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|isbnauthor=1543987877Grady Hendrix|title=Learn to Love: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas JordanSlaying Vampires|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleHorror|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 Women, by and grief large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history, they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and love is the opposite of grief: let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel 'if you love'The Southern Book Club', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieves Guide to Slaying Vampires''gives women their due. Your love relationships begin It is an ode to the moment you're born and end only when you diestrong selfless housewife. Whilst we all come into the world hoping Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe 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 eventually becomes resignation. For people toe with a predatory male vampire who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a necessitymoves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431
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|authorisbn=Chris Hauty0008149089|title=Deep StateThe Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of fighter, and wellthe body -trained in most she was a mudlarker on the banks of them. She's army infantry the Thames and when she boxes for fun – and turned over what looked like a stick she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hardrealised it was a hand, mentally and physicallya right hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan and she knows how to deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlledDI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body parts. This fight is against someone she is Identification of the body was not expected going to beatbe easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. And Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said that she is being watchedwas working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadn't been willing to share any of the details with Bianca.|isbn=1471185605
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|author=H G Parry Jenny Valentine|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepHello Now|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Brothers Rob Jude reluctantly moves to a small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and Charley have struggled to see eye her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a big, old house overlooking the sea - which happens to eye for years - Rob contain a sensible lawyer strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who exists stays rooted in the "normal" world - and Charley house like a man who is blessed with an ability he ghost that just won't leave – or can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters . As Jude settles into the real world. After years of protecting Charleythis new, seemingly mundane, Rob wants to discharge his duties reality she is consumed by a longing for her old life in London and leave Charley to his own devices - anger at another forced change – but circumstances soon take choices out of both their handsthis will be the last time, she swears. As literary characters begin to appear everywhereThis world is quiet, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers dull and intends to use them yet suffocating for nefarious gainsJude. Rob and Charley must team up to stop That is until the madness - in a battle to win before theyday Novo arrives, the characters and her entire concept of the world reach The End…changes forever.|isbn=03565137770007466498
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|isbn=1444776185B0867X8NW7|title=Haven't they GrownAccess Point|author=Sophie HannahT R Gabbay|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her son, Ben, own invention she's helped a man who has been blind for decades to see an image of a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbotshummingbird. Actually, ItShe's a little disingenuous thirty-six years old and her life is about to say 'found herself' change radically as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that , cycling home, she didn't find herself s involved in this neck of the woods very often and she was curious to see where an accident with a family whobus. It'd come into money had lived s two years before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and we meet her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas again and Emily. Beth remembered in the names well - but these children were about three and five and Florameantime, she's children - Thomas spent 392 days in a coma and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeenwalks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some income.
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|isbnauthor=1529123763Ben Oliver|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill HornbyThe Loop|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=It's long Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been known that Cassandra Austen burned most amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of the letters which she Have and other members Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the extensive Austen family had exchanged guards who can end his life with or about her sister Janeone squeeze. What Luka is not known taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is ''why'' she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Jane's death - a definitive answer Delay he is in despair. His prison is unlikely based on the model of an infinity loop designed to forthcomingmake its inmates suffer. Gill Hornby With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551
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|author=Rory ClementsKirsty Applebaum|title=Hitler's SecretTroofriend|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=So, Hitler had a secretAre you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Two, if Do you include want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersionart machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullying. But this is a secret They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that is counter these androids are beginning to that, develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know aboutreality…right?|isbn=1788003470}}{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 |title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4. His neice5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife, Maggie, Geli RaubalFrank is playing chess against his computer, the attractive young woman he seemed to be although not very close to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his backsuccessfully. Protected under a false identity ever sinceMaggie, on the girl is completely ignorant other hand, has just taken some pills - eight of her pastthem, in fact - and before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the truth is emergency services in Oxford he has a bit of a very rare thingproblem. Martin Bormann, the 'gatekeeper' He has to Hitler admit that he and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the ReichMaggie haven't actually spoken for a while. So How long? Well, it's down about six months since he spoke to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, Maggie and he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to go in and extract take her, in this most shadowy race against timeown life.|isbn=1838770275
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|isbnauthor=0241985110Rob Harrell|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterWink
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by When Ross is diagnosed with a minicab driver on the outskirts rare form of Oxford. She didn't want cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to go to the police station or the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home'normal' become impossible. The driver wasn't so certain though - Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, and after dropping how he behaves falls under the girl at home he went to scrutiny of the policeother kids in school. Ross is, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her motherunderstandably, angry. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongeye sealed in a permanent wink. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to take the matter any furtherongoing treatment. Fawley With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his team weren't prepared life is normal any more, and he has to find new ways to leave it at that deal with his feelings, and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a historysurvive.|isbn=1471409147
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|isbn=15294002791786485575|title=Six Wicked ReasonsMagpie Lane|author=Jo SpainLucy Atkins|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home When we first meet Dee she's talking to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten yearsNick Law, the new college master. The family had thought him dead - in fact, thatLaw's what lately of the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where BBC and hedoesn'd been but t come with an entirely good reputation: he seemed content, if not happy, to be home. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died 's a bit of a bully and he'd seen the ''in memoriam'' Dee can sense something of that in the paper: this was the their first he'd heard about what had happenedconversation. His three sisters and two brothers She had mixed feelings about his been planning to returnhome to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, but his father is delightedsomehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the master. In fact, heShe's determined to have a party. Onlypregnant and looking for help, not with Frazer Latimerthe new baby but with the master's daughter by his first wife, what happens has Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to be about him. He has an announcement her father, but to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonelyno one else. He's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and they're getting marriedstruggling at school.
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|author=Penny ChrimesSally Magnusson|title=Tiger HeartThe Sealwoman's Gift
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|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=''Fly never meant There is a legend that God came to end up visit Adam & Eve in the cage with a man-eating tigerGarden. She just saw Eve had not finished bathing her chance children and ashamed of those still not cleansed, she attempted to skedaddlehide them from the eyes of God, and denying that she had more children that those, already bathed, that she took itwilling paraded for him. And even when God was not to be deceived, however, and decreed that what was sought to be hidden from the cloud eyes of soot cleared and she saw God would henceforth be hidden from the golden eyes of a killer staring into hersman, she still didn't turn round and climb back up so the chimney straightawayElves were born: the hidden folk. 'Cos there was worse waiting for her back on the roof They can see man, but man can only see them if they so choose.''What an opener! And there's plenty more to come!|isbn=15101070451473638984
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|author=Tanya LandmanWendy Cheyne |title=Jane Eyre: From the Auld Rock to a RetellingHard Place|rating=54|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction|summary=A young womanAfter the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – many Scottish estates were given to English lords. They were not kind to have something like their crofting tenants. Many on the life she wants – mainland were cleared and with only one jobwhile this did not happen much on the islands such as Shetland, the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to tutor a young halfleave -French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be darkport cities on the mainland, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody North America and even more troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn toAustralia and New Zealand.|isbn=17811291261838591753
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|author= T R HendrickEle Fountain|title= What if They KnewLost|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionConfident Readers|summary= It's 2025Lola lives in an Indian city with her father, and her brother, Amit. Underneath a lodge in the Blue Mountain resort She lives with them in Pennsylvania, is a secret facility. Herenice apartment, Dr Benton and his team although they are making not rich like some critical scientific advances on behalf of the Benefactorgirls at school, their anonymous funderthey have enough money to be comfortable. Already Lola spends her time thinking about her school friends, the team have succeeded and trying to fit in teleporting small primates from with them, until one place to anotherday, suddenly, everything in her life changes. But After taking a work trip away, unbeknownst Lola's father doesn't come home. They have nobody else to the Benefactorhelp, and as they wait day after day, Dr Benton has also coded for another type Lola wonders what will become of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And he's ready them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and she and her brother find themselves forced to testlive on the streets. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211178269255X
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|author= Catherine SteadmanN K Jemisin|title= Mr NobodyThe City We Became
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|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Don't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman New York is both being born, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into a successful actress living almost-breathing entity and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a is ready to make its way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind out into the 'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that world. Before it's virtually impossible they'd still can be alive let alone able established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to fight off an attackerdestroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid values are selected to wrap everything up in become the living embodiment of the last few chapterscity, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has six. It was almost as if Together these human-embodiments must defeat the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (woman in white and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much don't always see eye to do in the closing stageseye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=19848906460356512665
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|isbn=14736818470241446732|title=In Her EyesOur House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Sarah AldersonMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
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|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the wrong wayparenting of their two daughters. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and before she can finish her bedtime routinesister, her homeBeata, and her lifethen nine years old, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside himstruggled with what was happening. In the scuffle than ensuessuch circumstances, Ava is hurtit's natural to seek a solution close to home, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happenedbut eventually, but she knows it was lifebecame clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-changingout planet''. With her daughter still fighting for her life in If they were to find a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot way to contend with as she tries live happily again their solution would need to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and whybe radical.
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|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World 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=1401282555}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786075695178730101X|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)Keep Him Close|author=Helen SedgwickEmily Koch|rating=3.5
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|summary=It began with the discovery of a body under the swings in the Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. Lou's seventeen and he's playground. It was Dr Alexis Crosse just got his A level results and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason and his brother are going out to mistrust himcelebrate. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up Someone has to find something to celebrate in Greecethe letters, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)D, a community which regards anyone not born D and brought up there as an outsiderE. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year- youold Benny but it've only got to look at her skin to realise that, s a touch problematic with Lou and her husband, Fergus, wellbeing honest, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHD.
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm0241396840|title=Orion LostKeeper|author=Jessica Moor
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth Katie Straw worked in the women's refuge and the women who lived there liked and respected her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for a new life on Eos Five. Their new home is still being terra-formed She treated them well and life there isn't seemed to have an understanding of what they were going through. Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river below? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to be easyhave been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she died, but it ''is'' going to what other explanation could there be a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts for her death? The police are convinced that it, ''There's a future waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisionssuicide, create our own livesbut the women who knew her believed otherwise.''|isbn=1788005929
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|isbn=07535532361838880658|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|author=B J FoggHelena Dixon|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Go It's the summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (her way to you) habits that seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws visit the family which they could so easily correctshe never knew she had, if only they would make just a little bit of effortat Enderley Hall. Or put another wayHer grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, 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 Great Aunt Livvy are back at the conceptsDolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much the same - but her real reason for failing. Lack of willpower going away is another burden to add to the listthat she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her life.
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|authorisbn= B T Keaton1788638026|title= TransferenceWhere the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)|author=M J Lee|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about It was easy to dieassume that the death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, stranded on there was a mining planet millions lot of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against blood and the knife was on the Church, floor at the ruling body side of Earththe bed, She was due to be deported that day. Except he But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girl's not Barrabus Madzimureroom the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, hethe coroner's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimureofficer, is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspicious, There's body. Such a snag though: the inquest is the magic due to open in a couple of Transferencedays' time, the ability girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to transplant a persontake their daughter's soul or consciousness into a different body - and a power that the Church has exclusive control overhome with them. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry about, a Church employee named Corvus Ridpath has arrived from Earth just five days to interrogate himsolve the case. All Thaniel wants The coroner is disinclined to see his family againdelay the inquest: for her, and heit'll stop at nothing s about giving closure to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight.parents..|isbn=B082WPHTHH
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|authorisbn=Christine Brown1471166023|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaBurnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate Rhodes
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|genre=TravelCrime|summary=In The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the summer of 2008usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this bookyear by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's author body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was spending her days working in an office job in put on the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsefire and can only have died a terrible death. Long story short The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the summer welfare of 2010, this reviewthe birds he looks after. His instinct is to cover Rogan'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 else, body and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when he uses his sheepskin coat to do this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have with the result that he's the opportunity to read and critique itprime suspect.|isbn=171024299X
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|author=Mark LinganeElliot Reed|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)A Key to Treehouse Living
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerfaceThis is the story of a young boy, banging action. Poor AridWilliam Tyce, alone in who is being raised by his uncle after the desert since death of his parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out mother and his is pretty much destroyedfather's abandonment. He finds himself rescued by However, it isn't told in the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard usual narrative way. Instead, the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of its leaderdescribing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, Queen Beastarting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. Bea As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!'s eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that isI soon grew used to the style, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Beawas instead caught up in William's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert..story.|isbn= 099461649X1911545418
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|isbnauthor=B07XLM3SM6Will Dean |title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena DixonBlack River |rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twentyTuva Moodyson returns -seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and third book in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her grandmother when personal life, returning 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's always coped with the mix isolated town of holidaymakers, boating people Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. With the naval college on Midsommar sun blocked out by the edge dark pines of town before - and she's done every job in the hotelforest, Tuva fights to save her friend. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in But who’ll be there to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116
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|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)1782407480|title=Bird Love: The Honjin MurdersFamily Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=To many readers, I was a little perturbed when I looked at the phrase blurb for ''locked room murder mysteryBird Love' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'cleveron a couple of on-line booksellers: '' or exploring the sex life of birds'good'it said. For those who need moreI very nearly passed over the book, here but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son 'family life'' of an esteemed family is belatedly getting marriedbirds, although the whole affair which is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great hasterather different. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, If the book was confined to the celebrations have gone ahead as plannedsex life of birds, only for the wedded couple you would be missing an opportunity to be slashed understand how birds live day-to death -day, bring up their families and cope in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriagewild. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in Not only that, you have missed the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a traditional musical instrument at the time wide variety of birds which run through this book from the crime, this case has a lot of first page to the peculiar about itlast.|isbn=1782275002
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|author=Cixin LiuCamilla Bruce|title=Death's EndYou Let Me In|rating=54|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= If I'd Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a year and has been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelfpronounced legally dead by her lawyers. Not because I didn't want Her will instructs her niece and nephew to read it, but because I'd have figured out that it was enter her home and find the final part of a trilogy. Coming key to their inheritance in partway through a saga is never the easiest thing to do and it's particularly true an old manuscript left in science fiction because without knowing her office: the back-last 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 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 cosmologyshe''. All of that and morell ever tell.|isbn=17849716501787633179
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