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|isbn=147228612X1786482126|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Alan JohnsonElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury't taken much notice apartments - when they discovered the bones of thema child beneath a doorway. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radarThere was no skull. In Was this a city like Londonritual killing or murder? Inevitably, that's quite easy - and even GaryDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's three flatmates largely ignore him. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup difficult as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date Ruth knows, but he Nelson doesn't have the courage. Then, on that she is pregnant with his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his helpchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Before Her condition will be obvious before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policenot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowan0008551324|title=I The Devil You Know You(D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It''Then:'' Casey returns s unusual for anyone from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole Hardie family taken downto approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he''Now:'' Rachel s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is out buried and who was responsible for a walk with her dogdeath. This person, he promises, Brandyis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, when is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she comes across a body in 's even prepared to do the woodsother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1542019974
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|isbn=15291482510008405026|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Michaela CoelJane Casey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from ither bed one summer night.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need She was never found and the investigation ground to be in a certain frame of mindhalt. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela CoelInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within something about the television industry at positioning of the Edinburgh TV Festivalbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. You might What looked as though it was going to be ''reading'' an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the book but you need to explanation lies in Rosalie''listen'' to the words s disappearance: others (such as though youDerwent're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writings boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=00084336310571379877|title=Next of KinThe Kellerby Code|author=Kia AbdullahJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every dayEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, although not to Leila SyedRobert and Stanza. SheRobert'd never driven her nephews a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, Maxdemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panicrun errands for him. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'd been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead s drunkenly confided how he feels to financial lossesRobert. As the school was only five minutes out of LeilaMost men in Robert's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a sleeping Max was duly strapped into relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the back two of her car. On the way Leila took them kissing in a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskdark passageway.
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaJo Callaghan|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Leave No Trace
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= TootsWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, trumpsthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, fartshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Whatever your word for them But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, find us Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a child very high profile case that doesn't find them irresistibly funnydraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Funny Will they be able to talk about solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and joke about, that ispotentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the wrong timefirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. In class, say Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when everyone will hear it you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and everyone will laugha trauma doctor. At you Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. Justine Avery When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's latest entry going to end in her tragedy. We don''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with t know who suffered the tragedy or the familiar humour attached, explains consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that tooting is perfectly normalwill impact the three friends. Everybody does This time, it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2Ws their teenage children who are involved.}}
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|isbn=17841652630241636604|title=Invite Me InThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Emma CurtisGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If 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 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 London School of 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 be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that English country village where she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letgrew up. If she didnShe't get homes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, there would be troubleCarole. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and confined to a wheelchairthe circumstances seem suspicious, but don't be too quick to be understandingsay the least. He Arthur was also a very unpleasant personthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. All this was Even though they were in Eliza's mind when business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she first met Dan Jones who arrivedloved. After the split, unannouncedshe worked in a cafe, at met and married James (on the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted rebound from the lease love of flat 2her life, 42 Linden Road who was murdered) and Freya and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1784742775AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Susan HillBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much 'Opening up new ways of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought thinking about the shape of drugs ops as things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a bit few decades of a waste of timetechnology in my lifetime. They still were, I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to a great extent, me but Serrailler knew I'm left with the feeling that something had to be doneit's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport Of course, I could research the drugs possibilities and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't be the correct one) of the person m reading someone who was running him but he certainly wouldnknows what they't know anything re talking about those higher up in or the organisationlatest conspiracy theorist. The police might catch I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upway I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Sunny Singh|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Life should have The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been good for Hollie: violently taken over by a terrorist group. She was just going into Hiding from the final year of her veterinary degree terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and - three years later - was still working at BB's dinerAbhi, the hotel manager. Bob - As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the owner - regarded her fondly: residents who are still alive in the hotel, he was forms a good boss. Hollie had moved in bond with her boyfriendSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most keeps on venturing out of all he wanted her room to try to leave capture what's happened through her job at the dinerphotography. Then there was Although they only ever talk over the fact that he would be violentphone, both their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to other peoplesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne1529153298|title=The Shadow Of The GodsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the first installment of the Bloodsworn SagaPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarokthey've been murdered, when the Gods but to have battled and their bones lie scattered for all 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to seemove the family 'Down South'. This story When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is the ultimate in High Fantasya frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genremove would mean leaving her best friend, with mythical creaturesSharon, archaic language and battles galoreshe'll do anything to prevent that. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters She's not worried about the dangers or that are woven together her Mum's stopped talking - to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleanyone.|isbn=0356514218
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1398524085|title=Endless ObsessionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Dai HenleyNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's some years since we last caught fiftieth birthday party but never turned up with Andy Flood. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, formerly a DCI in the Met Etty. are all worried but now a well-respected private investigator. He's married to Laurastrangely - her husband, Alec, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryis not. Flood's daughtersShortly afterwards, Gemma Etty and PippaGreg, have flown find the nestbody of Greg's father, Pippa to AustraliaDuncan Ackerley, from where she has very little contact with in the family, and Gemma to married liferiver. She's It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy murdered Charlie and Laura hope that married life will provide then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the support she needsguilt. FloodThe Salter children are not convinced but there's business is going well little else they can do but get on with their lives and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1035906708|title=The StoningDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a town sleazy enough We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous Greek parents in comparisonManhattan, New York, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, December 1923 and only moved to Athens when shewas thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were make it more manageable in the world's tallest cricket stumpsStates. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on was back in Athens - supposedly so that shows she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the feeling – Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and it's only fair, is the general opinion, made no secret of her preference for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrievedher elder sister, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the lawJackie...|isbn=1529416973
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|isbnauthor=B08Z8BMZ7HChristopher Edge|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrathBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Stories have joy Lucas and surprises in them'', we his friends are told here. And none more so than all booked in this wondrous storyfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, which feels an instant classic with a place that has the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportionnickname of 'The Black Hole'. We start with a group of monks All big movie fans, the Order they're looking forward to lots of the Chronicles of Sorrowingexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the demonic goat movie starts, they very quickly realise that loves nothing more than upendingsomething about this new film format is very different, trampling on and biting the poor Brothersthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, But as they lurch from one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate film genre to find the girlnext, for it can they figure out what on earth is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowinggoing on? But how can a simpleWill they ever get back to the cinema, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat and to anyonetheir real lives?|isbn=15295008931839942738
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|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSRachel Greenlaw|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery Compass and Kate ZhoidikBlade
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|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=''For I can hear the big, grownup girls out theresong of the sea. The call of the deep, the potty masters answering beat in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pridemy heart.''
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettJames Sherwood Metts|title=Locked Out LilyPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lily is, or was, or has Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have beenproceeding apace, very ill, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few daysaccomplish. The parents need the relief Just as Lily's baby sibling is just about they were beginning to get used to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already all this technological change and wants nothing starting to do with. But on tracking back home for word think of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parentsother, and the babe-in-armsnew ways to spend time, already installedalong came an awful pandemic. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactLife was pretty much shut down and, even if along with it's not the family Lily wants – and , all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=14711948331736128426
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithMatthew Tree|title=The Great Dream RobberyWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maya's Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father is , a professor drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who invented an amazing dream machinehad endless crises of self confidence. But something went wrongSo Tim applied himself to his studies, and now he can't wake up. Or at least, that's what Maya has been told. In a cultivated his abilities rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, than his daydreams and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really.set himself high but achievable ambitions..and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051XB0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1800464495A G Slatter|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas The Briar Book of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smiththe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFantasy|summary=''Babies seem There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware myself for however long I can. This secret magic of quantities at seven hours oldmy own, assessing probability at six months oldall mine, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldlast. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
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|isbn=15293793851529900360|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Ghost Orchid|author=Louise PennyJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis're post-pandemic: the scars are still there s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but life is starting he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get back to normalask for his help on difficult cases. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the Aubergehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. They're visiting each otherFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's homes and having friends and relatives to staypartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for She knew that the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves involvement was something that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintman she loved needed.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4 The next case did look simple, though.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's Two lovers were murdered in the later stages swimming pool of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadronremote property in Bel Air. This company He was the first US Aero Squadron heir to be trained in Canada, the first an Italian shoe empire and she is married to be attached to the RAF an extremely rich man and it's not the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combatItalian. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying which of them was the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.primary target?
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|isbn=183885410X1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Dark RemainsSecret Life of a Vet|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinSion Rowlands
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|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Bobby Carter Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a lawyer GP and consigliere Rowlands didn't want to one of follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. DC Jack Laidlaw is on When he was seventeen he took the CID team charged opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the investigationjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I say It hadn''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a part of itchild. He does his own thingIf anything, goes his own way and he''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=19424102550861541774|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael PronkoSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Zangyo: overtime works close friend and former colleague, often unpaid'' It's the cultureDanny Maik, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just has taken a statement of the minimum you'll be required short holiday in Singapore to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukameet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. When he Maik was found dead involved in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was nothing in the way facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of regret or grief, even from his family, manslaughter but there was a mild curiosity as evidence came to whether light that suggested that he'd jumped from might have planned to murder the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentman. Gossip revolves around the fact that Now he left the roof at could be facing the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierdeath penalty. SheDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimet help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=0241425425Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanPerfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Best was The Perfect Passion Company is a little surprised when she received dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the letteronline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. It came from a man whose body Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she had helped to pull from could come and look after the Thames and who had never existed but then this business, as Ness is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have planning to take a trip to Canada to deal with on get away for a regular basiswhile. When she visits the sender Katie is coming out of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone a break up with whom she has a long professional history - bad boyfriend, and who used so jumps at the chance to come home to be her husbandEdinburgh. He's made a bad mistake - something And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to do 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raidbusiness, a missing twentyor in match-million pounds making, but Ness has full confidence in diamonds her abilities, and a few death threats. Hethere's now in hiding with always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0811771741|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to his employer blankets. Some will be quick knits - isothers are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in his mind, front of the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countryfire' variety. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated The projects are divided by the time they'll take to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODcomplete -W safaris but his dream is less than five hours, five to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even ten hours, ten to win a Michelin startwenty hours and more than twenty hours. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss All the projects are attractive, Mr Bin (Ben to you modern and me) who incurs Mozzyuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and social- shock, horror media- his allowing of bush animals into the houseworthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|author=Alex FoulkesDean Koontz|title=Rules for VampiresThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Benny is having a Vampireterrifically bad day. She drinks blood He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, she sleeps during the dayand his house gets trashed. Oh, and she can Grimwalk (turning into someone has delivered a flock of bats to travel aroundreally weird, although not all of them remember disturbing coffin-sized object to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Nowhis home, on and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the night of her hundredth birthnight, she thing that has to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oopstrashed his house! And to make things worse The thing is, Benny is the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back very last person to haunt herdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So, not only does Leo have to team up with fortunately for Benny it turns out that the friendly ghost Minna delivery to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, she who has been sent to do it all while hiding it help him since Benny is clearly under attack from her familynefarious forces for being a good person. Did I mention vampires Spike is going to take care of Benny, and ghosts hate each other? Yeahwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, thereif he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's a reason why there wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are rules for vampires….|isbn=147119955X1662500491
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|author=Tori BovalinoAdam Stower|title=The Devil Makes ThreeMurray and Bun
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library Murray is the last thing Tess Matheson wants supposed to do — especially when she gets be a request for over a hundred books that she has humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the books: Mr Birchtwo. The boarding school But he's a bad magician's headmastercat, and so his favourite bun has been turned into a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and deliver such a large requestthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of not into the booksregular back garden, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think but into a world offrightening adventure and whiffs. They're never meant to reach him This time round it drops them into a Viking land, of course. Her plan where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to get her anger out like thisbe honest, but he's turned up and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadnhe't delivered them for her.ll have to do…|isbn=17890981300008561249
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6B0C47LV1PC|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)Fragility|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the latest release in question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Everybody Potties!Fragility'' series from Justine Avery. This series is set as the city of fun picture books aims Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to take emerge from the restrictions imposed during the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .covid pandemic
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|isbn=B098FFFBH91529431735|title=SnowcubThe Winter Visitor|author=Graham FulbrightJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her schoolIt's animal rights project leader February 1991 and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the way in which human beings exploit more surprising. He'd been exiled on the animal worldCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. She gets The return has come about because he's had a great deal of support letter from her family: father Pip Harrisonhis ex-wife, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate saying that she's ill and her twin, Nickhasn't long to live. Kate runs the family businessIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a toy shop called Cornucopia watery grave in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source the boot of information: five soft toysa stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author= Angharad WalkerAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= The Ash HouseGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives Eli 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 Ash Housethe dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. He doesn't know Eli lives with his namelovely gran, or why he is too – for there but he is used a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the systemtitular race, used a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to different places and different facesnavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out This has made the race anathema to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on pair – but when a variety of Nicenesses set out by bad incident at the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their choreseatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, working as a hive in with the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by sole aim the arrival prize of the Doctor. By magic at the end of – the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=19126269770571382231
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|authorisbn=Yancey Williams178763681X|title=Crosshairs of the DevilKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections both men and thanks women to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddiedo what he wanted. Paul ''somehow''s point of view - in room 315 of got the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his lifeimpression that he's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and d be at the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a wordschool to assist Paul, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on who had a peculiar island called Wildseabroken arm, British but it didn't turn out that way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and seaThe teaching -witches, and legends of the Dark family that has problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further westturn up dead. Unfortunately, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are he was the Watcher, Andrewe, person who has to keep notes of activity from discovered the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, body and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of everyone knows that the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into police consider that person to be the world of protecting their island, like it or notprime suspect.|isbn=1788452372
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