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|isbn=15439878771838593187|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love LifeGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Dr Thomas JordanVictoria Thompson
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|genre=LifestyleFor Sharing|summary=Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has''Learn to Love: Guide try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to Healing Your Disappointing Love Lifeknow how school was, but '' is a book about love relationships rather obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book about love''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. The two greatest emotions There are love sequins, glittered paper and grief and love is the opposite all sorts of grief: other things in her pocket, but that''if you loves not what she wants Dad to guess.}}{{Frontpage|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title= Yes No Maybe So |rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= ''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, Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, 'don't you will inevitably grievethink?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. Your love relationships begin the moment youWhen his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can're born and end only when you diet think of anything worse. Whilst we all come into the world hoping However, Jaime has always wanted to give be a politician and receive love decides there are many people for whom love is not quite so simpleno time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. Some people suffer multiple disappointments Maya is a Pakistani- sometimes repeating American Muslim girl who is having the same mistakes - 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 this eventually becomes resignationher only close friend is permanently busy. For people who are making To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the same mistakes repeatedlyworst canvassing duo in history, self-preservationas neither of them really want to be there, in but as the form of resignation is campaign goes on they discover that they care, a necessity.lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668
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|author=Chris HautyGregg Hurwitz|title=Deep StateInto The Fire|rating=35
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Hayley Chill Grant Merriweather is a fighterforensic accountant. She is every kind of fighterOr rather, and well-trained in most of themwas. She's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and physically He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, and she knows how to deal his friend pleading with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlledmedics to keep him alive. This fight is against someone she is not expected He was needed alive just long enough to beatgive up a name. And she is being watchedHis cousin, Max.|isbn=14711856050718185501
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|authorisbn=H G Parry 1529124395|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepWhen You See Me|author=Lisa Gardner
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Brothers Rob For Janet and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob Chuck, it was a sensible lawyer who exists hiking break in the "normal" world - Appalachians in Georgia and Charley pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find a stick. What he found was a man who is blessed human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the real world. After years services of protecting CharleyKeith Edgar, a computer analyst, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley Flora Dane who brought something unique to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their handsthe table. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers Flora had been kidnapped and intends to use them held for nefarious gains472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. Rob and Charley must team up If Ness had anything to stop do with the madness - in a battle current discoveries then what Flora had to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777say could be invaluable.
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|isbn=14447761851529009677|title=Haven't they GrownA Window Breaks|author=Sophie HannahC M Ewan|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford AbbotsTom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. Actually, It's not just the usual growing apart after more than a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck decade of the woods very often and she marriage. Their son, Michael, was curious to see where killed in a family who'd come into money had lived car crash some months before they: he was driving his father'd all lost contact twelve years ago. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up s Audi and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emilyat sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. Beth remembered Not only did he kill himself when the names well - car rammed into a tree, but these children were about three and five and Flora's children he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen- Thomas and Emily year- would now be fifteen and seventeenold Fiona Connor.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529123763|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It Tom can's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most t think about Michael without a sense of the letters which she shame and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Janeguilt. What Rachel is not known is ''why'' broken, but she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Janewants to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's death moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen- a definitive answer year-old daughter, Holly, that it is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in only a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingtrial separation.
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|authorisbn=Rory Clements0241985153|title=Hitler's SecretThe House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain singWe know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong -song aspersion. But this is a secret that is counter to that, and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know about. His neice, Geli Raubal, when the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to who was alone in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl house is completely ignorant of her past, and taken away by the truth is a very rare thing. Martin Bormannpolice, the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the Reich. So but it's down going to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against timebe a while before we learn exactly what has happened.|isbn=1838770275
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|isbnauthor=0241985110Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=All Orphans of the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterTide|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A very beautifulIn the last city on Earth, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the outskirts last of Oxfordhumanity. She didn't want to go to When a mysterious boy is pulled from the police station or corpse of a whale, the hospital: she just wanted citizens immediately believe him to be taken homethe Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping As the girl at home he went ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the policeboy, which Ellie must prove that he is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and innocent - even if it means revealing her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongdeepest, darkest secrets. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want to take the matter any further. Fawley and his team weren't prepared to leave it at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a history.|isbn=0241384435
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|isbn=15294002790008297169|title=Six Wicked ReasonsThe Guest List|author=Jo SpainLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence the wedding of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in fact, that's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told themyear. He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed contentWill Slater (television personality, if not happyyet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, to be home. What brought him? Wellonline magazine publisher, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen the ''in memoriam'' in the paper: this was ruined chapel on the first he'd heard about what had happenedisland. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delighted. In fact, heThe bride's determined to have a party. Onlysister, with Frazer LatimerOlivia, what happens has to would be about him. He has an announcement to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and he's been lonelyher husband, Freddy. He's met Ana, They gave a Polish immigranthuge discount to get the couple to the island, and they're getting married.but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?
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|authorisbn=Penny ChrimesB07ZGL6B1B|title=Tiger HeartIn Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion Todd
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=''Fly never meant to end up in the cage with It was a man-eating tiger. She just saw her chance to skedaddle, coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and she took itDI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolen. And even when They were there for the cloud of soot cleared fun run and she saw their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the golden eyes of a killer staring into hers, she still didnrace. They't turn round re against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and climb back up the chimney straightawayfirm is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchell'Cos there s scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was worse waiting for her back on the rooflooking. It's a major incident when ''any'What an opener! And there's plenty more child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to come!|isbn=1510107045live.
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|authorisbn=Tanya Landman1471180921|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingFirewatching|author=Russ Thomas
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who could care less about herthink that he's lucky to be there, and years given that he decked a superior officer. He's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there's a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – scar on his face to have something like prove it - and the life she wants – and with only one job, superior officer was forced to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absenttake early retirement. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but There's a suggestion too thatTyler's nothing compared to godmother (she's on the darker, more broody force too) has looked after him and even more troubled secret in that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the housetown hall steps come Pride. YesEither way, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you donhe'ts there, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn but without anything really interesting toget his teeth into.|isbn=1781129126
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|author= T R HendrickA K Larkwood|title= What if They KnewThe Unspoken Name
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|genre= General FictionFantasy|summary= It's 2025. Underneath a lodge in the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvania, What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a secret facility. Here, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on behalf of the Benefactor, their anonymous funder. Alreadyher fourteenth birthday, yet when the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to another. Butopportunity arises, unbeknownst she chooses to the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through timeabandon everything she knows and flee with her life. And heWho can blame her? Her god's ready reach is limited and Csorwe intends to test. If successfulstay far beyond it, Benton has yet fate is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very specific use for his technology in mindmuch indeed.|isbn=17342772111250238900
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|author= Catherine SteadmanM G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title= Mr NobodyThe Highland Falcon Thief|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= DonHarrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn't you just hate it exactly pleased when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a successful actress and travel writer, with on a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind is the 'fight scene' at Highland Falcon, the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know royal train, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. A number of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite the kind where event on the hero has been hurt so many times social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that itmaybe this trip won's virtually impossible they'd still t be alive let alone able to fight off an attackeras boring as he previously thought. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until As the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost as if bottom of the mystery…before the author wanted train gets to keep the suspense until end of the last possible moment line.|isbn=1529013062}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008275246|title=Perfect Kill (which D I likedCallanach) |author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but then he was somewhat left considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besides, he didn't have his phone with too much him and he wouldn't have gone far without that. It's not long before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to do in the closing stagesFrance, where his fate has already been decided.|isbn=1984890646
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|isbnauthor=1473681847Alyssa Sheinmel|title=In Her Eyes|author=Sarah AldersonWhat Kind of Girl|rating=54|genre=ThrillersWomen's Fiction|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out '' 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 friendblack eye, and before she can finish claiming he gave it to her bedtime routine, her home, whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken now she's the talk of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in and are demanding money from her husband, while love with her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurteveryone knew that, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember so why did he do what happenedhe did? Some people believe her and some don't, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting one thing is for her life in a room down the corridorsure, Ava has a lot this isn't going to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and whyblow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297
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|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit SeatonHolly Rivers|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=35|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=DianaDemelza Clock is a scientist, being unique often staying up late to work on her islandvarious gadgets, is the victim of much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a lot certain set of tauntsskills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, and claims the ability to summon the ghosts of nepotismthe recently deceased. It's only Under the guidance of her unique statusGrandma Maeve, and Demelza begins to master her mother being Queennewfound skills. However, that has her with any standing at allthere is a mysterious individual on the prowl, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong kidnapping young womanSpectre Detectors. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has It's up to Demelza and her quickly leaving home for best friend Percy to get to the World bottom of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|isbn=14012825551912626039
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|isbn=17860756951787477533|title=When the Dead Come Calling The Lantern Men (Burrowhead Mysteries 1Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Helen SedgwickElly Griffiths
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's no longer providing assistance to the police and isn't even working at the discovery University of a body under the swings in the childrenNorth Norfolk. She's playground. It was Dr Alexis Crosse lecturing at Cambridge and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to mistrust himlive with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceHer daughter, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)Katie, a community which regards anyone not born has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and brought up there as an outsiderlife is looking good. Settled. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - youShe can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie've only got to look at her skin to realise thats father, because Katie sees him regularly and her husband, Fergus, well, hethere's a little strange too, not entirely close relationship with his family. You might ''herealmost''think that Ruth's life is settling down.
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm183895015X|title=Orion Lost|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for A Bit of a new life on Eos Five. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy, but it ''is'' going to be a fresh start. 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0753553236|title=Tiny HabitsStretch: The Small Changes That Change EverythingDiaries of a Prisoner|author=B J FoggChris Atkins
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|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Go on, admit it Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten- you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirkyWindsor Hotel Group, even loveable (to you) habits that seem but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to annoy other people. Other peoplefund his latest film, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just Chris Atkins was invited for a little bit of effortfive-year stay. Or put another wayThe first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, 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 to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with which is probably the concepts. I constantly fail oldest, largest and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the listmost dysfunctional prison in Europe.
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|isbn=1250168546|author= B T KeatonSarah Kozloff|title= TransferenceA Queen In Hiding|rating= 43|genre= Science FictionFantasy|summary= Barrabus Madzimure World-building is about to the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die, stranded on . And what a mining planet millions of light-years from homepleasure, executed for high crimes against the Churchthen, the ruling body of Earth. Except he's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such is the magic of Transference, the ability to transplant get a personnovel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's soul or consciousness into debut novel presents a different body - startlingly rich and layered world, with a power complex history of connecting nations that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't seems certain to have enough things more to worry abouttap, and the characters are interesting – if a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate himlittle underdeveloped. All Thaniel wants is to see his family againBut it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going struggle of each Queen to give in without a hell of a fight..discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.|isbn=B082WPHTHH
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|authorisbn=Christine Brown1543987877|title=Bucket Showers and Baby GoatsLearn to Love: Volunteering in West AfricaGuide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
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|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=In the summer of 2008, this ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book'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 elselove. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the summer opposite of 2010, this reviewgrief: 's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending if you love''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elseDr Thomas Jordan tells us, and ''sheyou will inevitably grieve'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So Your love relationships begin the moment you can see why, 're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this book came upeventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, said reviewer was delighted to have in the opportunity to read and critique itform of resignation is a necessity.|isbn=171024299X
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|author=Mark LinganeChris Hauty|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Deep State|rating=43|genre=TeensThrillers|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerface, banging actionHayley Chill is a fighter. Poor Arid, alone in the desert since his parents were killed She is every kind of fighter, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out and his is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by the mysteriouswell-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes trained in most of its leader, Queen Beathem. BeaShe's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that is, there's an assassination attempt army infantry and she boxes for fun – and Arid she wins. Always. She wins because she is under suspicion and imprisonedfocussed. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid She works hard, mentally and her other daughterphysically, Frey, stranded in and she knows how to deal with the desertpain. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watched.|isbn= 099461649X1471185605
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|isbnauthor=B07XLM3SM6H G Parry |title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena DixonThe Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twentyBrothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years -seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the care of her grandmother"normal" world - and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. A great deal After years of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was deadprotecting Charley, mainly because there was no evidence Rob wants to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this discharge his duties and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave Charley to look after her sister who was illhis own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. She was reluctant As literary characters begin to leave Kitty in charge - appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and Kitty could not understand whyintends to use them for nefarious gains. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people Rob and Charley must team up to stop the naval college on the edge of town before madness - and she's done every job in a battle to win before they, the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''characters and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777
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|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)1444776185|title=The Honjin MurdersHaven't they Grown|author=Sophie Hannah|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=To many readersIt was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actually, the phrase It'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one s a little disingenuous to read; preferably quantified by the words say 'cleverfound herself' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the extra background – wegrounds that she didn're in rural Japan t find herself in this neck of the 1930swoods 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 oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as And it might be – hardly anybody has turned have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up, what and her friend Flora get out along with it being arranged at great hastetwo children she called Thomas and Emily. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, Beth remembered the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, fifteen and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itseventeen.|isbn=1782275002
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|authorisbn=Cixin Liu1529123763|title=Death's EndMiss Austen|author=Gill Hornby
|rating=5
|genre=Science Historical Fiction|summary= If IIt'd s long been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because I didn't want to read it, but because I'd have figured out known that it was the final part Cassandra Austen burned most of a trilogy. Coming in partway through a saga is never the easiest thing to do letters which she and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing other members of the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understandextensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. This latter What is not known 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 'why''a unique blend of scientific she did this and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology'at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. All of Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that and proved to be far moreemotionally complex than I was expecting.|isbn=1784971650
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