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{{newreview
|author=James Rollins
|title=Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The prologue to this splendid book recounts a terrifying chase, the discovery of fabulous Mayan artifacts, and a shadowy enemy. And that gripping scene sets the tone for the rest of the book. After the strange disappearance of their parents, who were on an archeological dig on the Mountain of Bones, Jake Ransom and his sister Kady are sent a parcel containing two halves of a Mayan coin, their mother's sketchbook and their father's notebook. There is no indication what these things mean or what to do with them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000616</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alison Maloney
Hell themselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565089</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=H Paul Jeffers
|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : The Stalwart Companions
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=After replying to an article written by the world's first consulting
detective, Sherlock Holmes, young Teddy Roosevelt, about to study law
at Columbia, strikes up a correspondence with him. They're pleased to
finally meet when Holmes is acting in America – and naturally,
Roosevelt introduces him to another friend, NYPD Detective Will
Hargreaves. Of course, foul play is in the air – and the three men are
led into an investigation which starts off as 'just' a dead body, but
leads them to discover a plot against the President himself,
Rutherford Hayes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565097</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Brady Udall
|title=The Lonely Polygamist
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Golden Richards bursts onto the printed page. He is the central character and let's be honest, without him there would be no wives, no children, no complicated domestic life - make that, domestic lives. Immediately I pictured Golden in my mind's eye, as a Homer Simpson type - but with lots more children. He's a bumbling, blustering, bear of a man. It's as if he's just 'turned up' for the conception of his children, just idly ambled along when they were born.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224078062</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cass Titcombe, Patrick Clayton-Malone and Dominic Lake
|title=Canteen: Great British Food
|rating=4.5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=I love food and I can happily read a recipe book for fun and for inspiration. It's always good to see what cookery books spawned by restaurants offer. Just occasionally you spot a combination of foods which you would never have thought of, but which works brilliantly, but more often I've found myself wondering two things. Who, in their own home, would go to the trouble of creating these dishes and, more importantly, who would want to eat them? At the other end of the scale you find 'Canteen: Great British Food' and you heave a sigh of relief.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936322</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adriana Trigiani
|title=Viola in Reel Life
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=It definitely wasn't Viola's choice to go to boarding school and she really would have preferred not to have to share a room with three other girls she'd never met before, but her parents – both film makers - were going to be abroad for a year and single rooms were in short supply. And that was how, at the beginning of the school year, Viola came to be at the Prefect Academy in South Bend, Indiana rather than in her native New York. She'd left behind her best friend, Andrew (no – he's not her boyfriend, he's a best friend who happens to be a boy) and is sharing a room with Marisol Carreras, Romy Dixon and Suzanne Santry.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389260</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Eleanor Updale
|title=Johnny Swanson
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary='Ah, you just have to love that cover, don't you? All dolled up to show a mop-headed hero starring in a newspaper article surrounded by some dodgy-looking classified ads promising the moon on a stick. Such ads have an important part to play in Eleanor Updale's latest novel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385616422</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tracy Kidder
|title=Strength in What Remains
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary='Strength in What Remains' is the inspirational account of Deogratias, a man who has fled from the genocide and civil war in Burundi (just south of the equator in East Central Africa, bordering Rwanda). He escapes to New York, out of fear and want of a safer life; only his new found American life isn't quite what it promised.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>186197857X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Celia Rees
|title=The Fool's Girl
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Illyria is sacked, the fool Feste spirits the
Duke's daughter, Violetta, to London, to chase the evil Malvolio and
reclaim an ancient relic. There they meet William Shakespeare, who
they persuade to help them in an exciting quest which builds to a
climax in the Forest of Arden.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597324</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Helen Slavin
|title=The Stopping Place
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=How often do you pick up a book with no idea at all where it is likely to lead? How often does such a book still have you wondering a hundred pages in? Not bemused, not lost, absolutely sure that it is going to lead somewhere, but still with no clue as to exactly where. How often do you get to the end of a book and think, simply, "Wow!"?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391869</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jojo Moyes
|title=The Last Letter From Your Lover
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=
I do love a story that wraps me up completely within its little world, making me want to ignore my long list of things to do and just curl up reading all day. Jojo Moyes' new novel certainly managed it. I felt transported back to the 1960's, entirely caught up in the characters' lives, riding their highs and lows alongside of them, and I ended up desperately foisting my just-woken-up toddler onto my husband so that I could just read the last four pages without her hanging off my arm!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961627</amazonuk>
}}
