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|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1635866847|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in EdinburghLavender Companion'', run by Ness I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and operating as an alternative to all there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored servicehomepage. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come I don't eat cakes and look after desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the businessbook, as Ness is planning which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to take make a trip mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to Canada to get away for a whilefold down the corners of pages. Katie is coming out You suspect that smears of butter would not be a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburghproblem. And so begins I ''loved'' this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we book already love.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novelsor more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but with some new characters who quickly begin to charmunfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. Katie has no experience in running a businessBut then chance brings them back together, or in match-making, but Ness and they are inseparable. Something has full confidence in her abilitieshappened though, something terrible and there's always her very helpful (tragic, and rather handsome) neighbournow they must work through their grief, Williamand their friendship, to lend a hand…together.|isbn=18469765961471196585
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|isbn=08117717411787333175|title=InstaKnits for BabyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Melissa LeapmanBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CraftsPopular Science|summary=Melissa LeapmanI was tempted to read ''s You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'InstaKnits for Baby'after enjoying Adam Kay' gives us s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a collection glorious mixture of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are insight into the workings of the 'longNHS, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' varietyhumour and autobiography. The projects are divided by the time they'll take 'You Don't Have to complete - less than five hours, five be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to ten hours, ten to twenty hours mental illness and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useablework of a psychiatrist. I perhaps show my age when I did wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but that's me being pickythe laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Dean KoontzOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Bad Weather FriendAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=ParanormalGeneral Fiction|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his jobAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, he loses his fianceethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and his house gets trashedinfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Oh, Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and someone has delivered a really weirdto get her life back, disturbing coffinsuing her step-sized object mother to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is take down the thing that has trashed his house! content about her. The thing Anuri isbattling alcoholism, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery failing to his house is a new friendstart her PhD, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from nefarious forces them for being a good persondoing so. Spike Most importantly, she is going to take care of Bennydesperately worried about her little sister, and will certainly take care who is the new focus of BennyOphelia's enemies, if he, Bennyonline empire. Can she save her sister, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds perhaps herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=16625004910861546873
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|author=Adam StowerDavid Chadwick|title=Murray and BunHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=Confident Readers Thrillers|summary=Murray It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next Mojave desert town of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the catflap they both use can chuck them outmain local employers but otherwise, there's not into the regular back garden, but into a world much of frightening adventure note other than dive bars and whiffsJoshua trees. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter Life is expected – wellquiet, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…until....|isbn=0008561249B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=B0C47LV1PCTom Percival|title=Fragility|author=Mosby WoodsThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Can you make Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Yo birthing person, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn' joke? And if you couldt have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, is the question should you make it? Or is and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the question if you didcollege, would it land? The catch is was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the answer for both could well be..fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. no. ''Fragility'' He is set as good at art, and clings to the city moments of Portlandjoy when he is drawing, Oregonthat feel like a light at the end of a long, cautiously begins dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemicLuminous 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
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|isbn=15294317351786482126|title=The Winter VisitorJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=James HenryElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkinsluxury' return all apartments - when they discovered the more surprisingbones of a child beneath a doorway. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decadeThere was no skull. The return has come about because he's had Was this a letter from his ex-wiferitual killing or murder? Inevitably, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to liveDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is abducted, stripped to pregnant with his underwear and sent to child as a watery grave in result of the boot of a stolen Ford Sierraone night they spent together some three months ago. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to home?sudden bouts of sickness.
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|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonaghJoan Didion|title=The Glorious Race Year of Magical BeastsThinking|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Eli This book is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eligrief she endured following her husband's parents were both lost to the titular race, sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have beautiful and necessary resource to navigate the world in the company of a magical beasthelp people feel less alone. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from granDidion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hatesdenial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing lends them a human face to possibly save his granwear.|isbn=05713822310007216858
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|isbnauthor=178763681XAlba de Cespedes |title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando MurrinForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of getting both men suspense and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got tension from the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paulmoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, who had a broken armpurchases her forbidden notebook, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and learns about herself in the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body most intimate and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspectrevealing ways.|isbn=1782278222
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|author=Sarah MarshOttessa Moshfegh|title=A Sign My Year of Her OwnRest and Relaxation|rating=3.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a childAt best, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into this novel is a world scathing critique of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when modern society and reveals the use fragility of sign language was seen as something only savages dohuman relationships; at worst, Ellen it is sent to a school where she is taught to lip readthe cynical, but physically restrained from signingpredictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. From hereThis unlikely heroine, a slim, she ends up attractive and newly orphaned girl in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching her twenties is disillusioned with the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same timeworld, Bell is working on other inventions and ideasbut resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up her solution lies in a complicated tangle of espionageher hibernation.|isbn=10354016141784707422
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|isbn=18038167590008551324|title=The UnravellingDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Will GibsonNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the wealthy and peaceful New York Citypolice. Joe longs 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 bit of adventure missing person is buried and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detectionwho was responsible for her death. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything This person, making life easier for manyhe promises, is someone big and riots start it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to spread. Finally, Joe gets an open prison to do some real policing. In serve the aftermath remainder of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped his sentence and Joe is assigned to bring her homeget an early parole date. Joe isn Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the only one trying to save Suki other thing that Hardie demanded - Dylan, a British superfan make certain that DS Max Craigie and tech nerd, anyone who works with him is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Sukikept well away from what's kidnapping connected?happening.
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|isbn=15294212841739526910|title=Laying Out the BonesWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Kate WebbGlen Sibley
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in ''One year after a heatwave. In a gullysuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlierrecover. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilitiesLiving with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, so it could have been a simple case he dreams of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convincedreconnecting with everything he has lost. Geary was a townieBut as those tentative plans falter, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide becomes swept up in a local world of Holly Gilbert unlikely friendships, mobile discos and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the timesurprising romantic possibilities. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.'
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|isbn=05713795590008405026|title=The House of Broken BricksA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Fiona WilliamsJane Casey
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It''The House of Broken Bricks'' is s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the story of four peopleinvestigation ground to a halt. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier thereNow, her mother, but insteadHelena, she lives and her father are dead in the house on the riverbank, built of broken brickstheir bed. Insubstantial as it might lookInitially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's stood something about the passage positioning of time, storms the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and floodsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Her husband, Richard, struggles What looked as though it was going to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds be an open- and to bring in sufficient money-shut case is now a complex double murder. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, Kerrigan is convinced that the rainbow twins. Sonnyexplanation lies in Rosalie's colouring reflects his motherdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're relatedboss, much Una Burt) are less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nannyconvinced.
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|isbnauthor=1529425867Jo Callaghan|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon MasonLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins When a man is found crucified on the top of Nigerian descenta hill in Nuneaton, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan WilkinsDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is notthe AI detective Lock. HeIt's not any of those thingstheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. He's whiteBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, originated from Kat is suddenly struggling with a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) potential serial killer and his wardrobe consists mainly a very high profile case that draws a lot of shell suits and trackiesunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. They're usually Will they be able to solve the case in lime green time, or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Wellwill Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, you're not. The two men are just different sides out of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Mosby Woods1529077745|title=A Whirly Man Loses His TurnThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The West isn't dead man was Josh - one of the dominant force it once care workers who wasdue to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. Nobody D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it murder - but her only clue is the best course disappearance of action. Governments are flailing. A war hereone of the residents, a push for climate action therefourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. A feeling Some people believe that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there Chloe was a man with precognition. Imagine responsible for the strategic advantage in death but Vera thinks this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps is unlikely as the most valuable asset in historygirl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. Imagine then, She knows that this man loses this abilityshe has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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|authorisbn=Alastair Humphreys1399613073|title=LocalMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Travel Thrillers|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked Olivia, Laura and cycled all over Anjali met on the worldfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. And then written about itOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. For this book he walked Laura is a perfectionist and cycled very close to home a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and then wrote about itshe becomes a GP. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small mapend in tragedy. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…We don'' One of t know who suffered the joys of tragedy or the book for me was consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answersthree friends. This time, no single 'right or wrongit', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there s their teenage children who are some hard choices aheadinvolved.|isbn=1785633678
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|isbn=18051418720241636604|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too MuchTrading Game: A Confession|author=Rob KeeleyGary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Seventeen banks re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows jeans replaces the truth – pin-stripe suit and his Maths teacherbackground is the East End, Miss Judsonwhere he was familiar with violence, is really a safecracker! With police poverty and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the runLondon School of Economics. But Al needs them for one last job Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid..'' Goodness me It was his ability at what was, essentially, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up card game which got him an internship with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find outCitibank. Luckily for Miss Judson Eventually, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of this turned into permanent employment as a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth savingtrader.
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|isbn=0760381267B0DB64PYV5|title=Verdura: Living a Garden LifeThe White Rose|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoDave Baines|rating=3.54|genre=LifestyleDystopian Fiction|summary=''The most important part of In 2033, a garden is superstorm known as the one who enjoys White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. And it''s not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. I've 'gardened' in a vagueInstead, indefinite sort of way for more than it hovers across half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. ''Verdura'' Earth with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed octopus-like the answer. Sotentacles, how did it stack not giving up?and never going away.
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|isbnauthor=B0CP95J1CGLeanne Egan|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark LinganeLover Birds
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|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary= RonanWhen new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but his interest Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good opportunity kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to get hang out of his room with her because fighting with her is fun, and away from the online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way thereshe definitely just hates Isabel, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.doesn't she?|isbn=000862657X
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|isbn=14549555461009473085|title=SugarlessThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Nicole M AvenaAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''This isn't a diet book'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. The last thing anyone needs is another diet If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the bookfor you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon' There was a times book, not that long ago{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, when it was thought that sugary food was better can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for you than food with high-fat contentanyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. Fat was It's the demon food seventh book in a series which was going to elevate your cholesterol looks at the impact a government has made and cause heart diseaseco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. Sugar was This book follows the well-established format: a carbohydrateseries of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, so goodthe changes that occurred and the situation in 2024. }}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? ThereSnuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a problemtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, thoughand then she finds something even more spooky. Sugar is addictive For the server she and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin her bestie and cocainenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Does that sound over When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the topgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn? Well, it isn't.|isbn=0008666482
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|isbnauthor=1521129886Jenny Lecoat|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith RedfernBeyond Summerland
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargesoccupation. ItDuring the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a good job too because Greg banned radio and Joyce will soon have a baby soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and they're both delightedher mother waiting for years for news of him. Joyce will be more delighted about As the British finally free the baby when she gets past Channel islands from the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, LucyNazis, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son the war is not thrivingfinally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. LucyBut will the truth come as a relief, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - or will it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the coroner have accepted that Nazis about the death was suicide, radio? but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out And what happened on other secrets have been kept throughout the night Gil died.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=B0CK3MYJ561529428289|title=Responsibilities A Grave in the Woods (Greg Mason mysteriesA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ann MacarthurMartin Walker
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It's Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years oldgrave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. He used They dated back to have a high-flying job in World War II and it fell to Bruno, the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades Chief of Cameron Strike'Police for St Denis, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's to discover the life experience that backs up this profession? On identities of the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce bodies and Helen are half-sisters, establish whether or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's not a crime had been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossingcommitted. Joyce - and her parentsAs if this isn't enough to worry about, Oliver and Pam Hetherington the Dordogne River - can't understand what she was doing there normally tranquil - or how she could come to fall in front of a trainis flowing at record levels. GregIt's been asked not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to investigaterelease water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|authorisbn=Katherine Howe152919640X|title=A True AccountThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Hannah Masury is living in BostonThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, having been sent to was murdered live with a family who run an inn, on television and being made to work it seems that there from a young age's only one suspect. When she hears there is He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watchJessica Holby. Enthralled She's seriously allergic and horrified carries an EpiPen in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands case of two vicious piratesemergencies. She hides away, so that Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they don't find and kill her toocan be in a busy, live television studio - and then Brooks served a ragout to escape them completely she runs away Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to sea, dressing as a boy be found and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boyshe was dead within minutes. She It was soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean wavesclear that this was no accident.|isbn=0861547438
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|authorisbn=Tananarive Due0008385068|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe TomorrowMidnight Feast|author=Penny ParkesLucy Foley
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|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man whoIt's a control freak with all midsummer on the subtlety of a half brickDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. JamieIt's son, Bo, 'has his problems'their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. HeIt's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrumall headed up by Francesca Meadows. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - The Manor was her ancestral home and she's a frequent flier in converted it into an impressive retreat for the local A&E wealthy and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to schoolfamous. Missed shifts or Her husband, Owen, was the need to be away architect and work is still ongoing on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and put in amongst the wrongguests are enemies as well as friends. It was Old scores are going to come to be settled and it won't be long before a headbody is found.
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|author=Harry AllenAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Children of the SunWild East|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a North Korean town young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and she is start at a talented singermostly white school. Life The move is hard initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and food is difficult so Ronny finds himself trying to come bysettle in a new town, a new school, so Seo and her friends Nari keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and Min go foraging every eveninghas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, looking for tree bark in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and edible grasses , slowly, Ronny begins to supplement see the meagre rations connections between rap and poetry, and the power of rice creativity and kimchi at homecrafting your words.|isbn=18051404930241645441
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|author=Edel RodriguezRob Keeley|title=WormChildish Spirits: A Cuban American Odyssey10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=We're in childhoodAround here, and we're in Cubabig fans of children's author Rob Keeley. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as He's a saviour ball of the countryhappy positivity, has proven himself a Communisthe understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for alllecture or hector. Well, those hours-long speeches The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his were kind of taking his time awaygreatest achievements. Our narratorIt's family weren't in the happiest a sequence of places hereghost stories centring on Ellie, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmishspirit world throws at her, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watchedEdward, a spoiled lordling and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=14746167201783064617
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|author=K P O'DonnellKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=3.54|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she isMeet Kit. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, Like most of the people in his world ended, consumed in it seems, he is an apocalyptic war between avid fan of Dungeon Running – the nations sport where a team of Drexel warrior, mage and Renada. Over halfhealer enter specially prepared, century-a-century laterold, magical mazes, civilisation is starting and race to rebuildthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's legacyseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmonyeaten, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group new trio of salvagers called the Exhumersquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his entire life turned upside down when world and stumbled into declaring he unearths 'll enter as a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfteam. Even after being buried for 65 years What chance does this friendless, her determination hasn't diminished muscle-free-zone have in the slightestactually managing that, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM1839945184
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|isbn=18389544810008517061|title=The MisperDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Kate LondonStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a police officer: there's no doubt little uncertainty about that. He was the fifteen-yearfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-old holding the gun grid and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to the vagaries of the jury system he was found Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not guilty of both this is the murder future she wants for herself and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. her daughter? For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter moment they’re enjoying life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found present and putting the future on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and the back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedyburner.
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