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===[[Two Dark Reigns Friends Like These by Kendare BlakeSarah Alderson]]===
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''You cannot put on a costume Life in London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young and become something elseunderpaid. You are For Lizzie it’s all a queen bit of Fennbirn islanda balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], She works in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each of the Goddess' daughters entertainment industry, but her job itself is probably not one you’d covet. She doesn’t have their own battles to fightmuch spare time, but that’s because she’s been working through some self-improvement. All If they could only see her lifenow. And, Katharine has dreamed well, actually, they can, although there’s a lot less of being the great Queen the island of Fennbirn deservesher to see than there once was. Having won the crown thoughBut yes, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs of dissent doesn’t really have much time for the past and revolution grow louder on the streets each and every daypeople from it. And without evidence of her sisters' death does anyone but herself and the old queens buried under her skin, believe she is the one true Queen? [[Two Dark Reigns Friends Like These by Kendare BlakeSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Jodi PicoultTorquil MacLeod]]===
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The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the source of great controversy when police didn't know anything about it comes to until the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one manwas discovered afterwards, George Goddard, takes it upon himself tied to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, a park bench in the form of a mass-shootingcemetery. What arises is a novel He was coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was sufficient that details he'd felt the lives pain of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the storydigital transfers. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy That would have been bad enough, but a hostage negotiator called in second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to help deflate find the situation, who soon discovers that his sister businessman ''and daughter, Wren, happened '' to be at capture the clinic that daykidnappers before they took anyone else. Worse was to come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Was one of his victims the murderer, or was it someone he was about to expose? [[A Spark of Light Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Jodi PicoultTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) Vera Magpie by Christina JamesLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] The investigation into the thefts of farm machinery has been going on for months and it's getting DI Tim Yates down: he can't see where to go next. It's almost a relief when Jack Fovargue, agricultural entrepreneur and local celebrity is assaulted in the street, but no one can understand why Fovargue is so reluctant to help the police with their enquiries, or to press charges, particularly when a police officer was also assaulted. Yates is then diverted into the investigation which followed the discovery of the headless body of a woman in a canal near Lincoln: it's an interesting case but the downside is that the senior investigating officer is DI Michael Robinson. They're contemporaries but Robinson is bumptious and inclined to taking credit for other people's efforts. [[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) by Christina James|Full Review]] <!-- Adriaan Verheul -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0692047697.jpgGeneral Fiction|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0692047697/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21General Fiction]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Clean Death by Adriaan Verheul]]===
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Three very different men meet in As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the jungletruth. The first two husbands, led there by fate. Davey sees conspiracies everywhereGary and Harry were abusive, Oliver seeks answers about the death of his fatherbut Larry was a treasure, and Captain Christmas leads a community of armed menkeeper, women and childrenit's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, hidden far from justice particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in the forestprison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. As She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the three men are brought together, security of her life in prison for the events could cause each to lose something sake of consequence: maybe illusion, maybe convictiona fling), but she is keen on getting an education and maybe, just maybe, life itself… she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[A Clean Death Vera Magpie by Adriaan VerheulLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Whisperer by Karin Fossum]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[imageWhen we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's being held in custody because of a crime which she admits she's committed. Only, as we hear about Greta's life it seems that she's more sinned against than sinning. After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can't speak above a whisper and to add insult to injury she's been left with a horrible scar across her throat. She's done her best to make a go of her life though:4starshe enjoys her work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleThe Whisperer by Karin Fossum|LifestyleFull Review]]
Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind is so busy processing what's going on in the world around you that you just can't catch a moment and simply ''be''? Or that the outside world just won't stop pressing in upon an inner life that you'd like to be more peaceful? [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla|Full Review]] <!-- M J Lee Rachel Abbott -->
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===[[Where the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) And So It Begins by M J LeeRachel Abbott]]===
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DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath We know there's something very strange going on as soon as he doesnwe join the story: we begin by hearing how it't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked s going to have end and that someone must die. But that's just a promising future in CID until he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months agohint: for the time being we're with two police persons. HeStephanie's backthe sergeant and she has Jason, the probationer with her in the squad car, but the word Stephanie doesn't like where they'cancer'' leaves people doubting how well you really are, or are going to stayre heading. Perhaps The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it would be better if he quietly retired? His wife, Polly, would like was because there was a dead body at the bottom of the stairs to see him in a desk jobthe pool. Ridpath would like to be back in front-line policing, but all thatThis time there's available to him is been a 999 call with a secondment woman screaming for three months as Coroner's Officerhelp: the omens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, blood-soaked bodies in the bed. If that's how They both look dead, but one of them moves - it's got Evie Clark and she confesses to be, then he'll do the best job he cankilling her partner. [[Where the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) And So It Begins by M J LeeRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales of Love and Disability The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Laura SolomonMick Herron]]===
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IWhen you've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes done a great deal job for any length of time, the memory, the instincts of skill it stay with you and talent they're impossible to write forget. It was the same with Solomon Dortmund, a short story which holds retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after the reader and keeps them coming back for moreretired spooks. There are far too many collections Bachelor has problems of short stories which are all too easy his own: the closest he comes to put down a home is the back seat of his car and forget after youhe've read a couple s run out of piecespeople whose sofas he can commandeer for the night. I've recently read a couple of novellas by Laura The best he can do with Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] problem is to pass it on the someone else and [[Hellhope that they's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do ll deal with an even shorter formit/solve the problem/quietly forget about it. [[Tales of Love and Disability The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Laura SolomonMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[A Snapshot Kingdom of Murder the Blind (Kate Shackleton MysteriesChief Inspector Gamache) by Frances BrodyLouise Penny]]===
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Even detectives need It came as something of a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the mental relaxation which she needsestate of a woman he'd never met. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outingAnother villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, Kate was keen to take but the opportunity third is a stranger to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because them both. The mystery deepens when the deeds of will is read: given that the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that it can become she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal. Then a museum and her parents will be there for the eventbody is found. What could be better than seeing her familyThat's not Gamache's only problem though: one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, witnessing a momentous event and having the opportunity enquiry into the incident which led to take photographs his suspension as the head of the setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrongSûreté in Quebec is dragging on and the outcome is looking increasingly ominous. Or could it? [[A Snapshot Kingdom of Murder the Blind (Kate Shackleton MysteriesChief Inspector Gamache) by Frances BrodyLouise Penny|Full Review]]<!-- Harrold -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1408894319.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408894319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  ''Tell them what The Afterwards is about, they said.''<br>''Hopefully you know this, but...''<br>''It's a book with friendship in it.''<br>''It's a book with death in it.''<br>''It's a book with betrayal in it.''<br>''It's a book with love in it.''<br>''It's a book with a cat in it.''<br>''That's what I know.''<br>''That's what I can tell you.''<br>''That'll do me.'' To be honest, I'd be surprised if that wouldn't do you, too.[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett|Full Review]]<!-- Vanston Kate Atherley -->
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===[[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Kate Atherley]]===
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[[image:4starI've been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with success. I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. Would a knitter's dictionary really be of any help to me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of it.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Knitter's Dictionary:Category:For SharingKnitting Know-How from A to Z by Kate Atherley|For SharingFull 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]]<!-- Keeley Samesh Ramjattan -->
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===[[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan]]===
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[[imageThere are a lot of self-help books about:4starit's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the ego. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[:Category:Confident ReadersBe Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan|Confident ReadersFull 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]]<!-- Wilson Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Black Light by Laura Solomon]]===
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[[imageJim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties:4starif you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him.jpg|link=Category Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:TeensBlack Light by Laura Solomon|TeensFull Review]]
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]]<!-- Haig Chase -->
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===[[Redemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase]]===
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[[image:5starA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]As the boy travels to the school, [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's a family tragedy causes the boy to tell arrive at the truthschool a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. You might think this is Plunged into a good thing because telling lies is badschool full of danger and betrayal, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice boy is seen as a trophy by friends and sometimes a white lie is okay enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and sometimes plotting, it's better comes to the boy to say nothing at all. You might not want attempt to attract clean up the attention pit of filth that the school bully by calling him mean and nasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awfulhas become. [[The Truth Pixie Redemptor Domus by Matt Haig and Chris MouldGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death The Long Path To Wisdom by M B VincentJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Dr Jess CastleOn my travels around the world, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home I have a tendency to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her fatherend up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the judge. Luckily for Jessnext person, she doesnwhat I't have to try too hard to dodge her familym really looking for is the 's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in – the thick of cookbook maybe, the investigationmaps definitely, and to her delight finds that she can actually be usefulbut above all: the folk tales. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving If I ever closer get to homeBurma, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death The Long Path To Wisdom by M B VincentJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Nothing Lasting Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Laura SolomonJulia Jones]]===
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We never know Liam isn't ''quite'' the manyoungest in a large family: he doesn's name but lett have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn's call him t have the ''Boyoheft''of his older brothers and sisters. ItHe's what rather like one of the pebbles on a large shingle beach: part of the mass but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoyingsight no one really takes any notice. When we first meet Boyo He doesn't want to bother his mother is aliveas she's heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, if not she''living'' as most people would understand itll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. She spends her days watching daytime television In fairness she's got important exams and drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies sheLiam's not missed, firstly because sheconvinced that it'd spent s just a couple case of years in a mental hospitalgetting spectacles, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something Liam's eyes are changing in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonistrather strange way. [[Nothing Lasting Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Laura SolomonJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Things So Many Doors by Lauren OliverOakley Hall]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''This is the problem with words and even stories: there is never one truth'' 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]] <!-- Albertelli -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471176398.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471176398/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''I believe in love at first sight[[image:4star. Fatejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], the universe[[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], 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.''[[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
''What If It's Us'' Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need itdead. A feel good, fun and easy readJack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the lawyer tasked with his defence. I was surprised Starting at the collaboration murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories of his key players, in a tale of Silvera love spanning decades and Albertalli – one known for happy endingsstates, marriages and tragedies. By the time the other for tragedy – truth is revealed, V will be dead but they really work together well. Each takes a character and who else will lose their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. life? [[What if It's Us So Many Doors by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Quentin BatesBrian Anderson]]===
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Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a bodyguardcrime remained in place for 82 years. It wasn't just the sheer inconvenience of it But during this time, restrictions on same- away from home for however long the job took sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and with no contact with 1908, three books on the family - she wasn't the only one to have doubts about the man she was guardingnature of homosexuality appeared. Invited to Iceland They were written by prominent politician Steinunn Strandtwo homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, Ali Osman as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape common on the carnage European Continent, but barely talked about in their Middle Eastern homelandthe UK, or a money-laundering gunrunner. The truth was probably a combination so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the twoscientific understanding of homosexuality, but whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is beginning the reason why he struggle for recognition and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavikequality, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and with a group leading to the milestone legalisation of armed police same-sex relationships in a nearby house1967. [[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Quentin BatesBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val EmmichCategory:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:4Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, when the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her way.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends It's a lot bit of time indoors by himselfa poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. This worries his mother In fact, who when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issuescatered, there's no shortage of suspects. Evan It's therapist assigns him the task of writing a daily letter not just that she feels herself to himself as be superior (she's a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of her way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the world around himmake life difficult for anyone she encounters. But Connor Murphy, The town might be heaving a rather scary boy at school, finds one collective sigh of Evan's letters and gets the wrong end relief (except not in front of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoesheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the girl he has fact that Binnie died face down in a crush on and who is Connormeal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's sisteropened. [[Dear Evan Hansen: Cookin' The Novel Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Val EmmichAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by M C BeatonCatriona McPherson]]===
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St Ethelred's Church in Dandy Gilver and family had made the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a team of dedicated bell ringersarduous journey to Wester Ross, with the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and but Dandy had mixed feelings even when we first they arrived. They were there to meet them they're preparing for the bishopfamily of Mallory, her son Donald's visitfiancee. Now you might It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but this bishop is a little differentthat Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is There was also a little smitten - at first - but thereniggling worry because Donald wasn's t the merest whiff of a scandal about sharpest pin in the bishopcushion. It's All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the mystery fiftieth birthday of the bishopLady Lavinia, Mallory's ex-fianceemother, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and neither she nor her body have ever Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been founddead. [[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by M C BeatonCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Louisiana's Way Home Empire of Sand by Kate DiCamilloTasha Suri]]===
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It Mehr is a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from the middle ruling classes of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefanteempire but her mother's granny wakes her up to tell her that people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the day spirits of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediatelythe sands. Granny Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Mehr is prone brought to middle the attention 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 friendsEmperor's most feared mystics, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find who force her into their service by 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 goodbyesof an arranged marriage. [[Louisiana's Way Home Empire of Sand by Kate DiCamilloTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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