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• Who Do You Love? by Mandy Stanley
  |title=Who Do You Love? ...illustrations ago. This kind of style appeals to many children and I dare say would appeal to many parents, especially those that dislike super-naturalis
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• Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada by Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez
  ...simple book all about a group of fathers trying to persuade their child to say Dada. With its fun imagery and straight forward story it appeals to a youn ...Jimmy Fallon and Miguel Ordonez have put it to paper. Do you want to know what my children's first word was? Dada, of course. I win!
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• Say Hello Like This by Mary Murphy
  |title=Say Hello Like This |summary=All the animals teach you how to say hello, so you can greet them too. Cute as can be.
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• Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale
  |summary=What do you do when your mother dies of Huntington's Disease and you find out that she wasn't your mother at all? And that there is a person - a ...you've guessed it, she lies and omits (no spoilers at Bookbag, so I won't say how).
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• What Does the Fox Say? by Ylvis and Svein Nyhus
  |title=What Does the Fox Say? ...asked him if he knows was foxes say, but I imagine he doesn’t. I mean, do you?
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• I Love You, Little Monster by Giles Andreae and Jess Mikhail
  |title=I Love You, Little Monster ...our child at bedtime, then I suggest that you look no further than 'I Love You, Little Monster'. This is a beautiful book with some heartfelt sentiments t
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alan Titchmarsh
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ite for people who just enjoy reading a good story; a yarn, if you like. What they call page-turners. It's important to me when my readers get to the en
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• The Book With No Pictures by B J Novak
  ...once you open this book, you have to say Every. Single. Thing on the page. You have been warned. ...blork', or sentences like 'I am a monkey who taught myself to read', can't you? A brilliant way to bring people together with a book.
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• The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler
  ...are designed to give the individual both self-awareness and ammunition, if you like, in order to cope with various business/political and even social scen ...ates ''Instructions For Use.'' Okay, I thought. But there's more. ''Why You Should Read This Book'' and ''How To Use This Book.'' So, there's absolut
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• Category:Richard Hennerley
  ...icture of the author is a true likeness or that his given name is real, we do not know where he lives, or his age. The author himself freely admits that Tell us a bit about your book 'I Really, Really Want It'…. what is it about?
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• The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
  ...instance. The question has nothing to do with the book, but everything to do with how I came to be reading it. I mistook the author for one that I have ...ch he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly.
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• Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion by Malcolm Hulke
  ...ct. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there ...happily, not successfully) you don't see the dinosaur suits and dodgy FX. You don't get anything describing the dinosaurs, beyond tiny hands here, big he
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• Tips From Widows by Jan Robinson
  ...must do. Who better to give advice than other women who have experienced what must be the worst thing that life can throw at them? ...nd there's a sense of being empowered. What has happened is dreadful, but you will be able to cope.
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• Who's Yawning? by David Bedford and Leonie Worthington
  ...her animals yawning as they get ready for bed. The elephant (and the child you're reading to) identifies the animal from their noise, then lifts the flaps ...include [[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?]] by [[:Category:Jane Yolen|Jane Yolen]] and [[The Tiger Who Ca
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• The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett
  ''Tell them what The Afterwards is about, they said.''<br> ''Hopefully you know this, but...''<br>
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• One by Sarah Crossan
  ...int do you say ''yes'' to separation surgery? And how would life change if you survived? ...pi are face with are Hobson's choices. Damned if you do, equally damned if you don't. But they forge on with the kind of quiet (and sometimes noisy) deter
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• 3 Reasons Why You Need an ISBN
  ...e more exciting it gets with possibilities, so let's look at 3 reasons why you need an ISBN. ...digitally, you now have three numbers for one book. Amazon will designate you with one of their own numbers too, an ASIN. So while we have the same produ
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• Jimmy Coates: Power by Joe Craig
  ...and deal another blow to the big baddies in NR7. But this time, he has to do it all while his body is poisoned... ...ent organisations. And if you can't get a thrilling adventure out of that, you probably shouldn't be writing books. Joe Craig, though, gives his readers m
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• Say Zoop! by Herve Tullet
  |title=Say Zoop! ...take a reasonable idea and play it out for page, after page, after page. What's that … SQUIRREL!
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Danielle Joseph
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ng YA I pictured an audience full of teens, mostly girls. Now I’m happy to say that I see everyone: boys, girls and adults too. I love how YA books are no
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• Fucking Good Manners by Simon Griffin
  ...behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right bef ...tion of humour which might lessen your blushes as you realise exactly what you've been doing to offend people.
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• A Day With Dogs by Dorothee de Monfreid
  |summary=A Richard Scarry-esque look at what dogs (or really people) do all day. A fun way of starting conversations with kids. ...et an answer to that question, although it certainly won't be the one that you're expecting: these dogs are in cars, on skis, in the kitchen, at the docto
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• The Colour of the Sun by David Almond
  ''This book... explores what excites and mystifies me about the nature of being young, and dramatises th ...of being young - both older than you used to enjoy being and younger than you aspire to be. And it's a story of finding strangeness in ordinary things.
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• Category:C A Sacha
  ...well it's like this – I thought the novel would be easier to do. (I refer you to my opening line.)
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• The Gloomster by Ludwig Bechstein, Axel Sceffler and Julia Donaldson
  ...particular irritant that gets us so rattled, tetchy and narked all we can do is invoke "Hell and damnation!" down on all creation - including, of course ...o stand there, hands in pockets, staring out at us as if to say 'I suppose you actually like this sort of thing...'
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• L'Auberge by Julia Stagg
  ...oung English couple. The author lives in the Pyrenees and definitely knows what she's talking about. ...en it comes down to it are quite a few other people in Fogas who don't see what's happening in quite the same way as the mayor.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Sandy Donaghy
  ...second time and was surprised by how uplifted I felt. I'm delighted that you’re happy to answer some questions for us. * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?'''
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• Quick and Quirky: Short Stories with Quips! by Fred Onymouse and Ann Onymouse
  |summary=Come here for simple but unexpected scenarios that you don't get elsewhere in short story publishing – then see very little come ...he world of creative writing for a few years now, and whenever anyone asks what it is I mostly write, I define it with the catch-all safety net of ''flippa
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• Me After You by Lucie Brownlee
  |title=Me After You ...eme to be worth reading, it has to have a pull, a twist, something to make you look twice. In Lucie’s case it’s the fact that her husband Mark was onl
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• Braver Than Britain, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker
  Before I begin, I just want to say that this book has the best cover quote ever, ever, ever. ''I'm mostly just glad you stopped writing vampire porn.''
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• This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire
  ...ories of love and loss from around the globe, this is one to dip into when you want a lift ...ote. This book, a compilation of letters and other contributions, explores what love is in the 21st century. It's certainly international – there were 15
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• Leadership Rules by Jo Owen
  ...t really going to cut it for you. If you just want an easy read that puts what we all already know into a sharp focus, this is your man. ...harp snipes which might be aimed at the dip-in-and-out brigade, I can also say that it reads well as a sit-down-and-consider book.
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• The Gravity of Love by Sara Stridsberg and Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)
  ...vice to the potential audience of this book and put them off. And, like I say, that would be a pity. ...es is a fine reading experience, with rich emotion, and an ease that takes you to the depths of metaphor and surprise. And even with the characters, loca
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• Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom by A A Milne and E H Shepard
  ...ld be honoured that he's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look ...the delightfully charming originals from E H Shepard - but who else would you want but 'the man who drew Pooh'?
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• How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
  |title=How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? ...r they fall on the top of their covers and cry - when Mama or Papa come to say goodnight.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ellie Irving
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...e Irving: I like to think of happy, smiley faces - readers of any age from say, 8, upwards, enjoying the crazyness of the story. And hopefully laughing at
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• Very British Problems Abroad by Rob Temple
  ...properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude ...you're of the mind to think them such, and all seem particularly British. Do the Germans pack socks for hiding their feet round the pool?
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• Where to Open Your Business: Choosing Between Onshore and Offshore Free Zones in the UAE
  ...have no taxes to pay at all! You will be able to take the same benefit if you set up an [https://uae-consult.com/en/blog-en/offshore-zones/offshore-compa '''When You Can Set Up a Company in the Mainland Area'''
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• Betty Goes Bananas by Steve Antony
  Betty is a chimp. Chimps like bananas. But did you ever think about how they cope with the small, yet complicated matter of, P ...er repeated saviour, is keen to show her how to do things rather than just do them for her. Teach a man to fish and he’ll never go hungry, teach a chim
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• Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun
  |title=Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked |summary=A riveting look at what it's like to be stalked, not physically but online. The impotence is frigh
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• The People Inside by Ray Fawkes
  ...ou can say a lot more about what is on these pages, and you still have all you need to know in those two words. This book takes the profound – which, o ...together. Another couple don't have babies – they're both male – but they do have a bakery. Other couples have break-ups, other couples have tragedies,
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• To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
  ...ng a dentist to confront his online presence. This is a book like no other you’ll know. ...s of TV shows about doctors and lots about lawyers, but other professions, say accountants or vets or dentists, get less of a look in. Just not as sexy, w
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• Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
  ...ent debut novel, even if it's grounded firmly in the adage of writing what you know. Some elements sit awkwardly, but I can see why it'll be much loved b ...o goes along with the metaphor, even when we know what it exactly is. And what it is is bound to stir up the emotions of a book that can be really funny,
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• Little by Little by Amber Stewart and Layn Marlow
  |summary=Scramble the otter can do everything but swim but with the help of his family he learns ''little by l ...with mud sliding, making sandcastles and slippery-rock hopping. The Can't-do list was very short. There was only one thing on it.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gregory Hughes
  ...apper, some goddamn paedophiles, and the most entrancing central character you're ever likely to meet. Unsurprisingly, we jumped at the chance of asking G ...apper, some goddamn paedophiles, and the most entrancing central character you're ever likely to meet. Unsurprisingly, we jumped at the chance of asking G
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• Alphabet (My First Bob Books) by Sue Hendra and John R Maslen
  ...do not need to buy the whole programme in one go. You can buy each set as you need it, and most sets will take at least one term to complete. ...vampires, naughty children and so many other fun topics. I honestly cannot say I have any books that are more effective for teaching the alphabet than the
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• Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements
  ...hough, the boy accidentally eats a pea - a whole pea - and doesn't notice. What's going to happen? ...it just isn't worth it at all as it's our anxieties they pick up. The more you worry about something they don't eat, the more likely they are to refuse (a
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• Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly
  |title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You? ...ou take a closer look. So what was it with ''Just What Kind of Mother Are You?'' I'm not a particularly maternal person, so it wasn't the title. I didn
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• Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short Stories by Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard Thomas
  ...Fiction, a collection of short stories that will have you questioning what you are reading. ...n of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrong. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb,
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• Grumpy Cat: No-it-All: Everything You Need to No by Grumpy Cat
  |title=Grumpy Cat: No-it-All: Everything You Need to No ...tions to be anything more. If you're a fan of Grumpy-Cat you might want to say 'No' to the world but 'Yes' to this book.
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• The Killer's Daughter by Vivian Oldaker
  ...hop. It's not long before feelings grow, and they become an item. He would do anything for her, disobeying his uncle everyday to see her – she's a kill ...tches a plan – to go to Greece on a school trip and stay after to find out what really happened the day her Grandmother died and clear her Father's name on
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• The Unwritten Laws of Business by W J King and James G Skakoon
  ...ous individual who says nothing is usually credited with having nothing to say.'' ...ou are ones like 'honesty' and 'dependability'. Take this advice as to how you should act when asked a question:
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• Carnaby by Cate Sampson
  ...ashed out, finding it difficult to cope. What if the baby gets taken away? What if she and Jude are separated? Can Sarah manage to keep them all together? ...e many because ''Carnaby'' has skilled and clever plotting. I'd better not say more. I hate a spoiler.
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• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
  |summary=What happens when the girl who has it all loses everything over night? This is a ...rious Owen, with whom looks were very much deceiving. About Emily, who did what Annabel couldn't, about Clarke who was left behind once but was somehow bac
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Naima B Robert
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...and Misha come from totally different sides of the tracks. Although I must say, I really enjoyed talking to myself in Dwayne's voice and that of his inner
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• The Jelly Effect: How to Make Your Communication Stick by Andy Bounds
  ...'s just my personal opinion. That aside, I was keen to start reading, see what all the fuss was about ... ...y Too Much Irrelevant Stuff'' struck a wry chord with me and probably will do for many others so I was already engaged and keen to gobble up all chapters
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• The Things We Do by Kay Pfaltz
  |title=The Things We Do |sort=Things We Do
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Lydia Ola Taiwo
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: Did you find writing about your experiences as a child difficult?'''
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• Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach
  ...lda and everything changes. Loved this honest, engrossing story that keeps you guessing until the very end. ...etty theft habit, which he indulges in well-heeled hotels. Oh dear, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviour, the
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• Jew by DO Dodd
  |author=DO Dodd DO Dodd creates a dark world of religious war in this book about identity and
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Rick Yancey
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: Where did you get the inspiration for writing The 5th Wave?'''
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• Out of Office: Work Where You Like and Achieve More by Chris Ward
  |title=Out of Office: Work Where You Like and Achieve More ...would be an apt summary of the gist of ''Out of Office'' by Chris Ward. If you choose to read the book, be prepared to receive inspiration rather than pra
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• Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
  ...news rather than in the privacy of the matrimonial home. What's Sylvie to do? ...uld do something different with her next book. Unfortunately I'm going to say much the same thing again.
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• Sock It! by Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden
  ...ough different types of socks, telling you some of the many things you can do with them, because it's not just putting them on your feet! ...ch. Because of this I'd say it's one to read together with your child when you want a bit of fun, as opposed to a bedtime story, as it has a very loud fee
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• Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by John Clare
  ...ing presentations which is very usable for the generalist but gold dust if you're in the medical or scientific sectors. ...Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or
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• Lula Does The Hula by Samantha Mackintosh
  ...is review is annoying so far with the exclamation marks and strange words, you may want to avoid the book! ...his to me, publishers? I like to start from the beginning and it's hard to do that if I don't know where the beginning is!
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• Think and Make Like an Artist by Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith
  ...dren that has some great things to do, but also makes it fun to wonder why you are doing them. ...the artists sells you Brigadoon. A lot of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant to represent; even I have been swayed on occasion once I have b
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• How to Use an AI Content Detector
  ...ssays and papers. Therefore, even if you have written your piece yourself, you still need to run it through an AI detector to be on the safe side. It is safe to say that AI tools are becoming extremely popular among students. One obvious re
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• Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver
  Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-west, but this particular ...a label around his neck asking for him to be kept safe and told him not to say anything about who he was or where he was from for seven sleeps. It might
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• Never ask a Dinosaur to Dinner by Gareth Edwards and Guy Parker-Rees
  ...hould you be thinking about using a tiger as a towel or, heaven forbid, if you wondered if it would be okay to share your toothbrush with a shark! ...ly his ferocious-looking teeth as he perhaps forgets to say a polite thank you for sharing the boy's toothbrush and instead tries to bite his head off!
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• Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe
  ...and take notice of if I was to stop going ''backwards''. Because that was what I was doing. ...ands. You might think that time management is the answer - but I can tell you that it's not. I'm very efficient about how I manage my time - and it's ma
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• Losing It by Keith Gray
  Doing it for the first time... you know, ''Losing It''. It. ...n exactly to stop waiting. And when you've never done it, how on earth can you possibly know that?!
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• Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
  ...crumbling of his dreams for a legal solution to the Israeli occupation. As you would expect, it is sad, angry, hopeless. However, it is also quite beautif ...n known as sarha. Sarha means to roam freely, to go where the spirit takes you. And Shehadah takes the reader on six sarhat, to explore his country's beau
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• An Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
  ...rds are there in the world? Because when you only get one for each letter, you may find a simple book of 26 entries may not be enough. ...habet game these aren't the ones that might be top of your list and yet if you were playing eye-spy, out in the real world, well then so many of these wou
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• Latte or Cappuccino: 125 Decisions That Will Change Your Life by Hilly Janes
  ...e relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when you add them all up. ...make (or might have made without thinking about the consequences) and how you can make relatively minor changes which make a difference but don't involve
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• All Sorts of Possible by Rupert Wallis
  ...the thought that you might lose your father, the other half of you, makes you feel? ...eet endings I've ever read. I cried like a baby at the humanity of it. So, you know, I call that a recommendation, ok?
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• Don't Do That! by Tony Ross
  |title=Don't Do That! |sort=Don't Do That!
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ben Mezrich
  |summary=Robert doesn't often say that a book should have been longer, but [[Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich|St Robert doesn't often say that a book should have been longer, but [[Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich|St
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• Michael Grant Talks To Bookbag About The ''GONE'' TV Show
  Let me say this up-front: whatever you may have taken from the Frankie Muniz movie, ''Big Fat Liar'', the Hollywoo ...don't really care, but my readers are driving me nuts about it.” (Okay, I do really care. That was just me trying to sound cool.) Usually the producer
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• To Catch a Killer by Emma Kavanagh
  ...your job with the minimum amount of emotion. That's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the w ...as this woman? She was beautiful, patrician looking and obviously well-to-do. There were children's toys in her pocket: why had no one missed her?
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• Beneath The Lake by Christopher Ransom
  ...will overshadow their lives forever. Immediately engaging and compelling, you can feel the evil within. ...not to feel disappointed that their solitude has been encroached upon and do their best to keep out of the other family's way, but when the newcomers' f
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• Grandad There's a Head on the Beach by Colin Cotterill
  ...of a journey which will uncover piracy and slavery, violence and murder in what should be a beautiful part of the world, but isn't. ...treat them as disposable. The issues are important and the message about what's happening is delivered with a firm hand.
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• Beautiful Patterns by Various Authors
  .... Not only is this book filled with great patterns, but it will also make you consider composition. ...ouring book for grownups feel more like a military operation, but at least you will have fun doing it and improve your skills.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Johnny Ringwood
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' Johnny Ringwood: If I close my eyes and try to think what my readers will look like, I suppose because of the title, they will be peo
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• The Anxiety-Elimination System by Nicos Nicolaou
  ...he same. No one is born with a chemical imbalance in the brain and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof of the efficacy of his system is that th ...ink that the book is no more than an advertisement for his other services: you can simply follow the system as described in the book.
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• The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Iain Smyth and Michael Terry
  ...who he is whilst saying ''Ooh, you don't see many of those round here, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justice, but it's very cheesy and funny. Anyway, thi ...he sort of joke that gets funnier every time you say it, especially if you do a silly voice.
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• How to be a Social Entrepreneur: Make Money and Change the World by Robert Ashton
  ...er through the business maze. And before we go any further, what, exactly do we mean by the perhaps woolly phrase of 'Social Entrepreneur'? Many think ...st be sustainable. No good to anyone, he says, illustrating the point, of say opening a soup kitchen for the homeless - for it to fold a month later. Th
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Marcus Sedgwick
  * '''When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...hope that it finds favour with people; I don't think you can second guess what people want to read.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To W Scott Beaven
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, what do you see?''' ...er mixed parentage allows an examination of racism but is there any reason you chose Japanese in particular?'''
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• A Deal's a Deal by Stephanie Blake
  ...dinand's car is just a plastic one and his are metal he somehow finds that what he really, really wants is this particular red car, and Ferdinand manipulat ...et his own back on Ferdinand. I won't spoil the conclusion but let's just say Ferdinand gets his comeuppance in a rather disgusting way!
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• Frisky Business by Clodagh Murphy
  ...ut is she ready for what she might find, if she goes looking, and how much do blood ties mean anyway? ...re lots of mysteries in this book, beyond finding out who can legitimately say ''Luke, I am your father''. There’s lots of confusing jumping to conclusi
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• The Three Sillies by Tony Ross
  ...e land to discover whether there are other people who are even sillier. As you can imagine, lots of very silly things happen as George sets out on his mis ...rincess]] stories. The story of The Three Sillies is indeed very silly and you can tell that it is going to be just that by looking at the front cover and
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• Discover the Awesome World by Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip Steele
  ...Kids are going to read this because they love it - and learn whilst they do so. ...habit of recycling reviews (honest!) but sometimes you know that you can't say it any better as exactly the same comments apply to Discover the Awesome Wo
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• Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear by Lucy Adlington
  ...ltures of times gone by, in order to paint a fascinating portrait of quite what a huge part clothing has played in our history. With shoes sparked by a dan
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• The Scarecrows' Wedding by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
  ...ill ever forget? A wonderfully captivating romp around the farm brought to you by the Queen of preschool literature. ...h as the Gruffalo related nod on the side of the tractor, which I can tell you will not go unnoticed by any children reading!
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• Flirt Diva - For Women Who Want to be Bold and Sassy and have a Fabulous Life! by Susan Ostler
  ...ing Loved Up'' that promises to put its participants (and as you'll learn, you're more than a mere reader with this title) on the fast track to romance. G ...oman she is too. This is one bubbly lady, and her personality jumps out at you from every page.
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• The Glump and the Peeble by Wendy Meddour and Rebecca Ashdown
  ...tle quicker if you had read more books as a child all about being whomever you want to be. ...and think. Can these two creatures work together to prove that anyone can do anything their heart desires?
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Liz Kessler
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...s left frantically trying to go back. Is there any period in your own life you’d like to revisit, either to change something or just to relive it?'''
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Megan Miranda
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...leven Minutes, the tie-in made available on the internet. How important do you think the internet is to the success of a YA novel today?'''
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Kim Staflund Again
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...g that something must be done to get those sales rolling. The question is: what?
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• Y Square by Judith Park
  ...special advisor. You don't see where this manga is ever going, but nor do you particularly want to. ...n the horizon can only bring out jealousies, problems, and everything else you might expect.
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• Lets Compromise and Say I'm Right: Calman on Love & Relationships by Mel Calman
  |title=Lets Compromise and Say I'm Right: Calman on Love & Relationships ...front of the book. ''Let's compromise and say I'm right...'' he says and you can see from the woman's expression that she had ''hoped'' for, but really
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• The Buccaneering Book of Pirates (Pop Up Books) by Saviour Pirotta
  .... The others are more original, just as is the bonus element you get when you buy this title… ...and a limply-achieved paragraph to end. They're readable, they cover all you need – a simple black and white good versus bad, and a range of different
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• Say Yes to New Opportunities! by Ruth Pearson
  |title=Say Yes to New Opportunities! |summary=A well-written, easy-to-read guide to turning problem times in you life into opportunities. Definitely recommended.
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• Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
  ...something profound enough for you to wish you'd thought of it first, then you will like Killing Yourself To Live. The ladeez may have to overlook the und ...he visits the most famous rock and roll death sites in the United States. What we actually get is a road trip diary from an obsessive, anal over-analyser
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Richard Smith
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...oyment only. (Which I do now) But since going into several schools, I must say I look at my readers as a class full of pupils, making them judges, to try
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• Yellowcake by Margo Lanagan
  ...an. And more. I don't want to say much more for fear of ruining it all for you. ...e all good short stories, what they don't say matters as much as what they do. Gaps and pauses matter.
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• Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics) by Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)
  ...air to say that he knew what he was doing – these hundreds of little poems do make up a classic of all-ages literature after all. ...''th' Abruzzi, so blind that he couldn't his foot see''. Only in Lear do you get people getting stoned, cooking mice for dinner and entrapping their wif
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• I Love You More and More by Nicky Benson and Jonny Lambert
  |title=I Love You More and More ...tibly drawn to stories with bears in, and this one did not disappoint. If you're looking for a good old pull-at-the-heartstrings read for cozy afternoons
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• Reunion by Fred Uhlman
  ...xquisite, brave, daring, beautifully written and with a twist which smacks you. Highly recommended. How do you talk about a perfect book? How much more can you say other than 'read it - it's amazing'? Written in 1960, the book is not auto
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• Choosing the Perfect Puppy by Pippa Mattinson
  ...you shouldn't get a puppy - and that could well be the right decision for you. Highly recommended. ...a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Leila Sales
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...Song Will Save Your Life to ANY book, certainly not for a long time. Where you surprised by just how much people have loved it?'''
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• Reviews, Time and Filthy Lucre
  At Bookbag, we cover as many books as we can, but we do ''need'' to cover those which are searched for, or nobody will find the sit ...re not big enough, you don't get coverage. You can't get big enough unless you get coverage. It's all a horrible vicious circle.
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• Anton and the Battle by Ole Konnecke
  ...amount of time with small children will know of the 'well I'm taller than you!' arguments which seem to appear, all of a sudden, and carry on for years! ...s swinging a man-eating tiger over his head, and the other declares he can do the same with a lion, and then the next minute they're both claiming to be
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• Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh
  ...cussed in such an open way, as told by a girl who really doesn't care what you think. ...like ''Any Other Mouth'', you know from the outset that this is, shall we say, a rather niche book. It’s not all about orifices, though. Partially auto
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• Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity Book by Lorraine Harrison
  ...nto the garden to graze like cattle? However, before you do this, perhaps you should pick up a book like ''Flowerpot Farm'' by Lorraine Harrison and Faye ...by step guide on how to create a flower pot garden. What is one of those you may ask? Essentially it is growing food and flowers in anything that can h
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Eric Lindner
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' EL: Thank you...
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• Holidays According to Humphrey by Betty G Birney
  ...ckily, this is only the summer holiday he is misunderstanding, and what do you know - he will soon be meeting familiar faces, not at school, but at summer ...of the whole fortnight, which has just as much action and entertainment as you could wish for.
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• Joe Craig Talks To Bookbag About Words, Death and Dilemmas
  |summary=Joe Craig popped ito Bookbag Towers to tell us 'What I’m thinking when I think I’m learning about my audiences (but I’m pr - How much money do you make?<br>
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• The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family by Amber Hunt and David Batcher
  ...est of the nine children - the only one of the brothers who would, as they say, live to comb grey hair. Not quite so much is known about the women who we ...so moving from a fairly secluded life into one where they were expected to do their bit in campaigning to have their menfolk elected or reelected. Some
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• Big Babies by Michael Bywater
  |summary=An examination of why we have all become so infantile that will have you reduced to tears of shame and hysteria. Everyone should read it before we'r ...down your face. It may make you resolve to change, but you probably won't. You may not even be able to. ''They'' may not allow it.
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• Burial by Neil Cross
  ...ss of some Gloucestershire greenbelt to a housing development, but because what might be ploughed up forces Nathan back to a drug-fuelled, Ouija-board-feat ...ng more akin to an everyman character, but there is no hope of foretelling what will happen at the party. We have no way of second-guessing all that follo
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• Dinosaur Poo! by Christyan Fox and Diane Fox
  |summary=Dinosaur Poo does exactly what it says on the tin, using nice rhymes, bold pictures and interesting flaps ...uch to the next level in this rhyming book all about dinosaur poo. It does what it says on the tin.
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• The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership by Elizabeth Fox and Martin le Comte
  ...ur leadership and which will serve you well no matter ''what'' and ''who'' you are leading. ...more to do with common sense. They don't minimise what's ahead, but they do give everyone in a leadership role or aspiring to one, a framework within w
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• Big Meals for Little Hands by Virginie Aladjidi, Caroline Pellissier and Marion Billet
  ...that it features recipes from a Michelin starred chef, Sébastien Guénard, you immediately know that this is not going to be just any kids’ cook book. A ...look like when you’re done. Or, to quote the Boy as he flicked through, ''What’s a Clafoutis?'' Now there is a picture of the cake, but it’s quite sma
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• The Daves Next Door by Will Carver
  ...he life-altering potential his weapon grants him. It really drives home to you the danger of stepping outside your door; the way in which seemingly random ...ng is, not what it isn’t – and I think that the intended effect was to get you on edge. It’s so brief and so punchy that I almost felt on guard, like I
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Joe Dunthorne
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, what do you see?''' ...t looking for hyper-detailed critical feedback, you just want to know that you are not alone in trying to become a writer, and that someone is reading you
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Danaan Elderhill
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...on - are you a witch and are Pagan beliefs important to you? What brought you to these beliefs?'''
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• The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
  ...ithin its little world, making me want to ignore my long list of things to do and just curl up reading all day. Jojo Moyes' new novel certainly managed ...car accident unable to remember anything - her husband, her friends, even what sort of a person she is herself. When she returns home she discovers a hid
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• Panic by Jeff Abbott
  |summary=What would you do if everything in your life was a lie? Evan Casher has to solve this problem ...h available colours? The tag- line for this novel is one that really makes you stop and think.
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• This is a Serious Book by Jodie Parachini and Daniel Rieley
  ...es and doing backflips but only as a warning. They are examples to show us what we ''won't'' find in this book. For they are silly things (yuck). ...fun way. Children will get the irony immediately (even if they don't know what irony is, and without Alanis Morissette, who is ever going to teach them?)
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• The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
  The mysteries of the novel are less to do with the personnel - it's fairly clear from the outset who the reader trust ...ew South Wales after all and while there are a lot of things that can kill you in Australia, tigers are not amongst them. It serves not only to represent
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• The Brilliant and Forever by Kevin MacNeil
  ...surdist, metafictional novel that will do all it can to wring a laugh from you. ...someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Julie Cohen
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...novel, ''Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom'', has a great title - how did you come up with it?
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• The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
  ...ortunities. Not one for the faint of heart but definitely one for those of you who like your love affairs with teeth. ...are? What other secrets does the dusty, ramshackle homestead keep? And why do all the Roanoke Girls run? Or die? Lane left Roanoke and never looked back
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• A Bookbagger's View:What it's like to be a reviewer
  |title=A Bookbagger's View: What's it's like to be a reviewer |summary=Lesley shares her thoughts on what it's like to be on the Bookbag panel, and on reviewing books generally. She
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• The Poo That Animals Do by Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles
  |title=The Poo That Animals Do |sort=Poo That Animals Do
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To P De V Hencher
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: How did you get the inspiration to write [[The Leopard of Dramoor by P De V Hencher|The
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• The Longest Journey: Nine Keys to Health, Wealth and Happiness by Sandy Donaghy
  |summary=A little book that can make a big impact on your life - if you're prepared to put the effort in. ...u shy away from such books? Now, I want you to drop the cynicism, because what we have here is a book that's written from the heart and not the wallet and
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• I Love My Daddy by Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd
  ...looking after the child on his own, but I was disappointed that they don't do many practical things together, even simple housework. When mummy's out the I should say that our children (aged 2 and 4) like this book more than I do, not just because it's about Dad but because I really prefer books with mor
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• Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig
  ...n manners. Buy a copy for everyone you know as a quote unquote novely gift you secretly hope they read every page of. ...ding to Denmark this coming weekend (are all people there like you? Please say yes). For this alone, I had to get my mitts on your latest offering. I wasn
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• Merchant Account in Genome
  ...If your store does not work with electronic money, but only with cash, you do not need to have a merchant account. ...e that you need a merchant account. Which company to choose? We will offer you a Genome account. Why? Here are some of the benefits.
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• Grass to Grace by Daniel Eyisi
  ...d jobs to earn enough money for food. He had no thoughts of what he might do in the future: it seemed like a waste of time as he had no skills. He was ...sual to see Odin so churlish and Ndu allowed him to say all that he had to say and then he began to help Odin to help. It all began with a few yam seedli
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• My Life In Agony by Irma Kurtz
  ...id, and as agony aunt for Cosmopolitan for more than 40 years it’s safe to say she has been a fair bit more sympathetic than we ever were. ...memoir from this lady would be worth a read. After all, she has plenty to say each month to the magazine’s readers. This book isn’t a series of Q&A,
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• Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
  ...on mortality and religion. You'll be interested, absorbed and engaged but you won't be uplifted. Recommended ...The rest are names, sometimes just initials or a set of facts, but rarely do they have personality.
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• Monster High by Lisi Harrison
  |summary=Fitting in is not possible when you go to High School with monsters. ...phenie Meyer|Twilight]]. So, when this book landed on my doorstep, I can't say I held much hope for it.
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• The Variety of Life by Nicola Davies and Lorna Scobie
  ...that you can't lose something if it's got a name, and someone to care for what lives under that name – we can only hope that's right. ...r), and their picture. There's a brief introduction to each grouping, and you have the book. There's no attempt to present the animals in a full diorama
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• Publish on Amazon Kindle with Kindle Direct Publishing by Kindle Direct Publishing
  |summary=If what you need is a guide to the actual uploading this this might help, but don't exp ...nd, well, something which would leave me with the feeling that I ''could'' do this successfully. How did it square up?
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• The Boy on the Porch by Sharon Creech
  ...help but worry. Who is Jacob? Will his parents return for him? And if they do, how will Marta and John bear to give him up - this little boy who paints b ...iar and it's comforting, even when the couple are worrying about Jacob and what the future holds.
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• Farm by Surya Sajnani
  In this sturdy, interactive board book little ones have clues to animals you might find on the farm, and can then slide the pieces of picture round on t ''I say ''CLUCK'' ''<br>
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• Tempting Fate by Jane Green
  ...ell executed story of actions and consequences, this is a lengthy read but you'll fly through it. ...to live with, forever. Gabby has made one of ''those'' mistakes. The sort you can never really come back from.
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• Pear Shaped by Stella Newman
  ...e with Maserati) didn't matter to her - but it didn't do any harm either. What's not to like? Well, there's nothing 'not to like' but just the odd thing ...ells but James was just a little elusive - but then businessmen do have to do quite a bit of travelling. Sophie never quite knew where she stood. Were
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• Luxury Fashion Branding: Trends, Tactics, Techniques by Uche Okonkwo
  ...mary=Do you know your H&M from your D&G, your Birkin from your Paddington? You will, and much more besides, after reading this lengthy and in-depth invest ...ould appreciate or enjoy a book on luxury fashion brands, but that's where you would be wrong.
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• The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues) by Rick Riordan
  ...yness, and younger brother Dan, with his asthma, and photographic memory. You have to shrug off the feeling this is a most unlikely pairing, and thankful ...ere Cahills, and the innumerable coincidental encounters that follow, that you have to disregard as most unlikely. The opposing teams of questors too are
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• The Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow
  ...n life will still work its damnedest to heap ignominy and embarrassment on you. ...list of things they want to do - be more artistic, be more successful... You can see where this is going.
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• Teddy Bedtime by Georgie Birkett
  ...or bed everyone, but what do we do? Follow Teddy and friends as they show you step by step of how to get ready for bed. 'Teddy Bedtime’ by Georgie Bir ...ital tool in getting a child to bed. Whilst one set of Nephews come up to you and ask to go to bed at 7pm, the other are bouncing off the walls at 1am.
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• Diary of a Mad Diva by Joan Rivers
  ...life of the late, some would say great, Joan Rivers, this is like no diary you'll have read before, guaranteed. ...y that she’s not particularly kind to them. The world’s a funny old place. You can’t make a snide comment on Twitter about something going on in the new
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• Reviewer Vacancies
  Find out what it's like to be a reviewer [[A Bookbagger's View:What it's like to be a reviewer|here]]. <!--'''Can You Write Book Reviews?'''
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• Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)
  ...hlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, and that's basically what it is – although right at the end the author says that it is not intended ...we as humans interact with nature and how we can maybe get our children to do a bit better than we did.
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• Loose-Limbed by David Barrie
  ...ould tiredness have set in? No – it's the best of them all so far. And I say ''so far'' deliberately because I have a feeling that David Barrie is just ...they're obsessive about what they do and prepared to do what they have to do to stay there.
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• The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals by Wendy Jones
  ...ve not having loved the one you've been with, but having been with the one you should have loved? A seriously great novel from a debut author with a prom ...into the mindset of other people, going over the same conversation twice, say - and all the characters are excellent, from Wilfred's unnamed Da, to Flora
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• Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2) by Mat Waugh
  |publisher=Say So Media ...d makes me turn the iPad off, I’ll tell you what Charlie’s been doing: and you won’t believe some of it. I’m surprised Charlie hasn’t been arrested.
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• Dreams and Everyday Life by Aviv Ratzin
  ...ppy way. To give the gist of the surreal, scattershot whimsicality cannot do the contents justice in any way. ...meo from a chap looking suspiciously like Harvey Pekar. The footnotes, if you will, of matchstick men playing out gags, were only intrusive. And while I
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• Pendulum by Adam Hamdy
  ...it. It's sufficient to say that the pace and the action never let up and you're not going to get the answers until the final pages. ...ad I worked out who or what was behind the murderous attacks. All I could do was to keep reading.
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• Star Gazing by Linda Gillard
  ...se once you reach a certain point you simply won't be able to put it down. You can also read an [[The Interview: Bookbag talks to Linda Gillard|interview] ...bag bled wine all over the doorstep. Oh, and there's one other thing that you ought to know about Keir.
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• Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje
  |title=Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? ...tle as you are, he's frightened of you. He'd like to meet you though: can you see that nose just poking out from the side of the sofa? Now he's peering
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• Never Say No to a Princess! by Tracey Corderoy and Kate Leake
  |title=Never Say No to a Princess! ..., this is a glorious tale of adventure, friendship and finally learning to say please.
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• Unforgettable Walks by Julia Bradbury
  ...Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs and the Peak District. Unless you're in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, w ...ore the bridge and that some parts are a little boggy in wet weather, then you will need something a little more detailed, particularly as the text is not
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• Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides) by Lucy Engelman
  ...ery word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ou ...e your big cats, but in a green room, so wish to give them a new tint. If you run out of black, certain butterflies will be a lot paler.
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• Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson
  |summary= A juicy thriller, this is about the who and the why as much as the what ...seems nice enough but there's a vibe, a hint of a feeling that all is not what it seems. Just how bad things are, though, is yet to be revealed.
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• Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
  ...m Perry we will never known, but he does save her, and Julie allows him to do this. After this she takes a very takes an active role, accepting R as he i ...o to make the world a better place, and what would we risk to do it. If we do nothing - are really any better than either the selfish humans or the monst
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• Managing by Henry Mintzberg
  .... Option one is to read every word, chapter by chapter, cover to cover. If you have the time I would recommend this approach because the book is very read ...on-highlighted words are surplus to requirements, but when time is limited you can follow this approach and not spend ages wading through the slightly les
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• The Cook by Wayne Macauley
  ...ous he has his eyes on the top and will do anything to get there. As they say on Masterchef, ''cooking doesn't get any tougher than this''.
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• The Badness of King George by Judith Summers
  ...ersity, decides to foster rescue dogs. Poor George has absolutely no idea what she's let him in for. And nor has Judith. ...iva. After a chance encounter with someone from Many Tears Animal Rescue (you'll find them [http://www.freewebs.com/manytearsrescue/ here] – go on –
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Melissa Wareham
  ...Take Me Home: Tales of Battersea Dogs by Melissa Wareham]], her stories of what life in Battersea Dogs is really like, especially adapted for children. We ...Take Me Home: Tales of Battersea Dogs by Melissa Wareham]], her stories of what life in Battersea Dogs is really like, especially adapted for children. We
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• See Inside Dinosaurs by Michael Bright
  ...box to find an impressive skeleton of a triceratops, including the guts. You also get a card model of a T-Rex to build. And at the back there, in the c ...ide Dinosaurs''. You may think that you are buying one thing, but instead you are getting an impressive triceratops skeleton, or a T-Rex model, or maybe
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• You and I by Padgett Powell
  |title=You and I ...ever you thought of the experiment definitely a different kind of read. ''You & I'' offers a similarly unusual book, for the entirety of it is dialogue.
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• Pug-a-Doodle-Do! by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
  |title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do! ...-falutin' academic language to describe such books – but you know what? I say (redacted) to that – let's just hang it and have fun. And this book, spi
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Luisa Plaja
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...seen Fiction Express and the concept of interactive e-books before, could you give us a quick introduction, please?'''
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• Don't Stand So Close by Luana Lewis
  ...t to read this one home alone. An excellent, engaging thriller that leaves you guessing. Who is the victim and who is the culprit? ...n months. You're alone, but you feel safe inside. You do. It’s ok. You can do this.
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• Mind Your Head by Juno Dawson
  ...buy it and read it yourself. I hope I cover the right dog ears to make you do just that. ...aren't about to turn into Jack the Ripper. If that's your fear, forget it. Do. Not. Be. Afraid. To. Read. This. Book.
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• Why Women Mean Business by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland
  Do you want to improve your business? Make more profits? You probably need to look at the sector which makes 80% of purchasing decisions ...have in senior positions people who understand how women think – and they do think differently to men. It's not better or worse – it's just different
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• Dresden Files: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
  |summary=Funny, entertaining and surprisingly thoughtful – just make sure you've read the other books in the series first. ...to make contact with human flesh any more. Yep, Harry's a ghost. Where do you go from here?
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• The Fallen Children by David Owen
  ...and leave it at that. If you don't know the book, it won't matter. If you do, don't worry: it's not just an updated rewrite. I don't think that spoiled ... one night, there is a blackout on the Midwich. Nobody knows what caused it. But shortly afterwards, four of the girls on the estate find the
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• Barbara J Zitwer talks to Bookbag about meeting the ladies at the Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond on the day her mother died
  I can say that the day my Mother died and the day I swam at the pond did change my li ...ounger than her age, she whispered, ''I’m going home.'' And I knew exactly what she meant. So, I chose to let her funeral go forward without my attendance
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• Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell
  ...usin of hers who died in mysterious circumstances. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very night, Jay drowns in the canal after falling fro ...a strange paranoia in little Lilias. Each of them has different things to say about their dead sister. And then there is Rebecca's collection of Frozen C
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• Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
  ''Eggs'' could have been a horribly cheesy book - particularly when you see that it's written by an American. Americans love schmaltz. I don't love ...ce between them'' - and of course, fallings out are only natural. But when you're a lonely, grieving child, they're almost too much to bear. So it's only
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• Tricks and Games To Teach Your Dog: How to Turn Your Much-Loved Pet into an Accomplished Performer by Sophie Collins
  .... Sophie Collins has put together a collections of tricks and games which you can teach your dog and they range from the ''sit'', ''stay'' and ''down'' o ...nd ultimately you are going to know your dog better and your dog will know you. It's bonding of the first order.
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• Nobody's Horse by Jane Smiley
  ...to say to prospective purchasers. Now he points out that a young girl can do it. School's no better either: the Big Four (every year has a similar grou ...dinary – it's just a wonderful tale of how normal life turns out and about what's important in it.
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• Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
  ...ok at the way in which our manners have declined into boorishnesswill have you both thinking and laughing. Buy it for yourself or for someone else as a pr ...place. Apart from the fact that you're not a curmudgeon (old or otherwise) you will be the same, which is one of the reasons that Lynn Truss's book ''Talk
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• Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon
  ...njoyable too - there's a slight steampunk flavour but not too much and you do feel as though the world of Tellus comes to life through the pages of the b Much as I hate to say it, though, I found the other elements of the story less satisfactory. Ther
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Glenn Dakin
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: What inspired you to write the Candle Man series?'''
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• Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley
  ...of their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's run down. It's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and that's discounting the teachers. But when they ...ld you believe it, Newboy - who has the strange ability to get everyone to do exactly as he says.
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• Artemis by Andy Weir
  ...What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do. ...I was really excited when there was a new Andy Weir book, but I'm sorry to say that, for me, it didn't live up to the first book. Sorry Andy! I think he's
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• March 2010 Newsletter
  ...ail]. We won't bother you more than once a month, but we'll tell you about what we've been reading at Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never Hello! How are you? Looking forward to the Easter break? We certainly are - and if someone doe
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• Puzzled by David Astle
  |summary=Do you do the Sunday crossword in pen, or just dream of being that person? Then look ...avid Astle, the author of this new title that blows the lid on it all with what he calls ''secrets and clues from a life in words''.
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• You Are Very Special by Su Box and Susie Poole
  |title=You Are Very Special |summary=A nice book to read together about families, friendships and what makes each of us special.
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• Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...d Grace is relaxing and heartwarming, leaving you feeling better than when you began. ...se the pair have a strong difference of opinions, and yet all is not quite what it seems with their investigation, and so perhaps it is a case of neither o
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• Emily Diamand Talks To Bookbag About how scary should it be?
  ...eep out from under the covers we were fascinated to hear what Emily had to say about how scary children's fiction should be. ...s, in case I do. This is the dilemma for an author of children’s fiction – what is exciting to one child is terrifying to another. I choose a safe reading
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To H A Goodman
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...sense of their lives to ultra religious individuals who believe they know what God is thinking. Ultimately, I wrote my novel for fantasy enthusiasts and r
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• The Best Singer in the World by Ulf Nilsson and Eva Eriksson
  |summary=A lovely story about finding the courage to do something scary. Perfect for older pre-school children as well as those in ...of other people - well, that's a different matter. So when he's asked to say a few words at the end of the school concert he finds himself growing more
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Christopher Bowden about 'The Purple Shadow'
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ..., with interesting characters and settings and underlying themes that make you think. Readers are, I suspect, quite varied but with a preference for lite
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• The Right Thing: An Everyday Guide to Ethics in Business by Sally Bibb
  Bibb wastes no time in highlighting key areas of the whole ethics debate. What, exactly, does the word mean ... and why should it matter to us anyway? S ...her sorry saga. Politicians and their expenses. Criminal/greed/devious. You decide. Bibb suggests that this is another high-profile illustration of wh
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• Authors and Publishers
  If your book is self-published you'll find all that you need to know by clicking [[Promotion Packages for Self-Publishing Authors|h .... If we do cover your book please remember that if we don't like it, we'll say so.
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• The Hello Atlas by Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak
  ...He's from Africa, and he speaks Hausa. Do you? Don't worry if not, because you're about to learn. Now for the, shall we say, slightly less excellent areas. Firstly, there is a little repetition. Anas
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• The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail by Tim Moore
  ...d good brakes, that was designed for nothing more strenuous than conveying you around a campsite, not for 6,000 miles… Like I say, rather him than me. And the extremes of the trip are where you feel that, for extreme they are. At one end he rides the length of Finland
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• High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
  ...ult. But on that first day in January Stark decided that she was going to do something about it and the initial decision was that she would spend three ...s the fun in that, I though. But Stark illustrates that this is, in fact, what is happening.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Melvin Burgess
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' Melvin Burgess: I never really do. It partly depends on the book. I suppose, in the end, I try to write a boo
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• The Story of Greenriver by Holly Webb
  ...of a tragedy that needs a full stop both set off on their own journeys, in what proves ultimately to be an utterly heart-warming animal drama of wide appea ...e a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is al
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• Abc 3d by Marion Bataille
  Wow. This is an ABC book with a difference. The publisher's notes say it's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's careful, ingenio ...ld have loved this book as a child. It doesn't ''do'' anything except make you think. There's no story, no printed word, just the alphabet. And if it's no
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• Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done by Sarah Mlynowski
  ...t of town for a few months. A house with no parents, no rules. Did someone say party? ...t to move to Paris with her mum either. So April decides the best thing to do is to move in with her best friend Vi, and Vi's mum. But, Vi's mum has rece
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• Semi-Detached by Deborah Stone
  ...iend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for But what lies below the surface? Told from the points of view of the main characters
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gerry Brown About Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...s as 'male, pale and stale' but you seem to qualify on two points! How do you differentiate yourself?'''
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• Legends: Beasts and Monsters by Anthony Horowitz
  ...a large compendium of folk stories, legends and tales of classical derring-do. With the attention span of the current under-twelve, however, to be consi ..., as the five stories in this launch volume read very nicely. And they do what the author and editor would have wanted, in that they run the whole gamut o
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• I Want a Pet by Lauren Child
  |summary=If you could have any pet, what would you choose? A sheep? A bat? A boa constrictor? ...ation and come up with a shortlist of critters that might work. One by one you suggest them, and one by one your ideas are shouted down.
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• Getting To Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
  ...with a powerful message, crammed full of useful tips to help you get what you want in every arena, by negotiating realistically but effectively. ...ink we’d be better at it. This book starts with the line ''Like it or not, you are a negotiator'' and that’s the bare truth of it.
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• I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life by Ed Yong
  The world you know is a lie. There is no such thing as good or bad microbes. Sickness and ...h meeting is described briefly but much like Stephen King, Yong is able to do a lot in terms of characterisation with very few words. With a writer's ski
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• Feather and Bone by Lazlo Strangolov
  ...iking illustrations, appealing front, and intriguing back may easily tempt you to pick it up. That is perfectly understandable. The marketing department d ...p the weekly rations on which their little community survives. He tries to do well at school, even though Miss Milea, his teacher, appears constantly pan
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• Needle by Patrice Lawrence
  ...etively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... ...e, but remains a book that the Charlenes of the world will never read. But you cannot be so damnably pessimistic. They will get to see themselves in print
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Rosanne Licata
  * '''Bookbag: If you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...genders have read and responded positively to the story. I guess you could say Raj and Bjornolf have more universal appeal than I thought!
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• The Choke by Sofie Laguna
  |summary= Too intent on wringing tears out of you to do much else, this book ends up not hitting the mark. ...nt that comes when you try something everyone else loves and find out that you're really not into it. Coffee. Ice skating. A new Netflix series. Books are
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• How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
  ...lly is a no-no. But that's not to say it never happened, and that's not to say that he can't feel things for the albatross daughter he's not seen for cent ...ies he has lived through – here is a hero who could do a ''Forrest Gump'', what with his working alongside Shakespeare, and meeting F Scott Fitzgerald, Cha
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• Rice, Spice and All Things Nice by Reza Mahammad
  ...ok will be a delight. His cheeky attitude shines through in every page and you'll also get a reasonably staged introduction to cooking Indian foods right ...nut Coast'' and ''A Place in France'') then this book will be a delight to you. He's the star of the text and photographs and his cheeky, irreverent attit
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• Peekaboo 1 2 3 by Gareth Lucas
  ...s on a tandem'. At number three there are 'three gorillas in a gondola'. You're probably getting the idea by now! The crab and the mice are still runni ...the race as he floated by on an airbed, reading his newspaper. Just watch what happens to him!
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• Run Wild by Gill Lewis
  ...ound in the shadow of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them. The follow ...ous things I'll leave the potential reader to discover, but I will have to say that the manner in which everything comes to a head in unison in such pleas
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• Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin
  ...arts to question whether fairytales are fictional, or if werewolves really do exist. ...confront things she never thought she would have too. Are werewolves real? Do they really live in the forest surrounding her town? And if Ben is a werewo
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• Bread: River Cottage Handbook No 3 by Daniel Stevens
  ...to making your own bread. Say goodbye to some of the dreadful stuff that you find in the supermarkets. Highly recommended. ...wed the instructions to the letter – or so you thought – only to find that you produced a solid mass fit only for the birds and even they took it as an in
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• Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong by Elizabeth Day
  |summary=Embrace failure: yes really! It could be the way to a more content you. An easy, inspiring read. ...st to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''
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• Small Things by Mel Tregonning
  ...ons only seem set on tripping him up as much as the other kids do. Like I say, he has many little things nibbling at him – and that, in this instance, ...t rid of them, or at least stopping their attack? What is the poor lad to do?
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• Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero
  ...quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board… But that's not to say that by story number 90 the creative team were still firing on all cylinder
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• On Purpose: Delivering a Branded Customer Experience People Love by Shaun Smith and Andy Milligan
  ''Marketing is a tax you pay for being unremarkable'' ...tifiable marketing strategy. How to ensure your company portrays the image you want and how to get your staff, and customers, to buy into it.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Philip Threadneedle
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ons to him as we went.. I think he only put up with it because he used to do a bit of acting, so maybe he quite liked doing the dialogue. I should rope
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• Rules of Summer by Joanna Philbin
  ...Hamptons, reading this one just felt like a completely pointless thing to do. I started every chapter wondering if this would be the one where something ...rgan Matson]] or [[The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson]]. Books that hit you like a punch to the gut, like ''Bruised'' by Sarah Skilton, or [[Before I D
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• The Everyday Activist by Michael Norton
  ...ant to make a difference however big or small. There's all the information you'll need to enthuse yourself and to organise the sort of changes that can ma Appealingly sub-titled ''Everything you need to know to get off your backside and start to make a difference'' this
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• Craft it Up Around the World by Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong
  ...ing on a world tour and you can pick the projects to suit other activities you have planned, as a reminder of a holiday or just on a random basis. ...her than UK English and you can decide whether or not this is important to you. After some world bunting the projects are divided into four continental s
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• Allotted Time: Two Blokes, One Shed, No Idea by Robin Shelton
  ...ng, easy read and at the end of it you'll know whether an allotment is for you. ...asonable shape and grew a decent crop or two in their first year. When you say it quickly like that it sounds like a relatively simple task, but it cost b
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• Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine by Kathleen Burk and Michael Bywater
  ...of smell. Added to that a blunt sense of taste and I'm left saying I know what I like when I drink it, and that's it. ...the devil.) Why do people insist on spending silly money – I don't know, say £5 or even more – on their wine when I am happy to show my appreciation
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• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
  ...t but he doesn't know it - our narrator does, but doesn't know what it is. What he does know is that it's a terrible secret. ...start with tears and rows and end on platonic notes - the wrong way round you see. He goes to work; he's a doctor, but it's to create injuries, not cure
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• Muddle Your Way Through Being a Grandparent: How to Fool People into Thinking You're a Competent Granny or Grandpa by Paul Merrill
  ...dle Your Way Through Being a Grandparent: How to Fool People into Thinking You're a Competent Granny or Grandpa ...y=A spoof self-help book which might not solve the problems, but will make you laugh.
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• All the Hopeful Lovers by William Nicholson
  ...n particular, knows she is bumbling along in life. She's not sure what to do to make things more interesting in the sex department. A fling would proba ...continue as normal. Better the devil you know etc. But will it? And do you? The final parting shot is the lovely couple of lines from one of the wome
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• Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill
  |title=Keep You Safe ...r the 21st century, this book looks at vaccination and at who is liable if you choose not to vaccinate and then something bad happens.
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• Hidden by Emma Kavanagh
  ...certain puzzling pieces fall into place quite satisfyingly. This is not to say that there are no loose ends. I felt there were several aspects of the plot ...written book, packed with detail yet remaining a book so easy to read that you could devour it in just a few greedy gulps. Dialogue is relevant and charac
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• I Used To Know That: General Science by Marianne Taylor
  ...sciences, this is to the point and a good way to revise the science basics you really should know. ...seudo sciences'' as they were often called at school). Marketed as ''stuff you forgot from school'', this is a book from the same series that has already
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• Golden Goal (Jamie Johnson) by Dan Freedman
  ''If you like football, this book's for you! Frank Lampard'' ...s a no brainer. Happily, I like it. Your Jamie Johnsons will lap it up and you can rest assured that they will be lapping something with a genuine plot, c
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Elizabeth Speller
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' ...ls, I gather, but in fact with this book a lot of men have contacted me to say how
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• The Presentation Coach: Bare Knuckle Brilliance For Every Presenter by Graham Davies
  ...other books, says the author. This little baby (my words, not his) is all you need for your presentations: business, politics, in-house or after-dinner ...e most important presentational tool known to man isn't a slideshow. It's you.'' And I can hear him almost shouting out that last word. Chapter 1 opens
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Paul Howard
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' * '''BB: Did you spend much time in zoos or watching nature documentaries to get the look of
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Keren David
  * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?''' Keren David: I'm not sure, because I never do that. I started off writing for
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• The Bunny That Couldn't Be Found by Angela Mitchell
  ...y search high and low in the palace and the gardens but can’t seem to find what they’re looking for. ...so even though the police think they have better things to do, they still do as she says and search.
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• When Night Didn't Come by Poly Bernatene
  ...wonderful book with no words. It might take a little effort the first time you read it, but it's most definitely worth it. Poly Bernatene's illustrations ...hing about it, so the man in charge rouses a group of children and they do what they can to bring the night.
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