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|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, by and 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 let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17874775330008149089|title=The Lantern Men Cutting Place (Dr Ruth GallowayDS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Elly GriffithsJane Casey
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|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's no longer providing assistance to It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the police and isn't even working at body - she was a mudlarker on the University banks of North Norfolkthe Thames and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in fact. SheDS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage team would later find three other body parts. Identification of the body was not going to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridgebe easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. Her daughterfriend, KatieBianca Drummond, has settled into school better than another journalist, said that she could ever have hoped was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and life is looking good. Settled. She canshe hadn't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly and there's a close relationship been willing to share any of the details with his family. You might ''almost'' think that Ruth's life is settling downBianca.
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|isbnauthor=183895015XJenny Valentine|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris AtkinsHello Now|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within Jude reluctantly moves to a small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a big, old house overlooking the Mountbattensea -Windsor Hotel Groupwhich happens to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, but after getting involved who stays rooted in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest filmthe house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can't. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, Chris Atkins was invited reality she is consumed by a longing for a five-year stayher old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last time, she swears. The first nine months were spent in HMP WandsworthThis world is quiet, which dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is probably until the oldestday Novo arrives, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europeher entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=0007466498
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|isbn=1250168546B0867X8NW7|authortitle=Sarah KozloffAccess Point|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingT R Gabbay|rating=34|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she's helped a pleasure, then, man who has been blind for decades to get see an image of a novel with world-building you actually want to delve intohummingbird. Sarah Kozloff She's debut novel presents a startlingly rich thirty-six years old and layered worldher life is about to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, bus. It's two years before we meet her again and in the characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. But itmeantime, she's spent 392 days in a world I could – coma and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptbring in some income.
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|isbnauthor=1543987877Ben Oliver|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas JordanThe Loop|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=''Learn Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love world of Have and grief and love Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is the opposite trapped inside a living hell with no chance of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''escape. Your love relationships begin A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the moment you're born and guards who can end only when you diehis life with one squeeze. Whilst we all come into the world hoping Luka is taunted by limited access to give his memories and receive love there are many people relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for whom love Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is not quite so simplein despair. Some people His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating . With the same mistakes - only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedlyvisits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, self-preservation, in can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the form of resignation is a necessity.loop?|isbn=1912626551
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|author=Chris HautyKirsty Applebaum|title=Deep StateTroofriend|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of fighter, and well-trained in most Are you tired of them. Sheyour child's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and physically, and she knows how classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to deal have some positive experiences with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-the pain-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullying. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to beat. And she is being watched.develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=14711856051788003470
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{{Frontpage|authorisbn=H G Parry 1529123941 |title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepSilent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4.5 |genre=General Fiction|summary=Brothers Rob When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years his wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfully. Maggie, on the other hand, has just taken some pills - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists eight of them, in the "normal" world fact - and Charley before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he has a bit of a man who is blessed with an ability problem. He has to admit that he canand Maggie haven't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real worldactually spoken for a while. After years of protecting Charley How long? Well, Rob wants it's about six months since he spoke to discharge his duties Maggie and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, he can't really say if it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends likely that Maggie has tried to use them for nefarious gainstake her own life. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777
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|isbnauthor=1444776185Rob Harrell|title=Haven't they Grown|author=Sophie HannahWink
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her sonWhen Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Benaged 12, his desperate attempts at school to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane just be 'normal' become impossible. Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in Hemingford Abbotsschool. ActuallyRoss is, It's understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a little disingenuous permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine to try to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on help with the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of pain, plus the woods very often and she was curious need to see where wear a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd hat at all lost contact twelve years agotimes to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. And it might have gone no further than With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a series of horrible memes that had Beth not seen a car draw up someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any more, and her friend Flora get out along he has to find new ways to deal with two children she called Thomas his feelings, and Emily. Beth remembered the names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeensurvive.|isbn=1471409147
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|isbn=15291237631786485575|title=Miss AustenMagpie Lane|author=Gill HornbyLucy Atkins
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=ItWhen we first meet Dee she's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most talking to Nick Law, the new college master. Law's lately of the letters which BBC and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit of a bully and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversation. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she and other members finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Janemaster. What is not known is She''why'' she did this s pregnant and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Janelooking for help, not with the new baby but with the master's death - a definitive answer daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is unlikely selectively mute: she does talk to forthcomingher father, but to no one else. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingThe eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at school.
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|author=Rory ClementsSally Magnusson|title=HitlerThe Sealwoman's Secret|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-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, the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl is completely ignorant of her past, and the truth is a very rare thing. Martin Bormann, 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 it's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time.|isbn=1838770275}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241985110|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterGift
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|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by There is a minicab driver on legend that God came to visit Adam & Eve in the outskirts of OxfordGarden. She didn't want to go Eve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of those still not cleansed, she attempted to hide them from the police station or the hospital: eyes of God, denying that she had more children that those, already bathed, that she just wanted to be taken homewilling paraded for him. The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went God was not to the policebe deceived, however, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mother. Both were adamant decreed that this what was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want sought to take be hidden from the matter any further. Fawley eyes of God would henceforth be hidden from the eyes of man, and his team weren't prepared to leave it at that and they began investigatingso the Elves were born: the hidden folk. What They can see man, but man can only see them if they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a historyso choose.|isbn=1473638984
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|isbnauthor=1529400279Wendy Cheyne |title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo SpainFrom the Auld Rock to a Hard Place|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence After the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in factCulloden, that's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told themmany Scottish estates were given to English lords. He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed content, if They were not happy, kind to be hometheir crofting tenants. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died Many on the mainland were cleared and he'd seen the ''in memoriam'' in the paper: while this was did not happen much on the first he'd heard about what had happened. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his returnislands such as Shetland, but his father is delighted. In fact, he's determined the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to leave - to have a party. Only, with Frazer Latimerport cities on the mainland, what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement North America and even to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died Australia and he's been lonely. He's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedNew Zealand.|isbn= 1838591753
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|author=Penny ChrimesEle Fountain|title=Tiger HeartLost
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|summary=''Fly never meant to end up Lola lives in the cage an Indian city with her father, and her brother, Amit. She lives with them in a man-eating tigernice apartment, and although they are not rich like some of the girls at school, they have enough money to be comfortable. She just saw Lola spends her time thinking about her chance school friends, and trying to skedaddlefit in with them, until one day, suddenly, everything in her life changes. After taking a work trip away, and she took itLola's father doesn't come home. And even when the cloud of soot cleared They have nobody else to help, and she saw the golden eyes as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of a killer staring into hersthem until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and she still didn't turn round and climb back up the chimney straightaway. 'Cos there was worse waiting for her back brother find themselves forced to live on the roofstreets.''What an opener! And there's plenty more to come!|isbn=1510107045178269255X
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|author=Tanya LandmanN K Jemisin|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingThe City We Became|rating=54|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herNew York is being born, the city has reached critical mass and years in a dreary school, moves has matured into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young halfliving almost-French girl, whose father breathing entity and is almost always absentready to make its way out into the world. When he does turn up he seems to Before it can be darkestablished, brooding an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and troubled – but that's nothing compared other forgotten places. The city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the values are selected to become the living embodiment of the darkercity, some cities have one, more broody some have twelve and even more troubled secret New York has six. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman in the housewhite and save New York from very real destruction. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you But these are five different boroughs which don'talways see eye to eye, for whatever reason, this it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is a wonderful book to turn toboth critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=17811291260356512665
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|authorisbn= T R Hendrick0241446732|title= What if They KnewOur House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating= 45|genre= General FictionPolitics and Society|summary= It's 2025The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Underneath a lodge in the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvania, is a secret facility. Here, Dr Benton Malena Ernman was an opera singer and his team are making some critical scientific advances Svante Thunberg took on behalf most of the Benefactorparenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, their anonymous funderBeata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. Already In such circumstances, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place it's natural to seek a solution close to another. Buthome, but eventually, unbeknownst it became clear to the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned- travel through time. And heout planet''s ready to test. If successful, Benton has they were to find a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.
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|authorisbn= Catherine Steadman178730101X|title= Mr NobodyKeep Him Close|author=Emily Koch|rating= 43.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= DonAlice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. Lou's seventeen and he't you s just hate it when people got his A level results and he and his brother are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writer, with this her second novelgoing out to celebrate. I think in a way her acting background shows Someone has to find something to celebrate in her writing as to my mind the 'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero letters, D, D and E. Alice has been hurt so many times that always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's virtually impossible theya touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attackers not terribly likeable. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending letters which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid kept coming 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 stagesmy mind were ADHD.|isbn=1984890646
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|isbn=14736818470241396840|title=In Her EyesKeeper|author=Sarah AldersonJessica Moor|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up Katie Straw worked in the women's refuge and the wrong waywomen who lived there liked and respected her. One evening She treated them well and seemed to have an understanding of what they were going through. Why then did she returns jump from a night out with a friend, the local suicide spot into the river below? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men boyfriend seemed to have broken in been content together - and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In Noah has a decent alibi for the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When time when she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happeneddied, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting what other explanation could there be for her life in a room down death? The police are convinced that it's suicide, but the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills women who knew her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and whybelieved otherwise.
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|authorisbn=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton1838880658|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|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, the summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her mother being Queenway to visit the family which she never knew she had, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young womanEnderley Hall. Perhaps too strong for the islandHer grandmother, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of MenMrs Treadwell, and this Diana is Great Aunt Livvy are back at the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin storyDolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but Kitty gets easily bored working at the survivor she drags from Dolphin - every day is much the waters same - but her real reason for going away is only going to disturb that she needs a lot more..break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her life.|isbn=1401282555
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|isbn=17860756951788638026|title=When Where the Dead Come Calling Innocent Die (Burrowhead Mysteries 1D I Ridpath)|author=Helen SedgwickM J Lee|rating=54
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|summary=It began with was easy to assume that the discovery death of a body under the swings in young Chinese girl at the children's playgroundImmigrant Removal Centre was suicide. It Her throat was Dr Alexis Crosse cut, there was a lot of blood and he the knife was found by PC Simon Hunteron the floor at the side of the bed, who loved him deeply, but who had reason She was due to mistrust himbe deported that day. Crosse But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), a community the girl's room the only one which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsider. was unlocked? DI Georgie Strachan Thomas Ridpath, the coroner's officer, is an outsider - you've only got to look at her skin sent to realise that, investigate and her husbandhe quickly becomes suspicious, Fergus, well, he There's a little strange toosnag though: the inquest is due to open in a couple of days' time, not entirely the girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to take their daughter'here's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve the case. The coroner is disinclined to delay the inquest: for her, it's about giving closure to the parents.
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm1471166023|title=Orion LostBurnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate Rhodes
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Thirteen-yearThe 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-old Beth fifth birthday and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready occasion for a new life on Eos Five. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easythe usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire and can only have died a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the welfare of the birds he looks after. His instinct is'' going to be a fresh start. As Bethcover Rogan's mum puts itbody and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, ''Therewith the result that he's a future waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisions, create our own livesthe prime suspect.''|isbn=1788005929
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|isbnauthor=0753553236Elliot Reed|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J FoggA Key to Treehouse Living|rating=54|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=Go onThis is the story of a young boy, William Tyce, admit it - youwho is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his father're not quite perfects abandonment. You still have those oddHowever, quirky, even loveable (to you) habits that seem to annoy other peopleit isn't told in the usual narrative way. Other peopleInstead, the book is made up of courseglossary entries, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correctwritten by William, if only they would make just as a little bit way of effortdescribing certain events, situations and emotions. Or put another wayIt runs alphabetically, I get cross starting with myself because ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I forget began to do things or do some actions more than read I should and no matter how I try to make did find myself thinking 'what seem to be quite monumental changes on earth?!' but I never quite seem to get soon grew used to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail style, and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the listwas instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=1911545418
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|author= B T KeatonWill Dean |title= TransferenceBlack River |rating= 45|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to die, stranded on a mining planet millions of lightTuva Moodyson returns -years from home, executed for high crimes against and this third book in the ChurchTuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her to the ruling body isolated town of EarthGavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. Except he's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such is With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the magic dark pines of Transference, the ability to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body - and a power that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry aboutforest, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth Tuva fights to interrogate himsave her friend. All Thaniel wants is to see his family again, and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going But who’ll be there to give in without a hell of a fight...save Tuva?|isbn=B082WPHTHH1786077116
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|authorisbn=Christine Brown1782407480|title=Bucket Showers Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaMike Webster
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|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary=In I was a little perturbed when I looked at the summer of 2008, this bookblurb for '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 else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in the summer of 2010, this review's author was spending Bird Love''heron a couple of on-line booksellers: '' days working in an office job (albeit in exploring the UK) while spending sex life of birds''her'' nights dreaming it said. I very nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about being somewhere else, doing something else, and the ''shefamily life'' ended up just 3 countries awayof birds, volunteering in Sierra Leonewhich is rather different. If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, West Africa. So you can see whywould be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-day, when this book came bring uptheir families and cope in the wild. Not only that, said reviewer was delighted to you have missed the opportunity treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to read and critique itthe last.|isbn=171024299X
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|author=Mark LinganeCamilla Bruce|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)You Let Me In
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerface, banging action. Poor Arid, alone in the desert since his parents were killedEccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out year and his is pretty much destroyedhas been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers. He finds himself rescued by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella Her will instructs her niece and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes of its leader, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells nephew to enter her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can home and find out why that is, there's the key to their inheritance in an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and old manuscript left in her other daughter, Frey, stranded in office: the desert..last story she'll ever tell.|isbn= 099461649X1787633179
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