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|isbn=1472134710|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C Beaton|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in the Cotswold village of Carsley. She's have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to people. The first move is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, and his wife Vera out to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery...}}{{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990}}{{Frontpage|isbn=14722559171529337925|title=The Roots of Evil Mirror Dance (Bob SkinnerDandy Gilver)|author=Quintin JardineCatriona McPherson
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|genre=Crime(Historical)|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner It was celebrating at the golf club with his wifeAugust Bank Holiday weekend and, Professor Sarah Graceas so often happened, daughter Alex Skinner it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic JacksonDalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity The thought of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and work was almost cheering when Dandy took the new name reflects a new mancall from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at She was the clubhouse publisher of a magazine and are dropped home not long into had been told that the new year. Skinner's tempted to let man running the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene Punch and Judy show in the centre local park had used copies of two of Edinburghher cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Skinner Sandy Bissett's not technically with request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the police now - he's chairman man about infringement of InterMedia UK copyright - but and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the police value his knowledge and experiencesame job.
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0099551063|title=The Long Dark RoadWisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=P R BlackDr Kevin Dutton
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|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused ' Until the offer events of help from one man in a big vehicle. We6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they'll see - but no one else will know - re probably convinced that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offthey knew it all along. There The statement has been no sign lost a little of her - or her body - in its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the two years sincenature of psychopathy. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and sheIt's not going too easy to associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, but the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be stoppeda good thing.}}
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|author= Katharine OrtonAlex Wheatle|title= GlassheartThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating= 42.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since We meet Welton Blake at the Blitz claimed worst of times – only they should be the lives best of her familytimes. Now He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, in the aftermath of the warbut his phone has packed up, they travel all he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over the countryanother girl in class, replacing stained-glass windows who's duffed him up in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoorresponse, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magicthe wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. She also discovers On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that a mysterious entitythe dad has left the picture – yes, known only as The Soldierthings are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own endsjust a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will not stop until he has her…all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=14063852391781129495
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|isbnauthor=B08KKQ85FNKaren M McManus|title=But Never For Lunch|author=Sandra AragonaThe Cousins|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=''If The rich and famous Story family led a woman approaching life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the menopause can be likened to Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a Rottweiler in lipstickmysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. But now, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company quarter of carrion crows ora century later, more their children have been called to return to the point, about to discover island for the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billssummer by their grandmother.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do youWhat does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting Are the Priorities]] and we learned deaths on Gull Cove Island really what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become they seem? The Wife dark web of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career twisted lies, secrets and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates tragedy that has held the situation Story family up - and their dog, Beagle, has no intention held them apart - for a quarter of slowing a century is about to come crashing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.|isbn=0241376947
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1786495902|title= The Last Resort Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersLifestyle|summary=A group of strangers gather on Isabel Hardman suffered a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat trauma which she chooses not to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyshare. The group includes She says that a games designer, social media influencerfriend who does know, gossip columnist burst into tears and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to health-care professionals' jaws have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessarysagged in disbelief. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the group as they explore next day she went to work to cover the islandbudget, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As next there was the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealedEU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagewas party conference season. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle One night she had to uncover the reason for her attendance be sedated and protect the rest of returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the guests from year when the increasingly sinister accidents that befall thembins went out more often than I did. |isbn=1542020018
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|isbnauthor=B08GFSK2WZEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette BoydGhost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years oldFran, absolutely gorgeous to look the gardener's daughter at - and singlea posh country house, is worried. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on just cracked her and she has garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a real talent for attracting dramalarge bone, buried under the potatoes. Her lifeBut she's chaotic: even more worried when she dealt learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the leak from house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the shower by putting lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something down at the bottom of the stairs else that also seems to absorb foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst grounds in his bathchair, she was in it and left might have reason to be out of hermind with fear, stark naked, staring at the pervy postmanwhen she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. She only has to take her motherBut surely that won's dog out for t act as a walk for her premonition to end up with dog poo spattered across her face anything - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around not here in the office.sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002
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|isbn=0008333173reed3|title=Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting MoreWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=Grace DentJames Reed
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|genre=AutobiographyBusiness and Finance|summary=I'm always relieved when Grace Dent Six years on from the original edition, the book is one of the judges on being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''MasterchefThe Future of Work''which includes an additional 10 questions. You know that you I're going ve come to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly in the timemeantime. You also ponder I'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of herother (not necessarily paying) work. I've often wondered about can therefore relate to the woman behind the media image first point made in this chapter namely that independence and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measuresflexibility are core skills that employees need to have.
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|isbnauthor=1838773169Deborah O'Connor|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettCaptive|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter Court. She's having a dine and sleep at Hannah knows the request of Prince Charlescage, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsintimately. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of the performers brought It lurks in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. The immediate reaction is that one corner of the guests is responsibleher eye. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerSoon, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenboroughit will be occupied. One couldn't bear Then what? What if he speaks to go down any of ''those'' roads.her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650
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|authorisbn=Matt HaigB08CR3WNFT|title=The Midnight LibraryTherapist|author=B A Paris
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|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= Between life and death there is When Leo Curtis found the house in The Circle, a librarygated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided Leo wanted to die, she finds herself in move quickly on the property as it was on the Midnight Library. Everything market at such a reasonable price that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother wonAlice wouldn't speak have to sell her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to no longer cares about piano, afford it. Alice agreed - she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her helpwas tired of their long-distance relationship. She gave up on all the things that Now they would've let her escape be able to spend most of the wet, cold town week together instead of Bedford and given her life just the weekends. Leo had some purposeful direction. So at 23work done on the house:22, she realises that she isn't he made for life two bedrooms into one and decides to die. But instead of death, she finds although Alice knew that the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to try another life house was stunning she could have lived, in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she coulddidn'vet feel comfortable there.|isbn=1786892731
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|isbn=03494230831406395404|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Frances BrodyNicola Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. She's Lots of our routines have been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamcompletely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Something is going wrong with his business and heSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I'd like Kate ve got loads to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew be doing) and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, others will be back from a trip to Germany before longworry unnecessarily. James went Most people, from children to see what adults will have the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to makeit worse. William is worried And there's also the fact that James is perhaps enjoying himself for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a little bit ''too'' much or is going virtue and sleep made to bring back a German bride but he'd seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the business ability to be ship-shape before his nephew returnssurvive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.
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|authorisbn=Caroline Scott000820831X|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Stuart MacBride|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a nameAt the coastal village of Clachmara, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he the headland isslowly eroding into the sea. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know Storm Trevor speeds up the process. He remembers being A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the road for a long time rocks and being frightened, and some young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gonehouse to see what's happening. They need a name for the forms Margaret runs after her son and so they call as she grabs him to pull him Adam back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galileesees human bones. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesnGordon Smith't know who he s home is, where falling into the North Sea and the evidence of what he 's been doing for decades is or how going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he got therelater escapes the tumbling ruin.|isbn=1471192172
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|isbn=1529410347B08BC4D58S|title=Death Awaits in Durham Winterkill (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesDark Iceland)|author=Helen CoxRagnar Jonasson
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|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left her library job Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academyhe's vocational library studies course still living in Durham. It's an unusual place the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to study as students with government grants are not accepteddo a Masters degree, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students taking three-year- or they've managed, somehow, old Stefnir with her. They were supposed to scrape spend Christmas together the moneybut Kristin cancelled. Grace, whoIt's 22, comes into now the last categoryThursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Her parents agreed Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to fund sleep the course but told her that if that was what she chose to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started phone rings: the coursebody of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance the main street of a student from a year agothe town.
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|author=Vincent PanettiereRob Winters|title=These Thy GiftsHis Name Was Wren
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''2006 is a tumultuous year for In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the Catholic Church. Reports village of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespreadHurstwick. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for It came down hard, taking the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense spire of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic village churchwith it, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by destroying a priest sent by his bishop. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve stone shack, and leaving a gangster's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vows.|isbn=1503199886}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1800321104|title=The Body on wide trail through the Island|author=Nick Louth|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefieldwood, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for the manslaughter but no trace of his wife. Only that wasn't who he what it actually was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeen. He German secret weapon was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be a reformed character local gossip, but he had there should have been an explosion and a list crater, and there were neither of people upon whom he wished to exact revengethose things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB
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|isbnauthor=1473692407Stephen Clarke|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultSpy Who Inspired Me
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|summary=Dawn Edelstein This is a death doula: spoof spy story, thatisn's someone who is there for the person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carerst about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. It's But it features a rewardingman called Ian Lemming, caring occupation who dresses well and Dawn puts her heart 'likes the ladies' and soul into it who works for the secret service, but this wasn't always her lifein the planning side of things more than the active service. Some fifteen years ago she was Lemming finds himself put on a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologist, she was working mission with her supervisora female spy called Margaux, Professor Ian Dumphriesand the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her maiden name, the name she published under.!|isbn=2952163855
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|authorisbn=Delia Owens3110706075|title=Where The Crawdads SingMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown|rating=54|genre=General FictionBusiness and Finance|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up 'You're not there to run the dirt track organisation. You are there to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh make sure that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken fatherit is run properly. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for  Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for board - not just a girl who can neither read nor write. Finallycorporate board, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on but the marsh. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now board of an emotional and vastly intelligent young womanNHS Trust, yearns for company besides the gulls and the landa university, yearning to be loved and to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of lifesports organisation or a charity. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud feels that this would help to avoid some of the marshscandals (Oxfam, and everyone Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlrecent years. Who is Kya now For this to happen, after years of isolation and boards need to have a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable wider field of murder?|isbn=1472154665people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.
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|authorisbn=David C Mason1786495902|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=35|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary= John Cranston is Isabel Hardman suffered a gardenertrauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend, who does know, although what he did before he became a gardenerburst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, he claimsnext there was the EU referendum, is classifiedthe political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That is just as well because he is about was what brought me to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save this book: 2020 was the year when the daybins went out more often than I did. |isbn=0956180523
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|isbn=03565124793030513025|authortitle= Alix E HarrowThe Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|titleauthor= The Once Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Future WitchesFilipe Morais|rating= 5|genre= FantasyBusiness and Finance|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' ('There's no such thing as witches, but there used to be.Financial Times'')
In 1893Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company's executive team, after and (3) is not involved with the day-to-day operations of the company. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the executive side of the purges board - to spot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the burningsrelationship is too cosy, witching too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has been reduced highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to little more than weak charms think that these are extraordinary times and simple spells. If women want that all will be well once we get back to hold power 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in their hands, the past and there has been a general failure to have their voices heard, it prepare for what has happened - and is now through women's suffragestill happening.
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|authorisbn=Onjali Q RaufB002SQCYWQ|title=The Night Bus HeroComplete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony Trollope|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Hector is a bully. Egged on by his two When I told my daughter that I didn'friendst know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, he takes other children's sweets, harasses Pride and threatensPrejudice, plays pranks at schoolMansfield Park, and gets into trouble at every turn. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homeEmma, Northanger Abbey and seem to only care about his Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had the perfect sister answer: The Barchester Chronicles and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him as were in my inbox in a lost causematter of minutes. So what happens when, in trying to tell They're not ''quite'' as well known as the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?|isbn=1510106774Austen books but they're an excellent follow on.
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|isbn=18497673430008214468|title=Count on MeA Time to Lie|author=Miguel TancoSimon Berthon|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=The title A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and format of this book might lead you to think that itis a hand, severed above the wrist. It's either been there for about responsibility twenty-five to thirty- or it's a basic 1five years. Robin Sandford -2generally known as Robbie -3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journeyis Prime Minister. It isnHe't: its married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be a hymn better type of praise to mathspolitician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good. '' ItOne of the ways he's planning on going about why maths this is so wonderful to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and how you meet Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it 's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in everyday lifeagreement.
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|isbn=1849766920B077K6BQFD|title=Everything is MINEThe Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Andrea D'AquinoJane Austen|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like Yes - that? He knows that you'll realise that he's kind, clever and loyal. You'll also need to know that everything is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything''. It begins with over eighty-one hours of listening for the slipper: mum still has purchase of oneaudio book. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that heAll six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they's being generous re presented in allowing that. Then it was the pork chop. Well, did you see anyone's name on it? ''And'' he left the carrots for Leo. That's another example of Marcello's generosity. There was the acorn order in which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownershipthey were published. And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chew. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?
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|isbn=18497670090241453585|title=Banking On It Isn't Rude to be Nude: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Rosie HaineAnne Boden
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|genre=For SharingBusiness and Finance|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the choir'financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the only people who'll buy it are throes of recovering from the people who know that nudity is OK 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the ones who ''know'' first to realise that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit banks needed to bustdo things differently. But... Rosie Haines makes AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it into something so much more than proposed opening a book about not wearing clothesbranch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. It's Boden took things a celebration of bodiesstep further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: bodies large and small and the old branch network, employing thousands of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In factpeople, they're wonderfulwould soon become redundant.
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|isbnauthor=0241295955Lauren Martin|title=Trio|author=William BoydThe Book of Moods
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|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=It I was 1968: the year in a great mood when Bobby Kennedy I first learnt of this book, and Martin Luther King were assassinated. Itbecause sarcasm doesn's also t always translate well into writing, imagine the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brighton. Itword 's called 'great'Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the Moon''best part of a rainy, or ''Ladder windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the Moon'' as itrescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's known on set. Anny Viklund is the female star in a production which is proving to be just a little bit rackety. There are odd pressures on volunteer duty we all do during the produceryear, Talbot Kyddand normally I'm happy to, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs but that day the moneyweather was miserable and I was miserable, allow a fading star and it all came to use his catchphrase, or include a song from head that evening when I noticed on the leading man, whose musical star is fadingwebsite that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625
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|isbnauthor=B08B39QNRHBecky Albertalli|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael PritchardSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceTeens|summary=''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great lifeI came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History He has a close group of Writer's Cramp'' by friends, a rather strange routeloving family, and even an adorable dog. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'But he has a secret: I prefer the word he'painfuls gay. Only one person knows this, and that' but I have an interest in the way s Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that hands workthere was another closeted guy at his school. An exploration of the history of Their emails are a problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds safe space for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so Simon; it proved, with 's his own private universe without the book fear of being as much about judged. Until one day, these emails fall into the doctors treating the sufferers wrong hands, and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itselfeverything Simon knows is turned upside down.|isbn=014135609X
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|authorisbn=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager3110641119|title=Child The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of GalaxiesCustomer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave
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|genre=For SharingBusiness and Finance|summary=What does it mean to be alive? What are we made of, and where are we going? I had no idea what 'journey mapping'Child of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book was until I read this playbook but any business that deals engages with all their customers will benefit from reading the book and acting on the big questionscontents. Written as You're going to learn how to run a poemworkshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customers. At this point, the lyrical words please don't shy away from darkness, nor talk down say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going to the children be fun and you are reading 're going to, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations to create a powerful, uplifting reading experiencebe surprised by what emerges.|isbn=1912497425
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)3110641291|title=BetrayalThe Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=35|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=Meet UrsulaSo, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the stand-in minister, drafted same thing in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, slightly different form and the children who are ignorant quite a bit of just how she money spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. YouWhy not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughly'll meet her ministry's cleanerworking, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. isn't it? Youmight not have said it, but you'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herve probably thought it. You'll meet ve also thought the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula small, incremental improvements which you have been able to accept. But as for make - the first ministerial caseoptimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of a woman demanding her daughteryour existing products into new areas - haven's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records t really delivered in terms of Ursula''growth''. It's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=The Time Traveller manageable and the Tiger|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who often gets overlooked, and forgottentakes a more radical approach. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes You've merely kept the best of whatever happens to her. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of her, they have to arrange for her to go business ticking over and stay with her Great Uncle for there's a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make nagging suspicion in the best back of things. On investigating the house she finds your mind that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boy, and he has an enormous tiger rug on organisation designed for the floor of one of twentieth century might not survive in the roomstwenty-first. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agoWhat you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.|isbn=1788541707
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