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|author=Rosie O'Hara
|title=No More Bingo Dresses: Using NLP to cope with breast cancer and other people
|rating=2.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I'd love to meet Rosie O'Hara. She sounds like a full-on, earthy lady who has more than a few tales to tell about her life to date. Rosie is a professional neuro-linguistic programming trainer in the Highlands of Scotland, and has already published an NLP-based self-help book. At the beginning of 2009, a routine mammogram turned up 'a little breast cancer'. Rosie set out in her very direct and determined way to put the cancer in its rightful place as a challenge in her life rather than a defining disaster and this feisty diary is the result.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218347</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kevin J Anderson
|summary=The front cover of the book that I received for review is subtle (as befitting the sensitive contents) and I can see the two twin towers (as was) depicted in grey in the title word submission. The back cover announces that this novel will be ''Published in time for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.'' No pressure then. I open the book with a certain amount of trepidation, I have to admit and feel slightly as if I'm about to tread on (literary) eggshells. Heavens - what if I don't like the book?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019321</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tracy Deebs
|title=Tempest Rising
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sixteen year old Tempest is going through some changes in her body. But they’re not the usual changes teen girls go through as they grow up. Instead, she’s developing gills and a tail.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408820188</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Suzanne LaFleur
|title=Eight Keys
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=On moving to middle school, eleven year old Elise's life takes a turn for the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular locker-buddy Amanda, and embarrassed by her best friend Franklin – who's decidedly uncool and certainly not popular – she's also
struggling to cope with the new arrivals at her home, Aunt Bessie's younger sister Annie and her baby daughter Ava. Just when she doesn't know how she can cope with everything, help arrives in the form of a strange key with her name on it. As she opens a door to find out about her past, Elise starts to realise that she can take control of her future.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141336064</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adrian Magson
|title=Death on the Rive Nord: An Inspector Lucas Rocco Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Illegal immigrants are not a recent phenomenon. Back in 1963, in Picardy, a truck dropped a group of illegal workers close to a deserted stretch of canal, at the dead of night. Seven people left the truck, and it was only when the driver investigated that he found an eighth inside the truck, stabbed to death. It was a few days before the body surfaced in the canal and Inspector Lucas Rocco was given the job of investigating the death. The problems in Algeria were in the past but not forgotten and Rocco would find himself involved with notorious gang leaders from the former colony – and occasionally wondering if he has bitten off more than he can chew.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749008393</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Dowswell
|title=Sektion 20
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's the early 1970s and Alex is living with his family in East Berlin. His Western counterparts are enjoying Coca Cola, fashion and rock music, but Alex can only dream of these things. His time is spent at school listening to endless lectures on the superiority of the socialist system or avoiding saying what he really thinks, even when he's with his family and closest friends. Nobody in East Berlin wants to come to the attention of the Stasi, the state security service.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808633</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bernard Beckett
|title=August
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
In an alternate world, Tristan and Grace come from The City, a closed and enclosed society in which religion dominates. Tristan had been an acolyte at St Augustine's. He spent a childhood being drilled in philosophical discussion of free will by the Rector. A star pupil, a single event made him question everything he had been taught. Grace had spent the first part of her childhood in the convent, but a single act of kindness led to her excommunication.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387898</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ira Levin
|title=The Boys From Brazil
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A small group of powerful Nazis gather for a convivial post-prandial meeting, and collect identities and orders from their leader, who is sending them to different corners of the world in order that many innocent people may be killed. But this isn't when you might expect - it's the mid-1970s. It isn't where you might expect, for these Nazis are remnants of Hitler's regime that fled to south America for safety. And the deaths are being ordered for reasons you will never foretell. In that regard, then, you are as well-informed as chief Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman, who hears tantalising hints of the plot, but cannot fathom it - nor indeed find proof it has indeed started.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015902</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Morris
|title=Seven Days One Summer
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary='Seven Days One Summer' tells of an Italian holiday that should be perfect but somehow is not. When one reads on the front cover, the words 'what could possibly go wrong?', one somehow knows that this is going to be the holiday from hell. All of the couples that arrive at Sam's villa have their own problems and secrets that they seem unable to keep to themselves. Jen finds it hard to put up with Marcus' constant drive for success that impinges even on their holiday as he is constantly making calls about business; Tara and Dave are newly-weds but Tara is already disillusioned with married life; and Toby and Miranda are engaged to be married but he does not know whether he is able to put up with her controlling ways. Jack is a successful film star but struggles to entertain his small children on their first holiday since separating from his wife, Ellie. There are so many tensions that you could cut the air with a knife.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595279</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joe Dunthorne
|title=Wild Abandon
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When your first novel has been successful, it adds pressure onto the second. This is the situation facing Joe Dunthorne, as his debut [[Submarine by Joe Dunthorne|Submarine]] won several awards, was adapted into a film and came highly praised by The Bookbag. This means ''Wild Abandon'' has to be rather good to keep his reputation intact.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024114406X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carole Bugge
|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Star of India
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A woman with a distinguished scent about her appears flustered at a concert recital. A famous landlady gets kidnapped while on an innocent holiday to the west country. A malformed, brilliant modern-day alchemist gets murdered. There is only one person, who famously went over a certain Alpine waterfall, who could piece all this and more into a threat to the Royalty and Empire itself. But there is also only one person, who famously seemed to have stayed dead in going over the same Alpine waterfall, with the strength of mind to put the whole game into play.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681214</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daisy Waugh
|title=Last Dance with Valentino
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When I read on the front cover that this book is described by the Sunday Times as ''A gripping, bittersweet love story'' it wasn't a particularly good statement for me to read. As a rule I don't generally 'do' love stories. If I happen to read one every once in a while then that's fine by me but I don't encourage them! But, both the lovely title and the front cover did their job and pulled me in - just a little.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000739120X</amazonuk>
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