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|isbnauthor=0241542405Onyi Nwabineli|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
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|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and increasingly popular presence on social media, where sheposted every step of Anuri's not left her home childhood for 1sponsorships and influencer deals and,214 daysbasically, monetary gain. She'd ''like'' to: Now Anuri is in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on her twenties and she's even considered which shoes is slowly trying to wear if she's going regain her confidence and to catch get her train. Thenlife back, she can't. She simply can't force herself suing her step-mother to leave take down the safety of content about her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friendAnuri is battling alcoholism, Sadie, who visits regularly with failing to start her two childrenPhD, James undergoing therapy and Matildasecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. SadieMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common senseonline empire. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith Can she save her catsister, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in perhaps herself and her relationship with her spare father at the same time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Ewald Arenz Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Rachel Ward Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (translatorA woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Tasting SunlightDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spaceWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, and for people but she was born to stop questioning herGreek parents in Manhattan, tiptoeing around herNew York, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties December 1923 and seems only moved to live aloneAthens when she was thirteen. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her a room father changed it to 'Callas' to sleep make it more manageable in, and the space to just beStates. As they work together on When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the farm, Nazi occupation by a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautifulmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, powerful friendshipJackie.|isbn=1914585143
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMAlexander McCall Smith|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= ''What happens when someone The Perfect Passion Company is pushed too far a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel operating as she tries an alternative to shake off all the shadows of online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her past younger cousin Katie if she could come and attempts look after the business, as Ness is planning to repair decades worth of paintake a trip to Canada to get away for a while.'' Rachel Katie is in coming out of a current conversation break up with her psychiatrista bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who pushes quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her to recall abilities, and there's always her life from very young childhood onwardshelpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4. But Rachel 5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is combative with Doctor Blakehaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, sometimes even contemptuous of herand his house gets trashed. You can see that Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's not an easy therapeutic relationshippossible 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. Rachel's recall of her life 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 in remarkable detailclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. She remembers each minor slight Spike is going to take care of Benny, and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and unforgiving clarityHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WKatherine Howe|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasA True Account|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Helen Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a popular activistyoung age. Or should we call her When she hears there is to be a popular influencer? Or perhaps hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a popular franchise owner? Anywayyoung boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, Helen is so popular that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokenotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Helen runs all sorts She soon finds herself in the thick of initiatives things when there is a mutiny on behalf of the governmentboard, including the Shaming Conference and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''ocean waves. Ouch!|isbn=0861547438
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|isbn=00084416181471180158|title=Other ParentsMaybe Tomorrow|author=Sarah StovellPenny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the new head subtlety of West Burntridge First School: if she didna half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association He's asthmatic and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the schoolautistic spectrum. There was one difficulty, though Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - they were she''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, s a frequent flier in particular, causing problems for the headlocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected Missed shifts or the need to Jo's restrictions be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that wrong. It was just going to come to a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationhead.
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|authorisbn=Giovanna FletcherB0CKD1L5JL|title=Walking on SunshineRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn
|rating=4
|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Mike's wifePetr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, Piareclusive Bear, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky brought up far from bustling cities and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to followbusy human society, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of in the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one forests of their trips awayWashington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and Vicky and Zazaarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, struggling with their grief and their own life troublesPetr goes on a journey through the forest, decide to drop everything in their own livesbroadcasting the strange, wild and go along with himrarely heard voices he encounters.|isbn=140593560X
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Sarah Marsh|title=Red is My HeartA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my houseAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. And so was this one Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language wasseen as something only savages do, and Ellen is sent to a school where she istaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, black and white she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and redusing a system called Visible Speech. Yes At the same time, he has an artistic collaborator Bell is working on this pieceother inventions and ideas, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of some striking visual ideasespionage.|isbn=19135471831035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp1472263936|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to his employer - isGreece. She was alone: her mother, in his mindGreek by birth, had left the head chef of family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a safari business catering pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to VIP guests the family apartment in an unnamed African countryup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated She grew to his task love her grandmother and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODfamily's maid, Dina, but was wary -W safaris but and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his dream is close connections to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even Junta and expected his family to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by uphold his boss, Mr Bin (Ben values but saw no reason to you and me) who incurs Mozzyaccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests red hair and green eyes - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the houseinherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|author=Dean 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=1901514978B0BVDC2VWH|title=There's a Problem With DadThe Grave Listeners|author=Carlos AlbaWilliam Frank|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life The village is different for George Lovelace isolated and he can't really understand whypoor. HeIt's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and father - its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and a father who was always there for school plays warmth, roofs on homes, and sports dayseven gallows, if needed. So why The fear of being buried alive is he never quite an existential superstition in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why the village and that is someone with such the reason Volushka, a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breathdrunken, self-taking gaffes? It's almost become indulgent, lazy lout of a cliche these days to suggest that someone who man is a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismtolerated.
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|authorisbn=Freya SampsonB0BYF82CXT|title=The Last LibrarySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair ''Bill and Amanda are living in a bun, catsemi-owningdetached house, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair stuck in a bundepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett)Fiona – glamorous, successful and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested very much in love – move in Junenext door. Despite their different outlooks on life, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University couples befriend each other and stayed at home life appears to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local libraryimprove for both pairs. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she But all is still working therenot what it seems, still eating her mumand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'s favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X
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|author=Emily CritchleyShalini Boland|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersSilent Bride
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had 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 hallmarks of something goodwedding is planned and set. I was intrigued by When the plotmuch-anticipated day arrives, liked Alice is walked down the design of the bookaisle by her father, beaming with pride and thought excitement as she surveys the authorcongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's work sounded interesting. From world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the outset it all looked incredibly promisingaltar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 19114270911662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel 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 was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}
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|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LAmanda Craig|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickThree Graces|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class BosnerFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereThere's merely a hint that he had something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image of the nickname 'Secretary' at country as it stands in one pointparticular moment. HeTo say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's simply Bosner to one and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories practically synonymous with the genre of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the age lives of twenty-one, there was always her characters in a way to work some fun (think drinking that feels natural and eating) into his daylived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN152915118X|title=Autumn CampPineapple Street|author=Barry FowlerJenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp'Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago Darley and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school George are sisters and the time had come Sasha is married to hand their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the reins to someone elsetribe. The obvious person was Gary, whoproblem'd always been s exacerbated when the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campclan matriarch, Tilda, Gary should act as the leader asks Cord and heSasha if they'd just be there like to observemove into the Pineapple Street property. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiserTilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, an administrator if you likewhich they own. He was They won't need any of the entertainerfurniture from Pineapple Street, the person who basked in the spotlight so Sasha and made things fun - so Brian stepped Cord can move straight in and did the organising. He handed Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the camp over - and then took it backreality. And Gary determined Darley and Georgiana start to have his revengecall Sasha 'the gold digger'. This should have been She's living in ''their'his'family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD' camp.
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|author=Emily Critchley
|title=One Puzzling Afternoon
|rating=4
|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
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.
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|authorisbn=John Boyne0008506337|title=The Echo ChamberGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George CleverleyThe 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. He is selfRichard was twenty-defined one and described by Margo's mother as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"'an older man'. He starts this book a bit Her parents worried when his mistress tells him shethat Richard's carrying his childinfluence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, but then his author wife is getting they eloped and Richard took her kicks with away from the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withIsle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. They have The couple had three children: Rachel, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, Imogen and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingSasha. Add Life was lived in a few other characters – therapistsLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldfamily home on the Isle of Wight. What suggests Even then the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funnydoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|isbn=0857526219Then Richard left them.
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|isbn=00084445011914585402|title=The Answer to EverythingDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=Luke KennardDavid F Ross|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Ashe|title=Clara and Olivia|rating=4.5
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|summary=Life should have been good for EmilyThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. She had a lovely husbandBallerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, Stevenwe learn, who was on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a speech therapistlot that builds a dancer. We'll pass over the fact Some things that they rarely speak can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to each other detail – and donsome things, that ''je ne sais quoi't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much , that Emily has left the marital bed as that shedon's sharing a bed with one of her children as it's t come from the only way to get him to sleep during the nightclassroom. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are A stage presence, a handful and Emily has charm, a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and itjoie de vivre''s run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share ecodifference between a hard-friendly electric cars rather than owning their ownworker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080
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|author=Louise BeechHeather Fawcett|title=This Is How We Are HumanEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica Emily Wilde is a devoted single mother an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her sonlife's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantsis not so good with people. Sebastian So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has decided that it's time done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for him to have sexher book back on the right track. But as an autistic 20 year-old Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, thatmuch to Emily's easier said than donefrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And it's starting to cause them both problems. what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=19131937130356519120}}
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|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1398515388|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At not even 200 pagesFirst of all, it was the earthquake, Eve Out deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of Her Ruins is one livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the shortest books Itsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn've read in t a long while, dog person but it's one of the most dramatic. Itconvenience store owner's also told in a way comment that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and pulls very few punches, Tamon the descriptions stark and unromanticdog jumped in.|isbn=0993009344}}
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|author=C J CareyChristopher Bowden|title=WidowlandMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItChristopher Bowden's April 1953, and Adolf Hitlerlatest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londonlife, parading around carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up indulgence to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly young nephew had had a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of much more interesting life than that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, nephew Stephen had ever realised and beyond those, right on down it seems to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature him an obligation to take find it all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198XB0B6Z9VJDW
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|isbnauthor=0857527231Jennifer Mason|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerPartitions of Unity|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wifeHere at Bookbag Towers, Ellenwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, died dominatrix and it's the first time that unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she's let him downinvestigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. HeIn 's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shellPartitions of Unity''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared sets her mind to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and solving a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answermurder. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy them.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|author=Martin VenningWill Carver|title=The Primary ObjectiveDaves Next Door|rating=24
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you Five strangers come together in to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesn't. The basic premise is a good one – moment as a clandestine organisation, operating as suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a charity, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybeLondon tube line. As their fates overlap, I'm not sure) under the auspices of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possible. Diplomacy story is always the first option and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third partiestold in backwards order, but for situations when that looks unlikely leading up to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of itfateful moment.|isbn=18004611001914585186}}
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|author=Karen M McManusJennifer Mason|title=The CousinsPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The rich ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and famous Story family led -pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a life of luxury on Gull Cove Islandyen for bullwhips, until 25 years ago when each a billionaire with a state-of -the Story children - Andersart S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, Archerx), Adam and Allison - received on a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completelycheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... But now, '' This is just a quarter sample of a century later, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmothercast of characters and settings in Preposterous. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesAs you can see, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family some keeping up - and held them apart - for a quarter will be required! The basic premise of a century is about to come crashing downthis mystery story goes like this...|isbn=0241376947B09STS96HS
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|authorisbn=Ruth HoganB0B2N7MVYM|title=Madame BurovaThe Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages It's the 10th of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedDecember 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl Just to put what happens in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imeldacontext, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her familyCuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's sea-front boothminds. The singerworld has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the scryer and the sufferermissile crisis that's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallfront of his mind. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession He's been convicted of a pair murder. With the current state of letters medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that will change everything for the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a woman called Billierelatively new prison. Just who is sheHe's just getting used to his roommate, and who delivered the secrets about her to ImeldaMervyn, and why did it have learning to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xbe wary of the McArthur brothers.
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