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• Precious by Sapphire
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• Alexander McCall Smith's The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series in Chronological Order
  ...911742X|title=In the Company of Cheerful Ladies}} (also known as The Night-Time Dancer) 2009 {{amazonurl|isbn=034911997X|title=Tea Time for the Traditionally Built}}
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• Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion : A New Case for Precious Ramotswe by Alexander McCall Smith
  |title=Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion : A New Case for Precious Ramotswe ...AMS' children's stories about his No.1 Ladies Detective Agency character, Precious Ramotswe, when she is a child. So I was looking forward to this one about
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• Precious and the Zebra Necklace by Alexander McCall Smith
  |title=Precious and the Zebra Necklace ...recious is asked to look after her and make sure she settles into school. Precious, already a budding detective at such a young age, soon sniffs out that ther
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• It's Not Yours, It's Mine! by Susanna Moores
  ...A charming debut picture book in which a small rabbit learns about sharing precious possessions. ...definitely not for sharing. This ball belongs to Blieka and no-one else! Time passes and the lovely red ball is not quite so lovely anymore. Blieka needs
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• Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith
  |title=Precious and Grace ...e cup of tea after a stressful morning at work, starting a new story about Precious and Grace is relaxing and heartwarming, leaving you feeling better than whe
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• Akimbo Adventures by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...stival, and I read pretty much everything he writes as he writes it! This time it’s a children’s book, with three stories in one volume all about a b ...McCall Smith|Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion : A New Case for Precious Ramotswe]]. We think you'll also enjoy [[The Sands of Shark Island by Ale
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• Category:S J Hardman Lea
  ...s that are entertaining and provide insight into the authentic mood of the time. ...and well-written story, convincing and sympathetic characters, and – most precious of all - it gives readers an utterly convincing immersion in a world long g
  1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:06, 30 January 2017
• Share! by Anthea Simmons and Georgie Birkett
  ...older sister learning to share everything, from favourite blankets to tea-time food with her baby brother. ...an to feel uncomfortable, since every time the older girl shared something precious to her it ended up wrecked, which didn't seem to be sending a very positive
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• The Desert of Souls (The Chronicle of Sword and Sand) by Howard Andrew Jones
  ...iph's vizier realises that it has magical qualities that make it even more precious than it appears and isn't too well pleased. He gives Dabir a chance to red ...of my favourite books as a child and now Howard takes us back there. This time we aren't following the exploits of its central character, the Caliph Harun
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• What to Give the Parents of a Newborn with a Limited Budget
  ...the innocence and charm of a newborn, evoking nostalgia and emotion every time it's viewed. ...ical and much-appreciated gift. It not only helps the family during a busy time but also shows your willingness to lend a hand.
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• The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...nd I always look forward to seeing what is happening in their lives. This time around the story is about holidays, amongst other things, and the tricky pl ...ey appear to be no trouble whatsoever! Indeed, she manages to have a full time job with no worries about after school childcare or the making of packed lu
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• Dark Thread by Pauline Chandler
  |summary=Short but sweet time-slip story that deals both with the grief at losing a parent and the terrib ...thy - and Kate collapses. She wakes, still at the mill, but in a long-past time. Here, Kate must learn to weave the dark threads of her life into its overa
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• A Hard Death by Jonathan Hayes
  |summary= This is a fast-paced thriller by the author of ''Precious Blood''. Tension and action go hand-in-hand on almost every page. I haven't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on the i
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• Wild and Precious Life by Deborah Ziegler
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• Blood Precious by Sara Banerji
  |title=Blood Precious I can't remember the last time a book made me chortle quite so often. Lady Cunningham Smythe is a cantanke
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• Reviews, Time and Filthy Lucre
  |title=Reviews, Time and Filthy Lucre ...o we just cannot afford to get caught up on side issues like this. Time is precious.
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• Precious Babies: Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting after Infertility by Kate Brian
  |title=Precious Babies: Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting after Infertility ...s always the very helpful sense that it's different for every woman, every time, and there are no invalid feelings to have, and having had children herself
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• Ida B by Katherine Hannigan
  ...o the saccharine though and adults may find the central character a little precious. ...great deal of freedom and often left to her own devices, Ida B spends her time with Rufus the dog and Lulu the cat. She talks to the trees and they talk r
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• The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...le woman - "Hey fat lady, what are you doing sitting beneath that tree?" - Precious Ramotswe has much experience in life, a keen intelligence and an irrepressi ...a fair amount of meandering along the way. I imagine this was deliberate; Precious Ramotswe is not a woman in a hurry, just as Africa, in McCall's vision, sho
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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
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• 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.
  1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:42, 5 October 2017
• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening by Pamela Farley
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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
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• 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
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• 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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• Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay
  ...a mountain tribe in the Philippine jungle meeting Americans for the first time. Candy Gourlay never lets us down and this is a fine piece of gripping hist ...from other tribes, from the Americans, and perhaps even from the march of time itself...
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• The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
  ...ng friendship, but more importantly they trust each other. And trust is a precious commodity in this weird and wonderful place called Evesden. And as a body ...''Centuries, it feels like ... Civilizations have risen and fallen in the time I've been dry ...''
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• Walking to the Moon by Kate Cole-Adams
  ...alone.'' And indeed time is not important in this novel. We have all the time in the world would probably be the motto of the medical staff - if they had ...of both. As if her body has suddenly 'crashed' like a computer. All the precious information has not been saved. Most of it has been deleted.
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• I'll Meet You In Heaven by Jill Thrussell
  ...l returned to her first love - writing. Since then she's made up for lost time, having been prolific in the fields of novels and film scripts in between m ...rbs, it's a spoiler for practically the entire novella. Instead, waste no time; dive straight into the first chapter.
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• Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman
  ...e, James Kelman's latest is another dramatic monologue, although the first time he has placed a female as his main character. Helen is a single mother, wor ...re are precious few times when all three are in the same place at the same time. In particular, I'd loved to have seen more about the relationship between
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• Tracer by Rob Boffard
  ...he common link to both Earth and New Earth being destroyed? Perhaps it is time someone did something about these pesky humans who ruin everything. ...r, these are the unofficial couriers of New Earth, their job is to deliver precious packages across the three miles or so of the space station without being ki
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• My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster
  ...t it soon becomes clear that only one very special house can earn the most precious title: HOME. ...struggles with the two options before her: to leave her home for the last time and spend her final days in a hospice, or die peacefully at home, changing
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• Impostor (Variants) by Susanne Winnacker
  ...ter. But she loves being accepted as part of a loving family for the first time in her life. But she can't forget the danger she is in. Or her feelings for ...n't sure of the murderer's identity right up until the reveal. But by that time I was so fed up with the lack of originality and the useless Tess that I re
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• Zelah Green: One More Little Problem by Vanessa Curtis
  I loved Zelah first time around and I loved her again in this second story about her. Curtis has a t ...s fragility and Dad's flakiness. And Fran's snobby mother doesn't want her precious daughter associating with a "weirdo". Ultimately, it's down to vulnerable Z
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• Edward's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
  ...tory of love and loss. Some things you just can't hold onto, no matter how precious they are. And sometimes life brings you pain so sharp that you don't think ...[[:Category:Nina Bawden|Nina Bawden]], which also approaches grief - this time for an animal.
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