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|author=Elliot ReedGrady Hendrix|title=A Key The Southern Book Club's Guide to Treehouse LivingSlaying Vampires|rating=45|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=This is the story of a young boy, William Tyce Women, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his father's abandonment. Howeverlarge, it isn't told in have always been the usual narrative waysubjugated sex. InsteadThroughout history, they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a powerful man and let nothing stand in his way of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to read I did find myself thinking Slaying Vampires'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used gives women their due. It is an ode to the style, and was instead caught up in William's storystrong 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=19115454181683691431

|authorisbn=Will Dean 0008149089|title=Black River The Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - and this third book in she was a mudlarker on the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her to banks of the isolated town of Gavrik Thames and into when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a hand, a desperate search for her missing best friendright hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body parts. With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines Identification of the forestbody was not going to be easy, Tuva fights to save her but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. Her friend. But who’ll , Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be there explosive - and she hadn't been willing to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116share any of the details with Bianca.

|isbnauthor=1782407480Jenny Valentine|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike WebsterHello Now

|genre=Animals and WildlifeTeens|summary=I was Jude reluctantly moves to a little perturbed when I looked at 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 blurb for ''Bird Love'' on sea - which happens to contain a couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in the sex life of birdshouse like a ghost that just won't leave – or can' it saidt. I very nearly passed over the bookAs Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she is consumed by a longing for her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but a closer examination suggested that this will be the book last time, she swears. This world is about the ''family life'' of birdsquiet, which dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is rather different. If until the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-dayNovo arrives, bring up their families and cope in the wild. Not only that, you have missed the treat her entire concept of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the lastworld changes forever.|isbn=0007466498

|authorisbn=Camilla BruceB0867X8NW7|title=You Let Me InAccess Point|author=T R Gabbay

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp 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 man who has been missing blind for decades to see an image of a year hummingbird. She's thirty-six years old and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers. Her will instructs her niece and nephew life is about to enter her change radically as, cycling home and find the key to their inheritance , she's involved in an old manuscript left accident with a bus. It's two years before we meet her again and in her office: the last story meantime, she'll ever tells spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some income.|isbn=1787633179

|author=Judith EagleBen Oliver|title=The Pear AffairLoop|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Set in during the 1960'saftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, this is The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a mystery adventure storyworld of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, all about he is trapped inside a little girl called Nell and her quest living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to find her nanny, Perrine (Pear) a trigger held by the guards who left her very suddenly can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and then, relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after keeping Delay he is in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell bereftdespair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. There's everything in this story, with underground tunnels as With the playground only glimmers of gangs hope being the rumours of children, to travel rebellion outside and detective workthe visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell around, and a set of truly dreadful parents!can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=05713468551912626551

|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=1788003470}}{{Frontpage |isbn=B083NMCSZX1529123941 |title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)The Silent Treatment |author=Rachel LynchAbbie Greaves |rating=4.5 |genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction |summary=Ella Watson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was out running in the park when she was randomly attacked When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and stabbed to deathhis wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfully. Her husbandMaggie, Thomason the other hand, and childrenhas just taken some pills - eight of them, Jordan in fact - and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that a decent, middle-class woman should be the victim of knife crimebefore long she will collapse. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from When Frank rings the case and told DI Kelly Porter that emergency services in Oxford he would be taking has a great deal bit of interest in how the case was handleda problem. He wasnhas to admit that he and Maggie haven't anywhere near as interested when actually spoken for a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours laterwhile. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate How long? Well, it's about six months since he spoke to Maggie and Ormondhe can't really say if it's view seemed to be likely that anyone living there should expect this sort of thing to happen. He could hardly bring himself Maggie has tried to mention Keira's nametake her own life.

|isbnauthor=0571342353Rob Harrell|title=Rules for Perfect Murders|author=Peter SwansonWink|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was 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 co-owner cancer kid, and manager everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill other kids in Bostonschool. The store specialises in crime novelsRoss is, understandably, but Mal has given up reading crimeangry. His life's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wifeHe is facing potential blindness, Claire Mallory, died and he's never really got over itwhilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. She was driving whilst inebriatedHe has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, having just been plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairongoing treatment. His interest in crime fiction comes back when he's approached With the sudden ghosting by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. She's interested in one of his best friends, and a blog post series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any more, and he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, and survive.|isbn=1471409147

|isbn=17868971481786485575|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)Magpie Lane|author=Alan ParksLucy Atkins|rating=4.5

|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way When we first meet Dee she's talking to London with fellow band members TomNick Law, Scott, Barry and Jamiethe new college master. HeLaw'd had to get his father to sign s lately of the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasnBBC and he doesn't old enoughcome with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit of a bully and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversation. And his father She had been reluctant - he'd have preferred Bobby planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to get an apprenticeshipsee Mariah, for the regular moneyDanish wife of the master. By July 1973 Bobby is back in Glasgow. The Beatkickers didnShe't survive s pregnant and March is on his ownlooking for help, not with the new baby but hardly thriving. Therewith the master's an obvious drug habitdaughter by his first wife, Ana. MeanwhileFelicity is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, the police are consumed by the search but to no one else. The eight-year-old is grieving for a missing girl, Alice Kellyher dead mother and struggling at school.

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Sally Magnusson|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesThe Sealwoman's Gift

|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary=CursesThere is a legend that God came to visit Adam & Eve in the Garden. They're there throughout tales Eve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed those still not cleansed, she attempted to do thishide them from the eyes of God, or denying that she had more children that those, already bathed, that she willing paraded for him. God was not to be able deceived, however, and decreed that what was sought to do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on hidden from the verge eyes of marrying, and older people too. It seems in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why God would henceforth be hidden from the theme of this book eyes of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that demonised placeman, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|isbn=1789091500}}{{Frontpage|author=Sara Holland|title=Havenfall|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending so the Elves were born: the summer with her Grandma Ellenhidden folk. But after a visit to her mother in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to They can see her uncleman, Marcus. It's the but man can only place she feels truly at home. Maddie's father, 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 the murder of Maddie's brother..see them if they so choose.|isbn=1547603798 1473638984

|author=Baye HartshorneWendy Cheyne |title=Ghosted: The Treason House Trilogy|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary='Julia Crawley has lost her job on ''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides to cut her losses and return home to the village of Monmouth Cove on From the Jersey Shore, hoping to return to her harder hitting journalistic roots via local news. She'll be staying with her grandmother - a woman always ready Auld Rock to help younger relatives in need of a hand. There's only one problem with that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands to himself.|isbn= B0829CP5BM}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John HollidayHard 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= INew York is being born, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into a living almost-breathing entity and is ready to make its way out into the world. Before it can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and 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 city, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has six. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman in white and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don've wanted t always see eye to read author Katie Fforde for ages eye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=0356512665}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warmPlanet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, cosy read focused on romanceGreta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The Ernman / Thunberg family and friendshipsseemed perfectly normal. This provided two romances for Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the price parenting of onetheir two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, it was actually became clear to the family element as opposed that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to the romance that I really enjoyedbe radical. |isbn=1780897561

|isbn=1838593187178730101X|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!Keep Him Close|author=Victoria ThompsonEmily Koch|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Tilly is excitedAlice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. SheLou's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her seventeen and a big grin on her face. Dadhe's come to collect her just got his A level results and he and her his brother and he ''are going out to celebrate. Someone has'' to try find something to guess what she found celebrate in the playground todayletters, D, although she concedes that he will never guessD and E. Dad wants to know how school was, Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but ''obviously'' thatit's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper touch problematic with Lou and all sorts of other things in her pocketbeing honest, but thathe's not what she wants Dad terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to guessmy mind were ADHD.

|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed0241396840|title= Yes No Maybe So Keeper|author=Jessica Moor|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Katie Straw worked in the women''We might give it our all s refuge and crash the women who lived there liked and burnrespected her. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician She treated them well and decides there is no time like the present seemed to conquer his fear have an understanding of speaking to the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are what they were going through a separation, . Why then did she has zero plans for jump from the local suicide spot into the summer to help take her mind off things river below? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and she and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer boyfriend seemed to buy her have been content together - and Noah has a car if decent alibi for the time when she agrees to go canvassing. The pair died, but what other explanation could possibly there be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be therefor her death? The police are convinced that it's suicide, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668women who knew her believed otherwise.

|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1838880658|title=Into The FireMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Grant Merriweather It's the summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is a forensic accountanton her way to visit the family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Hall. Or ratherHer grandmother, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashMrs Treadwell, his friend pleading with and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the medics to keep him aliveDolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. He was needed alive just long enough to give up Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much the same - but her real reason for going away is that she needs a name. His cousinbreak after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, Maxan arson attack and an attempt on her life.|isbn=0718185501

|isbn=15291243951788638026|title=When You See MeWhere the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)|author=Lisa GardnerM J Lee

|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it It was a hiking break in easy to assume that the death of the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off young Chinese girl at the beaten track to find a stickImmigrant Removal Centre was suicide. What he found Her throat was cut, there was a human bone lot of blood and SSA Kimberley Quincy the knife was called inon the floor at the side of the bed, along with Sergeant D D Warren She was due to be deported that day. But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on DI Thomas Ridpath, the services of Keith Edgarcoroner's officer, is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspicious, There's a computer analystsnag though: the inquest is due to open in a couple of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China and Flora Dane who brought something unique they want to the tabletake their daughter's body home with them. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 Ridpath has just five days by to solve the notorious killer, Jacob Nesscase. If Ness had anything The coroner is disinclined to do with delay the current discoveries then what Flora had inquest: for her, it's about giving closure to say could be invaluablethe parents.

|isbn=15290096771471166023|title=A Window BreaksBurnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=C M EwanKate Rhodes|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. ItThe 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's not just thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the usual growing apart after more than bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a decade of marriagebonfire. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: He'd obviously been alive when he was driving his father's Audi put on the fire and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drivecan only have died a terrible death. Not only did he kill himself when The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as the car rammed into a tree, but Bird Man because he also killed speaks little or nothing and his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense only concern is the welfare of shame and guiltthe birds he looks after. Rachel His instinct is broken, but she wants to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tomcover Rogan's moved out of the family home, but stresses body and he uses his sheepskin coat to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Hollydo this, with the result that it is only a trial separationhe's the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=0241985153Elliot Reed|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodA Key to Treehouse Living|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when This is the woman story of a young boy, William Tyce, who was alone is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his father's abandonment. However, it isn't told in the house usual narrative way. Instead, the book is taken away made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the policestyle, but itand was instead caught up in William's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happenedstory.|isbn=1911545418

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Will Dean |title=Orphans of the TideBlack River

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= In Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in the last city on EarthTuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come returning her to wreak havoc on the last isolated town of humanityGavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. When a mysterious boy is pulled from With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the corpse dark pines of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancasterforest, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares Tuva fights to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing save her deepest, darkest secrets..friend.But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=02413844351786077116

|isbn=00082971691782407480|title=Bird Love: The Guest ListFamily Life of Birds|author=Lucy FoleyWenfei Tong and Mike Webster

|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it I was a little perturbed when I looked at the wedding blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the yearsex life of birds'' it said. Will Slater (television personalityI very nearly passed over the book, if not yet but a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in closer examination suggested that the ruined chapel on book is about the island''family life'' of birds, which is rather different. The bride's sister, OliviaIf the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you would be her only bridesmaid missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and cope in the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddywild. They gave Not only that, you have missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a huge discount to get wide variety of birds which run through this book from the couple first page to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?last.

|isbnauthor=B07ZGL6B1BCamilla Bruce|title=You Let Me In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion Todd|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West year and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolenhas been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers. They were there for the fun run Her will instructs her niece and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried nephew to disrupt the race. They're against enter her home and find the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant key to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-their inheritance in an old Abi, had been taken from manuscript left in 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 problemoffice: without it, the last story she might have only forty-eight hours to live'll ever tell.|isbn=1787633179