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|isbn=18388538040241636604|title=The Cursed GirlsTrading Game: A Confession|author=Caro RamsayGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is If you were to bring up an image of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the ponda city banker in your mind, only you're unlikely to find that he'd hanged himselfthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Twenty years later she's back home again A hoodie and this time jeans replaces the occasion pin-stripe suit and his background is no less sadthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. She's there There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying the London School of anorexiaEconomics. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even he has a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping facility with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? numbers which most of us can only envy. The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be a cursestupid. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan It was his ability at what was deaf and their mother, Bethessentially, had left suddenly three years beforea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=02414001201035021803|title=The Girl Who DiedAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some It's twenty years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she'd given grew up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Her Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, SaraArthur Crockleford, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the Langanes Peninsulaleast. There were only ten people in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be paid and accommodation providednear the man or pursue the profession she loved. Una was After the only applicant and the job meant that split, she could let her flat worked in Reykjavik a cafe, met and, hopefully, save some money over married James (on the rebound from the winter which love of her contract coveredlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1846975719AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Denzil MeyrickBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to awkward placescome. But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch?
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|author=Richard BrookSunny Singh|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers |summary= I am The Hotel Arcadia is a firm believer luxury hotel in an unnamed city that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose ushas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. In my caseHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, this there is one of Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the latterhotel manager. Not so very long ago As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed ithe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, found some and keeps on venturing out of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came her room to me not just because I was likely try to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbagcapture what's uhappened through her photography.s.p. is that people chose Although they only ever talk over the phone, their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to like see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowterrorists.|isbn=1800461682086154742X
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN1529153298|title=Autumn CampThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Barry FowlerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elses not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. The obvious person was GaryWell, whothey'd always ve been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campmurdered, Gary should act as the leader and hebut to have 'disappeared' doesn'd just be there to observet sound quite so frightening. The problem with this was Miv's upset because she's overheard that Gary wasnher father wants to move the family 'Down South't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainerWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingbest avoided. He handed For Miv, the camp over - move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and then took it back. And Gary determined she'll do anything to have his revengeprevent that. This should have been She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'his'' camps stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=194812467X1398524085|title=The Farm ShopHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicNicci French|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walkdaughter, Etty. Kirelle is dressed for are all weathers in worried but - strangely - her bright yellow wellies and Sam husband, Alec, is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatnot. As they walk to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the top body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outsideriver. Itwas an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all t stand the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsguilt. There The Salter children are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and Sam go shoppingwonder about what really happened. What will they buy?
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|isbn=00084049251035906708|title=The Killing KindDiva|author=Jane CaseyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new We tend to barrister Ingrid Lewis think of Maria Callas as Greek, but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After allshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, it in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencethirteen. He'd been accused of stalking the woman Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it didnto 'Callas't take long to establish that - if anything - make it was more manageable in the other way aroundStates. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then When she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember back in Athens - supposedly so that the police officer at his trial had told she could get appropriate training for her that this voice - she was raised under the best chance they'd had to put Webster away Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for a long time: he was a very dangerous manher elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=0008395594Christopher Edge|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=You could be forgiven Lucas and his friends are all booked in for thinking a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. ThenAll big movie fans, one Mondaythey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, she went to work and never came home. many, many snacks! MarkHowever, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Oli and Seb they are shatteredswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. WellBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom can they figure out what on earth is his best look. going on? He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down Will they ever get back to him growing up the cinema, and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1473685745Rachel Greenlaw|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=When Beth Carlyle ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and Simon Withers first met they were partially forgotten island, survives on opposite ends luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of an angry exchange - wellthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Simon was angry they capture the island's leader and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonMira's sonfather. Desperate to save him from death, JakeMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - in search of a family secret that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronymslies buried deep in the sea. When he was bornWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the left side watched streets of his foreign islands to the heart hadnof the smuggler't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. Sos territory, Simon has every right Mira must be determined to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're drivingstop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Louie StowellJames Sherwood Metts|title=OtherlandPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and Yang – Myra is loudautomation have been proceeding apace, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious often replacing jobs they're paid to do and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same other tasks that took time at the same hospital on Midsummer's dayto accomplish. And so, every year their families Just as they were beginning to get together used to all this technological change and starting to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queenthink of other, they must journey new ways to the Otherlandspend time, a magical realm full of fairies, vampiresalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, dragonsalong with it, and Gods. It's going to be all the worst night of their livesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=17880004631736128426
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|isbnauthor=walker14Matthew Tree|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at Les Eyzies that chief any of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that artistic passions all failed miserably and who had haunted him for thirty years. The body endless crises of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justiceself confidence. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used So Tim applied himself to identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves studies, cultivated his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until abilities rather than his killer has been brought to justicedaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author= Martha LeighA G Slatter|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 5|genre= BiographyFantasy|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about '' There's a childhood spent in part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familywhile. Her father is '' Within a Cambridge donremote mountain pass, forever clacking far away on his typewriter as he edits from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the complete correspondence protection of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his lifeBriar's work, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Her mother Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a concert pianist who practises for hours every daysteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Neither parent is hugely interested in As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the practicalities heart of lifea maelstrom of chaos. There is love in Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is thereunder threat.|isbn=18004603841803364548
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529900360|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=SoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Having done the impossible His assertions that there were only open-and unpicked -shut cases which didn't need the lock to the Forgotten Crypthelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergeit was Robin, Archie now has Delaware''grop'' to think abouts partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. But before She knew that the involvement was something thatthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, soireesthough. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Soirees! Archie, much He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Inezan extremely rich man and it's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those isnot the Italian. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez which of them was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73primary target?
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|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1529395224|title= Shards Letting the Cat Out of Earththe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped Siôn Rowlands fell into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architectsveterinary science accidentally. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to the architect's reshaping. Thenfollow in his footsteps, just particularly when they had he considered the human race strain that being on the run, the Architects vanished-call put on his father's life. And so, When he was seventeen he took the memories opportunity of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, doing work experience with a family friend who was a man genetically engineered to try vet and communicate with was convinced this was the Architects, does not want to be rememberedjob for him. But Before long, when he and the crew of the salvage ship was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlightwas a child. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers If anything, he slowly begins 'd wanted to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=18484584280861541774|title=Local Woman MissingA Nye of Pheasants|author=Mary KubicaSteve Burrows
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven years agoDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a man regularly came home short holiday in Singapore to his wife meet up with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againan old ally, Guy Trueman. His wife Maik was involved in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby street brawl - but when she he would later maintain that he was out she would meet up facing a man armed with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection knife - and he gave herkilled a Ghurka. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedInitially, seemingly without he faced a trace, leaving her husband charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to look after her disabled babymurder the man. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to Now he could be under some strain for facing the last couple of weeks or sodeath penalty. Her body was eventually found in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a seedy motel - it appeared that shediplomatic incident and wouldn'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for hert help Danny at all.
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|author=Nicolas BouvierAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Japanese ChroniclesPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It never does The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to start Canada to get away for a review while. Katie is coming out of a book break up with a quote from bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidablechance to come home to Edinburgh. Le Monde reviewed And so begins this booknew story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, at some pointthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely thatsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. A masterpiece Katie has no experience in the sense of the craft as well as the art of writing. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much running a history of Japanbusiness, a mythologyor in match-primer for the Japanese culture as it is making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a personal response to living and travelling in the country. hand…|isbn=19060110441846976596
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|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec0811771741|title=The Witch's HeartInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=FantasyCrafts|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrbodaknits from toys to blankets. She hides in a forest at the edge Some will be quick knits - others are of the nine worlds'long, remembering nothing cosy afternoons in front of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odinfire's wrathvariety. Her attempts to live in peace, however, The projects are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to divided by the stake—and refuses time they'll take to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrustcomplete - less than five hours, Angrboda begins five to fall for Loki's charmsten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the two start an unusual family made of up a halfprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-dead daughter, a son thatworthy projects's a wolf, and another son but that's a snakeme being picky.|isbn=1789097061
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|isbnauthor=1788549759Dean Koontz|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonBad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old sonBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, Williamhe loses his fiancee, at home with her parentsand his house gets trashed. The boy thought that Maple was Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his sister - home, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was better for inside is the family than thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a better footingnice person. She was going A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to meet her well-to-do fiancéhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, hoping who has been sent to persuade help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to come take care of Benny, and meet her family the following week. Laterwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, her body would be found in the bombed-and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out home where he had taken herwho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=1529407249Adam Stower|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainMurray and Bun
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=It was July 2019 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Erin was happy, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatBut he's always a dangerous thing to do when youbad magician're married to s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newportcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, Long Islandbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. The knock on the door was insistent and when This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was opened, Dannyto be honest, but he's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the open window up and jumped he'll have to his death from the fourth floor.do… Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=1523092734B0C47LV1PC|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceFragility|author=Eliza Van CortMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.Yo birthing person'' (Alma Derricksjoke? And if you could, former CMOis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, Cirque du Soleil RSD)would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life youFragility've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in set as the newscity of Portland, Oregon, ''A Women's Guide cautiously begins to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at emerge from the restrictions imposed during the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529431735|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in d been exiled on the world of the BornCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It The return has come about because he's not been easyhad a letter from his ex-wife, explaining to his foster parents where hesaying that she's been, or slipping back into ordinary life ill and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his besthasn't long to live.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben It's clock tower hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock sent to a watery grave in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaythe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardGlorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Life should have been good for EmilyEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She had a Eli lives with his lovely husbandgran, Steven, who was too – for there is a speech therapistgeneration missing in the family. WeA few short years ago, Eli'll pass over s parents were both lost to the fact that they rarely speak titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to each other and don't even sleep navigate the world in the same bedcompany of a magical beast. It isn't so much that Emily This has left made the marital bed as that she's sharing race anathema to the pair – but when a bed with one of her children as it's bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only way hope is to get him dare to sleep during enter what he most hates, with the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their ownpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=0241985137178763681X|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Cara HunterOrlando Murrin|rating=54
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|summary=DI Adam FawleyChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's team got t really want to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been an accusation a way of sexual assault by a professor on a studentgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before theyPaul ''somehow''d even got the details from the victim? The problem was impression that Caleb Morgan ''was'he' d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn'victim' t turn out that way. The teaching - and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherproblems - are all his own. Just The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligenceturn up dead. She has an eight-year-old sonUnfortunately, buys her wine by he was the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes person who discovered the body and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When everyone knows that the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going police consider that person to be ''very'' publicthe prime suspect.
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|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerSarah Marsh|title=A Tattoo on my BrainSign of Her Own
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|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Alzheimer's is After a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense bout of selfscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as have manysomething only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Your memories From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and personality worn away like using a statue over system called Visible Speech. At the same time affected , Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the elementswealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. It seems as if nature wants But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that final victory over you now runs everything, making life easier for many, and your dignityriots start to spread. This Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is what makes Daniel Gibbsassigned to bring her home. Joe isn' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers British superfan and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo tech nerd, is also on my Brainthe case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki''.|isbn=1108838936s kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=16358623531529421284|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopLaying Out the Bones|author=Rachel CorryKate Webb
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. I couldn't really believe itIn a gully, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the average home was likely body to be able to contain but I was intriguedLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - He'd been a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair known drug user and had come apart and she learning disabilities, so it could see how the sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldnhave been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't afford to replace all her shoesconvinced. Could she combine these two facts to create Geary was a new and worthwhile crafttownie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She showed quite a few people her first pair There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pairtwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. A new career was bornLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=17873320980571379559|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Henry ManceFiona Williams
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so onThe House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. And we assign them places Tess Hembry's roots are in societyJamaica: cows go on platestemperamentally she might be happier there, dogs on sofasbut instead, foxes she lives in rubbish bins, elephants in zoosthe house on the riverbank, and millions built of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to arguebroken bricks. I meanInsubstantial as it might look, cows are for cheese (I couldnit't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in s stood the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake passage of ittime, storms and floods. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to animals complete the delivery rounds - and I consider myself an animal loverto bring in sufficient money. If I had to choose between the company of humans They have twin boys - Sonny and the company of animalsMax, I would probably choose the animalsrainbow twins. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctantSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. I eat cheesePeople don't believe that they're related, eggs, chicken much less twins and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that making the decision would not be comfortableshe's his nanny.
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|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529425867|title=Eve Out of Her Ruins|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books I've read in a long while, but it's one of the most dramatic. It's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark Lost and unromantic.|isbn=0993009344}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth Never Found (A D I FawleyWilkins Mystery)|author=Cara HunterSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstIn Oxford, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principalare two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Professor Hilary ReynoldsBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. There had been an accusation D I Ryan Wilkins, son of sexual assault by a professor on a studentRyan and father of Ryan, is not. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before theyHe'd even got the details from the victim? s not any of those things. The problem was that Caleb Morgan He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading'wass not '' the really'victim' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishertrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Just You might wonder if you're being introduced to complicate matters furthera police procedural written for laughs. Well, Calebyou's mother is Petra Newson, re not. The two men are just different sides of the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencesame policing coin. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by Sometimes the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerscombination works brilliantly well. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be Sometimes it''very'' publics problematic.
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|isbnauthor=0753558378Mosby Woods|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''The marginal return of working harder t the dominant force it once was, . Nobody in fact, negativethe West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnisGovernments are flailing. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked A war here, a push for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find climate action there. A feeling that he was working for a bankrupt companynobody is in actual charge. His stock had fallen by 97%Imagine then, he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made there was a bargain man with Godprecognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; if he surviveda man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, he would make some changesright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There isImagine then, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breakthat this man loses this ability.''What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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