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|isbnauthor=B09XZMCDVFTom Percival|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F WalkerThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=Will''A news vendor s life is crying out the headlines difficult, in the middle a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when wrong shoes', he tries walking around in has the wrong shoes because his imagination; a stickler dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around cash-in -hand job on a lawless village; building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with fact that his feetmum and dad are separated, and awfully familiar…Will'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a lot tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together moments of joy when he is the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculousdrawing, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury feel like a light at the end of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming nexta long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1800901232Sylvie Cathrall|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyScience Fiction|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be There are few greater joys than a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going book which lives up to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorycompelling premise. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0008517061|title=EmergencyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premiseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the death future of her sisterhis life with his vet girlfriend, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of Livia and her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GPdaughter Diana, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as moving in together would mean a physical reaction lot of 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 grief, recommends reservations about whether or not this is the future she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne the present and putting the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselffuture on the back burner.|isbn= 086154112X

|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=Little DrummerElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=Part of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the death bones of a young woman in child beneath a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into doorway. There was no skull. Was this a far-reaching investigation of ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, fraudDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichbut Nelson doesn't, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich that she is led to Africa pregnant with his child as they follow the twists and turns a result of the investigationone night they spent together some three months ago. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious Her condition will be obvious before long, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard not least because Ruth is prone to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going onsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1914585127

|isbn=00085414770008551324|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lauren ChildNeil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It was a hot summer day right at 's unusual for anyone from the beginning of Hardie family to approach the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except police. Neither side likes or has any respect for sometimesthe other... And only on rare-sh occasions, which But Davie Hardie is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living struggling in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because prison and he's wobbly), Mum prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Dadwho was responsible for her death. This person, Clarice's older brotherhe promises, Kurt is someone big and younger brother, Minal Cricketit will be worth the police doing what he wants. There's also Marcie, who's main claim And what he wants is to be transferred to fame seems an open prison to be that she steals serve the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboardremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Clarice would love Not much to have someone who listened to herask, rather than wanting is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to talk, but do the only one who does other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that is Granny DS Max Craigie and she lives in New York. The Bean family anyone who works with him is kept well away from what''different''s happening.

|isbn=07112662040008405026|title=The Secret Life of BirdsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Jane Casey

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on investigation ground to a daily basishalt. An hour can pass without my noticingNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. IInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've established which species feed from s something about the ground, which pop to positioning of the feeders for a quick snatch of some food bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeableher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It would have been wonderful if, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a child, Icomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd had access to a book s disappearance: others (such as Derwent''The Secret Life of Birds''s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. So – what is it?

|isbn=17370309420571379877|title=Bag OThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'Goodiess 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=Jolly Walker BittickJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker BittickDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's ''Bag O'Goodies''their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. I first encountered his writing about But when there is a second body found crucified a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a rollicking tale lot of what happens when five young men find a base for unwanted attention to their partyingAI Future Policing project. Right nowWill they be able to solve the case in time, I didn't want a full-length novelor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, so I turned to this anthology out of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1399613073|title=SeedMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeOlivia, Laura and they both might be thought Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of as complete embarrassmentsa century. His grandfather runs an allotment Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and manages to stink the entire town out from it which is a bonus when he douses it in fish guts each spring you aim to fertilise his vegetablesbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. His mother somehow combines Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the dual roles free spirit of housebound failure the group and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and hasnit't left the building s going to end in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim with junktragedy. What Marty's classmates We don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, with his one school uniform built from lost propertywho suffered the tragedy or the consequences. We see him as once again Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the council threaten her and him with evictionthree friends. This time, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1529077664

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron0241636604|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle If you were to find bring up an image of a way forward. In particularcity banker in your mind, Islayou's mum who can’t seem re unlikely to be able to let her daughter gothink of someone like Gary Stevenson. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, she thinks they might be able poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to helpthe London School of Economics. But actually, it turns out they are part Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of an experimental company who offer the family the chance us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to have Flora back again, in robot form. But this won't just be a look-a-likestupid. They use all of Flora's online history It was his ability at what was, essentially, and interviews a card game which got him an internship with family and friendsCitibank. Eventually, and through this data they will recreate Flora turned into permanent employment as closely as possiblea trader. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916

|isbn=13985075041035021803|title=Cold ReckoningThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Russ ThomasC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years heIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been searching for evidence back to prove that hethe English country village where she grew up. She's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to now because of a cold case request for help from 2002her beloved aunt, Carole. There didn Freya't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tylers former mentor and Carole's death but Adam Tyler senses a link close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the case his father least. Arthur was investigating before he diedthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be brought out into near the openman or pursue the profession she loved. Perhaps Tyler is going to get After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the answers he needs?love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0727850547AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Blind Justice All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (DS McAvoy 10Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''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 few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could 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. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what'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 rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=David MarkNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughs fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. A body had been found in the roots of a fallen tree at BrantinghamHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, near HullEtty. When he gets to the sceneare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginednot. A young manShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's corpse is entangled with father, Duncan Ackerley, in the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesriver. It would seem that this was done whilst an easy assumption for the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceguilt. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's own familylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1035906708|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, a delightNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'a delightCallas' is perhaps using to make it more manageable in the expression in a way I'm not familiar withStates. I have to confess my ignorance of the SpanishWhen she was back in Athens -language literary tradition supposedly so forgive my generalisation here. From that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the little I have read (in translationNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismJackie. |isbn=0861541901

|author= Ann Sei LinChristopher Edge|title= Rebel SkiesBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a servant on the Midorimovie marathon at their local cinema, a massive dining hall floating in place that has the sky where soldiers nickname of the Empire come 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to drink lots of exciting films, and make merry between their conquests. many, many snacks! However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with as the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with himmovie starts, to leave the life of dreary servitude they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is all she has known. Wellvery different, soon Kurara wonand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known even imagine. But as a shikigami, and she is forced they lurch from one film genre to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihimenext, a sky-ship whose express purpose can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to hunt down shikigamithe cinema, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…to their real lives?|isbn=14063995901839942738

|author=Patrice LawrenceRachel Greenlaw|title=NeedleCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' I can hear the song of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers boththe sea. Kicked out The call of multiple homes and schoolsthe deep, shethe answering beat in my heart.''s fostering with  Rosevear, a pleasant yoga tutor, Annieremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uniplundering the wrecks. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanketMira, you might perhaps thinklike her mother before her, and the creation of is one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a wonder knittertrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister sheMira's allowed contact with no morefather. We see Charlene prove her belligerence Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a store detective, wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and then force people with only coordinates to give guide her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantsets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. And then... wellWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, what exactly happens is not for me as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to saythe heart of the smuggler's territory, only Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to remark how sharp save the future of her home and pointy those knitting needles can be..the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=18009010110008664730

|isbnauthor=1405940980James Sherwood Metts|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChasePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It's Things have been a bit sticky for the 7th of January 2019 Earthlings. AI and we know that a body has automation have been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We donproceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat re paid to do and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistother tasks that took time to accomplish. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and their dates starting to think of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoother, at the new ways to spend time of the total eclipse, something happenedalong came an awful pandemic. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren Life was a victim pretty much shut down and , along with it's left her very wary of her sisters, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1787634906Matthew Tree|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideWe'll Never Know

|summary=WeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis're in Oldcastle s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Malcolm is in troubleeven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. He's in an abandoned house His assertions that there were only open-and he-shut cases which didn's being threatened by two young peoplet need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that sheFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugopartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It seems She knew that the involvement was something that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (the man she often does this for homeless peopleloved needed. The next case did look simple, apparently) but she'd put though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a tracking device remote property in it so that Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingit's not the Italian. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm But which of them was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.primary target?

|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jennifer SaintSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, 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 be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=ElektraA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the heavily malea street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -dominated world and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of Ancient Greecemanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4. Cassandra, Clytemnestra5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Elektra are operating as an alternative to all bit players the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the story business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the Trojan Warchance to come home to Edinburgh. Yet Jennifer Saint shows And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the most extreme furiesIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=14722739151846976596

|isbn=15291498000811771741|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteInstaKnits for Baby|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsMelissa Leapman

|genre=Home and FamilyCrafts|summary=We begin with Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a telling storycollection of knits from toys to blankets. All Some will be quick knits - others are of the birds and animals fled when 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do' variety. The tiny hummingbird flew projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to the river twenty hours and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the firemore than twenty hours. The animals laughed: what good was that doingAll the projects are attractive, modern and useable. ''I'm doing the best perhaps show my age when I canwonder about 'social-media-worthy projects', said the hummingbird. And but that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1776574338Dean Koontz|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=Every morning LeilongBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, the brontosaurus school bushe loses his fiancee, makes and his way through the city, picking up children as he goeshouse gets trashed. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the window and slide down thing that has trashed his neck. house! It's perfectThe thing is, isn't it? Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. What could be He is a more fun way of going nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to school? There his house is a problemnew friend, thougha bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Leilong isn't happy in the city: heSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's always having to be careful about where enemies, if he puts his feet , Benny, and – because heHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he wild adventure) can't be the bus anymorefigure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=303091657XAdam Stower|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown Murray and Randall S PetersonBun|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers |summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and ensure that they are , well-managed and financially secure, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. This might seem obvious but But he's a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or the collapse of bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a major company - have left interested parties asking what hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the board was doing. Where were catflap they? Occasionally both use can chuck them out, not into the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eyeregular back garden, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us into a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble world of frightening adventure and even tulip maniawhiffs. Over three centuries we seem This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have learned very little.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1529337968B0C47LV1PC|title=In Place of FearFragility|author=Catriona McPhersonMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's July 1948 and Helen Crowther ' joke? And if you could, is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on question should you make it? Or is the day question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the NHS is born. She'll be working answer for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will both could well be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part ... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of the job will be Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to persuade people that emerge from the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of restrictions imposed during the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.covid pandemic