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|author=Karen M McManusJames Baldwin|title=The CousinsGiovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= The rich and famous Story family led ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a life of luxury on Gull Cove Islandgay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, until 25 years ago when each the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of the Story children his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson- AndersLovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, Archerthis is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, Adam and Allison - received so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a mysterious letter from their mother new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and were cut off completelyhas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, a quarter in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a century laterpoetry writing workshop group and, their children have been called to return slowly, Ronny begins to see the island for the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesconnections between rap and poetry, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - power of creativity and held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downcrafting your words.|isbn=02413769470241645441
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|isbn=17864959021635866847|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindLavender Companion|author=Isabel HardmanJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
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|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says It's strange, the things that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionalsmake you ''immediately'' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with feel that this at is the time by book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''keeping going, I visited the author's [https: //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the next day she went to work to cover homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the budgetbook, next there was which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests book and then I was told to make a mess of it was party conference season. One night she had Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leavea problem. That was what brought me to I ''loved'' this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didalready.
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|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezJenny Valentine|title=The Ghost GardenUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=FranElk and Mab are best friends, the gardener's daughter at a posh country houseor more than that even, their friendship is worrieda once in a lifetime connection. SheThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under contact details at the potatoestime. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leothen chance brings them back together, the older child of the houseand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchairterrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fearand their friendship, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chambertogether. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=17811290021471196585
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|isbn=reed31787333175|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions YouDon'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)t Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=James ReedBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=Business and FinancePopular Science|summary=Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled I was tempted to read ''You Don'The Future of t Have to be Mad to WorkHere'' which includes an additional 10 questions. Iafter enjoying Adam Kay've come s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to this some 6 years after reviewing Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the original book NHS, humour and my life has changed significantly in the meantimeautobiography. I ''You Don'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing t Have to enable me be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to focus on other (not necessarily paying) mental illness and the workof a psychiatrist. I can therefore relate did wonder whether it was acceptable to the first point made be looking for humour in this chapter namely that independence setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and flexibility are core skills that employees need to haveunderstanding.
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorOnyi Nwabineli|title= The CaptiveAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Hannah knows Anuri spent her childhood on display to the cageworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, intimatelymonetary gain. It lurks Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the corner of content about her eye. Soon Anuri is battling alcoholism, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks failing to start her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her? What if little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she hurts himsave her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=18387726500861546873
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTDavid Chadwick|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house It's September 1973 in The CircleHicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a gated community, Alice Dawson was significant drive away. Not much happens in VeniceHicks. Leo wanted to move quickly on A silver mine and a defence contractor are the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldnmain local employers but otherwise, there't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford its not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1406395404Tom Percival|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganWrong Shoes
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=2020 has been Will's life is difficult, in a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots multitude of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problemsways. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant (He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'who needs sleep? - I, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can've got loads to be doing) t work and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will doesn't have enough money for even the odd bad night but worrying about your lack most basic of sleep is only likely to make it worsethings like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. And there's also Throw into that mix the fact that for far too longhis mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, lack of sleep he still has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like lazinesstiny amount of hope. Being up earlyHe is good at art, working late has been praised and clings to the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CVmoments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=000820831XSylvie Cathrall|title=The Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Stuart MacBrideA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=At the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is slowly eroding into the sea. Storm Trevor speeds There are few greater joys than a book which lives up the process. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house to see what's happening. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesa compelling premise. Gordon Smith's home And this is falling into the North Sea and the evidence one of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1786482126|title=Winterkill The Janus Stone (Dark IcelandDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ragnar JonassonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and he's still living Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden site was going to do a Masters degree, taking threehold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Stefnir with herwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's now difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonone night they spent together some three months ago. Ari Thor Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get prone to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street sudden bouts of the townsickness.
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{{FrontpageinterviewFrontpage|isbnauthor=3110641291Joan Didion|authortitle=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderThe Year of Magical Thinking|summaryrating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Sue was so impressed by [[The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs by Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander]] that This book is Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief she wished that she had a good business idea of endured following her own so that she could use the bookhusband's sudden death. Perhaps Books that was what she was talking about when Olga shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and Allen popped into Bookbag Towers necessary resource to chat help people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, lends them a human face to uswear.|isbn=0007216858
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|author=Rob WintersAlba de Cespedes |title=His Name Was WrenForbidden Notebook
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village This Italian work of Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the spire feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the village church with itmoment our protagonist, destroying a stone shackValeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and leaving a wide trail through learns about herself in the wood, but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, most intimate and there were neither of those thingsrevealing ways.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1782278222
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|author=Stephen ClarkeOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=43|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=This At best, this novel is a spoof spy storyscathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemmingis the cynical, who dresses well predictable and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side slightly trite tale of things more than the active servicean unlikeable protagonist. Lemming finds himself put on This unlikely heroine, a mission with a female spy called Margauxslim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the pair end up stranded in Normandyworld, with Margaux on a desperate mission but resolves not to unearth traitors lose sleep over it: in the resistance networkfact, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=29521638551784707422
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|isbn=31107060750008551324|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director WayThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Gerry BrownNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=It''You're not there s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to run approach the organisationpolice. You are there Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to make sure that it tell the police where the body of a missing person is run properlyburied and who was responsible for her death.'' Gerry Brown This person, he promises, is passionate about someone big and it will be worth the benefits which Independent Directors can bring police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to a board - not just a corporate board, but serve the board remainder of his sentence and to get an NHS Trustearly parole date. Not much to ask, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. is it? HeThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn's particularly keen that theret think so and she's increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help even prepared to avoid some of do the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company other thing that Hardie demanded - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from when theywhat're looking for an IDs happening.
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|isbn=17864959021739526910|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Isabel HardmanGlen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered ''One year after a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friendsuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged he arrives in disbeliefan unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Hardman dealt Living with this an unexpected housemate at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budgethis former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, next there was the EU referendumhe becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, the political party leadership contests mobile discos and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didsurprising romantic possibilities.''
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|isbn=30305130250008405026|title=The Independent Director A Stranger in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to dothe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisJane Casey
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Independent Director: It''a job for which no s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one is qualified'' summer night. (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company's executive team, She was never found and (3) is not involved with the day-investigation ground to-day operations of the companya halt. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry BrownNow, her mother, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors)Helena, trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the executive side of the board - to spot when and where things her father are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosydead in their bed. Initially, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge andit looks like a straightforward murder/or experience to understand whatsuicide but there's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted something about the failings and weaknesses positioning of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think the bodies that these are extraordinary times makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and that all will be well once we get back to 'normal' but a pandemic her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a general failure going to prepare for what has happened be an open- and -shut case is still happeningnow a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQJo Callaghan|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to listen to now that Ithe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilitys their first live case together, Pride and Prejudicehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels a very high profile case that draws a lot of Jane Austen]] for unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the second case in time on the trot she had , or will Kat find herself taken off the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles case and they were in my inbox in , potentially, out of a matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow on.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=00082144681529077745|title=A Time to LieThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Simon BerthonAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped man in part of an old shower curtain and is the park near Rosebank, a hand, severed above the wristcare home for troubled teens. It's been there for about twentyThe dead man was Josh -five one of the care workers who was due to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be work a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, shift the night before but morally goodwho had never turned up.'' One of the ways he's planning on going about this D I Vera Stanhope is called in to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morlandinvestigate the murder -Cross, but her only clue is the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor disappearance of one of the Exchequerresidents, wishes fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that he'd been warned about Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this: itis unlikely as the girl's easy diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementfind Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|isbn=B077K6BQFD1399613073|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Moral Injuries|author=Jane AustenChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of listening medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the purchase free spirit of one audio bookthe group and she becomes a GP. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and When we first meet them they're presented at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the order in which they were publishedtragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=02414535850241636604|title=Banking On ItThe Trading Game: How I Disrupted an IndustryA Confession|author=Anne BodenGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Anne Boden had If you were to bring up an impressive track record image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bankpin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. AIB There was in no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the throes London School of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and she was one he has a facility with numbers which most of the first to realise us can only envy. He also realised that banks needed most rich people expect poor people to do things differentlybe stupid. AIB thought it It was his ability at the cutting edge when it proposed opening what was, essentially, a branch card game which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminalgot him an internship with Citibank. Boden took things Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundanttrader.
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|authorisbn=Lauren MartinB0DB64PYV5|title=The Book of MoodsWhite Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating=54|genre=LifestyleDystopian Fiction|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sighIn 2033, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on superstorm known as the water at our local sailing club in White Rose devastates the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed supportNorthern Hemisphere. ItAnd it's not a volunteer duty we all do during the yearstorm that gathers, and normally I'm happy towreaks havoc, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserablethen dissipates. Instead, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on hovers across half the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book moregoing away.|isbn=1538733625
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|author=Becky AlbertalliLeanne Egan|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaLover Birds|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has a close group of friendsWhen new girl, a loving familyIsabel, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: hemoves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's gaydisdain for everything around her. Only one person knows this A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's his own private universe without the fear never had a good kiss with any of being judged. Until one daythem? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, these emails fall into the wrong handsand wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=014135609X000862657X
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|isbn=31106411191009473085|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey MappingConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Jerry AngraveAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=I had no idea Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to 'journey mapping' was until I The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers which will benefit from reading deliver the book and acting inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the contentsbook for you. YouIf that's what you're going to learn how to run looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a workshop to discover what it feels like compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to be one of your own customerspolitics. At this point, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshopThe Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It' because s the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this is going to be fun as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and you're going to be surprised by what emergesthe situation in 2024.
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|isbnauthor=3110641291Max Boucherat|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to do something new you end up with the same thing pop in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Why not just leave it as it isWhat could possibly go wrong? After allSnuggled in a blanket fort, it's ''roughly'' workingshe has one main intention, isn't it? You might not have said itand that is to log on to Voxminer, but you've probably thought it. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make world- the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possiblebuilding, the extension of your existing products into new areas critter- haven't really delivered collecting game that is a hit in terms of ''growth'Lori's world. ItBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's been manageable t find herself entirely on her own, and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a then she finds something even more radical approachspooky. You've merely kept For the business ticking over server she and her bestie and there's a nagging suspicion in the back nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the twenty-first. What you need game has been doctored – well, where is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|isbnauthor=1472962044Jenny Lecoat|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew HampshireBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteenJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, so thereJean's been father was arrested for listening to a lot banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of technology in my lifehim. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they had a typewriterwill finally learn what became of him. Times - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays But will the problem is that someone running truth come as a business doesn't have relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the time to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. war? It's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have Who was the knowledge of informer who told the required technology, so they start off in conversations Nazis about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. the radio? They need help, but they frequently don't know And what help they need.other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529428289|title=Note to Self: An EducationA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= In Kry's worldBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells bones. They dated back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 World War II and it's possible fell to cure cancerous tumours but with Bruno, the side effect Chief of erasing seven years Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of memorythe bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, by 2045 the cosmetics industry Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is using flowing at record levels. It's not just the same technique local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsrelease water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}}
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|isbn=1838770046152919640X|title=Body LanguageThe Suspect|author=A K TurnerRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not only does she talk serve anything containing miso to the deadJessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, she also hears what they have live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to say Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to herbe found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's not something all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's inclined converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to share with people as shebe settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's pretty certain about what their reaction will beauthor Rob Keeley. SheHe's certainly a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not going to share it lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the new pathologistspirit world throws at her, Dr Archie Chuffand Edward, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and old HarrovianJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. He's very conscious Like most of the people in his position world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and isn't even inclined race to ask the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the view only thing he's seen of the anatomical pathology technicians despite latest race on the fact inn TV equivalent is that they have a lot more experience than him one team has been retired, eaten, and he has only a limited amount new trio of time to spend on each bodyquestors is needed. That will prove Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to be the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a mistaketeam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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