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|isbn=00083955940241636604|title=Both of YouThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Adele ParksGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. ThenA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, one Mondaywhere he was familiar with violence, she went to work poverty and never came homeinjustice. Mark, Oli and Seb are shatteredThere was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookhas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down also realised that most rich people expect poor people to him growing up and starting to become independentbe stupid. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him hardan internship with Citibank. Then Daan JanssenEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracetrader.
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|isbn=14736857451035021803|title=Unbreak Your HeartThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Katie MarshC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonIt's son, Jake, off his biketwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He wasnShe't hurt but Jake has historys back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. He has HLHS - thatFreya's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not former mentor and Carole''au fait'' with your medical acronymss close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. When he Arthur was bornthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldshe feels, let her down badly. SoEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Simon she has every right not felt able to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're drivingnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Louie StowellAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=OtherlandAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the tiniest shape of thingsto come. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. And so Well, every year their families get together I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to celebrate me but I'm left with the twofeeling that it's birthday/deathdayall getting away from me. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa Some of it is taken by - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the fairy queen, they must journey to possibilities and the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, probabilities and Gods. Itend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's going to be re talking about or the worst night of their liveslatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1788000463
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|isbnauthor=walker14Sunny Singh|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies an unnamed city that chief of police Bruno Courreges had has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the idea which he thought might help his bossterrorists who are rampaging through, chief of detectives Jalipeaukilling everyone on site, known as J-Jthere is Sam, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearswartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. The body of a young male was found As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the woods but hotel, he was never identified forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and his killer never brought keeps on venturing out of her room to justicetry to capture what's happened through her photography. What if an artist could recreate Although they only ever talk over the face from the skull phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and the resulting publicity they both wait to see if they will be used to identify rescued before they are discovered by the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justiceterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1529153298|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric(A woman? I mean, immediately recognisable upper middle class English honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Her father is a Cambridge don Well, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauthey've been murdered, his lifebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's workoverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Her mother When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a concert pianist who practises for hours every dayfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Neither parent is hugely interested in For Miv, the practicalities of lifemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. There is love in She's not worried about the house but also darker undercurrents dangers or that a child does not fully understand but knows is thereher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1800460384
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1398524085|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=SoCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Having done the impossible Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypther daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, from which the Departed communicate with the MergeAlec, Archie now has ''grop'' to think aboutis not. But before that Shortly afterwards, soirees. Soirees! ArchieEtty and Greg, much to Inezfind the body of Greg's amusementfather, doesnDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't even know what one of those isstand the guilt. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriestheir lives and wonder about what really happened. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1035906708|title= Shards of EarthDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= Eighty years agoWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Earth but she was destroyedborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scatteredNew York, constantly fleeing as world after world falls in December 1923 and only moved to the architect's reshaping. Then, just Athens when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanishedshe was thirteen. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered 'Callas' to try and communicate with make it more manageable in the Architects, does not want to be rememberedStates. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust When she was back into in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the spotlight. As he Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human made no secret police and rich slaversof her preference for her elder sister, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=1848458428Christopher Edge|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to Lucas and his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was friends are all booked in the habit of going out for a run late movie marathon at nighttheir local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. It was the only time she had for herself when she didnAll big movie fans, they't have re looking forward to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a manlots of exciting films, and many, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. many snacks! The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedHowever, seemingly without a traceas the movie starts, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days laterthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappearedthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed But as they lurch from one film genre to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughterWill they ever get back to the cinema, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Nicolas BouvierRachel Greenlaw|title=The Japanese ChroniclesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=TravelTeens|summary= It never does to start a review ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of a book with a quote from the blurbdeep, but sometimes itthe answering beat in my heart.'s unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book' Rosevear, at some pointa remote and partially forgotten island, with survives on luring ships into the words ''what rocks and plundering the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiecewrecks.'' It Mira, like her mother before her, is precisely one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure thatlies within. A masterpiece in But when the sense of Council Watch lays a trap to end the craft as well as wrecking, they capture the art of writingisland's leader and Mira's father. I'm going Desperate to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as much a history charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of Japan, a mythology-primer for family secret that lies buried deep in the Japanese culture sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as it is a personal response her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to living save the future of her home and travelling in the countryones she holds most dear. |isbn=19060110440008664730
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|author=Genevieve GornichecJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Witch's Heart|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snake.|isbn=1789097061}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788549759|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonPlanet Storyland
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out Things have been a bit sticky for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parentsEarthlings. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacyAI and automation have been proceeding apace, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (often replacing jobs they're paid to do and William's) on a better footingother tasks that took time to accomplish. She was going Just as they were beginning to meet her well-get used to-do fiancéall this technological change and starting to think of other, hoping new ways to persuade him to come spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in along with it, all the bombed-out home where he had taken hermany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1529407249Matthew Tree|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainWe'll Never Know
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months drunk and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple who had endless crises of other officersself confidence. Danny took one lookSo Tim applied himself to his studies, turned, walked to the open window cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and jumped to his death from the fourth floorset himself high but achievable ambitions. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1523092734A G Slatter|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary=''She brings There's a hug-kick-thunderclap part of me that every woman needs in her lifewants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Again and again and againThis secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar''To claim space is to live s, a family of witches who protect the life of choosing unapologetically town and bravelythe wider world from the Darklands. It Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to live be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the life youBriar Witch, the town've always wanteds leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her.'' Sometimes As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the reviewing gods are generous: dead, putting her at the heart of a time when violence against women is much in maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the newsBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn''A Woment been Lt Milo Sturgis's Guide fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskask for his help on difficult cases. Now His assertions that there were only open- to be clear and- this book is not shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's something far more effectivepartner, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''who nudged Milo into asking for help again. I've always thought She knew that the involvement was something that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own spacethe man she loved needed. If all women The next case did thislook simple, those few men who are violent though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to women would realise that we are not just an easy target Italian shoe empire and she is married to be used to prove that they are big menan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529395224|title=Archibald Lox and Letting the Cat Out of the Forgotten CryptBag: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 The Secret Life of 3a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The second trilogy Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in Shanhis footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in life. When he was seventeen he took the world opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Bornjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. Ithadn's not t - as with so many students - been easy, explaining to his foster parents where dream since he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestwas a child.... well If anything, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benhe's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayd wanted to be a professional footballer.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ
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|isbn=00084445010861541774|title=The Answer to EverythingA Nye of Pheasants|author=Luke KennardSteve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=The Perfect Passion Company
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|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had The Perfect Passion Company is a lovely husbanddating agency in Edinburgh, Stevenrun by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, who was a speech therapisttailored service. We'll pass over Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the fact that they rarely speak business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to each other and don't even sleep in the same bedCanada to get away for a while. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing Katie is coming out of a bed break up with one of her children as it's a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the only way chance to get him come home to sleep during the nightEdinburgh. Arthur And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Matty are gorgeous the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but they are a handful and Emily has a job with some new characters who quickly begin to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a weekcharm. They've not long moved into Katie has no experience in running a new home business, or in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that match-making, but Ness has been gentrified full confidence in her abilities, and itthere's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars always her very helpful (and rather than owning their own.handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=02419851370811771741|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Cara HunterMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=DI Adam FawleyMelissa Leapman's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsblankets. There had been an accusation Some will be quick knits - others are of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the room before theyfire'd even got the details from the victim? variety. The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' projects are divided by the time they'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just ll take to complicate matters furthercomplete - less than five hours, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MPfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligencemore than twenty hours. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by All the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddprojects are attractive, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes modern and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersuseable. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'verybut that'' publics me being picky.
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|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerDean Koontz|title=A Tattoo on my BrainThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyParanormal|summary=Alzheimer's Benny is having a disease that slowly wears away your identity terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and sense of selfhis house gets trashed. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease Oh, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like someone has delivered a statue over time affected really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the elements. It seems as if nature wants thing that final victory over you and your dignityhas trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. This He is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirablea nice person. A really nice person. Daniel Gibbs So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a neurologist new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who was diagnosed with Alzheimers has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brainwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=11088389361662500491
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|isbnauthor=1635862353Adam Stower|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryMurray and Bun
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|genre=CraftsConfident Readers |summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of her shoes. One pair had come apart and she could see how the sandal was constructedtwo. Then she realised that she couldnBut he't afford to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create s a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a few people her first pair hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a pairworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. A new career This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was born., to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=1787332098B0C47LV1PC|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldFragility|author=Henry ManceMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. ' joke? And we assign them places in society: cows go on platesif you could, dogs on sofasis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on would it land? The catch is that the next David Attenborough seriesanswer for both could well be.... no.''
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|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529431735|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, called there by Jancis Appleby to see which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsmore surprising. There had He'd been an accusation of sexual assault by exiled on the Costa del Sol as a professor on wanted drug smuggler for a studentdecade. When Fawley arrived The return has come about because he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details s had a letter from the victim? The problem was his ex-wife, saying that Caleb Morgan she's ill and hasn'was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishert long to live. Just to complicate matters further, CalebIt's mother hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Petra Newsonabducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the local MP, and Professor Fisher is boot of a big name is Artificial Intelligencestolen Ford Sierra. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case Is it a warning from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going Spanish gang or a problem closer to be ''very'' public.home?
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|isbnauthor=0753558378Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=''The marginal return of working harder wasEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in factthe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnistoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. ItA few short years ago, Eli's no exaggeration parents were both lost to say that he devoted his life the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for of a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little valuemagical beast. He This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a bargain with God; if he survivedconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There ismost hates, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breakwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.''|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=1471181405178763681X|title=NighthawkingKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Russ ThomasOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sheffield's [http://wwwChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you He didn'd like t really want to visit) are an oasis but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of calm in getting both men and women to do whathe wanted. Paul ''somehow''s otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when got the body of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of impression that he'd be at the beds but school to assist Paul, who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsa broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The police need to establish who stabbed her teaching - and who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers problems - are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbaniall his own. TheyThe one thing he hadn're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leavet expected was for someone to turn up dead. Mina thinks Unfortunately, he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesperson to be the prime suspect.
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|author= Jennifer Saint Sarah Marsh|title= Ariadne A Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5 |genre= Women's General Fiction |summary= This re-telling After a bout of the myth scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusualsilence, everything about her life changes. Jennifer Saint presents the story Living in a way that time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing sent to a modern audience. Saint's narrative school where she is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadnetaught to lip read, spanning but physically restrained from her childhood to her deathsigning. From here, allowing she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the reader to really connect with Ariadne as deaf and using a character system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics complicated tangle of Theseusespionage. |isbn=14722738691035401614}}
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|authorisbn=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne1803816759|title=Monster DoughnutsThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni have been left to run the family bakery. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though sheIt's only ten years old, she 2038 and Joe is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, bored cop policing the wealthy and Grace uses peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a number bit of methods adventure and to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them get stuck into eating a sweet treat some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that willnow runs everything, ultimatelymaking life easier for many, be their demiseand riots start to spread. One dayFinally, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesnJoe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't seem the only one trying to explode as the other monsters dosave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and so things start to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=09956478951529421284|title=Sadie and Laying Out the Sea DogsBones|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceKate Webb|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Sadie's mother always said It was one of those flash downpours that she was the British weather often delivers in a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doingheatwave. She lives by In a gully, a human skeleton came to the River Thames at Greenwich surface and she loves forensic testing proved the body to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarkbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He''Her class d been a known drug user and had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloomlearning disabilities,so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''t convinced. Her imagination Geary was a townie, so what was fired. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She'd love There are connections to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship suicide of Holly Gilbert and went back regularlyto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. One day she fell asleep under a glass case Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (itthat's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) cold cases to you and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy bedsme) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasureinvestigate.
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|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal0571379559|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
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|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the fact that story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she may might be happier there, but instead, she lives in constant pain for the rest house on the riverbank, built of her lifebroken bricks. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones' Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnessescomplete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They talk about their troubles have twin boys - Sonny and help each other outMax, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concernedrainbow twins. She decides to steal her parents Sonny' car and drive to Brigids colouring reflects his mother's house to check up on herJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. But what she doesn People don't expect to find believe that they're related, much less twins and there 's an assumption when Max is a werewolf in the basement – and for out with his mother that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months's his nanny.|isbn=1683692349
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|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1529425867|title=SlingshotLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonelyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. As a secret illegitimate daughter D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of a man with a "real" familyRyan, she is used to not being . He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a priority in peopletrailer park, barely educated (reading's livesnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. But when she defends You might wonder if you're being introduced to a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed police procedural written for goodlaughs. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude Well, for her life now has a boy in you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield's problematic.|isbn=152905818X
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|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAMosby Woods|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5
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|summary=The story opens to probably West isn't the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deaddominant force it once was. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, Nobody in the Duke of Omnium, West is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - quite sure how to adjust to no longer being prime minister, mend this or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which if mending it is easier said than done when none the best course of them wishes to ''be'' guidedaction. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald Governments are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debtsflailing. A war here, occasionally a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in eye-watering sumsactual charge. Lady Helen has fallen in love Imagine then, there was a man with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, precognition. Imagine the penniless son strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of a poor squirecircumstances. That man would be valuable, which right? Perhaps the Duke cannot countenancemost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencorathat this man loses this ability. He's about What would governments do to learn that parents do not always get their way.it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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