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|isbn=17765743380241636604|title=Leilong's Too Long!The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Every morning LeilongIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the brontosaurus school bus, makes pin-stripe suit and his way through background is the cityEast End, picking up children as where he goeswas familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Children who live at There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the top London School of tower blocks don't even need Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down be stupid. It was his neckability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's perfect, isntwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She't it? What could be a more fun way s back now because of going to school? There is a problemrequest for help from her beloved aunt, thoughCarole. Leilong isn't happy in the city: heFreya's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet former mentor and – because heCarole's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to and traffic regularly gets snarled upthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The school decides that he can't Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the bus anymoreman 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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|isbn=303091657XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Disaster in the BoardroomAll Tomorrow's Futures: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandFictions that Disrupt|author=Gerry Brown Benjamin Greenaway and Randall S PetersonStephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Business and FinanceScience Fiction|summary=Boards must act in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the best interests shape of their stakeholders and ensure things to come.'' I've heard it said that they are well-managed and financially secure'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. This might seem obvious but Well, I must confess that there have been more than a series of disasters - some few decades of which have resulted technology in death or my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the collapse feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of a major company it is - frankly - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingquite frightening. Where were they? Occasionally Of course, I could research the possibilities and the boards were unaware of probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance 're talking about or criminalitythe latest conspiracy theorist. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown I needed people I knew I could trust and Randall S Peterson give us who could deliver information in a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littleway I could understand.
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|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15293379681529153298|title=In Place The List of FearSuspicious Things|author=Catriona McPhersonJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 1979 and Helen Crowther Margaret Thatcher is due Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the NHS is bornfamily 'Down South'. SheWhen you'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. The hardest part of For Miv, the job will be to persuade people that the services move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she offers really are free and that they don't have to ll do anything to qualify for themprevent that. Some of She's not worried about the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of dangers or that her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedMum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1398524085|title=GalaxyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, who is an elite pilot with the Space AcademyPaul and Ollie and her daughter, barely makes it through a battle aliveEtty. His coare all worried but -pilot was strangely - her husband, Alec, is not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years Shortly afterwards, he remembers little Etty and is Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in no physical shape the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he mustcouldn't stand the guilt. Returned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and The Salter children are not just from the alien threats against it, convinced but there's little else they can do but also from its own sins against itselfget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1035906708|title=WishedDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=When things contrive We tend to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanGreek parents in Manhattan, Miss FileyNew York, for a week of half-term, they're not looking forward in December 1923 and only moved to it. For one thing, Athens when she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuitwas thirteen. They donHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't particularly take to Willard either, make it more manageable in the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhereStates. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage to work out When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a second time when they realise that, having used up three mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of themher preference for her elder sister, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202XJackie.
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|author=Justyn EdwardsChristopher Edge|title=The Great Fox IllusionBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a contest with movie marathon at their local cinema, a differenceplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. No singing All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, no dancingas the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this show new film format is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workvery different, and who can attempt they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick next, can they figure out what on earth is determined to win, but not because she wants going on? Will they ever get back to own the tricks. She is interested in just ''one'' trickcinema, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able and to bring her missing father home.their real lives?|isbn=15295019461839942738
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|author=Jason RohanRachel Greenlaw|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedCompass and Blade
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to do with Donna, a girl at their school. But things immediately change at ''I can hear the start of this extended sprint song of a novel, when she insists Arun's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school to find out whysea. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea The call of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Well, it's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpected. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappersdeep, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey answering beat in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Periodmy heart.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''.
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydPlanet Storyland
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of Things have been a bit sticky for the decadeEarthlings.'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex AI and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an island. It was now known as Island Homeautomation have been proceeding apace, one of The Home Groupoften replacing jobs they's exclusive clubs re paid to do and the opening weekend was going other tasks that took time to be something special, even by Home's standardsaccomplish. Speedboats, helicopters Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the islandstarting to think of other, which was linked new ways to the mainland by a causeway that spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was inaccessible at high tide. Home's CEOpretty much shut down and, Ned Groomalong with it, is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for all the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Melissa Fu Matthew Tree|title=Peach Blossom Spring We'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 than to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to America. |isbn=1472277538}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Faceless|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=In this book told be different from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-step. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billyhis father, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needs. And then we have Max, who is also living on the streets drunk and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell chronic underachiever whose dreams of a man, barely able to take being exceptional at any care of himself, his artistic passions all failed miserably and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is nowwho had endless crises of self confidence. One night, Bradley finds So Tim applied himself half-crazed with stress and anxietyto his studies, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds cultivated his abilities rather than his life thrown into turmoil daydreams and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very differentset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1914585046B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=0760373531A G Slatter|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around The Briar Book of the World|author=Sue FlandersDead
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|genre=CraftsFantasy|summary=Just occasionally you encounter '' There's a book part of knitting patterns which seems me that wants to keep this just to meet your every needmyself for however long I can. Right nowThis secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy itfor a while.'s bitterly cold and we're in Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socksworld, scarveslies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, hats a family of witches who protect the town and mittensthe wider world from the Darklands. They have Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to look stylishbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, keep me warm her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and be so cheerful that they make me feel betterpotions. If that sounds like a lot to askWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, have a look at Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town'Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items s leader, and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearingEllie takes her place beside her. We start As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some the dead, putting her at the heart of the history a maelstrom of knittingchaos. ItReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches's not essential but it's a nice extralegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=17765740281529900360|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeThe Ghost Orchid|author=David ElliottJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=I love a good board book! 'It hadn'Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: itt been Lt Milo Sturgis's for the child who still enjoys board books (erfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills Sturgis was reluctant to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each oneask for his help on difficult cases. We have the elephant who dons a tutu His assertions that there were only open- and becomes a -shut cases which didn''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had t need the help of a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes psychologist only worked for a ''fluffalo''while. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a Finally, it was Robin, Delaware''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican s partner, who sits on his potty changes nudged Milo into a ''sm...asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air.'' OK, letHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not go there the Italian. Some people are eating!But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1529395224|title=Death at Friar's InnLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Rob KeeleySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Nat Webber Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Tom Barton were Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of Friarstrain that being on-call put on his father's Innlife. For aspiring barristers, moots test When he was seventeen he took the participants' knowledge opportunity of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's doing work experience with a family friend who was a great way of getting invaluable practice vet and of getting yourself noticedwas convinced this was the job for him. Tom and Nat are from 'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down on because of thisBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. The other contestants It hadn't - Becca Deckeras with so many students -Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidencebeen his dream since he was a child. TomIf anything, he's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=15291259440861541774|title=City A Nye of the DeadPheasants|author=Jonathan KellermanSteve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a livingshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, you're careful and it's not just about the way that you driveGuy Trueman. You restrict your alcohol intake and if it's Maik was involved in a trip street brawl - he would later maintain that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking he was facing a removals truck through man armed with a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 knife - and he killed aGhurka.m. when the roads are quieter Initially, even if you he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to wait up when you get to where you're goingmurder the man. And it was going well until Now he could be facing the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angelesdeath penalty. The man was stark naked Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and couldnwouldn't be identifiedhelp Danny at all.
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|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=I May Be WrongThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre= AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= When 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 Dalai Lama adds his words business, as Ness is planning to your frontispiece, I'm inclined take a trip to Canada to think it doesn't really matter how the rest get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the world responds chance to your bookcome home to Edinburgh. I knowAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, having read bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the book in questionIsabel Dalhousie novels, that Lindeblad would disagree but with that thoughtsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. He knows Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and at core so do Irather handsome) that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to this bookneighbour, because it tells the truth as it isWilliam, in the early 21st century.to lend a hand…|isbn=15266448271846976596
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10811771741|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Tim SullivanMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerMelissa Leapman's Syndrome''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. He can Some will be rudequick knits - others are of the 'long, difficult and awkward with people, although itcosy afternoons in front of the fire's never intentionalvariety. ItThe projects are divided by the time they's just that he thinks differently ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and social niceties simply don't occur to himmore than twenty hours. There's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has All the best conviction rate with casesprojects are attractive, evermodern and useable. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social niceties into Cross-media-worthy projects' but that's behaviourme being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1529151600Dean Koontz|title=Give Unto Others|author=Donna LeonThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. The ''pandemia'' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years Oh, and someone has delivered a lot of businesses have closedreally weird, most never disturbing coffin-sized object to reopen. Therehis home, and it's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is,000 deaths have not put an end Benny is the very last person to greeddeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to launder all the money which his house is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about thisa new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally who has been sent to help him since they were neighbours when he was Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a childgood person. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem Spike is going to take care of Benny, and shewill certainly take care of Benny'd like Brunettis enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's advicewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Marcus SedgwickAdam Stower|title=WrathMurray and Bun
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary=Meet Fitz, Murray is supposed to be a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just overhumble, tidy and he should be free to do what he wantsfriendly cat, one who is able to go where he wants sleep and eat and eat and sleep and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting well, whatever takes his foot in it when fancy next of the two. But he talks to 's a bad magician's cat, so his best friendfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Cassienot into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. They were half of This time round it drops them into a desultory school bandViking land, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic where a troll hunter is expected – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with well, one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music shemuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing turned up and he can't...ll have to do…|isbn=18009008990008561249
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|isbn=1635864070B0C47LV1PC|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1Fragility|author=Safiyyah TalleyMosby Woods
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|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=If Can youmake a ''Yo birthing person've ever started knitting a pair of socks' joke? And if you could, finished the first one and either got bored by is the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock and lost the first before question should you finished make it, this ? Or is the book for question if you. Where is did, would it that single socks go to hideland? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system The catch is that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socksthe answer for both could well be.... no. Sounds good? It ''Fragility''s clever and well-thought-out.is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Olivie Blake1529431735|title=The Atlas SixWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Dark, sharp, It's February 1991 and highly inquisitiveEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The Atlas Sixreturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It' makes its publishing debut after becoming s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a Tik-Tok sensationwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1529095239 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0008384983Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was Eli is a Friday busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Paristhe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She'd come across from London on EurostarEli lives with his lovely gran, courtesy of too – for there is a generation missing in the money she'd stolen from The Pervertfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's till parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the Copacabana Bar in Brightoncompany of a magical beast. It wasn't likely that This has made the police would be on race anathema to her yet the pair – but she'd like when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to be somewhere safe and enter what he most hates, with food and drink inside her. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that sole aim the prize of magic at the apartment was on end – the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able only thing to get in touch with Benpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=0760373558178763681X|title=Nordic KnitsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Sue FlandersOrlando Murrin
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Sock Projects from Around women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] impression that I didnhe't need any persuading d be at all the school to pick up her ''Nordic Knits'assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. This delivers fortyThe teaching -four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Icelandthe problems - are all his own. There are a few sweaters or jackets but the majority of patterns are The one thing he hadn't expected was for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bagssomeone to turn up dead. All are bright Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and cheerful and very cosyeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.
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|isbnauthor=1916072038Sarah Marsh|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=We meet part After a bout of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the hollowlife changes. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath Living in a facade time when the use of respectabilitysign language was seen as something only savages do, the deplorable truth''. Hester Ellen is furious about Jocelyn's refusal sent to do as a school where she was askedis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, which she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has precipitated ''this violent been teaching the deaf and unexpected removal''using a system called Visible Speech. Then we are told of At the birth of a child same time, Bell is working on other inventions andideas, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in Yorkshirea complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1803816759|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=It's easy 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to forget at times get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that The Naked Don't Fear now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the Water rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a wellthe only one trying to save Suki -paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticismDylan, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast British superfan and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me tech nerd, is also on edge the whole way throughcase. But What went wrong? Did the system fail or was ithacked? And how is Suki's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6kidnapping connected?
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1529421284|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
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|summary=This is It was one of those flash downpours that the third book British weather often delivers in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistheatwave. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovica gully, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to contact her superiorbe Lee Geary, Blixwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Before she can reach himHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, however, she is murdered, and Blixso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toot convinced. We then find ourselves Geary was a few days later with Blix and Rammtownie, who so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are being interviewed by connections to the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot suicide of Holly Gilbert and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happento two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix Lockyer and Ramm uncover DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that led 's cold cases to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003you and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0571379559|title=Age The House of AshBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= We meet Alys under ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the most northerly story of Oldgatefour people. Tess Hembry's four bridgesroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she has a knife lives in her hand and a meeting that she dreadsthe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Meanwhile Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the City passage of Kithamar is at a point in time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest delivery rounds - and all things are possibleto bring in sufficient money. It is the night between the funeral of a Prince They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the coronation of rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his successorfather. For a night the Kithamar People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is un-ruledout with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbn=15290955221529425867|title=The Interview|author=C M Ewan|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's the last interview of the day at one of London's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of the building to be something special. Maggie, Kate's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - Lost and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recently.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B097XNMCRK|title=The Blood Tide Never Found (DS Max CraigieA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Neil LancasterSimon Mason|rating=4.5
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|summary=Loch Torridon ''In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is'' the back of beyond: thereNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsthose things. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto He's white, originated from a nice little earnertrailer park, only barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to find that Macca, a police procedural written for laughs. the man he thought he was working withWell, is deadyou're not. His remains would never be foundThe two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and CallumSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. As the story progresses weSometimes it'll get to know them quite wells problematic.
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMMosby Woods|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn''What happens when someone t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is pushed too far and they begin quite sure how to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope mend this or even if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off mending it is the shadows best course of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there.'' Rachel A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a current conversation man with her psychiatrist, precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardscan tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. But Rachel is combative with Doctor BlakeThat man would be valuable, sometimes even contemptuous of herright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. You can see Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarity.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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