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|authorisbn=Darren Shan0241636604|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to HellThe Trading Game: Archibald Lox series, book 7 A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary= So. WeIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're back unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the Merge pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the first chapter in the third volume London School of Darren Shan's saga Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of Archibald Lox, a young man who us can pick the locks of portals from our world only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to anotherbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, called the ''Merge''essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Since his last adventure Eventually, Archie has persuaded his foster parents this turned into permanent employment as a slightly uneasy truce on trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the topic of his regular disappearancesEnglish country village where she grew up. They don She't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into s back now because of a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstonrequest for help from her beloved aunt, his lock-picking Carole. Freya's former mentor in the ''Merge'and Carole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and showing Kojothe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the young guardiansplit, around our world she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of the Bornher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD

|authorisbn=John Henry PhillipsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The SearchAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in Opening up new ways of thinking about the dirt looking shape of things to find come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you can find're eighteen. Well, often knowing I must confess that there should be something there but not always confident have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out 's advantageous to find some specific thingme but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. This book Some of it is a case of the latter- frankly - quite frightening. Of course, as our author promises to locate I could research the topic of possibilities and the titular search. And he probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really hasnunderstanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they't made it easy for himself – re talking about or the search area latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a wide oneluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, the target might not exist any more – ohkilling everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and it's underwaterAbhi, when he cannot divethe hotel manager. Latching on As Abhi continues to try to a particular D-Day veteran through helping care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the heroic old man's visit back to Francehotel, our author has promised he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandybe cowed by events, and that he was lucky keeps on venturing out of her room to try to survive when it sank from beneath himcapture what's happened through her photography. The secondary aim is Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to erect a memorial help her keep safe and they both wait to everyone else aboard, see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the vast majority of whom perishedterrorists. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182086154742X

|authorisbn=Fiona Longmuir1529153298|title=Looking for EmilyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet LilyIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She and her mother 's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgebeen disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, and everyone from said mother but to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. It turns out that Miv's upset because she doesn't have any say in s overheard that her father wants to move the matterfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she Down South is unaware her neighboura frightening, Sam, is just about to make herself knownforeign place, and in a big waybest avoided. But where does Emily come from? Well For Miv, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objectsmove would mean leaving her best friend, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorSharon, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emilyand she'll do anything to prevent that. Sam is completely unaware of this She'museum', too, leaving s not worried about the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatdangers or that her Mum's behind the intrigue..stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1839942754

|isbn=B09XZMCDVF1398524085|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Richard F WalkerNicci French|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''A news vendor s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is crying out not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the headlines body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler river. It was an easy assumption for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person police to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and awfully familiar…then committed suicide when he couldn'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer t stand the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary peopleguilt. And that ordinary doesn The Salter children are not convinced but there't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this s little treasury of short fiction is never boring else they can do but get on with their lives and you're never quite sure wonder about what's coming nextreally happened.

|isbn=18009012321035906708|title=Stitched UpDiva|author=Steve ColeDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted We tend to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she lived with her family was happyborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, if not prosperousNew York, so when the smartly-dressed man in December 1923 and woman came only moved to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it Athens when she was an opportunity not to be missedthirteen. Some money Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus it to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going 'Callas' to work make it more manageable in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorythe States. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfullyWhen she was back in Athens -placed rips and distressed seams that felt supposedly so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and she could get appropriate training for her covoice -workers she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made themno secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Daisy HildyardChristopher Edge|title=EmergencyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=The summary Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grievingBlack Hole'. Traumatised after the death of her sister All big movie fans, she awakes they're looking forward to find strangelots of exciting films, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GPmany, many snacks! However, diagnosing as the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her griefmovie starts, recommends she go to stay at Nedethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an experimental new treatment centre in Walesadventure they couldn't even imagine. Yet something strange But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is happening going on? Will they ever get back to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm hercinema, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.to their real lives?|isbn= 086154112X 1839942738

|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=Little DrummerCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Part ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the Oslo Detectives seriesdeep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and thrillerplundering the wrecks. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carparkMira, that looks very much like an overdoseher mother before her, it unravels into is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a far-reaching investigation of murder, fraudtrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and international pharmaceutical dealingsMira's father. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and FrolichDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who end up working separately on the case is as charming as Gunnarstranda remains he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in Norway whilst Frolich is led search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to Africa unearth what might save her father, as they follow her journey takes her from the twists and turns watched streets of foreign islands to the investigation. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down heart of the truth in increasingly difficultsmuggler's territory, frustrating circumstances, trying hard Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to uncover save the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, future of her home and much more dangerous, is going onthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=19145851270008664730

|isbnauthor=0008541477James Sherwood Metts|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildPlanet Storyland

|summary=It was Things have been a hot summer day right at bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the summer holidays many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Clarice Bean was bored:set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a 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 while.''

Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar''Nothing ever happens except s, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for sometimes... And only on raremagic, Ellie Briar is the first non-sh occasionswitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, which is hardly everher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions.When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie'' There are seven members of s cousin Audra becomes the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on Briar Witch, the ground floor because hetown's wobbly)leader, Mum and DadEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, Clarice's older brotherright and centre, Kurt and younger brotherEllie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, Minal Cricketputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. There's also MarcieReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who's main claim to fame seems trust and determine what to be that she steals do as the batteries from ClariceBriar 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't been Lt Milo Sturgis's torchfault 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. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which means that she candidn't read in need the airing cupboardhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to herFinally, it was Robin, rather than wanting to talkDelaware's partner, but who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the only one who does involvement was something that is Granny and the man she lives loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in New YorkBel Air. The Bean family He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it''different''s not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=07112662041529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of Birdsa Vet|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I have recently discovered Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a great pleasure: I sit GP and watch Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden strain that being on-call put on a daily basishis father's life. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from When he was seventeen he took the ground, which pop to the feeders for opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a quick snatch of some food vet and who settles in was convinced this was the job for a good munch but I wish I him. Before long, he was more knowledgeableat Liverpool University. It would have hadn't - as with so many students - been wonderful if, as his dream since he was a child. If anything, Ihe'd had access wanted to be a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''professional footballer. So – what is it?

|isbn=17370309420861541774|title=Bag O'GoodiesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jolly Walker BittickSteve Burrows

|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, you deserve 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 treat diplomatic incident and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies'wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4. I first encountered his writing about 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a year agodating agency in Edinburgh, when I read his [[Cape Henry House run by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]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 rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find trip to Canada to get away for a base for their partyingwhile. Right now, I didn't want Katie is coming out of a break up with a full-length novelbad boyfriend, and so I turned jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this anthology of verse new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and short storiesthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. BittickKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's writing has matured - always her very helpful (and so have his characters. Well... most of them!rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos0811771741|title=SeedInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotment, and manages to stink the entire town out knits from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring toys to fertilise his vegetablesblankets. His mother somehow combines Some will be quick knits - others are of the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasn't left the building long, cosy afternoons in years she has still managed to fill it to front of the brim with junkfire' variety. What Marty The projects are divided by the time they's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to from how poor Marty always looksten hours, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. We see him as once again All the council threaten her and him with evictionprojects are attractive, modern and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seeduseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1529077664

|author=Sophie CameronDean Koontz|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora diesBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, her family struggle disturbing coffin-sized object to find a way forward. In particularhis home, Islaand it's mum who can’t seem possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to be able to let her daughter godeserve all this bad luck. When Isla passes her mum's details onto He is a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able to helpnice person. A really nice person. But actually, So fortunately for Benny it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer that the family the chance delivery to have Flora back againhis house is a new friend, in robot form. But this won't just be a look-bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a-likegood person. They use all Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of FloraBenny's online historyenemies, and interviews with family and friendsif he, Benny, and through this data Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they will recreate Flora as closely as possibleare. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=17889539161662500491

|isbnauthor=1398507504Adam Stower|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his father committed suicide and for fancy next of the last sixteen years two. But he's been searching for evidence to prove that hea bad magician's right. When cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, there was a link not into the regular back to garden, but into a cold case from 2002world of frightening adventure and whiffs. There didn't immediately seem This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerhonest, but he's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before turned up and he died. Above all there's ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a growing sense ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to answer for both could well be brought out into the open. Perhaps Tyler ... no. ''Fragility'' is going set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to get emerge from the restrictions imposed during the answers he needs?covid pandemic

|isbn=07278505471529431735|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Winter Visitor|author=David MarkJames Henry

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time for breakfast when s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the call came throughmore surprising. A body had He'd been found in exiled on the roots of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hulldecade. When The return has come about because he gets 's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedlive. A young manIt's corpse hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is entangled with abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the roots boot of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesstolen Ford Sierra. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes Is it a warning from a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at Spanish gang or a cost and this time the cost might be problem closer to McAvoy's own family.home?

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a delighthelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. I will agree Eli lives with the first his lovely gran, too – tremendous for there is no understatement – but a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a delight' is perhaps using globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the expression world in the company of a way I'm not familiar withmagical beast. I have This has made the race anathema to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From pair – but when a bad incident at the little I have read (in translationeatery leads to a confession from gran, I don't read Spanish) there does seem Eli knows his only hope is to dare to be a tendency towards enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the fantastical end – the mystical realismonly thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=08615419010571382231

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin178763681X|title= Rebel SkiesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Chef Paul Delamare took a servant on the Midori, teaching job at a massive dining hall floating residential cookery school in the sky where soldiers Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the Empire come getting both men and women to drink and make merry between their conquestsdo what he wanted. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that she is a Crafter like him, someone with he'd be at the power school to form paper into whatever she desires – assist Paul, who had a power sought after all across the Empirebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. He asks her to come with him, to leave The teaching - and the life of dreary servitude that is problems - are all she has knownhis own. Well, soon Kurara won The one thing he hadn't have any say in expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the matter, because person who discovered the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, body and she is forced everyone knows that the police consider that person to flee out into be the worldprime suspect. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590

|author=Patrice LawrenceSarah Marsh|title=NeedleA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' After a bout of this piece is extremely hard for some people to likescarlet fever as a child, characters and readers bothEllen Lark loses her hearing. Kicked out Suddenly plunged into a world of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorsilence, Annie, and has taken up residence in everything about her son Blake's old room while he's at unilife changes. Such a tempestuous personality may be Living in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and time when the creation of one such item is part use of the plot here, sign language was seen as Charlene is a wonder knittersomething only savages do, and Ellen is making something full of love for her younger sister – sent to a younger sister school where she's allowed contact with no moreis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantusing a system called Visible Speech. And then... well At the same time, what exactly happens Bell is not for me to sayworking on other inventions and ideas, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=18009010111035401614

|isbn=14059409801803816759|title=The BirdcageUnravelling|author=Eve ChaseWill Gibson

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the 7th of January 2019 wealthy and we know that peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a body has been pulled out bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlierAI system that now runs everything, Floramaking life easier for many, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the request aftermath of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. The girls are actually ''half'Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki -sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundityDylan, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoBritish superfan and tech nerd, at is also on the time of case. What went wrong? Did the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren system fail or was a victim and ithacked? And how is Suki's left her very wary of her sisters.kidnapping connected?

|isbn=17876349061529421284|title=No Less Laying Out the DevilBones|author=Stuart MacBrideKate Webb

|summary=We're It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Oldcastle a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and Malcolm is in troubleforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's in an abandoned house d been a known drug user and hehad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's being threatened by two young peoplet convinced. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm Geary was a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopletownie, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. It won't be long before Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the police realise Major Crimes Review Unit (that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going 's cold cases to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsyou and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint0571379559|title=ElektraThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45

|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of three women who live four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the heavily male-dominated world house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of Ancient Greecetime, storms and floods. Cassandra Her husband, ClytemnestraRichard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and Elektra are all bit players to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the story of the Trojan Warrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us People don't believe that often the silent women have the most compelling stories they're related, much less twins and the most extreme furiesthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=15291498001529425867|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change Lost and Reduce WasteNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. All the birds Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and animals fled when the forest fire took hold always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and most father of them stood and watchedRyan, unable to think is not. He's not any of anything they could dothose things. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and began taking tiny amounts his wardrobe consists mainly of water shell suits and flying back to drop them into the firetrackies. The animals laughed: what good was that doingThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you'I'm doing re not. The two men are just different sides of the best I can'', said same policing coin. Sometimes the hummingbirdcombination works brilliantly well. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might beSometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1776574338Mosby Woods|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donThe West isn't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't dominant force it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, thoughonce was. Leilong isn't happy Nobody in the city: he's always having West is quite sure how to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=303091657X|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Boards must act in mend this or even if mending it is the best interests course of their stakeholders and ensure that they action. Governments are well-managed and financially secureflailing. This might seem obvious but A war here, a series of disasters - some of which have resulted push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in death or actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the collapse of strategic advantage in this asset; a major company - have left interested parties asking man who can tell you what the board was doingwill happen given any set of circumstances. Where were theyThat man would be valuable, right? Occasionally Perhaps the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalitymost valuable asset in history. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniaImagine then, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip maniathat this man loses this ability. Over three centuries we seem What would governments do to have learned very little.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1