|summary=When Little Bear wakes up one sunny morning to discover that he has lost his trousers he feels sure that he will find them quickly with the help of his friends. However, although Old Bear, Camel, and the others have all seen Little Bear’s trousers no-one knows where they are now. So Little Bear sets off on a journey to visit all his friends in search of his missing trousers. What has happened to them? Will Little Bear and his trousers be reunited?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908177837</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rebecca Harrington
|title=Penelope
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Penelope is a socially awkward Harvard student, chronicling her first year at the famed institution. She has a thing for Hercule Poirot (don’t we all?), is allergic to cats, and quite worryingly believes that ''Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights'' is one of the best films of all times. She is determined to make friends but finds the options quite limited. Her roommates are either too studious (Emma) or too dubious (Lan) and the boys downstairs are peculiar creatures, to say the least. The dashing, mysterious foreigner Gustav is worth a second glance, but never seems to be where she wants him to be, when she wants him to be there, which is annoying.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089266</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
|title=The Untold History of the United States
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=It's been said that history is written by the victors. It would also be pertinent to add that the writing will always polish up the worthy parts whilst whilst finding a convenient carpet under which can be swept the events which are best forgotten. There's no country with a victory under its belt which is above this practice: I've just been brought up very sharply as I considered the Irish potato famine from the [[The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan|Irish perspective]]. That's a story you'll not read in many British history books. The majority of British people would accept though that their country has had an imperialist past - and that the natives have not always thrown themselves down in front of us in their joy at our arrival.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091949297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dan Fesperman
|title=The Double Game
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=American Bill Cage is a middle-aged PR man who worships at the shrine of spy novels. It's a love he's inherited from widowed diplomat father. (Bill's mother having died in an accident when he was very young.) He fondly remembers his childhood as he travelled from posting to posting with his dad and their vast spy fiction library.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893378</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Williams
|title=A Merry Little Christmas
|rating=5
|genre=women's Fiction
|summary=Cat Tinsall, Pippa Holliday and Marianne North all live in the lovely village of Hope Christmas and have formed very close and supportive friendships over the four years they have known each other. The story starts with Christmas just over and follows the three friends through the entire year leading up to the next Christmas. It’s not going to be an easy year for any of them though and they’re definitely going to need each other’s help.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184756089X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jacob F Field
|title=One Bloody Thing After Another
|rating=3.5
|genre=History
|summary=While other authors have made the case for mankind easing off in the destruction stakes recently, and becoming less hostile, bloodthirsty and cruel than in the past, it doesn’t mean that our global history is not littered with detail, about mutinies, massacres and murders. Mr Field here gathers the gamut of gore from the time when the only people writing down their history were the Chinese, up until the late nineteenth century, and covers the planet in search of slicing, dicing and deathly devices. It certainly lives up to its title.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178842</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Graeme Donald
|title=When the Earth Was Flat
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Mankind has often had some quite ridiculous ideas. Once upon a time people deemed it sensible for doctors to go from an autopsy room to help give birth without washing hands in between – who'd have thought it might be beneficial? Those self-same medical scientists were within generations going to extol the virtues of cocaine and opium as harmless boosts to medicine, and in the interim proudly induce enemas of tobacco smoke – the early version of colonic irrigation so beloved of some dodgy ex-Princess-type people. Outside the medical room, there was once the notion that the Earth was flat – although not as might be popularly believed, a regular idea in Columbus's days, but certainly at times before then. The spread of man's idiocy where wrong, faulty and dodgy science is concerned, and the history of all the false ideas, is touched on in this fascinating volume.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178680</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Pat Coogan
|title=The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=The great famine of Ireland in the 1840s was a major disaster and a tragedy. As a result, about a million of its citizens died from starvation and a further million emigrated, with so many perishing en route that it was said ''you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies.'' The net total was about a quarter of the existing population. Yet as Irish historian Tim Pat Coogan argues in this account, the famine was more than a tragedy. The title indicates a fierce polemic, and the thrust of his book is that the British government of the day was not merely responsible for exacerbating the famine conditions through mismanagement and failure to respond adequately to the failure of the potato crop, but in fact deliberately engineered a food shortage in what was one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230109527</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gayle Forman
|title=Where She Went
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Three years after Mia lost her parents and brother, and nearly died herself, in a tragic accident in ''If I Stay'', she's a rising star of classical music. Adam is a rock star. They haven't spoken for a long time. Until Mia plays a concert in New York, Adam attends, and she sends word for him to go backstage. Can Adam finally find out what went wrong with their relationship?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849414289</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrea Camilleri
|title=The Potter's Field
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was after a bad storm that a dismembered body emerged from a field of clay and everything about it - the single bullet in the base of the skull and the body cut into thirty pieces - suggested that this was a Mafia killing. But who is the dead man and why was he buried in Potter's Field? And why is it so difficult to get the anti-Mafia police interested in the case? It would be a testing case for Montalbano even without the problems caused by his second in command. Mimi Augelo (as Montalbano hears via Augelo's wife and his own girlfriend) is spending a lot of time on stakeouts - about which Montalbano knows nothing - and seems more than usually distracted by Dolores Alfano whose husband has gone missing on a sea voyage.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447203305</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Hawken
|title=Tequila Sunset
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sam Hawken's ''Tequila Sunset'' is a gang land crime novel set across the border between the US and Mexico. The story centres on three people: Flip Morales is a young Latino American who gets somewhat unwillingly caught up in the Barrio Azteca gang after a stint in prison; Cristina Salas is an El Paso police officer - a single mother with an autistic child; and Matías Segura is a Mexican federal agent based in Ciudad Juárez with marriage issues. When the FBI launch a sting to catch the Azteca gang, all three will become involved with each other in a struggle against violence.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688531</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mike Dilger
|title=Wild Town (RSPB)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=
Would you like to know what about the thriving wildlife in Britain's towns and cities? What natural riches are out there, if only you know where (and how) to look? ''Wild Town'' will tell you. Divided into habitats - desert, grasslands, wetlands, forests, scrub, caves - the book describes animals, and some plants, to be found in each. You'll be amazed at what's out there. And you'll find out a lot about a teeming natural world right on your doorstep. It will tell you the best places to spot animals and plants - and, thanks to the wonderful photography, you'll have no trouble recognising them once you're there. From the iconic foxes and badgers to the less well known species of bird, amphibian and insect, it's all there in all its diversity and beauty.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408173905</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jim Butcher
|title=Cold Days
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Happy birthday Harry Dresden! And what a birthday as life becomes a little hectic for the Winter Court Knight. He returns to life in time to fight in the Winter Palace, have a near death experience at the hands of dark, mini-people, then is nearly killed again (by a friend this time) and his island of Demonreach is about to explode taking a chunk of the USA with it. He therefore has 24 hours to save some world. Oh, and you know those headaches he's been having? HIs head is on the verge of exploding too. Indeed, it's the sort of birthday that it's hardly worth reanimating for.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500896</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Hissey
|title=Old Bear Stories
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The Old Bear stories are delightful. This collection brings together five stories into one book, introducing us to Old Bear, Little Bear, Jolly Tall and all the other toy friends. The toys look like all those lovely old fashioned toys that children used to have, jointed teddy bears and fuzzy rabbits, and the stories too have a sweet, old fashioned appeal.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908759933</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jan Costin Wagner and Anthea Bell (translator)
|title=The Winter of the Lions
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Kimmo Joentaa braces himself for another Christmas as a widower. Whilst his colleagues celebrate, he seeks distraction but this year distraction isn't hiding that well. Larissa, a lady of the night (according to her) calls in to the police station to report a professional contra temps and becomes a little more than a crime report number. Then there's the murder. This may be a regular occurrence in Kimmo's line of work but this time it's different: the victim is the police medical examiner and, unfortunately, there will be others.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546434</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Hainsworth
|title=Through To You
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Camden Pike is devastated by the death of his girlfriend Viv in a car accident, and blames himself for it. Then he meets Nina, a girl from a parallel universe. In her world, Viv is still alive, and he realises he doesn't have to let her go and he can be with this other her forever. Will he choose to give up everything he's ever known to be with the person he thought he'd lost, or let go of his girlfriend for good and stay in his own world?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116158</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Barr
|title=Stranded
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=After her marriage ends Esther finds herself dreaming of getting away, running away for a while, to an island paradise. She decides to make a trip to Malaysia, but a day trip out to a small, remote island finds her stranded there, along with several other people, when their guide does not return to pick them up. There is no way home without a boat. Will this group of stranded strangers manage to survive, or will suspicions and tensions get the better of them as they wait to be rescued?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538797X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael White
|title=The Kennedy Conspiracy
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Kennedy assassination has been a topic of interest and conspiracy ever since it happened. A little while ago, Stephen King put his own take on that period of American history by using it as the basis for his novel ''11/22/63''. Now Michael White has done the same, taking a similar tack to King in wondering what would happen if people could go back to that period of time, but using the concept of rebirth instead of one of time travel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569272</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=HM Castor
|title=VIII
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hal is a young boy who believes he is destined for greatness. Despite his father's disdain for him, and preference for his older brother Arthur, Hal believe that he is the subject of a prophecy. He thinks that his 'glory will live down the ages'. Is he right?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848775008</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Smith
|title=How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Whether you're a fan of the original Conan Doyle novels, have enjoyed the recent film and television representations of Sherlock Holmes or if, like me, the name always conjures up the image of Basil Rathbone you'll be impressed by the way that Holmes can reason and deduce. You've probably wished that you were capable of some of the mental acrobatics which he performs. Much of his prowess is down to being a fictional character (of course) but it is possible to improve your powers of observation, memory and deduction by exercising your brain. Daniel Smith has some suggestions to get us started.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179539</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip S Newey
|title=Maybe They'll Remember Me
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When Gregory receives a letter from an ageing actress requesting his presence, he takes the only sensible action: he hops on a plane to Switzerland to visit her home. Whilst there, she reveals a multi-layered story that helps him understand more about his parents' life, and by association, his life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>148006632X</amazonuk>
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