up for adoption. The review isn't the only problem he has though: It was not 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 Examinergood meeting. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery The Reckoning by Steve BurrowsClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[The Darkness Around Her Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Neil WhiteMichael Pronko]]===
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend The funeral is a good time to rob a house in Tokyo - and even better when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Yearthey's Evere famous as most people will be there. It obviously wasn't Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizzie's friends at great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of the pub, but before long Peter Box was arrested and chargedAmerican bases in Japan. He'd sought treatment at One of the local hospital for an injury to great tragedies of his head which murder was that he was the same shape as the heel just a few days short of Lizziemeeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn's shoe - t been estranged, but when Mattson and her blood was on mother divorced she took the teenager to the shoeUSA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Dan Grant was called in to represent BoxJamie and her mother came back for the funeral, but thereher mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie to settle her father's a problemaffairs. Box wonThe only problem is that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson't talk s legacy - wonand they't talk re prepared to the police or be violent 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? get their hands on it. [[The Darkness Around Her Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Neil WhiteMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by John Clare]]===
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[[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:Teens|Teens]] 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.
''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?''
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===[[Landslide by Melissa Leet]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's FictionTreasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley]]===
The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholicsame format, separated by comma + space)Sponge and Jill lived with ''her'' motherMildew are not the biggest fans of their school, who dedicated herself to her gardenMaudlin Towers. JillWho would be? It's father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on endrun down. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs SmithIt's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still younggloomy. Joy You can't move for gargoyles and tragedy would visit Jillthat's homediscounting the teachers. But when they find out that there's no money left and the school might close they realise that, tatty and morose as the Maudlin Towers is, it is 'Landslide'home' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. So they set their minds on a rescue mission... [[Landslide Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Melissa LeetChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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