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|author=Adam Blade
|title=The Chronicles of Avantia: Call to War
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Our three heroes and their magical giant beasts are still trying to snatch the quarters of an ancient, power-giving mask from the clutches of their realm's enemy. They're not doing too well in the chase, for he has two of the bits, and even his assistant they thought dead at the end of [[First Hero (The Chronicles Of Avantia) by Adam Blade|book one]] is still around. Can they have any luck this third time of asking, even when their country is being ravaged, turning once-helpful villagers against their quest, and their enemies are getting stronger by the battle?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408307499</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Ashdown-Hill
|summary=It's West Germany, 1958. A 15-year-old schoolboy, Michael Berg, is suffering a long bout of hepatitis. When he recovers he returns to the flat of a tram conductor, 36-year-old Hanna Schmitz, to thank her for taking care of him the day he fell sick. The two of them begin a secret affair that becomes a routine for months: after school and work, Michael would read to her, and then they would make love and bathe each other. Both of them fall in love.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753804700</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel H Wilson
|title=Code Lightfall and the Robot King
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Code Lightfall is on a school trip to a prehistoric mound when he falls through a trap into another world, where everything is made of crystal, or metal, and the only living 'animals' are all robotic. It's a world under threat, so can he journey across its bizarre landscapes and save it all? And what is the truth of the mound, where his grandfather disappeared a year ago?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814196</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marian Keyes
|title=The Brightest Star in the Sky
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Marian Keyes can usually be relied upon for a funny, moving story full of life-like, likeable characters. I was eager to read her latest novel, although somewhat daunted by the 600 odd pages! Here she takes us to an old, multi-storey house in Dublin that is the home of a variety of different characters. An unknown, magical narrator takes us through the house as we meet each tenant and discover what's happening in their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014102867X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Shilling
|title=The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Middle-aged women disappear. They are not see on television, their lives do not appear in newspapers, the legions of novels that are written each year rarely feature them. At least, that is what the author Jane Shilling believes as she wakes up aged 47 to find the narrative of her contemporaries and their lives which she has been reading about and living in parallel with since leaving university has vanished. She looks in the mirror and sees a face she does not recognise. Even with a punishing regime of early bed, no alcohol and litres of water, it refuses to regain its youthful bloom. So she decides to take a magnifying glass to this particular moment in time, this journey between youth and old age.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701181001</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony Quinn
|title=Half of the Human Race
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=At heart, 'Half of the Human Race' is a 'will they, won't they' love story featuring an upper class, emerging county cricketer, Will Maitland, and a middle class strong, educated, cricket-loving woman, Constance Callaway. But this is so much more than a question of will the cricketer bowl a maiden over? It's a novel about friendship, love, fighting for what you believe in and, also, surprisingly, about celebrity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087290</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Black
|title=Blood Rush
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lilly has had the baby she was expecting in the last book, and daughter Alice is the child from hell. Sweet and angelic with just about anyone other than her mum, she won't sleep at night, is prone to screaming fits and about as disruptive to a previously one-parent, one-child household as a baby could be. Fortunately father Jack (copper, ex-boyfriend, current status indeterminate) is welcome to come and lend a hand whenever he can spare the time. Of course, Alice adores him. Equally fortunately, first-born and now teenage son, Sam, is unbelievably cool about his baby sis. Just to round it off, Lilly and Sam's father are also on speaking and son-sharing terms (and sod his new girlfriend!).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014736</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Bowler
|title=Buried Thunder
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=On a walk in the woods near the family's new home, Maya is suddenly compelled by a glinting pair of yellow eyes to run away from her brother and deep into the trees. What she finds is shocking - three dead bodies with a figure standing over the third. Terrified, Maya stumbles back and recounts the horror to her parents, who call the police. But the police can't find any bodies, and it's clear they think she's a prankster. Even Maya's parents don't really believe her. They think she's seeing things and they're worried that she's ill.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728385</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Derek Keilty
|title=Will Gallows and the Snake-bellied Troll
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Will Gallows is not your average boy. Finding out the name of the baddie who gunned down his policeman father, he takes it upon himself to get revenge, by bringing him in - even though he's the nastiest gunslinger around. Oh, and a troll with snakes coming from his belly. Will, being not your average boy, is half-elf, however, and can talk to his flying horse to help him on his way. But is there more to the story of his father's death than he thinks, and just what is it with all the earthquakes his town is suffering?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392366</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scott Mariani
|title=The Lost Relic
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ben Hope went to Italy to visit a former SAS comrade and offer him a job, but he's got marriage and happiness – and Ben's trade is far from the front of his mind. It's whilst he's driving away that Ben nearly runs down a small boy and unwittingly walks into a deadly heist which will see the boy and his mother – and many others – brutally murdered. It's only the beginning for Ben though as he find himself fleeing for his life and accused of murder. When the state needs to act people – even heroes – are disposable.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561977</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=K J Parker
|title=The Hammer
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The met'Oc family have three sons. One is strong, super-industrious, but too busy to do more than patch up their farm. The second is a vicious thing, eager to ride roughshod over people like a western film's worst bandit, even when it belies the met'Oc's noble origins. And the youngest, Gig, is... not employed. Not thought highly of. Not allowed out of their compound, or to think too much. But he is courageous enough to try and leave, firm of mind to ignore something horrific that happened seven years before, and gutsy enough to succeed in escaping. Or is he? How far can he ever leave his destiny behind in this backward frontier town?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149514X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Allison Pearson
|title=I Think I Love You
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It's the 70s, and 13 year old Petra is in love, and not with a silly boy at school, but with a man. He's not from Wales like she is, or even from Britain. He's much more mysterious and alluring. He comes from across the pond and his name is David Cassidy. ''The'' David Cassidy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009946859X</amazonuk>
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