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|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania UnsworthKatherine Howe|title=Nowhere IslandA True Account
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveHannah Masury is living in Boston, he is so determined having been sent to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – live with a family who run an inn, and find being made to work there from a home for himselfyoung age. He When she hears there is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous carbe a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and lets it ride him to his futurewatch. That future seems to be Enthralled and horrified in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a camp on an island between young boy's death at the hands of two directions of a motorwayvicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough then to provide for their safety escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and seclusionjoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. ThemShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and a mute girl also finding a home from there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life as we would want it just would not work…on the ocean waves.|isbn=18045400800861547438
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|author=Tananarive Due|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=00085300251803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Murder in the FamilyMaybe Tomorrow|author=Cara HunterPenny Parkes
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was Jamie Matson works in December 2003 that fifteenan upper-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfatherclass grocery store, Luke Ryder, in for a man who's a control freak with all the garden subtlety of their West London homea half brick. He had an injury on the back of Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his head which could have happened if heproblems'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and itHe's now asthmatic and the subject of more you read, the more you'll suspect that he'Infamous'', a true-crime shows on the autistic spectrum. A group of experts has been brought together Sometimes Jamie needs to review take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the evidence local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to take the investigation furthergo to school. More to Missed shifts or the point, they're going need to do this live be away on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangerswrong. It's compelling viewingwas going to come to a head.
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|author=Judith EagleHarry Allen|title=The Stolen SongbirdChildren of the Sun|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Caro's mother, Ra Eun Seo lives in a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad North Korean town and she is now missinga talented singer. Her other mother, Ronnie, Life is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who hard and food is going to look after Caro? Sent difficult to stay with Gamcome by, someone Caro has heard so Seo and her mother despisesfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, she feels frustrated looking for tree bark and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment edible grasses to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting supplement the meagre rations of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, rice and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peoplekimchi at home. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=05713631481805140493
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|isbnauthor=1529195977Edel Rodriguez|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa JewellWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=54|genre=ThrillersGraphic Novels|summary=On her 45th birthdayWe're in childhood, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends and we're in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie FairCuba. SheThe revolution has happened, tooand Castro, was out celebrating her 45th birthdayfirst thought of as a saviour of the country, only she was just with her husbandhas proven himself a Communist, Walterand not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins Well, they those hours-long speeches of his were both born in St Mary's hospitalkind of taking his time away. ThatOur narrator's where family weren't in the similarities endhappiest of places here, though: Alixan uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, with her husband, Nathan, are in such as Angola) and the midst of a joyfulfather being watched and watched, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdyliked for his successful photography business, they're enjoying themselvessuccess being frowned upon. Josie, on The mother gets the couple jobs with the other hand, holds her handbag close party to her tummy and you get ease some of the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending heat, but in this much money on a meal - but sultry island country, it is Josie's birthday after all.remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720
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|genre=HorrorScience Fiction|summary=Love VL-15, a prototype robot, is love; although humans continue desperate to be confused by this sentimentunderstand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Gay conversion therapy Over half-a-century later, civilisation is ongoingstarting to rebuild. The UK government ruled out plans Dr Amelia Wong is determined to make it continue her father's legacy, building a crime world where machines and, humans can live together in the USharmony, nearly 700 000 adults have received but internal frictions and external enemies might bring itall crashing down again. Although it is both Craig Anderson, leader of a secular and group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingleprototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in his new horrorthe slightest, ''Camp Damascus''and no errant machine, peels back the skin of Christian no savage human tribe and not even Drexel''pray the gay away'' camps to show the reader the horror lurking within.s ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM
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|isbn=18031363831838954481|title=Tin SoldiersThe Misper|author=David ChadwickKate London|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of Ryan Kennedy killed a cloud. What actually happened out police officer: there is gossiped 's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and nobody is sure exactly what took place, pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but an act due to the vagaries of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and disgrace seems to be the consensusmanslaughter of the officer. Wat himself And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always doesfound on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.
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|isbn=B0C7J9D21B1035025299|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)Went to London, Took the Dog|author=A J LewisNina Stibbe|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name Nina Stibbe is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallowsreturning to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. Idyllic as this might sound, itShe's a bordello and Ettorebeen at Victoria's mother died when he was born. Hesmallholding in Leicestershire which isn's not been short of motherst all that conducive to writing, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, itas there's difficult to obtain decent employmentalways something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The stint working with other side of the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore decision was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had sealed when a successful business as room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a guide for visitors. He was even saving some moneyvery reasonable rent.
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|authorisbn=Dean KoontzB0CKD1L5JL|title=After DeathRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=34
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|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, Petr is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accidentan orphan. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuaryRescued by the strange, covered in plasticreclusive Bear, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits is brought up far from bustling cities and looks around at busy human society, in the shrouded bodies forests of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything'Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper After Bear dies and Elodie, born fifteen minutes aparta brief sojourn in human company, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magicarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent Petr goes on getting closer to power in one of a journey through the religious districts of Arkspireforest, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit broadcasting the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district hasstrange, wild and one of the five major victors in said earlier warrarely heard voices he encounters. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143
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|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes1635866243|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Meet Trixie''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Forever getting into scrapesCreating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought consistent required a young goddess great deal of nuisancetrial and error, patience, and perseverance. But just when '' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, d paid good money. The first line of the world changesinstructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches. ..'' Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a powerIt was clear that no good could come of this -out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolinstructions didn's in but the entire planet t get any better - and (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the Internet, just for our convenienceseller refused as she couldn's sake)t afford the repayment. TrixieThe pattern looked pretty, luckily, realises what has happened – but the ancient Gods creator didn't have taken the power of power from usbasic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect with her knitters. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that She should have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersread ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.|isbn=178845295X
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|author=Alexia CasaleAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile thereOscar's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day-to-day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=Friends and TraitorsLion
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|summary=EnglandWe start incredibly bluntly, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is Nancy, destined more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before herready for school. The other But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is Sidneya mahoosive male lion on their bed, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheeselooking sheepish, and if we hadnadmitting that he won't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it sobe hungry for another two days. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the Lord Evesham must be bully that ruined a rum 'unbirthday party for Oscar the other month. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecyAnd it can shapeshift, talk is made so he can take it to school and it can get him out of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedproblem. But surely And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the girls are wrongrules, and the upper class could never be so underhand?on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=17880046470008596751
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|isbn=0241996104B0BC3YTCMR|title=Coming to Find YouGood Girls Die|author=Jane CorryAyura Ayira
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Nancy's mother 'This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and stepsuffered from vitiligo -father people were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and afraid to hug her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murderin case it's contagious. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives It's not easy being a life sentenceblack girl whose skin is 84% white. The barrister tells She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her that . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she's received a 'silent sentence' - would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she's not been found guilty of anything but will have gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to live with what happened for the rest of his house and he raped her life. Of courseIn shock, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from even allowed him to give her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokena lift home.
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|isbnauthor=1529413680V Castro|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief The Haunting of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerAlejandra|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeHorror|summary=One ''This was a part of her past that had to stop with her. She would be the main events of the Sarlat tourist season one to confront this.'' At some point during her life, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if she is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English playing parts for others in 1370 her life – her husband and Bruno's there her children – without ever giving any thought to see the show with some friendsher own desires, her own future, her own identity. It's all been very carefully choreographed but Day by day she goes badly through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. LuckilyFor invisible to all but Alejandra, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopterdarkness threatening to consume her. A local doctor (More and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's more she is visited by a senior government employeeghost, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped a weeping woman in. One daughter lives nearby and anothera fraying white gown dripping with water, who lives leaves distress in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaywake.|isbn=1803365617
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|genre=Historical FictionHorror|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a setting for historical fiction (matched onlycouple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and the other is undead, perhapsand so one of them kills the living, by and the Second World Warother kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There They's such re on a glut of media set job in the era New York that goes badly, and so they head out to the hallmarks we've come West coast to try to associate with it are familiar lay low for a while and find some other work to the point of being cliched, hackneyed evenkeep them going. All this is simply But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to illustrate kill the 'something' that it would appears to be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite thathaunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, something about it still grabs me – and something about this booka terrifyingly powerful creature that they's description did as well.ve never come across before!|isbn=19145855261803363894
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|author=Andrew CartmelHelen Cooper|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionOnce again, and in particular a series called Sleuth Houndmice are pitched against cat. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitIn this case, sometimes 'tweaking' themprincipally, to add valuewe have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers case you're seeing a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the background names used here seem to be the names of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wallcheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and how she can steal makes stories based on the visuals on it! . And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's a next-level step almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in her petty crime careerthe mouse community, but has she reached too farthough, and what as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will happen when the owner of story have the collection comes looking for their bookssuccessful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=17890989470571376010
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|isbn=1529507987B0CDZRGT1M|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Mark C Wallfisch
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionShort Stories|summary=I love ''The Repair ShopGot a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered upNone is more than 300 words. After You can read one in a hard day, thereflash.'''s nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthSome are funny. Some are poignant. All are short. You see, the value '' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in what these possessions are worth fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the people who own flash fictions in a book of them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers ? I don't know the experts and they! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn're all brilliant at explaining what it is theyt a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That're doings about a single page in your average paperback. But how did they start?
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|authorisbn=Nicole Jarvis1732898766|title=A Portrait in ShadowThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they''I want all re running for their lives in the Forest of Florence to know my nameFine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a t try this at home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate: it won't end well. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia) Fortunately, the selfthey were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly -proclaimed guardians and when a ladder of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues moss and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture vines was lowered for centuries and guard it above all elsethem, they escaped. To them They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble Nester Nook and change – has no place amongst them and their societyGranny Cranny.|isbn=1803362340
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|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH1472263936|title=The Grave ListenersFigurine|author=William FrankVictoria Hislop|rating=45
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|summary=The village is isolated It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and poor. ItHamish (Helena's surrounded by parents) felt that it would be a Witching Forestpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. And Her trip to the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants family apartment in up- its bread-like fruit provides nutrition market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmthfamily's maid, roofs on homesDina, but was wary - and even gallowsfrightened - of her grandfather, if neededretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. The fear He was proud of being buried alive is an existential superstition in his close connections to the village Junta and that is the expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason Volushka, a drunken, selfto accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes -indulgent, lazy lout of a man is toleratedinherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.
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|isbnauthor=024162343XCody Goodfellow|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam SangheraVertical|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at schoolThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of Who doesn't love a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessonsgood view from up high, it was probably worse still. Not too long after all? Even the end of WWII, drabbest office building is somewhere I didn't so much want m intrigued to learn about the British armyget inside if it's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place40 stories tall. Looking back, So when I still believe picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991
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|author=Amanda CraigHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Three GracesFinding Bear
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the state-of-domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from theislands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-nation novely things has been shot and wounded. There Desperate to make sure he's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of OK, she and her father return to the atmosphere Arctic and hope that in a world of the day very white and capture itvery dangerous things, crafting an image of she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the country colt - as it stands in one particular momentyet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be embarrassingly inadequate: shean understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's practically synonymous with Mitchell were well-known and respected in the genre racing industry. Jennings was in one of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of cubicles in the day into toilets when the lives of her characters two men came in a way and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that feels natural and lived-they had insurance inplace. The following morning, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesthe horse was dead in its stall.|isbn= 140871468X
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|isbnauthor=1448309379Sarah Wilson|title=Flesh This One Wild and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkPrecious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=ItMy favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks 's something of a surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when What is it you're thinking that you're actually on a break plan to do with your wife one wild and children, but precious life?'' I get to love thatline so much because my answer is 's what happened 'This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to DS Aector McAvoy. Whilst he was relieved to find that he was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish PharoahSarah Wilson is equally lucky. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the partially clad man whosource) she pushes us to think about whether we really 'd dashed from her flat in 'are'' living the early hours of life we want – the morning when it was obvious best life that someone was tampering with her carwe could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, was we are not''. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's doppelganger - and effing furious about the fact that we are not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.|isbn=1785633848
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|isbn=09571811671839948493|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk A World of Brian LewisDogs|author=Alan MarshallCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timesucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - 've never met one I didn't trust and was completely taken by the work I've loved most of Brian Lewisthem. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and the print devour. Then I wanted was ‘not available’'m going to go back and read it properly. OhAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', dear with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four- then a few doors down from legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack accidental owner of brand new books an American Dingo - and she's learned quite a framed print of the picture I wantedlot about dogs since then.
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|authorisbn=Simon Fox1405951680|title=DeadlockThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the forceJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, and then suddenly rings Archieactually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, demanding he fetch something from Rupert) to caretake a secret place, and join him on luxury property in the runAustralian outback for a couple of months. They get together, but barely begin to smell After the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrestedproblems she'd had at work, leaving Archie on it seemed like just the late express to Brighton, toting break she needed. She was no longer a tin his father data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was determined Jess who was returning to keep away from his colleagues, the country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the bearer traumatic end of a whole heap of questionsher relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|isbn=1839944420
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|author=Shalini BolandRachel Harrison|title=The Silent BrideBad Dolls|rating=34|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has It's been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-materialsome time since I've read any horror. She is all he could possibly want in I had a wife; beautifulcouple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, successful, confident… borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and so scaring myself half silly with them to the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the wedding is planned and set. vampires outside! When the muchDon't worry -anticipated day arrivesthis short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, Alice and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is walked down the aisle by her fathercreepy, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys I found most of that feeling came from the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and when Seth turns to face his approaching bridethat at least in part, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar ishorrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, who is waiting for her going to become his wifea hen party and a coping with grief.|isbn=16625070891803363932
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|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1394159544|title=Keep Her SecretRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Matthew ''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd 2 years after they first metto decompose. The alienA glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breathpost-taking WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she recycling is feeling part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in this moment, even handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if it kills her… which it nearly does when you can cobble together something that would serve the edge of a ravine gives way purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and Helena finds herself clinging to any purchase must pass the rockface with just the snagged strap test of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. 'Is this absolutely essential?' Convinced she is going to dieOn the other hand, Helena I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must purge herself of be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewkerbside bin. Just moments later their heroicYes, I could go searching on the internet - and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering get conflicting advice - but what he just learned about HelenaI needed was a recycling bible.|isbn=166250893Xs
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|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTLauren St John|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneFinding Wonder
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Roo''Bill s life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and Amanda are living now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a semi-detached houselottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointmentshe can only name her aunt, when Terry and Fiona – glamorousJoni, successful and who she knows her dad didn't think very much in love – move in next doorhighly of. Despite their different outlooks on life But she has no one else, the couples befriend each other and life appears so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to improve get worse for both pairs. But all is not what it seemsRoo, as when she and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169
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|isbn=17876360031448309743|title=The Girls of SummerDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Katie BishopCaro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen Devil Stone: myth says that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on if the islandstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent The only suspects are known Satanists but she wasin many ways, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take that's an interest in her, she was flattered rather than waryeasy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. It was quite a while before The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he made any sort of physical approach disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to her and by that time she was obsessed by 'shadow' him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.
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