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|authorisbn=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton1838593187|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating=34.5|genre=TeensFor Sharing|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the victim of a lot of tauntsclassroom, pigtails flapping behind her and claims of nepotisma big grin on her face. ItDad's only come to collect her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that brother and he ''has her with any standing at all'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, her naysayers declare – even though although she has clearly fought concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to be a strong young womanknow how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Perhaps too strong Could Tilly have found more collectable things for the islandher scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of MenTilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and this Diana is the heroine all sorts of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs other things in her leading performance in a running racepocket, but the survivor that's not what she drags from the waters is only going wants Dad to disturb a lot more.guess..|isbn=1401282555
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|isbnauthor=1786075695Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=Helen SedgwickYes No Maybe So |rating=54|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It began ''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, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with the discovery of campaigning in time for a body under the swings in the children's playgroundspecial election. It was Dr Alexis Crosse and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved When his mother encourages him deeplyto go canvassing, but who had reason to mistrust himhe can't think of anything worse. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)However, Jaime has always wanted to be a community which regards anyone not born politician and brought up decides there as an outsideris no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. DI Georgie Strachan Maya is an outsider a Pakistani- you've American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separation, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only got close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to look at buy her skin a car if she agrees to realise thatgo canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, and her husbandas neither of them really want to be there, Fergus, wellbut as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, he's a little strange toolot, not entirely ''here''.about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668
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|author=Alastair ChisholmGregg Hurwitz|title=Orion LostInto The Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for Grant Merriweather is a new life on Eos Fiveforensic accountant. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy Or rather, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, but it ''is'' going his friend pleading with the medics to be a fresh startkeep him alive. As Beth's mum puts it, ''There's He was needed alive just long enough to give up a future waiting for usname. A chance to make our own decisions His cousin, create our own livesMax.''|isbn=17880059290718185501
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|isbn=07535532361529124395|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingWhen You See Me|author=B J FoggLisa Gardner|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Go onFor Janet and Chuck, admit it - you're not quite perfectwas a hiking break in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find a stick. You still have those oddWhat he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, quirky, even loveable (to you) habits that seem to annoy other peoplealong with Sergeant D D Warren. Other people, Both women were experienced in this type of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which rather gruesome work but they could so easily correctalso called on the services of Keith Edgar, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another waycomputer analyst, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try Flora Dane who brought something unique to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the conceptstable. I constantly fail Flora had been kidnapped and then I get cross with myself held for failing472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. Lack of willpower is another burden If Ness had anything to add do with the current discoveries then what Flora had to the listsay could be invaluable.
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|authorisbn= B T Keaton1529009677|title= TransferenceA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to die, stranded on a mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against the Church, the ruling body of EarthTom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. Except he It's not Barrabus Madzimurejust the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: hewas driving his father's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus MadzimureAudi and at sixteen wasn's bodyt legally entitled to drive. Such is the magic of Transference, Not only did he kill himself when the ability to transplant a person's soul or consciousness car rammed into a different body tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year- and a power that the Church has exclusive control overold Fiona Connor. As if Thaniel doesn Tom can't have enough things to worry think about, Michael without a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate himsense of shame and guilt. All Thaniel Rachel is broken, but she wants is to see his family againforgive Michael. To give some space, and heTom'll stop at nothing to accomplish thiss moved out of the family home, but the Church isn't going stresses to give in without a hell of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a fight.trial separation..|isbn=B082WPHTHH
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|authorisbn=Christine Brown0241985153|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaThe House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=43.5|genre=TravelThrillers|summary=In We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the summer of 2008, this book's author woman who was spending her days working in an office job alone in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in house is taken away by the summer of 2010police, this reviewbut it's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) going to be a while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the opportunity to read and critique itbefore we learn exactly what has happened.|isbn=171024299X
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|author=Mark LinganeStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Orphans of the Tide|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to go wreak havoc on - with inyerface, banging actionthe last of humanity. Poor AridWhen a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whale, alone in the desert since his parents were killedcitizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out and his is pretty much destroyedgirl inventor. He finds himself rescued by As the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the suspicious eyes of its leaderboy, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before Ellie must prove that he can find out why that is, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella innocent - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and even if it means revealing her other daughterdeepest, Frey, stranded in the desertdarkest secrets....|isbn= 099461649X0241384435
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|isbn=B07XLM3SM60008297169|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelThe Guest List|author=Helena DixonLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, leaving her daughteroff the Irish coast, Kittymight have been enough to put some guests off, in but it was the care wedding of her grandmotherthe year. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was deadWill Slater (television personality, mainly because there if not yet a celebrity) was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was illruined chapel on the island. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. SheThe bride's always coped with the mix of holidaymakerssister, Olivia, boating people would be her only bridesmaid and the naval college on the edge of town before - wedding planner and chef are Aoife and she's done every job in the hotelher husband, Freddy. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in They gave a huge discount to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired get the couple to take charge of security at the hotel.island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?
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|authorisbn=B07ZGL6B1B|title=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai In Plain Sight (translatorD I Clare Mackay)|titleauthor=The Honjin MurdersMarion Todd|rating=4.5
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|summary=To many readers, It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolen. They were there for the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make fun run and their attention was taken by the book one NEFEW protesters who tried to read; preferably quantified by disrupt the words 'clever' or 'good'race. For those who need more, here is the extra background – weThey're in rural Japan in against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family firm is belatedly getting married, although sponsoring the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great hastefun run. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thingIt was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Either wayHer daughter, the celebrations have gone ahead as plannedsix-month-old Abi, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriagehad been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. What with It's a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crimeheart problem: without it, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itshe might have only forty-eight hours to live.|isbn=1782275002
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|authorisbn=Cixin Liu1471180921|title=Death's EndFirewatching|author=Russ Thomas
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the shelf. Not because I didnCold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he't want s lucky to read itbe there, but because I'd have figured out given that it was the final part of he decked a trilogysuperior officer. Coming in partway through a saga is never the easiest thing to do and it He's particularly true there because Tyler came off worse in science fiction because without knowing the backexchange -story there are not just people whose names mean nothing 's a scar on his face to you (when prove it- and the superior officer was forced to take early retirement. There's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts a suggestion too that you wonTyler't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Lius godmother (she's work – on the force too) has looked after him and that his range current boss is phenomenalkeen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pride. George R R MartinEither way, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as he''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculations there, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All of that and morebut without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.|isbn=1784971650
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|isbnauthor=1780894511A K Larkwood|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickThe Unspoken Name|rating=4|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Ray Mason What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a copgod? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, he's something of a targetyet when the opportunity arises, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped she chooses to abandon everything she knows and Mason is injured in a riotflee with her life. On his way to hospital heWho can blame her? Her god's broken free by armed men reach is limited and an offer is made Csorwe intends to him. He's to assassinate the man who stay far beyond it, yet fate is likely to become a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the country's next prime minister and he'll then be given a new identity so reach of her god Csorwe learns that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6her god remembers her, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadblames her very much indeed.|isbn=1250238900
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|author=Akwaeke EmeziM G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title=PetThe Highland Falcon Thief|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are goneHarrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journey. Their children are raised to understand that they were saved by Although, this isn't any old train; this is the angelsHighland Falcon, those who rid the town of evilroyal train, and there are no monsters anymorethis is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. But one dayA number of high-society figures, including film stars, Jam accidentally cuts herself millionaires and bleeds a little onto one of her mother's paintings. The blood awakens a bizarrearistocrats, terrifying-looking creature named Petwill be on this train, who somehow comes to life and declares that so it is here to hunt quite the event on the monstersocial calendar. Though Jam tries to convince it that all the monsters are goneHowever, Pet when an expensive brooch is certain stolen, Hal realises that there is onemaybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, still, and that Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the monster is hiding in train gets to the home end of her best friend, Redemptionthe line.|isbn=05713551101529013062
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|isbn=16867516800008275246|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresPerfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanHelen Fields
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Which child doesn't think When Maggie Campbell realised that their mother isher son, wellBart, ''weird''? was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. It Bart might be that in the morning their twenty but he was considerate of his mother doesnand wouldn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when youhave stayed out all night without letting her know. Besides, he didn're at your brightest t have his phone with lots to say? him and he wouldn't have gone far without that. It''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then theres not long before Bart realises that he's doing yoga in front of the televisionalone, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about what goes on trapped in the bathroom a shipping container and the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges and franklyon his way to France, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on the wallwhere his fate has already been decided. I mean, what else would you use paint for?
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|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukAlyssa Sheinmel|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?Kind of Girl|rating=4|genre=For SharingWomen's Fiction|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But now, it's time, to be sure'' <br>Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you'For an entirely different adventurere not'' <br>
I hope you havenWhen Mike Parker't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If you're s girlfriend comes into school with a parent at leastblack eye, you'll know how claiming he gave it is to persuade an excited small person that yesher, it her whole world is in fact time for bedtipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she''What Wonders DoYou See...'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead s the talk of trying to persuade them that night time is a calm time, 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 has no limitthe school. But Mike was the trick most popular boy in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that you can easily fall asleep , so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and open the door some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to itblow over any time soon. |isbn=194812422X 0349003297
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|author=Michael HarrisHolly Rivers|title=SolitudeDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: In Pursuit Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, there is a Singular Life in a Crowded Worldmysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the bottom of this...|isbn=1912626039}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787477533|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= This is not the book I was expecting it to beEverything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. For some reason I expected it She's no longer providing assistance to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that police and isn't even working at allthe University of North Norfolk. Instead of telling us how it is more about the ''why'She's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Harries examines how we're eroding solitudeHer daughter, which used to be a natural part of our human lifeKatie, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and why that matterslife is looking good. Settled. Of course She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of thatKatie's father, because Katie sees him regularly and eventually in the final chapter he talks about there's a close relationship with his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders family. You might ''almost'' think that Ruth's life is settling down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|isbn=1847947662
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|authorisbn=Andy Briggs183895015X|title=Ctrl+SA Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris Atkins
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|genre=Science FictionPolitics and Society|summary= In Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the near future, life's pretty good. Climate change has been brought under control, run of establishments within the bee population has been brought back from nearMountbatten-extinctionWindsor Hotel Group, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. But the biggest triumph has got but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to be SPACEfund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a simulated world that has the ability to mimic emotions as well as imagesfive-year stay. But The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, as with every technology, there which is probably the potential for it to be abused. Every dayoldest, people are being kidnapped, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested for the richest largest and sickest members of societymost dysfunctional prison in Europe. And now Theo's mum has gone missing. As he follows the trail left by her, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary to stop him from finding out where his mum has gone...|isbn=1409184641
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|isbn=16098093781250168546|author=Sarah Kozloff|title=The RabbitsA Queen In Hiding|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, then, to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloff' Rebellions debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, and the characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. But it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellDr Thomas Jordan
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=We're in 'Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the realm opposite of the rabbitsgrief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, only the foxes and wolves have taken over''you will inevitably grieve''. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared Your love relationships begin the rabbits donmoment you't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still aroundre born and end only when you die. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey Whilst we all come into the world hoping to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom give and receive love there are many people for whom love is a distinct leporine hintnot quite so simple. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the rabbits show their continued existence to all same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who need to know of it – and what can are making the poor monkey caught same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in between do?the form of resignation is a necessity.
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|author=Innosanto NagaraChris Hauty|title=M is for MovementDeep State|rating=43|genre=Emerging ReadersThrillers|summary=Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this Hayley Chill is a story about social changefighter. Dealing with some difficult issuesShe is every kind of fighter, such as political corruption and nepotism, the book well-trained in most of them. She's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is neither boring nor preachyfocussed. It educates gentlyShe works hard, with vibrant, challenging illustrationsmentally and physically, and it portrays she knows how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will failto deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. The message This fight is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power against someone she is not expected to instigate changebeat. And she is being watched.|isbn=16098093511471185605
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|isbnauthor=1780724047H G Parry |title=A Dictionary The Unlikely Escape of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J ConradiUriah Heep
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|genre=PetsGeneral Fiction|summary=I struggle Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to resist see eye to eye for years - Rob a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog sensible lawyer who wasn't interesting or important exists in the "normal" world - and probably both, I was expecting Charley a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' man who is actually blessed with an ability he can''a rich compendium of t fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: CloudyAfter years of protecting Charley, Sky. Bradley Rob wants to discharge his duties and Maxleave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogsAs literary characters begin to appear everywhere, but what comes over is Conradiit soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's love for each powers and every one of intends to use themfor nefarious gains. I knew that I was Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in safe hands.a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777
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|isbn=17857692941444776185|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardellini)Haven't they Grown|author=Robert JeffreysSophie Hannah
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's was when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to a teacher's bedroom one October night football match that we realise something is badly wrongshe found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Nowadays you Actually, It's a little disingenuous to say 'mightfound herself'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief Beth had made a deliberate detour on the part grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the childwoods very often and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. The boy would be safe And it might have gone no further than that night though - albeit in the most horrific fashionhad Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found Beth remembered the man dead on the floor, the top of his skull missing. The schoolnames well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and it was obviously a stray bullet that had killed the Captainseventeen.
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|isbn=17866952271529123763|title=Invisible in a Bright LightMiss Austen|author=Sally GardnerGill Hornby|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=The beginning It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most 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, letters which she and why are rows other members of people in a cave? But stick the extensive Austen family had exchanged with it – Msor about her sister Jane. Gardner What is not known is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason, Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912374854|title=Violet|author=S J I Holliday|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people 'why'' she did this and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well, thatat this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing death - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet definitive answer is trying unlikely to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journeyforthcoming. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been the start of Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation, and toxic friendshipsbook that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.
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