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|author=Mary Carter
|title=My Sister's Voice
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=
Twenty-eight year old Lacey Gears is a fiercely independent deaf artist living in Philadelphia with her boyfriend Alan and her puggle Rookie. Lacey is proud to be deaf and has no desire to become hearing. When she finds a note in her mailbox telling her she has an identical twin called Monica, Lacey dismisses it as a joke but curiosity gets the better of her when she sees a picture of Monica, and she soon finds herself confronting Margaret, her orphanage house mother who confirms Monica’s existence and their separation twenty-five years ago.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348389</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Caro Ramsay
|summary=Natalie and Neil are an average thirty-something aspirational couple, living a comfortable life in West London. Having agreed before they married five years ago that they never want children, a chance remark from one of Neil's friends quickly changes his mind. Suddenly being a dad is all Neil can think about and meeting severe resistance from Natalie he tries many methods to persuade her. Feeling under huge pressure, Natalie seeks refuge at her parents' house where she discovers her old address book, or little black book as it became known when she was single. Inside are the old addresses of Natalie's ex-boyfriends and as she reminisces Natalie starts to wonder if Neil is indeed the one, or whether it was just good timing that resulted in them getting together. As Natalie decides meeting up with her exes is the best way to see if indeed ''the'' one slipped through her fingers, Neil embarks on a seedy new hobby and the two practically stop speaking to each other. Will they be able to save their marriage?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755371259</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alyxandra Harvey
|title=Blood Feud (Drake Chronicles)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Isabeau St. Croix has no care for politics and royalty, and would really rather not spend her time among the newly royal Drake family, attempting to negotiate peace between them and the Hounds, her vampire clan. The Hounds are not well thought of among vampires, who fear their dual fangs and strange rituals. But the Drakes are like no vampires Isabeau has ever met, and they aren't like royalty either.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880705X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nick Garlick and Nick Maland
|title=Aunt Severe and the Dragons
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Daniel is a little boy whose parents have gone away exploring. They telephone him every day, but then one day the phone calls stop and so Daniel has to go to live with his Aunt Severe. She takes his toys away, feeds him spinach sandwiches, wakes him every day at four-thirty and gets him helping with her rather strange rubbish-collecting activities. Things get more interesting for Daniel when he discovers four little lost dragons hiding in Aunt Severe's garden. He tries to help them, but before he can do anything three of the dragons are captured and locked up in a zoo. Daniel is left to rescue them with only the fourth dragon, Dud's, help and, as you can imagine, he's called 'Dud' for a reason!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939055X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Green
|title=Murder in the High Himalaya
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=The Himalayan mountains mean many things to different people. To the people of Tibet, trapped under the atheist occupiers from China, who ran the Dalai Lama out in the 1950s in their consuming urge for lebensraum and mineral mining, they are a near-impenetrable barrier, protecting their country from history's prior ravages, but keeping people who want out, very much in. To rich Westerners, they are a sparkling challenge - a task of the highest order, a box to tick on the way to self-fulfilment - something to be climbed, because they're there.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1586487140</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Garen Ewing
|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures of Julius Chancer 2
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Oh to be popular - and the rainbow orchid certainly is. If, in fact, it exists at all. A collecting challenge for rare plants might hinge on its recovery, imperial British explorers would like to know the truth about it - and its presence on some mysterious ancient carved tablets hints at some mystical part it may once have played in a superweapon. Hence, where this book starts, everyone - from a film starlet, to a dashing explorer's assistant, to a plucky aviator, to an evil henchwoman of an overweight industrialist - is after it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525047X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laura Barton
|title=Twenty-One Locks
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This debut novel's central character is 20 year old sales girl, Jeannie. She lives a very humdrum life in a rather ugly, down-at-heel town in the north. And straight away Barton treats the reader to her lovely, descriptive prose. For example, when the reader is given some detail about Jeannie's workplace at the perfume and cosmetics counter where ... 'the lipsticks ... all lined up like chorus girls ...' Barton's writing style is very easy to read, very fluid and I found myself getting right into the story straight away - and caring about Jeannie.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161747</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daisy Dawes
|title=Get Ahead Fred
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Fred loves wearing hats. He's got a fez, a bonnet, a stetson, and a glittery fedora. When the Queen announces she's coming to town, he decides to get the finest hat he's ever had. There's no possible way that anything could go wrong, is there? ...Is there?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860404</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Vanessa Curtis
|title=Zelah Green: One More Little Problem
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=We first met Zelah when her OCD got so bad she was sent off to a live-in centre for treatment. She's at home now, with the OCD still around but not totally debilitating. She's still jumping on the stairs - but not so many jumps and not so often. She's still scrubbing her face, but it isn't quite red raw. You'd call her overly fastidious rather than ill. And her therapist is pleased with her progress. But then...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405240547</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carol Lynch Williams
|title=The Chosen One
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Thirteen-year-old Kyra has one father, three mothers, and twenty siblings - yes, twenty - with another two on the way. She lives on a polygamist compound run by Prophet Childs. His father had been Prophet before him, but since his father's death and Prophet Childs' accession, things have taken a turn for the worse. A fence has gone up around the compound. Adolescent boys are driven off, and the Prophet seems to be choosing younger and younger girls to marry older and older men. And now, it's Kyra's turn. Prophet Childs announces that she is to marry her sixty-year-old uncle. And her father is afraid to refuse him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389384</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charlotte Moore
|title=Grandmother's Footsteps
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Verity's husband has died suddenly and she decides to sell Knighton, the house she has lived in for large parts of her life, where she was born and brought up and where she has lived for thirty years with her husband and daughter. She must sort out all the possessions and papers stored there, and this prompts her reflections on the past, including her not so happy marriage. She also realises that now Simeon is dead, she can reveal a family secret to her daughter Hester.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140278311</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Dee
|title=The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Tim Dee may already be known to you as a distinguished critic and adjudicator of contemporary poetry, or for producing BBC Radio 4's 'Poetry Please'. So it's hardly surprising that my first impression of his birdwatching memoir, ''The Running Sky'' is of poetic exactitude transferred to another genre. But I remain dazzled by the sustained quality of his writing over 80,000 words. Opened at any page, paragraphs of graceful prose enclose figurative language capturing the very essence of flight (hence the title, from a Philip Larkin poem). To Dee, flight is the nub of a bird's independence. He describes and wonders poetically – be it the collective sweep of flock formations, the mysteries of migration, or individual observations of nightjars, carrion crows or peregrines.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516497</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren St John
|title=Laura Marlin Mysteries: Dead Man's Cove
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Laura has been in foster care since she was born, but Social Services have recently discovered that she has an uncle. So, at the beginning of this adventure mystery she finds herself moving to a house by the beach in Cornwall to live with Calvin Redfern, a man she has never met before. Laura's experiences have taught her to question everything, to be independent and to stand on her own two feet, so having an uncle who trusts her to be sensible, rather than lay down a list of rules, seems ideal. But Uncle Calvin and his house are shrouded in secrets. Why does he work such strange hours? Where does he go late at night? And why are there no signs of his past in the house?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000209</amazonuk>
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