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|authorisbn= T R Hendrick1838593187|title= Guess What if They KnewI Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionFor Sharing|summary= ItTilly is excited. She's 2025. Underneath a lodge in just come dashing out of the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvaniaclassroom, is pigtails flapping behind her and a secret facilitybig grin on her face. Here, Dr Benton Dad's come to collect her and her brother and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf of he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the Benefactorplayground today, their anonymous funderalthough she concedes that he will never guess. Already Dad wants to know how school was, the team but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to anotherfound more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. But There are sequins, unbeknownst to the Benefactorglittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And hebut that's ready not what she wants Dad to testguess. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211
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|author= Catherine SteadmanBecky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title= Mr NobodyYes No Maybe So
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|genre= ThrillersTeens|summary= Don''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 just hate it when people are multi-talentedthink? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writer, ''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with this her second novel. I think campaigning in time for a way her acting background shows in her writing as special election. When his mother encourages him to my mind the go canvassing, he can'fight scene' at t think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know present to conquer his fear of speaking to the kind where public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the hero worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separation, she has been hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able zero plans for the summer to fight help take her mind off an attackerthings and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until pair could possibly be the ending which felt overstuffed worst canvassing duo in a frenetic bid history, as neither of them really want to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost be there, but as if the author wanted to keep campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to do in the closing stages.election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=19848906461471184668
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|isbnauthor=1473681847Gregg Hurwitz|title=In Her Eyes|author=Sarah AldersonInto The Fire
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|summary=Ava lives Grant Merriweather is a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong wayforensic accountant. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend Or rather, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badlywas. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it He was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a brought into an ER room down the corridorafter an alleged car crash, Ava has a lot to contend his friend pleading with as she tries the medics to recover, wills her daughter keep him alive. He was needed alive just long enough to recovergive up a name. His cousin, and attempts to piece together what happened and whyMax.|isbn=0718185501
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|authorisbn=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton1529124395|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelWhen You See Me|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=DianaFor Janet and Chuck, being unique on her island, is it was a hiking break in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the victim of beaten track to find a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotismstick. It's only her unique status, What he found was a human bone and her mother being QueenSSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, that has her along with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young womanSergeant D D Warren. Perhaps too strong for Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the islandservices of Keith Edgar, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Mena computer analyst, and this Diana is Flora Dane who brought something unique to the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin storytable. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running raceFlora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killer, but Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with the survivor she drags from the waters is only going current discoveries then what Flora had to disturb a lot more..say could be invaluable.|isbn=1401282555
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|isbn=17860756951529009677|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)A Window Breaks|author=Helen SedgwickC M Ewan|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It began with 's not just the discovery usual growing apart after more than a decade of a body under the swings in the children's playgroundmarriage. It Their son, Michael, was Dr Alexis Crosse and killed in a car crash some months before: he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to mistrust himdrive. Crosse was Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a psychotherapist who grew up in Greecetree, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a community which regards anyone not born sense of shame and brought up there as an outsiderguilt. DI Georgie Strachan Rachel is an outsider - you've only got broken, but she wants to look at her skin to realise thatforgive Michael. To give some space, and her husbandTom's moved out of the family home, Fergusbut stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, wellHolly, he's that it is only a little strange too, not entirely ''here''trial separation.
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm0241985153|title=Orion LostThe House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=ThirteenWe know that something has gone wrong -yearbadly wrong -old Beth and her parents board when the transport ship Orion ready for a new life on Eos Five. Their new home woman who was alone in the house is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easytaken away by the police, but it ''is'' s going to be a fresh startwhile before we learn exactly what has happened. As Beth's mum puts it, ''There's a future waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisions, create our own lives.''|isbn=1788005929
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|isbnauthor=0753553236Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J FoggOrphans of the Tide
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|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Go In the last city onEarth, admit it anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (who has come to you) habits that seem to annoy other peoplewreak havoc on the last of humanity. Other people, When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another waywhale, 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 to make what seem the citizens immediately believe him to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself Vessel - all except for failingyoung Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. Lack of willpower is another burden to add As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the listboy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets....|isbn=0241384435
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|authorisbn= B T Keaton0008297169|title= TransferenceThe Guest List|author=Lucy Foley|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about The boat trip out to dieInis Amploir, stranded on a mining planet millions of light-years from homeoff the Irish coast, executed for high crimes against the Churchmight have been enough to put some guests off, but it was the ruling body wedding of Earththe year. Except he's Will Slater (television personality, if not Barrabus Madzimureyet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such is the magic of Transference, ruined chapel on the ability to transplant a personisland. The bride's soul or consciousness into a different body - sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and a power that the Church has exclusive control overwedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddy. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry about, They gave a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth huge discount to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants is get the couple to see his family again, and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish thisthe island, but surely it would be worth it for the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight...|isbn=B082WPHTHHpublicity?
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|authorisbn=Christine BrownB07ZGL6B1B|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaIn Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion Todd
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|genre=TravelCrime|summary=In 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 fun run and their attention was taken by the summer of 2008, this bookNEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the race. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's author was spending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsescream which stopped everything. Long story short Her daughter, she ended up volunteering in Ghanasix-month-old Abi, West Africahad been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. Now coincidentally, in the summer of 2010, this review It's author was spending a major incident when ''herany'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsechild is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, 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 might have the opportunity only forty-eight hours to read and critique itlive.|isbn=171024299X
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1471180921|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Firewatching|author=Russ Thomas|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he''Degrade'' opens as it means s lucky to go on - with inyerfacebe there, banging actiongiven that he decked a superior officer. Poor Arid, alone He's there because Tyler came off worse in the desert since exchange - there's a scar on his parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight face to prove it out and his is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes of its leader, Queen Beasuperior officer was forced to take early retirement. Bea There's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why a suggestion too that is, thereTyler's godmother (she's an assassination attempt on the force too) has looked after him and Arid that his current boss is under suspicion and imprisonedkeen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pride. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea Either way, he's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughterthere, Frey, stranded in the desert.but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into..|isbn= 099461649X
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|isbnauthor=B07XLM3SM6A K Larkwood|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena DixonThe Unspoken Name|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving would be sacrificed to her god on her daughterfourteenth birthday, Kittyyet when the opportunity arises, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent she chooses to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that abandon everything she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this knows and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth flee with her grandmother when life. Who can blame her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She? Her god's always coped with the mix of holidaymakersreach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, boating people yet fate is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the naval college on the edge reach of town before - her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why blames her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotelvery much indeed.|isbn=1250238900
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|author=Seishi Yokomizo M G Leonard and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)Sam Sedgman|title=The Honjin MurdersHighland Falcon Thief|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=To many readersHarrison Beck, the phrase or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn'locked room murder mysteryt exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journey. Although, this isn' t any old train; this is enough to make the book one Highland Falcon, the royal train, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'a museum. For those who need moreA number of high-society figures, here including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite the extra background – we're in rural Japan in event on the 1930ssocial calendar. The oldest son of However, when an esteemed family expensive brooch is belatedly getting marriedstolen, although the whole affair is really not Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as ostentatious boring as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great hastehe previously thought. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, As the celebrations have gone ahead as plannedpassengers begin to turn on each other, only for the wedded couple Hal vows to be slashed get to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts bottom of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at mystery…before the time of train gets to the crime, this case has a lot end of the peculiar about itline.|isbn=17822750021529013062
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|authorisbn=Cixin Liu0008275246|title=Death's End|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because Perfect Kill (D I didn't want to read it, but because I'd have figured out that it was the final part of a trilogy. Coming in partway 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 willCallanach) 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=1784971650}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1780894511|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickHelen Fields
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a copWhen Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he's something of a target, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped was already 200 miles away and Mason is injured in just waking from a riotchemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. On Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his way to hospital hemother and wouldn's broken free by armed men and an offer is made to himt have stayed out all night without letting her know. HeBesides, he didn's to assassinate the man who is likely to become the country's next prime minister t have his phone with him and hewouldn'll then be given a new identity so t have gone far without that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say It's not long before Bart realises that theyhe're MI6s alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, but Mason has where his doubts. His choices are limited though and he fate has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadalready been decided.
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|author=Akwaeke EmeziAlyssa Sheinmel|title=PetWhat Kind of Girl|rating=4.5|genre=TeensWomen's Fiction|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone. Their children are raised '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to understand that they were saved by the angelsher, those who rid the town of evil, and there are no monsters anymoreher whole world is tipped upside down. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself Her relationship has just ended and bleeds a little onto one of her mothernow she's paintings. The blood awakens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt the monstertalk of the school. Though Jam tries to convince it that all Mike was the monsters are gonemost popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, Pet is certain everyone knew that there is one, stillso why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, and that the monster but one thing is hiding in the home of her best friendfor sure, Redemptionthis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|isbn=05713551100349003297
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|isbnauthor=1686751680Holly Rivers|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien Demelza and Gustyawanthe Spectre Detectors|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother Demelza Clock isa scientist, welloften staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve''weird''? It might be s irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that in are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when you're at your brightest with lots ability to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her fingers in Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her ears? Then newfound skills. However, there's doing yoga in front of is a mysterious individual on the televisionprowl, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funnykidnapping young Spectre Detectors. We wonIt't go into too much detail about what goes on in the bathroom s up to Demelza and the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions best friend Percy to get to your artistic efforts on the wallbottom of this... I mean, what else would you use paint for?|isbn=1912626039
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk1787477533|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=''The day Everything has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But now, itchanged for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's time, no longer providing assistance to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you haventhe police and isn't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bedeven working at the University of North Norfolk. If you She're a parent s lecturing at leastCambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yesKatie, it has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is in fact time for bed. ''What Wonders DoYou See.looking good. Settled. She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie' sets out to cater to these children. Instead of trying to persuade them that night time is a calm times father, it takes because Katie sees him regularly and there's a slightly different tackclose relationship with his family. It tells them You might ''almost'' think that sleep Ruth's life is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limitsettling down. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door to it. |isbn=194812422X
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|authorisbn=Michael Harris183895015X|title=SolitudeA Bit of a Stretch: In Pursuit The Diaries of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldPrisoner|author=Chris Atkins
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|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary= This is not Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another selfMountbatten-help manual on how to find calmWindsor Hotel Group, how but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to step outside the mainstreamfund his latest film, but it is not that at allChris Atkins was invited for a five-year stay. Instead of telling us how it The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is more about probably the ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Of course, he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of thatoldest, largest and eventually most dysfunctional prison in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led himEurope.|isbn=1847947662
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|isbn=1250168546|author=Andy BriggsSarah Kozloff|title=Ctrl+SA Queen In Hiding|rating=53|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary= In World-building is the near future, life's pretty goodbackbone by which fantasy novels live and die. Climate change has been brought under controlAnd what a pleasure, the bee population has been brought back from near-extinctionthen, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, get a simulated novel with world that has the ability -building you actually want to mimic emotions as well as imagesdelve into. ButSarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, as with every technology, there is the potential for it a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to be abused. Every day, people are being kidnappedtap, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested for the richest and sickest members of societycharacters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. And now TheoBut it's mum has gone missing. As he follows a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the trail left by struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary to stop him from finding out where his mum has gonemagical talent felt very real and very apt...|isbn=1409184641
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|isbn=16098093781543987877|title=The Rabbits' RebellionLearn 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 And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. Beth remembered the names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be safe that night though - albeit in the most horrific fashionfifteen and seventeen. When he reached Captain Edmund}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529123763|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's bedroom he found long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the man dead on letters which she and other members of the floor, the top of his skull missingextensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. The schoolWhat is not known is ''why'' she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's initial reaction was that this was death - a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet book that had killed the Captainproved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.
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