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|isbn=07535532361838593187|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=B J FoggVictoria Thompson|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleFor Sharing|summary=Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfectTilly is excited. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (to you) habits that seem to annoy other people. Other people, She's just come dashing out of coursethe classroom, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just pigtails flapping behind her and a little bit of effortbig grin on her face. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget Dad's come to do things or do some actions more than I should collect her and her brother and no matter how I he ''has'' to try to make guess what seem to be quite monumental changes I she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never quite seem guess. Dad wants to get to grips with the conceptsknow how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself Could Tilly have found more collectable things for failingher scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Lack There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of willpower is another burden other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to add to the listguess.
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|author= B T KeatonBecky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title= TransferenceYes No Maybe So
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|genre= Science FictionTeens|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to die''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, stranded on don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against the Church, the ruling body of Earthspecial election. Except he's not Barrabus MadzimureWhen his mother encourages him to go canvassing, hecan's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's bodyt think of anything worse. Such However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the magic present to conquer his fear of Transference, speaking to the ability to transplant public. Maya is a person's soul or consciousness into a different body Pakistani- and American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a power that separation, she has zero plans for the Church has exclusive control oversummer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busy. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things To help occupy her, her parents offer to worry about, buy her a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth car if she agrees to interrogate himgo canvassing. All Thaniel wants is to see his family againThe pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, and he'll stop at nothing as neither of them really want to accomplish thisbe there, but as the Church isn't going to give in without campaign goes on they discover that they care, a hell of a fight...lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=B082WPHTHH1471184668
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|author=Christine BrownGregg Hurwitz|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaInto The Fire|rating=4.5|genre=TravelThrillers|summary=In the summer of 2008Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountant. Or rather, this book's author was spending her days working in . He was brought into an ER room after an office job in alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africamedics to keep him alive. Now coincidentally, in the summer of 2010, this review's author He was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''she'' ended needed alive just long enough to give up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africaa name. So you can see why, when this book came up His cousin, said reviewer was delighted to have the opportunity to read and critique itMax.|isbn=171024299X0718185501
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529124395|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)When You See Me|author=Lisa Gardner
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as For Janet and Chuck, it means was a hiking break in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to go on - find a stick. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with inyerface, banging actionSergeant D D Warren. Poor Arid, alone Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the desert since his parents were killedservices of Keith Edgar, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out computer analyst, and his is pretty much destroyedFlora Dane who brought something unique to the table. He finds himself rescued Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes of its leadernotorious killer, Queen BeaJacob Ness. Bea's eyes flash If Ness had anything to do with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that is, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert.current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluable..|isbn= 099461649X
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|isbn=B07XLM3SM61529009677|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelA Window Breaks|author=Helena DixonC M Ewan|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Elowed Underhay was Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care usual growing apart after more than a decade of her grandmothermarriage. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was deadTheir son, Michael, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and killed in 1933 she a car crash some months before: he was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to look after her sister who was illdrive. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year- and Kitty could not understand whyold Fiona Connor. SheTom can's always coped with the mix t think about Michael without a sense of holidaymakersshame and guilt. Rachel is broken, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and but she's done every job in the hotelwants to forgive Michael. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmotherTo give some space, Tom's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge moved out of security at the hotelfamily home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.
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|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)0241985153|title=The Honjin MurdersHouse on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=To many readers, We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those woman who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan was alone in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family house is belatedly getting married, although taken away by the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned uppolice, what with but it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple 's going to be slashed to death in their private annexe a while before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case we learn exactly what has a lot of the peculiar about ithappened.|isbn=1782275002
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|author=Cixin LiuStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Death's EndOrphans of the Tide
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|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book upIn the last city on Earth, I would have put it back on anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the shelf. Not because I didn't want world - who has come to read it, but because I'd have figured out that it was wreak havoc on the final part last of a trilogyhumanity. Coming in partway through When a saga mysterious boy is never pulled from the corpse of a whale, the easiest thing citizens immediately believe him to do and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing be the backVessel -story there are not just people whose names mean nothing all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts execute the boy, Ellie must prove that you won't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range he is phenomenal. George R R Martin, who knows a thing or two about worldinnocent -creation, described even if it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculationmeans revealing her deepest, conspiracy theory and cosmology''darkest secrets... All of that and more.|isbn=17849716500241384435
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|isbn=17808945110008297169|title=Die AloneThe Guest List|author=Simon KernickLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a copIrish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, he's something but it was the wedding of the year. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a targetcelebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, but online magazine publisher, in the unit is not as secure as ruined chapel on the inmates would have hoped and Mason is injured in a riotisland. On his way to hospital heThe bride's broken free by armed men sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and an offer is made to himher husband, Freddy. He's They gave a huge discount to assassinate get the man who is likely couple to become the country's next prime minister and he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6island, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons to believe that surely it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was dead.worth it for the publicity?
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|authorisbn=Akwaeke EmeziB07ZGL6B1B|title=PetIn Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion Todd
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=The people of It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the town Lucille believe that all beach when the monsters are gonebaby was stolen. Their children are raised to understand that they They were saved there for the fun run and their attention was taken by the angels, those NEFEW protesters who rid tried to disrupt the race. They're against the town of evil, planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and there are no monsters anymorethe firm is sponsoring the fun run. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself and bleeds a little onto one of her motherIt was Lisa Mitchell's paintingsscream which stopped everything. The blood awakens a bizarreHer daughter, terrifyingsix-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt the monster. Though Jam tries to convince it that all the monsters are gone, Pet It's a major incident when ''any'' child is certain that there is one, still, and that the monster is hiding in the home abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of her best frienda heart problem: without it, Redemptionshe might have only forty-eight hours to live.|isbn=0571355110
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|isbn=16867516801471180921|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresFirewatching|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanRuss Thomas|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Which child doesn't Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that their mother is, well, he''weird''? It might s lucky to be there, given that he decked a superior officer. He's there because Tyler came off worse in the morning their mother doesnexchange - there't like speaking much when every selfs a scar on his face to prove it -respecting child knows and the superior officer was forced to take early retirement. There's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him and that his current boss is when you're at your brightest with lots keen to have a tame gay to say? put on the town hall steps come Pride. Either way, he''Why'' then s there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.}}{{Frontpage|author= A K Larkwood|title= The Unspoken Name|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does Mummy stick it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fingers in fourteenth birthday, yet when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Who can blame her ears? Then thereHer god's doing yoga in front of the televisionreach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, which could be worrying if it wasn't so yet fate is a funny. We won't go into too much detail about what goes on in the bathroom thing and when circumstances bring her back within the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and frankly, the less said the better about blames her reactions to your artistic efforts on the wallvery much indeed. I mean, what else would you use paint for?|isbn=1250238900
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|author=Justine Avery M G Leonard and Liuba SyrotiukSam Sedgman|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?The Highland Falcon Thief|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But now, it's timeHarrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you havencalled, isn't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bedexactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journey. If you're a parent at leastAlthough, youthis isn'll know how it t any old train; this is to persuade an excited small person that yesthe Highland Falcon, the royal train, and this is its last ever journey before it is in fact time for bed. ''What Wonders DoYou See...'' sets out gets sent to cater to these childrena museum. Instead A number of trying to persuade them that night time is a calm timehigh-society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it takes a slightly different tackis quite the event on the social calendar. It tells them However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limitmaybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. But As the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open to the bottom of the mystery…before the door train gets to itthe end of the line. |isbn=194812422X 1529013062
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|authorisbn=Michael Harris0008275246|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldPerfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen Fields|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= This is not the book I When Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another selfalready 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at allinduced sleep. Instead of telling us how it is more about the ''why''Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to Bart might be a natural part twenty but he was considerate of our human life, his mother and why that matterswouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Of course Besides, he talks about how some people didn't have found solitude his phone with him and what has come of he wouldn't have gone far without that. It's not long before Bart realises thathe's alone, trapped in a shipping container and eventually in the final chapter he talks about on his own experience of having deliberately sought it outway to France, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that where his thinking about this lost art led himfate has already been decided.|isbn=1847947662
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|author=Andy BriggsAlyssa Sheinmel|title=Ctrl+SWhat Kind of Girl|rating=54|genre=Science Women's Fiction|summary= Life in the near future'' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's not all badgirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. WeHer relationship has just ended and now she've reversed global warming and fixed s the talk of the collapsing bee populationschool. We even created SPACEMike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can everyone knew that, so why did he do almost anything they desire. But almost anything isnwhat he did? Some people believe her and some don't enough for some. Every day, normal people are being taken, their emotions harvested - and lives traded - to create death-defying thrills but one thing is for the rich and twisted. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail of cluessure, hethis isn'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has t going to offer: police, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her . . blow over any time soon.|isbn=14091846410349003297
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|isbnauthor=1609809378Holly Rivers|title=The Rabbits' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman Demelza and Chris Riddellthe Spectre Detectors|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=WeDemelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve're in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have taken overs irritation. King WolfHowever, His Wolfinessshe has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, has declared the rabbits don't exist, but ability to summon the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that ghosts of the bunnies are in fact still aroundrecently deceased. Demanding a propaganda spreeUnder the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, King Wolf orders a humble monkey Demelza begins to be his official portrait photographermaster her newfound skills. However, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hintmysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence It's up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to all who need get to know the bottom of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do?this...|isbn=1912626039
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|authorisbn=Innosanto Nagara1787477533|title=M is for MovementThe Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=Set in Indonesia, in Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's no longer providing assistance to the police and isn't even working at the not too distant past, this is a story about social changeUniversity of North Norfolk. Dealing She's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with some difficult issuesDr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, such as political corruption Katie, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and nepotism, the book life is neither boring nor preachylooking good. It educates gently, with vibrantSettled. She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, challenging illustrationsKatie's father, because Katie sees him regularly and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will failthere's a close relationship with his family. The message You might ''almost'' think that Ruth's life is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate changesettling down.|isbn=1609809351
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|isbn=1780724047183895015X|title=A Dictionary Bit of Interesting and Important Dogsa Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Peter J ConradiChris Atkins|rating=45|genre=PetsPolitics and Society|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog who wasnDocumentary filmmakers don't interesting or important usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten- and probably bothWindsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, I Chris Atkins was expecting invited for a massive tomefive-year stay. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is actually ''a rich compendium of probably the world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudyoldest, Sky. Bradley largest and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one of them. I knew that I was most dysfunctional prison in safe handsEurope.
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|isbn=17857692941250168546|titleauthor=Man at the Window (Detective Cardellini)Sarah Kozloff|authortitle=Robert JeffreysA Queen In Hiding|rating=4.53|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=It's when we read that World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a young boy is creeping reluctantly pleasure, then, to get a teachernovel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrong. Nowadays you ''might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 debut novel presents a startlingly rich and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part layered world, with a complex history of the child. The boy would be safe connecting nations that night though - albeit in seems certain to have more to tap, and the most horrific fashioncharacters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. When he reached Captain EdmundBut it's bedroom he found the man dead on the floora world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the top struggle of his skull missing. The school's initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and it was obviously a stray bullet that had killed the Captainvery apt.
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|isbn=17866952271543987877|title=Invisible in a Bright LightLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Sally GardnerDr Thomas Jordan
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a little confused: who book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the man in opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the green suit, what is moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the Reckoning, world hoping to give and why receive love there are rows of many people in a cave? for whom love is not quite so simple. But stick with it – Ms. Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same disorientation as our heroinemistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. We watch in dismay as For people who are making the strange mansame mistakes repeatedly, who seems to have no eyesself-preservation, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason, Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing awayin the form of resignation is a necessity.
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|isbnauthor=1912374854Chris Hauty|title=Violet|author=S J I HollidayDeep State|rating=3.5
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|summary=I've never been but understand that travelling Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is all about meeting new people every kind of fighter, and forming instantaneous bonds with people well-trained in often chance situationsmost of them. Well, thatShe's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket army infantry and she boxes for the Trans-Siberian train fun – and Violet she wins. Always. She wins because she is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journeyfocussed. As the two team upShe works hard, travelling through Mongoliamentally and physically, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been she knows how to deal with the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all pain. She is not so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation, and toxic friendshipsmuch cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605
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|isbnauthor=1912374838H G Parry |title=Nothing Important Happened Today|author=Will CarverThe Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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|summary=Nothing Important Happened Today Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley a man who is a darkblessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years of protecting Charley, twisted, difficult readRob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. Stories about cults often areAs literary characters begin to appear everywhere, but this is different; itsoon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's written with powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a sense of style that is quite unlike anything I've read battle to win before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an oddthey, distinctive narrative voice. While a slim the characters and relatively small book, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages.world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777
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|isbn= williamabbey1444776185|title=The Pursuit of William AbbeyHaven't they Grown|author=Claire NorthSophie Hannah|rating=34.5|genre=ParanormalThrillers|summary=When William Abbey fails It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to prevent the lynching of a young boy football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in 1880Hemingford Abbots. Actually, It's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the shadow grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the dead boy begins woods very often and she was curious to follow him across the worldsee where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. Never stopping, always growing – And it crosses oceans might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and mountains in pursuit of Williamher friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking Beth remembered the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…seventeen.
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|isbn=16437850361529123763|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryMiss Austen|author=Mary E MartinGill Hornby|rating=45|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=Those who have It's long been known Alexander Wainwright, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning ''The Hay Wagon'', and Rinaldo, the renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk and cheese, if not sworn enemies. If you've watched Cassandra Austen burned most of the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing letters which she and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable end members of the artistic continuum, but extensive Austen family had exchanged with Rinaldo, it was all too obvious that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisanceor about her sister Jane. As time has worn on, heWhat is not known is 's frequently been brought to the attention of the police. On this latest occasion, we see him charged with arson and theft of 'why'The Hay Wagon''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Permanent Record|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Pablo, a college dropshe did this and at this stage -out, is working at a New York bodega. Hemore than two hundred years after Jane's massively in debt, he's avoiding his mother, 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 superdeath -famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationship. With one character who definitive answer is trying very hard not unlikely to be seen 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 togetherforthcoming. This isn't just Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in 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 Smartbook that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.|isbn=0349003459
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