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|author=Daniel KrausSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=Blood SugarThe Honjin Murders
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is a difficult enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. And not because of For those who need more, here is the dark subject matter extra background – thatwe'll come later – but because re in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the way in which whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it's told. This might put a lot of readers offbe – hardly anybody has turned up, and to be honest what with it'd be hard to blame thembeing arranged at great haste. Kraus tells the story in a distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; She only has an erratic dialect with heavy and frequent slanguncle representing her family, for one thing. The immediate effect is disorientating and distracting Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, and it takes some time only for the wedded couple to be slashed to feel naturaldeath in their private annex before the sun rises on their marriage. It's What with a struggle to acclimatise to Jody's voice, to get acquainted with man missing parts of his mannerismsfingers being in the neighbourhood, but and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the story wouldn't be time of the same without itcrime, and somehow it works. It shouldn't, but this case has a lot of the peculiar about it does.|isbn=17890919341782275002
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|author=Don BehrendCixin Liu|title=Copernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting QuestionsDeath's End|rating=4.5|genre=TriviaScience Fiction|summary= Hello! Would this review be okay if If I simply said ''d been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOUwould have put it back on the shelf. FIN Not because I didn't want to read it, but because I'?! Because I didd have figured out that it was the final part of a trilogy. And Coming in part way through a saga is never the easiest thing to do and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R Martin, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All of that and more. |isbn=17890167701784971650}}
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|isbn=19258200251780894511|title=Once, I was LovedDie Alone|author=Belinda LandsberrySimon Kernick
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|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Tock, the toy rabbit, Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a box of toys going to the charity shop. He realises that cop he's not wanted any moresomething of a target, but muses that it wasn't always this waythe unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped and Mason is injured in a riot. ''Once'', On his way to hospital he says, ''I was loved''. And he tells us of all the children who have loved s broken free by armed men and an offer is made to him over the years.}}{{Frontpage|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)|title= It Would Be Night in Caracas|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= He''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates s to assassinate the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with man who is likely to become the death of Adelaida Falconcountry's mother next prime minister and chronicles Adelaidahe's coming to terms with her ll then be given a new solitude in this world identity so that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and her attempts he has personal reasons to escape believe that itwould be better if Alastair Sheridan was dead. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867
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|isbnauthor=0349423067Akwaeke Emezi|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyPet
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Cross, arriving before dawn so The people of the town Lucille believe that all the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken monsters are gone. Their children are raised to Covent Garden. In early March 1929 one of understand that they were saved by the porters angels, those who was unloading the boxes discovered rid the body town of a manevil, stripped naked and with there are no means of identificationmonsters anymore. Scotland Yard hit But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself, and bleeds a dead end and called on the services little onto one of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they neededmother's paintings. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as The blood awakens a child bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and could not come declares that it is here to terms with hunt the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murdermonster. He was reluctant Though Jam tries to give her convince it that all the information which monsters are gone, Pet is certain that there is one, still, and that the police heldmonster is hiding in the home of her best friend, Redemption.|isbn=0571355110
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|authorisbn= Stephen Baxter1686751680|title= World Engines: DestroyerMy Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien and Gustyawan|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionFor Sharing|summary= Hundreds of years Which child doesn't think that there mother is, well, ''weird''? It might be that in the futuremorning their mother doesn't like speaking much, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century when every self-respecting child knows that that is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes to terms when you're at your brightest with this new world, he begins lots to realise that their history say? ''Why'' then does not match Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then there's doing yoga in front of the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about what he remembers - goes on in the bathroom and the colour changes which have occured when Mummy emerges and that only he may be able to stop frankly, the less said the coming catastrophe destined better about her reactions to destroy your artistic efforts on the planetwall. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her own I mean, and a plan...|isbn=1473223172what else would you use paint for?
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|isbnauthor=1406389331Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk|title=In the Key of Code|author=Aimee LucidoWhat Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?
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|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across America''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But now, it's time, to follow her fatherbe sure'' <br>'s dreams of 'For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If you're a big break in his music career. She leaves behind her friends and her school in Wisconsinparent at least, and moves you'll know how it is to Californiapersuade an excited small person that yes, knowing only what she has heard it is in songsfact time for bed. ''What Wonders DoYou See. Her struggle ..'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead of trying to settle into her new lifepersuade them that night time is calm time, make friends it takes a slightly different tack. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and feel happy has no limit. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and confident againexciting world, is agonisingly told in a way we to get calm and relaxed first so that you can all relate to. There are many new opportunities easily fall asleep and setbacks, taking open the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions, but door to it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongs. |isbn=194812422X
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|isbnauthor=1529402255Michael Harris|title=A Body Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen Coxa Crowded World|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary= Evie Bowes This is very conscious of not the scars book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on her facehow to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. They were acquired when she was rescued from a car in Instead of telling us how, it is more about the River Ouse by Inspector Halloran''why''. She’d been suspected Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of the murder our human life, and why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of her boyfriend, Owenthat, and eventually in the process final chapter he talks about his own experience of clearing her name she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detection. Kitt developed a taste for Inspector Halloran Toohaving deliberately sought it out, but they’re taking it slowly. Well, sort of slowlymostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|isbn=1847947662
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|author= Alexandra ChristoAndy Briggs|title= Into the Crooked PlaceCtrl+S|rating= 45|genre= TeensScience Fiction|summary= In Life in the near future's not all bad. We've reversed global warming and fixed the collapsing bee population. We even created SPACE, a world thriving with black magicvirtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desire. But almost anything isn't enough for some. Every day, normal people are being taken, four young crooks embark on a quest their emotions harvested - and lives traded - to take down their criminal leader after they discover create death-defying thrills for the rich and twisted. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail of clues, he'll come up against the plot behind his most dangerous new magicSPACE has to offer: vPolice, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her . . .|isbn=12503183781409184641
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|authorisbn=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark Gill1609809378|title=Madness Between Light The Rabbits' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman and DarkChris Riddell|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=ItWe's 1912re in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and at New Hope Sanatoriumwolves have taken over. King Wolf, Christine Agnes Tupper is fast growing up. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of her hunchbackHis Wolfiness, shehas declared the rabbits don's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with a good heart. Her encounters with t exist, but the inhabitants of pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the asylum swiftly take her on bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding a fascinatingpropaganda spree, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey of self discovery, allowing Agnes King Wolf orders a humble monkey to prove thatbe his official portrait photographer, even with but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a twisted spinedistinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, her heart is can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in the right place!|isbn=1641110708between do?
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|isbnauthor=190874572XInnosanto Nagara|title=Letters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)M is for Movement|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyEmerging Readers|summary=Back at Set in Indonesia, in the beginning of not too distant past, this is a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the century I went on holiday to Nepalbook is neither boring nor preachy. I met a wonderful Finnish woman It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and we became sort of friends. I can't remember if it was on portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that holiday or they will fail. The message is a later positive one ; that Paula told me I really had to read Tove Jansson. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired in an English translation of The Summer Bookincreasingly uncertain world, and that I eagerly awaited we do still have the ''Sort Of'' translations of the rest of Jansson's work and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on thempower to instigate change.|isbn=1609809351
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|isbn=17847427831780724047|title=The Benefit A Dictionary of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler)Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Susan HillPeter J Conradi|rating=54|genre=CrimePets|summary=A superficial look would suggest I struggle to you resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that Simon Serrailer has been lucky I've never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important - and - all things considered - his life is as good as it could beprobably both, I was expecting a massive tome. HeBut ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''s back at work after a long break to recuperate from rich compendium of the violent incident which cost him his arm world's most significant and almost his life. When hebeloved dogs's not at work he's spending his time in the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restored. Thereand it's talk of an exhibition of his drawings. Lafferton seems to be quite settled as far as crime is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to certainly a couple seeking shelterrich treasure trove. ItWe begin with Peter J Conradi's the usual story of a broken-down carfour collies: Cloudy, and a phone which won't make a callSky. The man are generous and welcoming Bradley and have no suspicions that the couple are simply there to plan a robberyMax. ItThey're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's a serious error love for each and every one of judgement them. I knew that I was in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubtsafe hands.
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|isbn=140638853X1785769294|title=Somebody Give This Heart a PenMan at the Window (Detective Cardilini)|author=Sophia ThakurRobert Jeffreys|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesCrime|summary=Sophia ThakurIt's debut anthology when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly to a collection of poems teacher's bedroom one October night that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, length or themewe realise something is badly wrong. The collection is split into four sections, titled Nowadays you 'grow',might'wait','break'hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the foundations child. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit in the anthology is built most horrific fashion. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found the man dead onthe floor, the top of his skull missing. Each section begins with The school's initial reaction was that this was a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces dreadful accident: there had been a cull of writing, ranging from kangaroos in some nearby fields and it was obviously a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into stray bullet which had killed the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul intoCaptain.
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|isbn=19109894601786695227|title=Flember: The Secret BookInvisible in a Bright Light|author=Jamie SmartSally Gardner|rating=4.5
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|summary=A mysterious islandThe beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. A We watch in dismay as the strange and mystical power called Flember. A boy-inventor called Devman, who uncovers a long forgotten secret. And a giantseems to have no eyes, red robot bear?! The sleepy village of Eden is about does his best to persuade her to descend into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save answer his brand new best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventurequestions. But for some reason Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away.
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|isbn=02413552221912374854|title=FrostheartViolet|author=Jamie LittlerS J I Holliday|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Way out I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well that's exactly what happens when the furthest part of the known world, two main/only characters meet in a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of humantravel agency in Beijing -kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea. There, Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a little boy called Ash waits refund on an extra ticket for the return of his parents, singing a forbidden lullaby to remind him of them... Trans-Siberian train and doing his best to avoid his very, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobu. But life Violet is about trying to get unsuccessfully buy a whole lot more crazyticket for the same sold-adventurous for Ashout journey. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powersAs the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, heit could's whisked aboard ve been the Frostheart, start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a sleigh packed full tale of daring explorers who could use his helpobsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. But can they help him find his family?
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|isbn=19131010371912374838|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte MettlestoneNothing Important Happened Today|author=Jaclyn MoriartyWill Carver|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Bronte doesn't miss her parentsNothing Important Happened Today is a dark, twisted, difficult read. Stories about cults often are, and shebut this is different; it's not particularly sad when she learns written with a sense of their terrible fate at the hands of piratesstyle that is quite unlike anything I've read before. And why should she be? After allI can't remember ever having read a novel with such an odd, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be distinctive narrative voice. While a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was a baby. They swanned off to have adventuresslim and relatively small book, and never once came back to check if their only child was healthy and happythe slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages.
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|isbn=1401280048williamabbey|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic NovelPursuit of William Abbey|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris WildgooseClaire North|rating=43.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at When William Abbey fails to prevent the age lynching of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy hea young boy in 1880's inherited from his murdered parentsSouth Africa, he wants to do charitable deedsfinds himself cursed by the grieving mother. But one nightA naïve English Doctor, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit slowly learns the weight of a criminalthe curse upon him, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concernedshadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and gets given the most unlikely stretch mountains in pursuit of community service instead – cleaning in William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the home for violent criminals truths that is Arkham Asylum. There he hears in others, he also learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent that the dark shadow is deadly – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder seeks to kill the owner. Can one he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will loves the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?most…
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|isbn=B07W4MNBSG1643785036|title=Be Careful Who You MarryThe Wondrous Apothecary|author=Lizzy MumfreyMary E Martin
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|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 Those who have known Alexander Wainwright, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize winning ''The Hay Wagon'', and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they Rinaldo, renowned conceptual artist would be doing when say that they were fifty're chalk and cheese, if not sworn enemies. When If you're only seventeen that seems positively ancientve watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''d have said that they were magnets, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measure. The only eligible boys were Wainwright was at the Young Farmers and socially acceptable end of the idea of living in artistic continuum, but with Rinaldo it was all too obvious that there was but a farmhouse fine dividing line between conceptual art and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlottepublic nuisance. As time has worn on, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined he's frequently been brought to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothamattention of the police. On this latest occasion we see him charged with arson and theft of ''The place to start their search was obviously the Young FarmersHay Wagon'' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.
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|author=Michael J MaloneMary H.K. Choi|title=In The Absence of MiraclesPermanent Record
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=John DochertyPablo, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodega. He's massively in debt, he's avoiding his mother has been taken into , and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a nursing home following super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a massive strokerelationship. It With one character who is thought unlikely that she will ever trying very hard not to be able to live independently againseen or noticed by anyone, and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come together. Faced This isn't just a love story though, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smart.|isbn=0349003459}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1609809319|title=Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub|author=Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=One day a boy is in the zoo with having to sell his father, when the family man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home in order first, though, no – he's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told to pay for her nursing carejust stick around on his own and enjoy himself. Well, Docherty starts it's no surprise that the clear out. In orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the attic lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he finds thinks of a childhood picture of species name for himself, and curls himselfup into an empty cage, holding a toddler – as if he were a toddler he knows nothing aboutnew exhibit. He also finds a blood-stained shoe.|isbn=191237479XAnd it's then the drama begins…
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|isbn=06928535451785785516|title=The Things We DoFucking Good Manners|author=Kay PfaltzSimon Griffin
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|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Manners maketh man, they say. It's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a prison psychologist at the state penitentiary set of conventions, some of which are ages old and she knows that her next patient is other which have evolved over time. Manners are not going about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to be easy. Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they'Jane Doe' has been convicted of re about getting the murder of two men - one a police officerbasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. She pleaded guilty Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and since then has been silent: even her identity is in doubt. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrestedfriends, but it's been proved best if we learn to be false. There seem distinguish between our public and private lives and to be no family or friends who are missing heract appropriately. Eleanor's task is 'Fucking Good Manners'' aims to get Jane talking, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two menhelp us on the way.
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|authorisbn=Patti Smith0008324859|title=Year of the MonkeyFowl Twins|author=Eoin Colfer|rating=45|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary=On the coast of Santa CruzRelax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, Patti Smith enters but the lunar year baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of the monkey - one packed Fowl family to contend with mischief. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, sorrowfrankly, cute no longer) and unexpected moments. In in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a stranger's words, ''Anything is possibletroll and without even trying manage to make two deadly enemies: after alla nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), it's the year of the monkey''and an unusual interrogator-nun. As Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in solitudeThe boys are chased, kidnapped, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss arrested and aging are faced head oneven killed (though not for long), as it all with the shifting political waters in Americahelp of one trainee fairy. |isbn=1526614758
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