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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage |authorisbn=Sally Oliver 152919640X|title=The Weight of Loss Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4 .5|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sisterThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, she awakes to find strangeJessica Holby, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size was murdered live on television and volumeit seems that there's only one suspect. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an experimental new treatment centre EpiPen in Walescase of emergencies. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and the other patients at Nede: Brooks served a metamorphosis of a kindragout to Holby. As Marianne's memories threaten Her EpiPen was nowhere to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory be found and pain—but only at a terrible price: she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that of identity itselfthis was no accident.|isbn= 086154112X
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|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Kjell Ola Dahl Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and Don Bartlett (translator)splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Little DrummerWild East|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesWritten in verse, this crime is Ronny's story is , a mixture of police procedural young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and thrillerstart at a mostly white school. Beginning with the death of The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a young woman tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a carparknew town, that looks very much like an overdosea new school, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation and keep himself out of murder, fraudtrouble. He listens to music constantly, and international pharmaceutical dealingshas always dreamed of being a rapper. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich But now, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led this new school, his teacher encourages him to Africa as they follow the twists and turns be part of the investigation. Gunnarstranda a poetry writing workshop group and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstancesslowly, trying hard Ronny begins to uncover see the truth as they are sure that something much biggerconnections between rap and poetry, and much more dangerous, is going onthe power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=19145851270241645441
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|isbn=00085414771635866847|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!The Lavender Companion|author=Lauren ChildJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It was Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a hot summer day right at the beginning ball of the summer holidays happy positivity, he understands children, and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except he writes for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasionstheir pleasure and enjoyment, which is hardly evernot to lecture or hector.''
There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because heThe ''Childish Spirits's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricketseries is one of his greatest achievements. ThereIt's also Marciea sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who's main claim to fame seems to be that she steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read in cope with anything the airing cupboard. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to spirit world throws at her, rather than wanting to talkand Edward, but a spoiled lordling and the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=0711266204Jenny Valentine|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield Us in the Before and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)After
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit Elk and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the groundMab are best friends, or more than that even, which pop to the feeders for their friendship is a quick snatch of some food and who settles once in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablelifetime connection. It would have been wonderful if, They meet as children one day on a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birdstrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. So – what is it?But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1737030942Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker BittickDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre= AnthologiesConfident Readers|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''Meet Kit. I first encountered Like most of the people in his writing about a year agoworld, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a rollicking tale team of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right nowwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, I didn't want a fullcentury-length novelold, magical mazes, so I turned and race to this anthology of verse the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and short storiesthe points they grant you along the way. BittickUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's writing seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has matured - been retired, eaten, and so have a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his charactersworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Well... most of them!What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|author=Caryl Lewis Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and George ErmosI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=SeedLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeI 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}}, and they both might be thought a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotmentthe NHS, humour and manages autobiography. ''You Don't Have to stink be Mad...'' promised the entire town out same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it when he douses was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it in fish guts each spring is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to fertilise his vegetablesIntroduce Myself|rating=4. His 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother somehow combines the dual roles Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of housebound failure Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and hoarder – while she seems is slowly trying to do nothing regain her confidence and hasn't left the building in years she has still managed to fill it get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the brim with junkcontent about her. What Marty's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to from how poor Marty always looksstart her PhD, with his one school uniform built undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from lost propertythem for doing so. We see him as once again Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the council threaten new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and him with eviction, perhaps herself and as he celebrates his birthday her relationship with her father at the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seed.same time?|isbn=15290776640861546873
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|author=Sophie CameronDavid Chadwick|title=Our Sister, AgainHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....
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|author=Tom Percival
|title=The Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After IslaWill's older sister Flora dieslife is difficult, her family struggle to find in a way forwardmultitude of ways. In particular 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, Islaand his dad can's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter got work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. When Isla passes her Throw into that mix the fact that his mumand dad are separated, and Will's details onto life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a support group she finds onlinetiny amount of hope. He is good at art, she thinks they might be able and clings to help. But actuallythe moments of joy when he is drawing, it turns out they are part that feel like a light at the end of an experimental company who offer a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the family the chance Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to have Flora back again, in robot forma compelling premise. But And this won't just be is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a look-Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a-like. They use all little uncertainty about the future of Flora's online historyhis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and interviews with family and friendsher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and through relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916burner.
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|isbn=13985075041786482126|title=Cold ReckoningThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Russ ThomasElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the last sixteen years hesite was going to hold seventy-five 's been searching for evidence to prove that heluxury's right. When apartments - when they discovered the bones of a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to child beneath a cold case from 2002doorway. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DI Richard TylerDCI Harry Nelson. It's death difficult as Ruth knows, but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's child as a growing sense that the criminality result of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openone night they spent together some three months ago. Perhaps Tyler Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going prone to get the answers he needs?sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=07278505470008551324|title=Blind Justice The Devil You Know (DS McAvoy 10D S Max Craigie)|author=David MarkNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time s unusual for breakfast when anyone from the call came throughHardie family to approach the police. A body had been found Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the roots police where the body of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. When This person, he gets to the scenepromises, he is someone big and it will find be worth the police doing what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedwants. A young man's corpse And what he wants is entangled with to be transferred to an open prison to serve the roots remainder of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – his sentence and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesto get an early parole date. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. Not much to ask, is it? McAvoy makes a promise The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and this time the cost might be to McAvoyanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's own familyhappening.
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|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire0008405026|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Early comments on this debut novel It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delighther bed one summer night. I will agree with She was never found and the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'investigation ground to a delight' is perhaps using the expression halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a way Istraightforward murder/suicide but there'm not familiar withs something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. I have What looked as though it was going to confess my ignorance of the Spanishbe an open-and-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereshut case is now a complex double murder. From Kerrigan is convinced that the little I have read explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (in translationsuch as Derwent's boss, I don't read SpanishUna Burt) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismare less convinced. |isbn=0861541901
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|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0571379877|title= Rebel SkiesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Edward Jevons is a servant on the Midoriworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink Robert and make merry between their conquestsStanza. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – Robert's a power sought after all across the Empiretheatre director. He asks her 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to come with run errands for him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she . Edward has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say been in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, love with Stanza since their university days - and she is forced he's drunkenly confided how he feels to flee out into the worldRobert. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a sky-ship whose express purpose relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to hunt down shikigami, and stumble upon the two of them kissing in a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590dark passageway.
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|author=Patrice LawrenceJo Callaghan|title=NeedleLeave No Trace|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Brave. Charlene, When a man is found crucified on the 'heroine' top of this piece is extremely hard for some people a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to likethe case alongside her sidekick, characters and readers boththe AI detective Lock. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheIt's fostering their first live case together, having previously been very successful with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uniseveral cold cases. Such But when there is a tempestuous personality may be in need of second body found crucified a comfort blanketfew days later, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene Kat is suddenly struggling with a wonder knitter, potential serial killer and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with very high profile case that draws a store detective, and then force people lot of unwanted attention to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignoranttheir AI Future Policing project. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me Will they be able to saysolve the case in time, only to remark how sharp or will Kat find herself taken off the case and pointy those knitting needles can be..., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1800901011139851120X
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|isbn=14059409801399613073|title=The BirdcageMoral Injuries|author=Eve ChaseChristie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the 7th first day of January 2019 medical school and we know that their friendship would keep them inseparable for a body has been pulled out quarter of the sea at Zennor in Cornwalla century. We don't know whose body it Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which isa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat Laura is a perfectionist and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at a trauma doctor. Anjali is the request free spirit of their father, Charlie Finch, the group and she becomes a famous artistGP. The girls are actually ''half'When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-sisters fuelled party and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeit's going to end in tragedy. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelityWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty Twenty-five years ago, at later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisterstheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=17876349060241636604|title=No Less the DevilThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Stuart MacBrideGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. One is Allegra (weFreya'll soon learn that shes former mentor and Carole's Allegra Dean-Edwards) close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Hugothe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to keep him warm (the village: Arthur, she often does this for homeless peoplefeels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingloved. It won't be long before After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the police realise that Malcolm love of her life, who was one of their own: not many other people are going to murdered) and Freya and James have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsnow divorced.
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|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=ElektraAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story Opening up new ways of three women who live in thinking about the heavily male-dominated world shape of Ancient Greecethings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Cassandra Well, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the story feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of the Trojan Warit is - frankly - quite frightening. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often Of course, I could research the silent women have possibilities and the most compelling stories probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the most extreme furieslatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1472273915
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|isbnauthor=1529149800Sunny Singh|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Home and FamilyThrillers |summary=We begin with The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a telling storyterrorist group. All Hiding from the birds terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and animals fled when Abhi, the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could dohotel manager. The tiny hummingbird flew As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the river residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and began taking tiny amounts keeps on venturing out of water and flying back her room to try to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: capture what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbirds happened through her photography. And that, really, is the Although they only way that we will solve ever talk over the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we canphone, however small that might their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will berescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=17765743381529153298|title=Leilong's Too Long!The List of Suspicious Things|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Every morning LeilongIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, the brontosaurus school bushonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesthough. Women have been disappearing. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his necksound quite so frightening. ItMiv's perfect, isnupset because she't it? What could be a more fun way of going s overheard that her father wants to school? move the family 'Down South'. There When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a problemfrightening, thoughforeign place, best avoided. Leilong isn't happy in For Miv, the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and – because heshe's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending ll do anything to and traffic regularly gets snarled upprevent that. The school decides She's not worried about the dangers or that he canher Mum't be the bus anymores stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=303091657X1398524085|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and ensure that they her daughter, Etty. are wellall worried but - strangely -managed and financially secureher husband, Alec, is not. This might seem obvious but a series Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of disasters - some of which have resulted Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingriver. Where were they? Occasionally It was an easy assumption for the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred police to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalitymake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what has really happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.
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|isbn=15293379681035906708|title=In Place of FearDiva|author=Catriona McPhersonDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due We tend to start work think of Maria Callas as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is Greek, but she was born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in their GP surgery December 1923 and her job will be only moved to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthAthens when she was thirteen. The hardest part of the job will be Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to persuade people that make it more manageable in the services States. When she offers really are free and was back in Athens - supposedly so that they don't have to do anything to qualify she could get appropriate training for them. Some of her voice - she was raised under the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has Nazi occupation by a problem mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her own which might give preference for her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedelder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Mark LinganeChristopher Edge|title=GalaxyBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=SparkLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, who is an elite pilot with and many, many snacks! However, as the Space Academymovie starts, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma they very quickly realise that lasted yearssomething about this new film format is very different, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his dutiesthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But Earth is under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors as they lurch from one film genre to the space stationnext, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against itcinema, but also from its own sins against itself. and to their real lives?|isbn=B09X3NZ76W1839942738
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