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|isbn=12501685461838593187|authortitle=Sarah KozloffGuess What I Found in the Playground!|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingVictoria Thompson|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyFor Sharing|summary= World-building Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the backbone by which fantasy novels live classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and die. And what a pleasure, then, to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve intobig grin on her face. Sarah Kozloff Dad's debut novel presents a startlingly rich come to collect her and her brother and layered worldhe ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, with a complex history of connecting nations although she concedes that seems certain he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more to tap, and the characters are interesting – if sensible than a little underdeveloped. But itscrap ''book''s a world I could – and ?) Well, actually, Tilly did – eagerly buy intofind exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and the struggle all sorts of each Queen other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptguess.
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|isbnauthor=1543987877Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas JordanYes No Maybe So |rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=''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 We might give it our all and grief crash and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells usburn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, 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 worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separation, she has zero plans for the same mistakes - 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=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her 's not just the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, BenMichael, to was killed in a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actually, Itcar crash some months before: he was driving his father's a little disingenuous Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to say 'found herself' as Beth had made drive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a deliberate detour on the grounds that she didntree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't find herself in this neck think about Michael without a sense of the woods very often shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she was curious wants to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years agoforgive Michael. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get To give some space, Tom's moved out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. Beth remembered of the names well - family home, but these children were about three and five and Flora's children stresses to his thirteen- Thomas and Emily year- would now be fifteen and seventeenold daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.
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|isbn=15291237630241985153|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of The House on the letters which she and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. What is not known is ''why'' she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.}}{{FrontpageLake|author=Rory Clements|title=Hitler's SecretNuala Ellwood
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|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
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|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= ItWhat does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Who can blame her? Her god's 2025reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, 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 much indeed. Underneath |isbn=1250238900}}{{Frontpage|author= M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title= The Highland Falcon Thief|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a lodge in travel writer, on a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvaniaroyal train, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a secret facilitymuseum. HereA number of high-society figures, Dr Benton including film stars, millionaires and his team are making some critical scientific advances aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite the event on behalf of the Benefactorsocial calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, their anonymous funderHal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. Already, As the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place passengers begin to another. Butturn on each other, unbeknownst Hal vows to get to the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type bottom of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And he's ready the mystery…before the train gets to testthe end of the line. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=17342772111529013062
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|authorisbn= Catherine Steadman0008275246|title= Mr NobodyPerfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen Fields|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Don't you When Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just hate it when people are multiwaking from a chemically-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and writer, with this wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her second novelknow. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the Besides, he didn'fight scenet have his phone with him and he wouldn' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times t have gone far without that it. It's virtually impossible theynot long before Bart realises that he'd still be alive let s alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed , trapped in a frenetic bid shipping container and on his way to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost as if the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much 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
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|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 LostA Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris Atkins|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the transport ship Orion ready for a new life on Eos Five. Their new home is still being terraMountbatten-formed and life there isn't going to be easyWindsor Hotel Group, but it ''is'' going after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to be fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a fresh startfive-year stay. As Beth's mum puts it The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, ''There's a future waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisionswhich is probably the oldest, create our own liveslargest and most dysfunctional prison in Europe.''|isbn=1788005929
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|isbn=07535532361250168546|titleauthor=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingSarah Kozloff|authortitle=B J FoggA Queen In Hiding|rating=53|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary=Go on, admit it World- you're not quite perfectbuilding is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. You still have those oddAnd what a pleasure, quirkythen, even loveable (to get a novel with world-building you) habits that seem actually want to annoy other peopledelve into. Other peopleSarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with a complex history of courseconnecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, and the characters are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, interesting – if only they would make just a little bit of effortunderdeveloped. Or put another wayBut it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, 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 the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack struggle of willpower is another burden each Queen to add to the listdiscover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.
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|authorisbn= B T Keaton1543987877|title= TransferenceLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionLifestyle|summary= Barrabus Madzimure ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about to die, stranded on love relationships rather than a mining planet millions book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of light-years from homegrief: ''if you love'', executed for high crimes against the ChurchDr Thomas Jordan tells us, the ruling body of Earth. Except he's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimureyou will inevitably grieve''s body. Such is Your love relationships begin the magic of Transference, the ability to transplant a personmoment you's soul or consciousness re born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into a different body - and a power that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things world hoping to worry about, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate himgive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. All Thaniel wants is to see his family again, Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish thiseventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, but self-preservation, in the Church isn't going to give in without a hell form of resignation is a fightnecessity...|isbn=B082WPHTHH
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|author=Christine BrownChris Hauty|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaDeep State|rating=4.53|genre=TravelThrillers|summary=In the summer Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of 2008fighter, this bookand well-trained in most of them. She'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 elsearmy infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. Long story short, She wins because she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africais focussed. Now coincidentallyShe works hard, in the summer of 2010, this review's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsementally and physically, 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 knows how to have deal with the opportunity pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to read and critique itbeat. And she is being watched.|isbn=171024299X1471185605
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|author=Mark LinganeH G Parry |title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to go on eye for years - with inyerface, banging action. Poor Arid, alone Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the desert since his parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega"normal" world -rigs fight it out and his Charley a man who is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by the mysteriousblessed with an ability he can't fully control -but-fascinating Ella and onboard one which allows him to bring literary characters into the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes real world. After years of its leaderprotecting Charley, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his name - Arid Geiger own devices - but before he can find circumstances soon take choices out why of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that is, someone out thereshares Charley's an assassination attempt powers and Arid is under suspicion intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella Charley must team up to stop the madness - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid in a battle to win before they, the characters and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert...world reach The End…|isbn= 099461649X0356513777
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|isbn=B07XLM3SM61444776185|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelHaven't they Grown|author=Helena DixonSophie Hannah|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Elowed Underhay It was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving Beth Leeson was ferrying her daughterson, KittyBen, to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in the care of her grandmotherHemingford Abbots. A great deal of money Actually, It's a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had been spent to find out what happened to her and made a deliberate detour on the conclusion was grounds that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with didn't find herself in this neck of the woods very often and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had curious to leave to look after her sister see where a family who was ill'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - 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 Kitty could not understand whyEmily. She's always coped with Beth remembered the mix of holidaymakers, boating people names well - but these children were about three and the naval college on the edge of town before - five and sheFlora's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotelseventeen.
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|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)1529123763|title=The Honjin MurdersMiss Austen|author=Gill Hornby|rating=45|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=To many readers, the phrase It'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make s long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the book one to read; preferably quantified by letters which she and other members of the words extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. What is not known is 'clever' or why'good'. For those who need she did this and at this stage - more, here is the extra background – wethan two hundred years after Jane're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family s death - a definitive answer is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great hasteunlikely to forthcoming. She only Gill Hornby has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What provided us with a man missing parts of his fingers being some possible answers in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itbook that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.|isbn=1782275002
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