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|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara ChadwickGrady Hendrix|title=Nine Ways The Southern Book Club's Guide to Empower TweensSlaying Vampires|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHorror|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'9 Ways s Guide to Empower TweensSlaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is a self-help book for tweens, setting out an ode to show the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is go toe to toe with a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens toopredatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac. |isbn= 02288188261683691431

|authorisbn= Katie Fforde0008149089|title= A Springtime AffairThe Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Women's FictionCrime|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames and this was pretty much exactly when she turned over what I looked like a stick she realised it was expecting - a warmhand, cosy read focused on romancea right hand, family in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan and friendshipsDI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body parts. This provided two romances for Identification of the price of onebody was not going to be easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said that she was actually the family element as opposed working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadn't been willing to share any of the romance that I really enjoyeddetails with Bianca. |isbn=1780897561

|isbnauthor=1838593187Jenny Valentine|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria ThompsonHello Now

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroomJude reluctantly moves to a small, pigtails flapping behind quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a big grin on her face. Dad's come , old house overlooking the sea - which happens to collect her and her brother and he contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can'has'' to try to guess what t. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she found is consumed by a longing for her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the playground todaylast time, although she concedes that he will never guessswears. Dad wants to know how school wasThis world is quiet, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things dull and yet suffocating for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuffJude. There are sequinsThat is until the day Novo arrives, glittered paper and all sorts her entire concept of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guessthe world changes forever.|isbn=0007466498

|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedB0867X8NW7|title= Yes No Maybe So Access Point|author=T R Gabbay|rating= 4|genre= TeensThrillers|summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But When we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, donfirst meet Ula Mishkin she't you think?s having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she''Jaime s helped a man who has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time blind for a special election. When his mother encourages him decades to go canvassing, he can't think see an image of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the publichummingbird. Maya is a Pakistani She's thirty-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of six years old and her life. Her parents are going through a separationis about to change radically as, cycling home, she has zero plans for the summer to help take 's involved in an accident with a bus. It's two years before we meet her mind off things again and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy herin the meantime, her parents offer to buy her she's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a car if stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she agrees should let out a spare bedroom to go canvassingbring in some income. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668

|author=Gregg HurwitzBen Oliver|title=Into The FireLoop|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= Grant Merriweather is Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a forensic accountanthorrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. Or ratherIn a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, washe is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his friend pleading life with the medics one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to keep him alivehis memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. He was needed alive just long enough Doomed to give up Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a nameguinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His cousinprison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, Max.can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=07181855011912626551

|isbnauthor=1529124395Kirsty Applebaum|title=When You See Me|author=Lisa GardnerTroofriend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it was a hiking break in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to find a stick. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along have some positive experiences with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in this type people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of rather gruesome work but they also called on -the services -art machines are capable of Keith Edgar, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to emulating the table. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killerfull range of human emotions without lying, Jacob Nessstealing or bullying. If Ness had anything to do with They're the current discoveries then what Flora had perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to say could be invaluable.develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=1788003470

{{Frontpage|isbn=15290096771529123941 |title=A Window BreaksThe Silent Treatment |author=C M EwanAbbie Greaves |rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=Tom Sullivan When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife Rachel are having problems, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfully. It's not Maggie, on the other hand, has just the usual growing apart after more than a decade taken some pills - eight of marriage. Their sonthem, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months fact - and before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drivelong she will collapse. Not only did When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he kill himself when the car rammed into has a bit of a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connorproblem. Tom canHe has to admit that he and Maggie haven't think about Michael without actually spoken for a sense of shame and guiltwhile. Rachel is broken, but she wants to forgive Michael. How long? To give some spaceWell, Tomit's moved out of the family home, but stresses about six months since he spoke to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, Maggie and he can't really say if it's likely that it is only a trial separationMaggie has tried to take her own life.

|isbnauthor=0241985153Rob Harrell|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodWink|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to 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 woman who was alone other kids in the house school. Ross is, understandably, angry. He is taken away by facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the policepain, but it's going plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to be the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a while before we learn exactly what series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any more, and he has happenedto find new ways to deal with his feelings, and survive.|isbn=1471409147

|authorisbn=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)1786485575|title=Orphans of the TideMagpie Lane|author=Lucy Atkins

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= In the last city on EarthWhen we first meet Dee she's talking to Nick Law, anyone can be the vessel new college master. Law's lately of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has 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 wreak havoc return home to Scotland before taking on the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of new job as a whalenanny, but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the citizens immediately believe him to be Danish wife of the Vessel - all except master. She's pregnant and looking for young Ellie Lancasterhelp, a girl inventor. As not with the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute new baby but with the boymaster's daughter by his first wife, Ellie must prove that he Ana. Felicity is innocent - even if it means revealing selectively mute: she does talk to her deepestfather, darkest secrets.but to no one else. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at school.|isbn=0241384435

|isbnauthor=0008297169Sally Magnusson|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleySealwoman's Gift

|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=The boat trip out There is a legend that God came to Inis Amploir, off visit Adam & Eve in the Irish coastGarden. Eve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of those still not cleansed, might have been enough she attempted to put some guests off, but it was hide them from the wedding eyes of the yearGod, denying that she had more children that those, already bathed, that she willing paraded for him. Will Slater (television personality, if God was not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keeganbe deceived, online magazine publisherhowever, in and decreed that what was sought to be hidden from the ruined chapel on eyes of God would henceforth be hidden from the island. The bride's sister, Oliviaeyes of man, would be her only bridesmaid and so the Elves were born: the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddyhidden folk. They gave a huge discount to get the couple to the islandcan see man, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?man can only see them if they so choose.|isbn=1473638984

|isbnauthor=B07ZGL6B1BWendy Cheyne |title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddFrom the Auld Rock to a Hard Place|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were After the Jacobite defeat at the beach when the baby was stolenBattle of Culloden, many Scottish estates were given to English lords. They were there for not kind to their crofting tenants. Many on the fun run mainland were cleared and their attention was taken by while this did not happen much on the islands such as Shetland, the NEFEW protesters who tried new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to disrupt the race. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant leave - to be constructed port cities on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughtermainland, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to liveNorth America and even to Australia and New Zealand.|isbn= 1838591753

|isbnauthor=1471180921Ele Fountain|title=Firewatching|author=Russ ThomasLost|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is Lola lives in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police an Indian city with her father, and there are those who think that he's lucky to be thereher brother, given that he decked a superior officerAmit. He's there because Tyler came off worse She lives with them in the exchange - there's a scar on his face to prove it - nice apartment, and although they are not rich like some of the superior officer was forced girls at school, they have enough money to take early retirementbe comfortable. There's Lola spends her time thinking about her school friends, and trying to fit in with them, until one day, suddenly, everything in her life changes. After taking a suggestion too that Tylerwork trip away, Lola's godmother (shefather doesn's on the force too) has looked after him and that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps t come Pridehome. Either wayThey have nobody else to help, he's thereand as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, but without anything really interesting and she and her brother find themselves forced to get his teeth intolive on the streets.|isbn=178269255X

|author= A N K LarkwoodJemisin|title= The Unspoken NameCity We Became

|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone New York is being born, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would living almost-breathing entity and is ready to make its way out into the world. Before it can be sacrificed established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to her god on her fourteenth birthdaydestroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. The city is not alone through the birthing process, yet when people who embody the values are selected to become the living embodiment of the opportunity arisescity, she chooses to abandon everything she knows some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has six. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman in white and flee with her lifesave New York from very real destruction. Who can blame her? Her godBut these are five different boroughs which don's reach is limited and Csorwe intends t always see eye to stay far beyond eye, it, yet fate is 's a funny thing personality clash on an epic scale and when circumstances bring her back within the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, unity is both critical and blames her very much indeednot remotely guaranteed.|isbn=12502389000356512665

|authorisbn=0241446732|title= M G Leonard Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and Sam Sedgmana Planet in Crisis|titleauthor= The Highland Falcon ThiefMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|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 travel writer, The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on a long train journeymost of the parenting of their two daughters. Although Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, this isn't any Beata, then nine years old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal trainstruggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent 's natural to seek a museum. A number of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocratssolution close to home, will be on this trainbut eventually, so it is quite became clear to the event family that they were ''burned-out people on the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip wona burned-out planet''t be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin If they were to turn on each other, Hal vows find a way to get live happily again their solution would need to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the linebe radical.|isbn=1529013062

|isbn=0008275246178730101X|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)Keep Him Close|author=Helen FieldsEmily Koch|rating=43.5

|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her sonAlice had two children: Benny (well, BartBenoît, was missing he was already 200 miles away actually) and just waking from a chemically-induced sleepLouis. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but Lou's seventeen and he was considerate of 's just got his mother A level results and wouldn't have stayed he and his brother are going out all night without letting her knowto celebrate. BesidesSomeone has to find something to celebrate in the letters, D, he didn't have his phone with him D and he wouldn't have gone far without thatE. ItAlice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's not long before Bart realises that a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to France, where his fate has already been decidedmy mind were ADHD.

|authorisbn= Alyssa Sheinmel0241396840|title= What Kind of GirlKeeper|author=Jessica Moor|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's FictionCrime|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike ParkerKatie Straw worked in the women's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, refuge and the women who lived there liked and respected her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended She treated them well and now seemed to have an understanding of what they were going through. Why then did she's jump from the talk of local suicide spot into the school. Mike river below? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with hertime when she died, everyone knew that, so why did he do but what he didother explanation could there be for her death? Some people believe her and some don The police are convinced that it'ts suicide, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soonthe women who knew her believed otherwise.|isbn=0349003297

|authorisbn= Holly Rivers1838880658|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|author=Helena Dixon|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Demelza Clock It's the summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgetsway to visit the family which she never knew she had, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritationat Enderley Hall. HoweverHer grandmother, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that Mrs Treadwell, and Great Aunt Livvy are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, back at the ability to summon Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the ghosts of Dolphin - every day is much the recently deceased. Under the guidance of same - but her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master real reason for going away is that she needs a break after her newfound skills. Howeverrecent adventures, there is a mysterious individual on the prowlwhich involved three vicious murders, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to Demelza an arson attack and an attempt on her best friend Percy to get to the bottom of this..life.|isbn=1912626039

|isbn=17874775331788638026|title=The Lantern Men Where the Innocent Die (Dr Ruth GallowayD I Ridpath)|author=Elly GriffithsM J Lee|rating=54

|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth GallowayIt was easy to assume that the death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. She's no longer providing assistance to Her throat was cut, there was a lot of blood and the knife was on the police and isn't even working floor at the University side of North Norfolkthe bed, She was due to be deported that day. SheBut... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girl's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. room the only one which was unlocked? Her daughterDI Thomas Ridpath, Katiethe coroner's officer, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped is sent to investigate and life he quickly becomes suspicious, There's a snag though: the inquest is looking good. Settled. She candue to open in a couple of days't help thinking about Harry Nelsontime, Katiethe girl's father, because Katie sees him regularly parents are coming over from China and therethey want to take their daughter's a close relationship body home with his familythem. Ridpath has just five days to solve the case. You might ''almost'' think that RuthThe coroner is disinclined to delay the inquest: for her, it's life is settling downabout giving closure to the parents.

|isbn=183895015X1471166023|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a PrisonerBurnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Chris AtkinsKate Rhodes|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Documentary filmmakers donThe 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto't usually get s thirty-fifth birthday and the run of establishments within occasion for the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Groupusual bonfire celebrations, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins 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 invited for put on the fire and can only have died a five-year stayterrible death. The body was first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworthdiscovered by Jimmy Curwen, which better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is probably the oldestwelfare of the birds he looks after. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europewith the result that he's the prime suspect.

|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffElliot Reed|title=A Queen In HidingKey to Treehouse Living|rating=34|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= World-building This is the backbone story of a young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by which fantasy novels live his uncle after the death of his mother and diehis father's abandonment. And what a pleasure However, it isn't told in the usual narrative way. Instead, thenthe book is made up of glossary entries, to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered worldwritten by William, with as a complex history way of connecting nations that seems describing certain to have more to tapevents, situations and the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedemotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. But it As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!'s a world but I could – and did – eagerly buy intosoon grew used to the style, and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptwas instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=1911545418

|isbnauthor=1543987877Will Dean |title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas JordanBlack River |rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is in the opposite of grief: ''if you love''Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin returning her to the moment you're born isolated town of Gavrik and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and receive love there are many people a desperate search for whom love is not quite so simpleher missing best friend. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making dark pines of the same mistakes repeatedlyforest, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a necessityTuva fights to save her friend.But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|authorisbn=Chris Hauty1782407480|title=Deep StateBird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Hayley Chill is I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a fighter. She is every kind couple of fighter and wellon-trained in most line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of thembirds'' it said. She I very nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''s army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she family life'' of birds, which is focussedrather different. She works hard If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, mentally and physicallyyou would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and she knows how to deal with cope in the painwild. She is not Not only that, you have missed the treat of so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to beatthe last. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605

|author=H G Parry Camilla Bruce|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepYou Let Me In

|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - year and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real worldhas been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers. After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants Her will instructs her niece and nephew to discharge his duties enter her home and leave Charley find the key to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charleyinheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: the last story she's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gainsll ever tell. 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=03565137771787633179