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|author=Paul B Preciado
|title=Dysphoria Mundi
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''
Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica'Read [[Forthcoming Publications'. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn=1804271454}}{{Frontpage|author=Samantha Harvey|title=Orbital|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|reviews summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of books about a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to be published]]see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->}}
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|isbn=1786495902295967572X|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindPale Pieces|author=Isabel HardmanG M Stevens
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|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not Our unnamed narrator is about to share. She says that begin a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelieftrain journey with his companion Django. Hardman dealt with this at the time by Where they'keeping re going': and what the next day she went to work to cover the budgetpurpose of this journey is, next there was is uncertain. Django found the EU referendum, tickets ''on the political party leadership contests floor somewhere'' and then it was party conference seasonhas persuaded our narrator to accompany him. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin longWhy not? Not much else is clear either -term sick leave. That was what brought me but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to this book: 2020 was the year when station by coach and the bins went out more often than I didtrain is a steam locomotive.
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez0008551324|title=The Ghost GardenDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Fran, the gardenerIt's daughter at a posh country house, is worriedunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. SheNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's just cracked her garden fork through quite prepared to tell the police where the body of a grim discovery - a large bone, missing person is buried under the potatoesand who was responsible for her death. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with LeoThis person, the older child of the househe promises, breaking his leg while playing cricket on is someone big and it will be worth the lawnpolice doing what he wants. She And what he wants is due to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprisean early parole date. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason Not much to be out of her mind with fearask, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. it? But surely that wonThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't act as a premonition think so and she's even prepared to anything do the other thing that Hardie demanded - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbnauthor=reed3|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (3rd Editiontranslator)|authortitle=James ReedVaim|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary=Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of WorkAll was strange'' ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to permeates this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly story set in the meantime. I'm no longer working Vaim, a fictional fishing village in middle-management having opted Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to Jatgeir and Eline, two of the first point made protagonists caught in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to haveits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1035043092|title= The CaptiveKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows I can't have been the cageonly person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, intimatelyBook 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It lurks in 's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the corner daughter of her eyehis former partner. Soon Willow's also his boss, it will and she ''should'' be occupiedon maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisTower
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When Leo Curtis found ''How unctuous are the house fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in The Circleour bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a gated communitysecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, Alice Dawson was the daughter of a wealthy family in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a reasonable price that Alice wouldntower, captures T's imagination. Annie't have s fate is, above all, an enticing story to sell her cottage T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in Harlestone a quest for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired truth and knowledge, and in service of their long-distance relationshipmyth, fable and fantasy. Now they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.|isbn=1804271799
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|isbnauthor=1406395404Claire-Louise Bennett|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep SuperBig Kiss, Bye-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganBye |rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=2020 has been Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots symbol of our routines have been completely dismantled intimacy and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problemscloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant (When the narrator cries out internally, 'who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) come over here and others will worry unnecessarily. Most peoplekiss me, from children '' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of sleep this plea is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too longXavier, her ex-partner, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made ghost she conjures to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CVtest her detachment.|isbn=1804271934
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|isbn=000820831X0008405026|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Stuart MacBrideJane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=At It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is slowly eroding into the seainvestigation ground to a halt. Storm Trevor speeds up the processNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. A ship - Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on positioning of the rocks bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house to see what's happeningher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Margaret runs after her son and What looked as she grabs him though it was going to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newlybe an open-exposed cliff front and sees human bones-shut case is now a complex double murder. Gordon Smith's home Kerrigan is falling into the North Sea and convinced that the evidence of what heexplanation lies in Rosalie's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab disappearance: others (such as he later escapes the tumbling ruinDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=B08BC4D58S|title=Winterkill Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (Dark Icelandtranslator)|authortitle=Ragnar JonassonThe Other Girl
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Ari Thor Arason ''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the police inspector most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in Siglufjordur and hedirect address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's still living sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin France, and son Stefnir 2 years before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herthe author was even born. They were supposed The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelled. Itan imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's now the Thursday process of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive reckoning with this giant absence in Siglufjordur her life, an absence that afternoon. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping she has always felt but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townoften denied.|isbn=1804271845
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{{FrontpageinterviewFrontpage|isbnauthor=3110641291Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|authortitle=Olga Kokshagina Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Allen AlexanderAndreyev|summaryrating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Sue was so impressed by [[The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or GameBiographies are often seen as the form of life-Changing Breakthroughs by Olga Kokshagina writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and Allen Alexander]] less personal. I think that she wished that she had Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a good business idea vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of her own so that she could use his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book. Perhaps , Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that was : ''you write not of real life as it is, but of what she was talking about when Olga and Allen popped into Bookbag Towers you yourself imagine it to chat be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving usaccess to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977
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|authorisbn=Rob Winters1529077745|title=His Name Was WrenThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In September 1944 something came down A man walking his dog in Oban Woods, near the village early morning discovered the body of Hurstwicka man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. It came down hard, taking the spire The dead man was Josh - one of the village church with it, destroying care workers who was due to work a stone shack, shift the night before but who had never turned up. and leaving a wide trail through D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the wood, murder - but no trace her only clue is the disappearance of one of what it actually wasthe residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. German secret weapon Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the local gossip, death but there should have been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those thingsVera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB
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|authorisbn=Stephen ClarkeB0FK5LHKD9|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeColour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is It's been three years since we last reviewed a spoof spy storybook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, that isnso we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemmings stories, who dresses well and there'likes s a mystery at the ladiesheart of ' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side 'The Colour of things more than the active serviceMoney''. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded We like this running theme in Normandy, with Margaux on an author's work - take a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, mystery but give it different flavour and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855atmosphere each time.
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|isbnauthor=3110706075Olga Tokarczuk|title=Making House of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the good of a Difference: Leadershipworld that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, Change and Giving Back House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the Independent Director Waysmall, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Gerry BrownDai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do',''You He're s not there to run been entirely up front about the organisationstate of their savings. You are there When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make sure that it convinces him that this is run properlya miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.''5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other!
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Sally Rooney|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction |summary=Isabel Hardman suffered Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a trauma which she chooses not to sharegrandmaster at putting it into words. She says that a friendHer dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, who does know, burst as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': story, the next day she went to work central one for readers to cover unravel is the budgetfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, next there was the EU referendumcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasona successful lawyer living in Dublin. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin Following their father's passing after a long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was battle with cancer, the year when the bins went out more often than I didbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469
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|isbn=30305130251036916375|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to doJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisPeter McArdle|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Independent Director: ''Just a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial TimesLiverpool Lad '') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member collection of memories and reflections from the board years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship sea-going family, with the companydocks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, (2) is not part to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the companyblitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's executive team, early years. I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and (3) is not involved with could appear after the day-toall-day operations of the companyclear was sounded. (Corporate Finance Institute)}}
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|isbn=B002SQCYWQ1836285493|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Anthony TrollopeRob Keeley
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and Sensibilitya supportive friend. But most of all, Pride and Prejudicehe is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Mansfield Marlowe Park, Emmaand one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles has suggested to Will and they were in my inbox in his mum that he spends a matter couple of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onafternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.
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|isbn=00082144681009473085|title=A Time to LieThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Simon BerthonAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=A workman has Sometimes it's simpler to explain a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building sitebook by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. ItIf you's wrapped in part of re looking for an old shower curtain and is a handeasy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, severed above then this isn't the wristbook for you. ItIf that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's been there book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for about twenty-five to thirty-five those tumultuous years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. HeIt's married a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bellapolitics. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants 'The Conservative Effect''a government that is not just practically good, but morally goodan entirely different beast.'' One of the ways heIt's planning on going about the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesas the most important. Henry MorlandThis book follows the well-Cross, established format: a series of experts from various fields review the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor state of the Exchequernation when the coalition took over in 2010, wishes the changes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been occurred and the situation in agreement2024.
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|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDJenny Valentine|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey Us in the Before and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenAfter
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|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=Yes - Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than thateven, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's over eighty-one hours of listening for contact details at the purchase of one audio booktime. All six major novels But then chance brings them back together, and they are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they're presented in the order in which they were publishedmust work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=02414535851787333175|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Anne BodenBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=Business and FinancePopular Science|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish BankNHS, humour and autobiography. AIB was in ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the throes of recovering same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one work of the first to realise that banks needed to do things differentlya psychiatrist. AIB thought I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via situation rather than a terminal. Boden took things a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundantperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Lauren MartinMariana Enriquez|title=The Book of MoodsA Sunny Place for Shady People
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleShort Stories|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of this bookdisused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll overcrowded homeless shelter and a sigh, through clenched teethcrime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. I had spent the best part The circumstances of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to, but her characters are so plausible that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all came to supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book moresimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=15387336251803511230
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|authorisbn=Becky Albertalli1529934753|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has For a close group of friendslittle while, a loving familyit looked as though Sir Max Bruce, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: hethe country's gaymost famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Only Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one person knows thisof whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, and you tend to do things like that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out , but it was fortunate that there was another closeted guy a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at his school. Their emails are the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a safe space for Simon; itchair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''s his own private universe without Stop the fear War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of being judged'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. Until one day, these emails fall into the wrong hands The can had been laced with cyanide, and everything Simon knows is turned upside downSir Max Bruce was dead.|isbn=014135609X
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|isbnauthor=3110641119Ariel Saramandi|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value Portrait of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angravean Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read In this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the book sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and acting on the contents. You're going slavery to learn expose how to run a workshop to discover what it feels like to be these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one of your own customers. At this point, please donstage as 't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshoprotting' because this is going to be fun and you're going to be surprised , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by what emergesthe malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616
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|isbnauthor=3110641291Pekka Harju-Autti|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina LoveVortex and Allen Alexanderthe Drakor's Curse|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceFantasy|summary=SoIt's the eighteenth century, why bother? Every a time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form of discovery and quite a bit of money spentBritain is expanding its foreign trade. Why not just leave it as it is? After allCaptain Julius Hawthorne, it's ''roughly'' workingan experienced Scottish sea captain, isn't it? You might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able is sent to make - the optimisation of your core business Andaman Islands in his endeavour. Along with cost efficiencies wherever possiblehis son, Peter, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''. It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by their cat, Michi, they set off on a competitor who takes a more radical approachperilous voyage to these faraway lands. You've merely kept the business ticking over The islands are beautiful and there's a nagging suspicion stunning in their scenery and the back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need islanders' leader, Aarav, is innovation - ''radical'' innovationkeen to establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3
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|isbnauthor=1472962044Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew HampshireLili is Crying
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|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary=I was once told that 'technology' First published in 1953 in French, this novel is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's been a lot timeless text which wrenches the hearts of technology in my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times - thankfully - have moved its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on. Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesn't have the time to keep up with constant innovation page and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expectedpositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. It's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have Like the knowledge lives of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need helpher characters, but they frequently don't know what help they needare often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|author=Mark LinganeTom Percival|title=Note The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to Self: An Educationthe Luminous Deep|rating=45
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in There are few greater joys than a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back book which lives up to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect a compelling premise. And this is one of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsthem. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS0356522776}}
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|isbn=18387700461786482126|title=Body LanguageThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=A K TurnerElly Griffiths
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|genre=Crime
|summary=TwentyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five'luxury' apartments -year-old Cassie Raven is when they discovered the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the deadbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, she also hears what they have to say to herDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's not something difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she's inclined to share is pregnant with people his child as she's pretty certain about what their reaction a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be. She's certainly obvious before long, not going least because Ruth is prone to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer sudden bouts of a genuine Barbour jacket sickness.}}{{Frontpage|author=Guadalupe Nettel and old HarrovianRosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Accidentals|rating=4. He's very conscious 5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of his position the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and isn't even inclined to ask for the view charming in its gentle portrayal of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him nature and human relationships. Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and he has only precisely, her stories structured by a limited amount of time wisdom that appears to spend on each body. That will prove want to be a mistaketeach us something about the world.|isbn=1804271470
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|isbn=05787617180008551375|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Nancy CarverNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=The church Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in a Scottish mountain, seemingly the City result of London from at least 1181a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when it was first mentioned in recordsshe posted her intentions on Facebook. Sadly, the original church Her friends were relieved as she was destroyed in the Great Fire just out of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War IIan unpleasant relationship, when but it looked like she was again ruined by bombs during the Blitzliving her best life now. But Then it emerged that wasn't five other women had died in similar circumstances in the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effortlast year. All were experienced climbers, the stones from the church's walls properly equipped for what they were transported to Fulton, Missouridoing and sensible people. There, in the grounds None of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as 'what a memorial stupid thing to Winston Churchilldo' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.
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