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|author=Camilla BruceGrady Hendrix|title=You Let Me InThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=45|genre=General FictionHorror|summary= Eccentric Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has they have been missing for a year confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and has been pronounced legally dead 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 her lawyershaving them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac. Her will instructs her niece |isbn=1683691431}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008149089|title=The Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames and nephew to enter her home when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body parts. Identification of the key body was not going to their inheritance in an be easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old manuscript left in her office: the last freelance journalist. Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said that she was working on a story which shereckoned would be explosive - and she hadn'll ever tellt been willing to share any of the details with Bianca.|isbn=1787633179

|author=Judith EagleJenny Valentine|title=The Pear AffairHello Now

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Set in the 1960's, this is Jude reluctantly moves to a mystery adventure storysmall, all about a little girl called Nell quiet seaside town after her Mum and her quest to find her nanny, Perrine most recent boyfriend split (Pearmaking this their 13th post-breakup move) who left her very suddenly and thensettle into a big, old house overlooking the sea - which happens to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, after keeping who stays rooted in touch regularly the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can't. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she is consumed by post, disappeared completely from a longing for her old life, leaving Nell bereft. There's everything in London and anger at another forced change – but this storywill be the last time, with underground tunnels as the playground of gangs of childrenshe swears. This world is quiet, to travel dull and detective work, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell aroundyet suffocating for Jude. That is until the day Novo arrives, and a set her entire concept of truly dreadful parents!the world changes forever.|isbn=05713468550007466498

|isbn=B083NMCSZXB0867X8NW7|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)Access Point|author=Rachel LynchT R Gabbay

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Ella Watson was in the wrong place at the wrong timeWhen we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she's helped a man who has been blind for decades to see an image of a hummingbird. She was out running in the park when she was randomly attacked 's thirty-six years old and stabbed her life is about to death. Her husbandchange radically as, Thomascycling home, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that she's involved in an accident with a decent, middle-class woman should be the victim of knife crimebus. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from the case It's two years before we meet her again and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how the case was handled. He wasnmeantime, she't anywhere near as interested when s spent 392 days in a second woman was stabbed to death coma and now walks with a few hours laterstick. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate and Ormond's view seemed to be A professional colleague persuades Ula that anyone living there she should expect this sort of thing let out a spare bedroom to happen. He could hardly bring himself to mention Keira's namein some income.

|isbnauthor=0571342353Ben Oliver|title=Rules for Perfect Murders|author=Peter SwansonThe Loop|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was Set during the co-owner and manager aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Bostonprecarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. The store specialises in crime novels, but Mal has given up reading crime. His life's been pretty chaotic In a world of late: It's five years since his wife, Claire MalloryHave and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, died and he's never really got over itis trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. She was driving whilst inebriated, having just A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to see a trigger held by the man guards who can end his life with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairone squeeze. His interest in crime fiction comes back when he's approached Luka is taunted by Special Agent Gwen Mulveylimited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. She's interested in Doomed to Delay [a blog post risky medical trial where he wrote is a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair.His prison 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, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551

|author= Kirsty Applebaum|title= Troofriend|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-the-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullying. They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=17868971481788003470}}{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 |title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)The Silent Treatment |author=Alan ParksAbbie Greaves |rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction |summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his way to London with fellow band members Tomwife, ScottMaggie, Barry and JamieFrank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfully. He'd had to get his father to sign Maggie, on the contract for The Beatkickersother hand, as Bobby wasn't old enough. And his father had been reluctant has just taken some pills - he'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeshipeight of them, for the regular moneyin fact - and before long she will collapse. By July 1973 Bobby is back When Frank rings the emergency services in GlasgowOxford he has a bit of a problem. The Beatkickers didnHe has to admit that he and Maggie haven't survive and March is on his own, but hardly thrivingactually spoken for a while. ThereHow long? Well, it's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellyabout six months since he spoke to Maggie and he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to take her own life.

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Rob Harrell|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesWink

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do thiscancer, aged 12, or not his desperate attempts at school to just be able to do that'normal' become impossible. Children can be cursed Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, as can princesses on and how he behaves falls under the verge scrutiny of marryingthe other kids in school. Ross is, and older people toounderstandably, angry. It seems He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a way there's no escaping itpermanent wink. Which is why He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, plus the theme of this book of short stories is such need to wear a standout – we may well think we know hat at all there is times to protect his face due to know the ongoing treatment. 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 this accursed characterhis life is normal any more, that demonised placeand he has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongsurvive.|isbn=17890915001471409147

|authorisbn=Sara Holland1786485575|title=HavenfallMagpie Lane|author=Lucy Atkins|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed When we first meet Dee she's talking to spending Nick Law, the new college master. Law's lately of the summer BBC and he doesn't come with her Grandma Ellen. But after an entirely good reputation: he's a bit of a visit to her mother bully and Dee can sense something of that in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than their first conversation. She had been planning to go return home to Havenfall Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to see her uncleMariah, Marcus. It's the only place she feels truly at homeDanish wife of the master. Maddie She's fatherpregnant and looking for help, understandably, is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is new baby but with the murder of Maddiemaster's brotherdaughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, but to no one else. The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at school.|isbn=1547603798

|author=Baye HartshorneSally Magnusson|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogySealwoman's Gift|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary='Julia Crawley has lost There is a legend that God came to visit Adam & Eve in the Garden. Eve had not finished bathing her job on ''Celebrity'' magazine children and so ashamed of those still not cleansed, she decides to cut her losses and return home attempted to hide them from the village eyes of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey ShoreGod, denying that she had more children that those, already bathed, hoping that she willing paraded for him. God was not to return be deceived, however, and decreed that what was sought to her harder hitting journalistic roots via local news. She'll be staying with her grandmother - a woman always ready to help younger relatives in need hidden from the eyes of God would henceforth be hidden from the eyes of a handman, and so the Elves were born: the hidden folk. There's They can see man, but man can only one problem with that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands to himselfsee them if they so choose.|isbn= B0829CP5BM1473638984}}

|isbnauthor=0648684806Wendy Cheyne |title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John HollidayFrom the Auld Rock to a Hard Place

|genre=BiographyHistorical Fiction|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to After the USA. At Jacobite defeat at the time she was just three-years-old but because Battle of some childhood ailmentCulloden, she wasn't allowed many Scottish estates were given to sail with her parents and three brothersEnglish lords. They were not kind to their crofting tenants. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted Many on her the mainland were cleared and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was while this did not happen much on the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrastislands such as Shetland, her family had become pioneer farmers in the midnew exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to leave -west of to port cities on the United States and life was hardmainland, as Clara was to find out when she North America and her grandparents eventually went even to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children Australia and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningNew Zealand.|isbn= 1838591753

|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara ChadwickEle Fountain|title=Nine Ways to Empower TweensLost

|summary=''9 Ways Lola lives in an Indian city with her father, and her brother, Amit. She lives with them in a nice apartment, and although they are not rich like some of the girls at school, they have enough money to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweensbe comfortable. Lola spends her time thinking about her school friends, setting out and trying to show fit in with them vital #lifeskills, until one day, suddenly, everything in her life changes. Don After taking a work trip away, Lola's father doesn't groan! I know there is a market glut come home. They have nobody else to help, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of such books for we grown-ups them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible she and her brother find themselves forced to younger and younger children for material for tweens toolive on the streets. |isbn= 0228818826178269255X

|author= Katie FfordeN K Jemisin|title= A Springtime AffairThe City We Became

|genre= Women's Science Fiction|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages New York is being born, the city has reached critical mass and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting has matured into a living almost- a warmbreathing entity and is ready to make its way out into the world. Before it can be established, cosy read focused on romance, family an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and friendshipsother forgotten places. This provided two romances for The city is not alone through the price birthing process, people who embody the values are selected to become the living embodiment of the city, some cities have one, but it was actually some have twelve and New York has six. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the family element as opposed woman in white and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye to the romance that I really enjoyedeye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteed. |isbn=17808975610356512665

|isbn=18385931870241446732|title=Guess What I Found Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in the Playground!Crisis|author=Victoria ThompsonMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=Tilly is excitedThe Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. She's just come dashing out Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and a big grin on her facesister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. DadIn such circumstances, it's come natural to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' seek a solution close to try home, but eventually, it became clear to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes family that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but they were ''obviously'burned-out people on a burned-out planet' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than If they were to find a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad way to live happily again their solution would need to guessbe radical.

|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed178730101X|title= Yes No Maybe So Keep Him Close|author=Emily Koch|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= ''We might give it our all and crash Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and burn. But we might win. We might actually change thingsLouis. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don Lou't you think?s seventeen and he''Jaime has been spending s just got his summer helping A level results and he and his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him brother are going out to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worsecelebrate. However, Jaime Someone has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking find something to celebrate in the publicletters, D, D and E. Maya is Alice has always had a Pakistanigood relationship with nineteen-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through year-old Benny but it's a separation, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things touch problematic with Lou and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy herbeing honest, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassinghe's not terribly likeable. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want letters which kept coming 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=1471184668my mind were ADHD.

|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz0241396840|title=Into The FireKeeper|author=Jessica Moor|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountantKatie Straw worked in the women's refuge and the women who lived there liked and respected her. Or rather, wasShe treated them well and seemed to have an understanding of what they were going through. He was brought Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him alive. river below? He There had been no signs that she was needed alive just long enough unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to give up have been content together - and Noah has a name. decent alibi for the time when she died, but what other explanation could there be for her death? His cousinThe police are convinced that it's suicide, Maxbut the women who knew her believed otherwise.|isbn=0718185501

|isbn=15291243951838880658|title=When You See MeMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|author=Lisa GardnerHelena Dixon

|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it was a hiking break in It's the Appalachians in Georgia summer of 1933 and pure chance that Chuck went off Kitty Underhay is on her way to visit the beaten track to find a stick. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called infamily which she never knew she had, along with Sergeant D D Warrenat Enderley Hall. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of Keith EdgarHer grandmother, a computer analystMrs Treadwell, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to Great Aunt Livvy are back at the tableDolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. Flora had been kidnapped and held Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much the same - but her real reason for 472 days by the notorious killergoing away is that she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluablean arson attack and an attempt on her life.

|isbn=15290096771788638026|title=A Window BreaksWhere the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)|author=C M EwanJ Lee|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just was easy to assume that the usual growing apart after more than a decade death of marriagethe young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Their son, MichaelHer throat was cut, there was killed in a car crash some months before: he lot of blood and the knife was driving his father's Audi and on the floor at sixteen wasn't legally entitled the side of the bed, She was due to drivebe deported that day. Not only But... how did he kill himself when the car rammed knife get into a treethe secure centre and why was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, the coroner's officer, but is sent to investigate and he also killed his girlfriendquickly becomes suspicious, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom canThere't think about Michael without s a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel snag though: the inquest is broken, but she wants due to forgive Michael. To give some spaceopen in a couple of days' time, Tomthe girl's moved out of the family home, but stresses parents are coming over from China and they want to his thirteen-year-old take their daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241985153|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in the house is taken away by the police, but it's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happenedbody home with them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Orphans of the Tide|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who Ridpath has come just five days to wreak havoc on solve the last of humanitycase. When a mysterious boy The coroner is pulled from the corpse of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him disinclined to be delay the Vessel - all except inquest: for young Ellie Lancasterher, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares it's about giving closure to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..parents.|isbn=0241384435

|isbn=00082971691471166023|title=The Guest ListBurnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Lucy FoleyKate Rhodes

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests offusual bonfire celebrations, but it was would be marred this year by the wedding discovery of the yearProfessor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) He'd obviously been alive when he was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel put on the islandfire and can only have died a terrible death. The bride's sisterbody was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, Olivia, would be her better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only bridesmaid and concern is the welfare of the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddybirds he looks after. They gave a huge discount His instinct is to get the couple cover Rogan's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the island, but surely it would be worth it for result that he's the publicity?prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=B07ZGL6B1BElliot Reed|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddA Key to Treehouse Living|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was This is the story of a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolenhis father's abandonment. They were there for However, it isn't told in the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the raceusual narrative way. They're against Instead, the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and the firm is sponsoring the fun runemotions. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughterruns alphabetically, six-month-old Abistarting with ABSENCE, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was lookingthen moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. ItAs I began to read I did find myself thinking 's a major incident when ''anywhat on earth?!'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without itI soon grew used to the style, she might have only forty-eight hours to liveand was instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=1911545418

|isbnauthor=1471180921Will Dean |title=Firewatching|author=Russ ThomasBlack River

|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her to the isolated town of Gavrik and there are those who think that he's lucky to be there, given that he decked into a superior officerdesperate search for her missing best friend. He's there because Tyler came off worse in With the exchange - there's a scar on his face to prove it - and Midsommar sun blocked out by the superior officer was forced to take early retirement. There's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on dark pines of the force too) has looked after him and that his current boss is keen forest, Tuva fights to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pridesave her friend. Either way, he's But who’ll be there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|authorisbn= A K Larkwood1782407480|title= Bird Love: The Unspoken NameFamily Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyAnimals and Wildlife|summary= What does I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it mean to betray someone? What if said. I very nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that someone the book is about the ''family life'' of birds, which is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she rather different. If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the missing an opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Who can blame her? Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends understand how birds live day-to stay far beyond it-day, yet fate is a funny thing bring up their families and when circumstances bring her back within cope in the reach of her god Csorwe learns wild. Not only that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeedyou have missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the last.|isbn=1250238900

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanCamilla Bruce|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefYou Let Me In|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle NatEccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a travel writer, on a long train journeyyear and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers. Although, this isn't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal train, Her will instructs her niece and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent nephew to a museum. A number of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires enter her home and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite find the event on key to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip wonlast story she't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the linell ever tell.|isbn=15290130621787633179