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|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=02412959551529153298|title=TrioThe List of Suspicious Things|author=William BoydJennie Godfrey
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|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy 's 1979 and Martin Luther King were assassinatedMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. It's also the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brighton(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) ItShe's called not what's worrying Miv'Emily Bracegirdles family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they's Extremely Useful Ladder ve been murdered, but to the Moonhave 'disappeared'doesn', or t sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she'Ladder s overheard that her father wants to move the Moon'family ' as itDown South's known on set. Anny Viklund When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is the female star in a production which is proving to be just a little bit racketyfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. There are odd pressures on For Miv, the producermove would mean leaving her best friend, Talbot KyddSharon, and she'll do anything to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs prevent that. She's not worried about the money, allow a fading star dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadinganyone.
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|authorisbn=Anna Bruno1035906708|title=Ordinary HazardsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=24.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Some books either grab you or bore youWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. And this When she was one back in Athens - supposedly so that I wanted so badly to like but unfortunatelyshe could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, I just wasn't hookedJackie.|isbn=1471184862
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|isbnauthor=1712435728Alexander McCall Smith|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, he's just being released from run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the Southern General Hospitalonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. The nurse thinks he'll Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come back and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of doing that: he's been there for a yearbreak up with a bad boyfriend, on and so jumps at the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going chance to come home in his dead brother's clothesto Edinburgh. He wants And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to get outside 44 Scotland Street and back the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with his friends: his brothersome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, Forbesor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that hethere's not to mention TB always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alex.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|author=Helen FisherDean Koontz|title=Space HopperThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny 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, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's 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 deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a cold that got worsefamily who run an inn, and although they were kind and very good being made to her she of course missed her mum enormouslywork there from a young age. So when, unexpectedly, When she discovers hears there is to be a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box hanging of some pirates in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mumtown, she revels in the chance decides to create some memories go and watch. Enthralled and get to know horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the woman who meant so much to herhands of two vicious pirates. The time travellingShe hides away, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears so that her husband wonthey don't believe what's happening find and kill her too, and so lies then to escape them completely she runs away to him instead. The lies grow more tangledsea, dressing as a boy and Faye begins to wonder if itjoining the notorious Ned Low's safe for her to return one last time to the pastpirate ship as a cabin boy. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, or will it change and from there we are caught up in her own future forever to attempt it?rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=14711886630861547438
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|authorisbn= Claire McGowan1471180158|title=The PushMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mumsJamie Matson works in an upper-to-be meet at class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a prenatal classhalf brick. It Jamie's NCT son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He'styles asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he', but not s on the proper NCTautistic spectrum. This bit is important, but you have Sometimes Jamie needs to wait take time off at short notice - she's a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies frequent flier in the thing they have in common is itlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's their first babynot fit enough to go to school. Probably after Missed shifts or the first one, you don't have need to be away on time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down patto pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|isbn=1542019990
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|isbn=0008378363B0CKD1L5JL|title=One Perfect MorningRadio Free Olympia|author=Pamela CraneJeffrey Dunn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is about sent to a school where she is taught to have his throat cut lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in his own bedanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. To find out who - At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and why - we need to go back nine days ideas, and twenty yearsEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.''
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|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1472263936|title=The Lies You ToldFigurine|author=Harriet TyceVictoria Hislop
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to start a new schoolGreece. She's was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the school she loved in New York family home and refused to return, but Mary and now sheHamish (Helena's going parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to Ashams the family apartment in North Londonup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth She grew to love her grandmother and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'family's maid, they have their established groups. Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? WellDina, over a matter but was wary - and frightened - of a few days her parents' marriage fell apartgrandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back expected his family to London uphold his values but saw no reason to pick up her practice as a criminal barristeraccommodate them. ThatHis prejudices included Helena's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - red hair and the country green eyes - for more than ten yearsinherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.
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|author=Antoine LaurainDean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Readers RoomGrave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4
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|ratingsummary=3The village is isolated and poor.5|summary=ViolaineIt's publishing house has had surrounded by a great successWitching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptseven gallows, if needed. The three people who work in the Readers' Room to sift through what fear of being buried alive is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor an existential superstition in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, village and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own waythe reason Volushka, for she has been involved in a neardrunken, self-fatal accidentindulgent, and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author lazy lout of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact, offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailman is tolerated. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974
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|isbn=085752612XB0BYF82CXT|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?Semi-Detached|author=Curtis SittenfeldDeborah Stone
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|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' by the success of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''. That book wasn't marketed as being Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a portrait depressing rut of Laura Bushboredom and disappointment, but the word ''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very regularly much in love – move in reviewsnext door. How would ''Rodham'' compare? UnfortunatelyDespite their different outlooks on life, there is a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bush, which gave the book a freshness which the first third of ''Rodham'' lackscouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. We've But all heard the storiesis not what it seems, read the books - about Hillary and particularly about Billtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. It's still an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's career, if she hadn't had to carry the burden of all Bill's baggage and if she hadn't left her own run at the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?
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|author=Anstey HarrisShalini Boland|title=Where We BelongThe Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
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|summary= I've always believed It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that places she and buildings absorb what happens within them Caroline went backpacking around Greece and reflect it back; this is how we can tell that a sacred space is sacredarrived on the island. Cate Morris believes a similar thingRachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she believes was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that ''A house absorbs happinesstime she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, it blooms into looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the wallpaper, -nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the wood atmosphere of the window framesday and capture it, crafting an image of the brickscountry as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: thatshe's how it becomes practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a homeway that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary='' She Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is having these thoughts as married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she packs up her homeisn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. She has Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to leaveanother property, a street or so away, which they own. A combination They won't need any of circumstances means the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that is not only redundant but also homelesswasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. With nowhere else to go, she has called on her late husbandShe's living in ''their'' family for helphome. Just for a few weeksThey use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.|isbn=1471173836
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|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Emily Critchley|title=A Life Without EndOne Puzzling Afternoon
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|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?
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|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week''Love, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know'd read, yet another one. It won't was supposed to be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, light and if all goes wellweightless feeling, but Ihad always longed for gravity'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the extent of my midyear-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use long relationship that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living oneonce defined her. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed Overlaid with later wisdom, the assistant to narrator relives the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up affair with a child, which is at least a way of continuing man twenty years her senior from its inception – the life of his genes, and a motive summer after finishing university – to keep ongoingits sorrowful end the summer after. But how can he get to not flick Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town 'final way out' switchThirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=16428606700861546490
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|isbn=B08774SJYN0008506337|title=The Greenbecker GambitGarnett Girls|author=Ben GraffGeorgina Moore
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo'I suppose s mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the odd fleeting sense Isle of loneliness is Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a price all truly successful people must pay for our giftswell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. I tell myself that I do so willingly Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left them.}}
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|authorisbn=J Paul Henderson1914585402|title=DaisyDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is the story of Herod S. Pinkney, I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is in search couple of a woman called Daisy, whom he first sees in an episode of Judge Judy on television years back and instantly falls in love with her! Rod is writing the novel of his quest, guided remember being absolutely floored by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses in how powerful and affecting it was. It was a pub for a living. Determined to find and meet Daisygripping, the book takes us through Rod's life, introduces us to his friendsemotionally wounding read, and tells us rereading my review of what happens in his quest for loveit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.|isbn=0857303309
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{{Frontpage |isbnauthor=1529123941 Lucy Ashe|title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves Clara and Olivia|rating=4.5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and his wifeOlivia are sisters, Maggietwins no less. Identical on the outside but not, Frank is playing chess against his computerwe learn, although on the inside. And not very successfully. Maggie, on the other handstage, has just taken some pills - eight of them, in fact - and before long she will collapseeither. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he has Because there's a bit of lot that builds a problemdancer. He has Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to admit detail – and some things, that he and Maggie haven''je ne sais quoi'', that don't actually spoken for come from the classroom. A stage presence, a while. How long? Wellcharm, ita ''s about six months since he spoke to Maggie and he canjoie de vivre't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to take her own life.The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080
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|author=Camilla BruceHeather Fawcett|title=You Let Me InEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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|summary= EccentricEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp and she has been missing for a year travelled extensively, and has been pronounced legally dead by researched meticulously, to write her lawyerslife's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Her will instructs her niece Whilst she is brilliant at research and nephew speaking to enter her home and find faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the key village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in redeem herself and put her final investigations for her office: book back on the last story sheright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily'll ever tells frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=17876331790356519120
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|authorisbn=1398515388|title= Becky Albertalli The Boy and Aisha Saeedthe Dog|titleauthor= Yes No Maybe So Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''We might give First of all, it our all was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going forthis, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special electionturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse The result was complete and utter devastation. However The deaths were uncountable, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear loss of speaking to livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the public. Maya is a Pakistanilist of priorities but -American Muslim girl who is having six months after the worst summer of her lifetsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. Her parents are going through He wasn't a separation, she has zero plans for dog person but the summer convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to help take her mind off things open his car door and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be Tamon the worst canvassing duo dog jumped in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668.
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|author=Elliot ReedChristopher Bowden|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingMr Magenta
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This Christopher Bowden's latest novel is the story a patient untangling of a young boyseemingly ordinary woman's life, William Tyce, who is being raised carried out by his uncle her nephew after the death of his mother she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and his father's abandonment. However, it isn't told in the usual narrative way. Instead, the book is made up a little bit of glossary entries, written by William, as indulgence to a young nephew had had a way of describing certain events, situations much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving it seems to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began him an obligation to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's storyit all out.|isbn=1911545418B0B6Z9VJDW
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|author= T R HendrickJennifer Mason|title= What if They KnewPartitions of Unity|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= It's 2025. Underneath a lodge Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvania[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], is when she investigated and unravelled a secret facilityseries of disappearances. Here, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf In ''Partitions of the BenefactorUnity'', their anonymous funder. Already, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place she sets her mind to anothersolving a murder. But, unbeknownst to the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And he's ready to test. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211B09LQR9FRF
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|author=H G Parry Will Carver|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepDaves Next Door
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists Five strangers come together in the "normal" world - and Charley one moment as a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants suicide bomber prepares to discharge detonate his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their handsvest on a London tube line. As literary characters begin to appear everywheretheir fates overlap, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - story is told in a battle backwards order, leading up to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…fateful moment.|isbn=03565137771914585186}}
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|isbnauthor=1643785036Jennifer Mason|title=The Wondrous Apothecary|author=Mary E MartinPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Those who have known Alexander Wainwright, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning ''The Hay Wagon''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and Rinaldo-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the renowned conceptual artist would say that they2004 Olympics, a women're chalk and cheeses track coach with a yen for bullwhips, if not sworn enemies. If you've watched a billionaire with a state-of-the relationship-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), as has our narratoron a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measureGeorgia. Wainwright was at ..'' This is just a sample of the socially acceptable end cast of the artistic continuum, but with Rinaldo, it was all too obvious that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art characters and public nuisancesettings in Preposterous. As time has worn onyou can see, he's frequently been brought to the attention some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of the policethis mystery story goes like this.. On this latest occasion, we see him charged with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''.|isbn=B09STS96HS
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|authorisbn=Mary H.K. ChoiB0B2N7MVYM|title=Permanent RecordThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=45|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=PabloIt's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a college drop-chance to breathe out, is working at a New York bodega. HeBut for Joe Marr, it's massively in debt, henot the missile crisis that's avoiding at the front of his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! mind. Whilst working one evening, heHe's surprised to discover that been convicted of murder. With the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star andcurrent state of medical knowledge, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationship. With one character who is trying very 's hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone and think otherwise than that the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, itprosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's an interesting clash as they come togetherBench, a relatively new prison. This isnHe't s just a love story thoughgetting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about learning to be wary of the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna SmartMcArthur brothers.|isbn=0349003459
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