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|author= Mary Kubica

|title= Every Last Lie

|rating= 4.5

|genre= Thrillers

|summary= Clara is mother to pre-schooler Maisie and newborn Felix, but now she has a new label: widow. Her husband Nick is dead, killed in an awful car crash that thankfully spared his daughter's life when Felix is just a few days old. For Clara, that's not the end of the nightmare. As she works her way through grief and struggles to carry on for the children, she is faced with some new worries. Maisie isn't talking much about the accident, but she's having nightmares that make Clara question the police story of events. There are things in Nick's personal possessions that are odd, things she has never seen before. What's more, it turns out a lot was going on at Nick's work that he hadn't shared with his wife. And, the more she starts to look, the more she wishes she could un-see and go back to how things were.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456603</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Gwyneth Rees

|summary=Henry is a careful young man. He has a lot of treasure and he keeps it very well hidden. We might not call it 'treasure': like his parents we'd probably call it 'pocket money' and suggest that what he's not going to spend he should put in the bank. But Henry's worried and ''he'' knows that only ''he'' can keep his treasure safe. But what, or who, is he keeping his treasure safe ''from''? Well, he has a little sister called Lucy and despite the fact that his parents think he should be nicer to Lucy, Henry knows that she's really a secret ninja spy sent to steal his treasure. Isn't that true of ''all'' little sisters?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995359253</amazonuk>

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~~|author= Sara Sheridan~~

~~|title= Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery~~

~~|rating= 5~~

~~|genre= Crime (Historical)~~

|summary= In this, the fifth novel in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery series, we have reached 1955. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on from the post-war privations we saw in our first encounter with Mirabelle and her warm, cheery companion Vesta in 1951, a time when tearing a stocking was a disaster of the first order. Various types of prejudice are still rife, however, and Sara Sheridan is a real expert at dropping in that small, lightly sketched detail which tells us we are still in a Britain overshadowed by the aftermath of conflict. A woman who walks alone into a bar will not be served; the British Empire is still front-page news, and the colour of a person's skin is still an almost insurmountable barrier to equality of opportunity.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122364</amazonuk>~~

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~~|author=Sandra Lawrence and Jane Newland~~

~~|title=Festivals and Celebrations~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Children's Non-Fiction~~

|summary=Every day is a feast day, if you follow the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three people attributed to it. But that's just one religion, one way of thinking, one culture – the world is host to a whole lot more, and in every corner they have their own way of celebrating. Some poignantly light small fires and set them afloat to guide the visiting spirits of the deceased back to their post-life homes; some rejoice in the return of spring, or the bounties of the summer's harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water over each other. But the world has a ritual calendar of events such as these, and this is a brilliant book for the young that shows how diverse our celebrations can be.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>~~

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