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|isbnauthor=0711266204Tom Percival|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Wrong Shoes

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I have recently discovered Will's life is difficult, in a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers multitude of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisways. An hour can pass without my noticing. IHe is bullied because he has 've established which species feed from the groundwrong shoes', which pop to he has the feeders wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for a quick snatch even the most basic of some things like food , and who settles his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in for -hand job on a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablebuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. It would have been wonderful ifAnd yet, as he still has a childtiny amount of hope. He is good at art, I'd had access and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a book such as ''The Secret Life light at the end of Birds''a long, dark tunnel. So – what is it?|isbn=1398527122

|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17370309420008517061|title=Bag O'GoodiesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jolly Walker BittickStig Abell

|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. I first encountered There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his writing about a year agovet girlfriend, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a rollicking tale lot of what happens compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this 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 back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when five young men find they discovered the bones of a child beneath a base for their partyingdoorway. There was no skull. Right now, I didn't want Was this a full-length novelritual killing or murder? Inevitably, so I turned to this anthology of verse and short storiesDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. BittickIt's writing has matured - and so have difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his characterschild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Well.Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.. most of them!

|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Caryl Lewis Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and George Ermosanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=SeedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Marty has two parental figures It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in his lifetheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and they both might her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotment, open-and manages to stink -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the entire town out from it when he douses it explanation lies in fish guts each spring to fertilise Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his vegetablesupper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and hoarder – while she seems uses Edward to do nothing run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and hasnhe't s drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the building top of a hill in years she has still managed to fill it Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the brim with junkcase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. What Marty It's classmates don't know about this their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they can draw lines be able to from how poor Marty always lookssolve the case in time, with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again or will Kat find herself taken off the council threaten her case and him with eviction, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather potentially, out of a solitary plant seed.career?|isbn=1529077664139851120X

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1399613073|title=Our Sister, AgainMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora diesOlivia, her family struggle to find Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a way forwardcentury. In particular Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Isla's mum who can’t seem which is a bonus when you aim to be able to let her daughter goa cardiothoracic surgeon. When Isla passes her mum's details onto Laura is a perfectionist and a support trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she finds online, she thinks becomes a GP. When we first meet them they might be able 're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to helpend in tragedy. But actually, it turns out they are part of an experimental company We don't know who offer suffered the family tragedy or the chance to have Flora back again, in robot formconsequences. But this won't just be a look-a Twenty-like. They use all of Flora's online history, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they five years later there will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what be an eerily similar event that will it really mean for impact the familythree friends. This time, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=13985075040241636604|title=Cold ReckoningThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Russ ThomasGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that 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 father committed suicide and for background is the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove that East End, where he's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirfamiliar with violence, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002poverty and injustice. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death was no posh public school on his CV - but Adam Tyler senses a link he had been to the case his father was investigating before London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he diedhas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Above all there's a growing sense He also realised that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going most rich people expect poor people to be brought out stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into the openpermanent employment as a trader. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?

|isbn=07278505471035021803|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=David MarkC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time for breakfast when s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the call came throughEnglish country village where she grew up. A body had been found in the roots She's back now because of a fallen tree at Brantinghamrequest for help from her beloved aunt, near HullCarole. When he gets to the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manFreya's former mentor and Carole's corpse close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is entangled with dead and the roots of a newly-fallen tree – circumstances seem suspicious, to say the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesleast. It would seem that this Arthur was done whilst the man was still alivereason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. McAvoy makes a promise Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceprofession she loved. But justice always comes at After the split, she worked in a cost cafe, met and this time married James (on the rebound from the cost might be to McAvoy's own familylove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia FreireAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a delightfew decades of technology in my lifetime. I will agree 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the first – tremendous feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is no understatement – but - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'a delightm reading someone who knows what they' is perhaps using re talking about or the expression latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I'm not familiar withcould understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. I have to confess my ignorance of Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herehotel manager. From As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the little I have read (residents who are still alive in translationthe hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, I donand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what't read Spanish) there does seem s happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be a tendency towards the fantastical – rescued before they are discovered by the mystical realismterrorists. |isbn=0861541901086154742X

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1529153298|title= Rebel SkiesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the MidoriIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conqueststhough. Women have been disappearing. However Well, they've been murdered, when a man named Himura arrives but to tell have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power father wants to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across move the Empirefamily 'Down South'. He asks her to come with him When you're from Yorkshire, to leave the life of dreary servitude that Down South is all she has knowna frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Well For Miv, soon Kurara won't have any say in the mattermove would mean leaving her best friend, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamiSharon, and she is forced 'll do anything to flee out into the worldprevent that. She joins Himura aboard 's not worried about the Orihime, a skydangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590anyone.

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1398524085|title=NeedleHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre=TeensCrime|summary=BraveCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Charlene Her children, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to likesons Niall, characters Paul and readers bothOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Kicked out of multiple homes Shortly afterwards, Etty and schoolsGreg, shefind the body of Greg's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorfather, AnnieDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and has taken up residence in her son Blakethen committed suicide when he couldn's old room while het stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's at unilittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of a comfort blanketMaria Callas as Greek, you might perhaps thinkbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitterNew York, in December 1923 and is making something full of love for only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her younger sister – a younger sister shefather changed it to 'Callas's allowed contact with no to make it moremanageable in the States. We see Charlene prove When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her belligerence with voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a store detective, mother who mercilessly exploited her and then force people to give made no secret of her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not preference for me to sayher elder sister, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..Jackie.|isbn=1800901011

|isbnauthor=1405940980Christopher Edge|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 Lucas and we know his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that a body has been pulled out the nickname of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall'The Black Hole'. We donAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't know whose body it iseven imagine. Four days earlierBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, Floracan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the request sea. The call of their fatherthe deep, Charlie Finch, a famous artistthe answering beat in my heart. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and their dates plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of birth are embarrassingly closethe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Finch was known for his fecundityBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, if not for his fidelity. Itthey capture the island's leader and Mira's been father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a long time since wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agosea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, at as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the time heart of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and itsmuggler's left her very wary territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her sistershome and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1787634906James Sherwood Metts|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBridePlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=WeThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're in Oldcastle paid to do and Malcolm is in trouble. He's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn other tasks that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugotook time to accomplish. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Just as they were beginning to get used to keep him warm (she often does all this for homeless people, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she technological change and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one starting to think of their own: not many other people are going , new ways to have spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the Oldcastle police crest tattooed many daily social interactions on their backswhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Jennifer SaintMatthew Tree|title=ElektraWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the story Briar's, a family of three women witches who live in protect the heavily male-dominated town and the wider world of Ancient Greecefrom the Darklands. CassandraThough she has always wished for magic, ClytemnestraEllie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and Elektra are all bit players in administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the story of Briar Witch, the Trojan Wartown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the silent women have dead, putting her at the most compelling stories heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the most extreme furiesBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=14722739151803364548

|isbn=15291498001529900360|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteThe Ghost Orchid|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. All the birds His assertions that there were only open-and animals fled when -shut cases which didn't need the forest fire took hold and most help of them stood and watcheda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, unable to think of anything they could dowho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The tiny hummingbird flew to next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the river and began taking tiny amounts swimming pool of water a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and flying back she is married to drop them into an extremely rich man and it's not the fireItalian. The animals laughed: what good But which of them was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the hummingbirdBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. And thatHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, really, is particularly when he considered the only way strain that we will solve being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the problem of climate change – by each opportunity of us doing what we canwork experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, however small that might he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to bea professional footballer.

|isbn=17765743380861541774|title=Leilong's Too Long!A Nye of Pheasants|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnSteve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donDCI Domenic Jejeune't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window s close friend and slide down his neck. It's perfectformer colleague, Danny Maik, isn't it? What could be has taken a more fun way of going short holiday in Singapore to school? There is a problemmeet up with an old ally, thoughGuy Trueman. Leilong isn't happy Maik was involved in the city: a street brawl - he's always having to be careful about where would later maintain that he puts his feet was facing a man armed with a knife - and – because he's longer than killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a tennis court – charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he often causes damage without intending might have planned to and traffic regularly gets snarled upmurder the man. The school decides that Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune cando nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't be the bus anymorehelp Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=303091657XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Boards must act The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the best interests of their stakeholders online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and ensure that they are well-managed and financially securelook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. This might seem obvious but Katie is coming out of a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of break up with a major company - have left interested parties asking what bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the board was doingchance to come home to Edinburgh. Where were they? Occasionally And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to turn charm. Katie has no experience in running a blind eyebusiness, leaving watchers wondering which was worse or in match- ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals making, but what Ness has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown full confidence in her abilities, and Randall S Peterson give us a there's always her very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniahelpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=15293379680811771741|title=In Place of FearInstaKnits for Baby|author=Catriona McPhersonMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Crafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is bornblankets. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job Some will be to help patients with those nonquick knits -medical problems which affect their healthothers are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that projects are divided by the services she offers really are free and that time they don't have ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to do anything ten hours, ten to qualify for themtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Some of All the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insightprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Her marriage has never been consummatedI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Mark LinganeDean Koontz|title=GalaxyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=SparkBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academyhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, barely makes it through and someone has delivered a battle alive. His coreally weird, disturbing coffin-pilot sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma inside is the thing that lasted yearshas trashed his house! The thing is, he remembers little and Benny is in no physical shape the very last person to resume his dutiesdeserve all this bad luck. But Earth He is under threat and he musta nice person. A really nice person. Returned by So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his superiors house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the space station, he finds himself amid help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a last ditch attempt good person. Spike is going to save humanity - take care of Benny, and not just from the alien threats against itwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, but also from its own sins against itselfand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W1662500491

|author=Lissa EvansAdam Stower|title=WishedMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When things contrive Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to force Ed sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with fancy next of the neighbourhood spinsterish old womantwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, Miss Filey, for so his favourite bun has been turned into a week of half-termhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they're both use can chuck them out, not looking forward to it. For one thinginto the regular back garden, she thinks Wi-Fi is but into a special brand world of biscuitfrightening adventure and whiffs. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, the new kid next doorone much bigger than Murray was, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhere. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesbe honest, but he's turned up and manage he'll have to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise that''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, having used up three of themis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, these should really would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be used for .... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the wishes city of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202XPortland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic