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• Linda Newbery Talks To Bookbag in Praise of Charity Shops
  ...found in bags or pockets; items that may or may not be valuable, or may be precious to someone. Then there were the people. I noticed that some customers came ...chool, leaving only a cryptic note telling Nina and Dad not to worry. Then precious belongings of Mum's start to turn up in the charity shop run by Nina' great
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• The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
  ...hings she has ever known. Enter Special Agent Pierce Quincy, Rainie's one time lover and constant guiding light, he is a man deeply haunted by his elder d ...can to protect the life of his precious remaining daughter yet at the same time knowingly placing Rainie directly in the path of the killer. Quincy is tor
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• Skinned by Robin Wasserman
  ...or living an even worse Mad Max existence in the ruined cities. There are precious few people in Lia's social circle and it seems as though most of them are r ...doesn't improve a great deal through much of the book. It takes her a good time and quite a few punches before she even begins to see the error of her ways
  4 KB (678 words) - 14:51, 12 March 2018
• My Life on Fire by Cath Howe
  ...ld get my things back again eventually. You really feel for Ren, spending time in a B&B with nothing at all, not even her own clothes, whilst her parents
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• Barbapapa's Ark by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor
  ...see sick and injured animals suffering from the effects of pollution. Over time, more and more animals come to Barbapapa for help. He decides that the only ...ll delight young readers and hopefully teach them to love and care for our precious planet.
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• Minecraft: The Survivors' Book of Secrets by Stephanie Milton
  ...ient in survival skills. They are breaking their cover to share their most precious secrets with us; valuable insider knowledge on the best ways to survive and ...ed and blank pages for making notes. I'd chose content over quantity every time.
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• Category:R Pollard
  ...ip would one day out manoeuvre the enemy and return home to us bearing its precious cargo. Then we returned to London under the bombs and as the war was endin ...n but contributed much to my Schubertian passions for romantic longing. My time at UCL was both Rabelaisian and restrained by romantic love.
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• The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture by Steven Burgauer
  ...merican financial sector to write science fiction and lecture from time to time. He's therefore surprised when, out of the blue, Mr F's daughter tracks hi ...one looking back and allowing the thoughts that he couldn't indulge at the time.
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• Elmer's First Counting Book by David McKee
  ...ill stand up to a lot of rough handling - this isn't a book you need to be precious about. The book is shaped - elephant-shaped, if that makes sense - and thi ...ye-catching - and just this side of eye-watering but this probably isn't a time in a child's life when subtlety matters. We move from one elephant smiling
  2 KB (381 words) - 14:32, 29 March 2018
• Babar's Guide to Paris by Laurent de Brunhoff
  ...belle about how sometimes it rains in Paris. He's being kind. Every single time I have been there it rains, and so I know, like Isabelle now knows, that sh ''Babar's Guide To Paris'' is a precious book to read alone or to read together. It is a lovely, gentle introduction
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• This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world by Sarah Wilson
  |title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world ...''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that t
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• School Ship Tobermory by Alexander McCall Smith and Iain McIntosh
  ...good as his other stories? Will I love the characters just as much? This time he has reinvented the boarding school story, because who doesn't love a goo ...ientific research or staying on land with their auntie. Now, however, the time has come for them to join the pupils of the school ship Tobermory. They ar
  4 KB (720 words) - 12:54, 24 April 2018
• Montacute House by Lucy Jago
  Then Cess finds a precious locket in the hen coop. It's as though someone placed it there specifically ...rt of thing my son has been using as a complementary resource. At the same time, the plot is tense, the mystery well worked out, and the central character
  3 KB (547 words) - 09:51, 6 September 2020
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
  ...umental concept, Brooks has woven an absolutely stunning saga, both of the precious book, the people who made it, and those who guarded it with their lives. Beginning during World War II the novel goes backwards in time, documenting its journey. Each of the sections covers a specific period in
  3 KB (541 words) - 15:25, 30 March 2018
• The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening by Pamela Farley
  |title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening |sort=First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening
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• Phil Earle Talks To Bookbag About Book Covers
  Every author daydreams about how their precious story will finally look on the shelf, the number of finishes it’ll have, I spent far too much time thinking about it, at the expense of writing whatever came next. I knew exa
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• A Hundred Pieces of Me by Lucy Dillon
  ...to create her list, each item evokes powerful memories, opening windows in time and enabling Gina to see the need for closure on past relationships and eve ...each scene. I imagine that the greyhound rescue charities will have a hard time keeping up with demand once this book hits the shelves!
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• The Downstairs Cookbook: Recipes From A 1920s Household Cook by Margaret Powell
  ...her collection of the recipes which she used, or which were current at the time. But it's more than that. Think of it as being rather like a visit to a g It is though, of its time. Bear in mind that these were recipes which originated in the twenties and
  4 KB (705 words) - 11:48, 10 April 2018
• The Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion) by Russell Celyn Jones
  ...l have sink estates, rich boys still have too much time on their hands and precious little meaning in their lives. ...promised to someone else, and Pwyll suddenly finds some purpose - and, in time, a son. But then the son goes missing and his wife is blamed and everything
  3 KB (571 words) - 12:42, 4 March 2018
• The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe
  ...d her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely and homesic ...credibly evocative read – transporting the reader back to a rather hellish time in our history.
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