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|title=The Bones of Paris

|author=Laurie R King

|rating=4

|genre=Crime (Historical)

|summary=It is 1929 and Harris Stuyvesant has now left the Bureau of Investigation and England behind him and is working as a Private Investigator in Europe. An American, whom Stuyvesant had met, has gone missing and Stuyvesant is approached by her Uncle and her Mother to find her. The missing girl, Pip Crosby, was involved with a group of artists in the Montparnasse and Montmartre areas of the city. Many of them seem to have known her, but few have seen her in some time.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749015357</amazonuk>

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|title=The Web and the Wing

|summary=Determined heroine Gerda has a series of adventures on her journey to find her friend Kay after he has been spirited away by the Snow Queen to live in her palace of ice. 'The Snow Queen' is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s less disturbing fables with a message about the power of love and true friendship. No heart wrenching deaths like 'The Little Match Girl', no tortured longing like 'The Little Mermaid', it has the benefit of a happy ending. And, in contrast to so many traditional tales where the hero is usually male, its star is a lively girl who rescues her friend against all the odds.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709011</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers~~

~~|author=John Dougherty~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Confident Readers~~

|summary=It's a good day, unless you're a young girl called Ketchup-Face, who doesn't like being rudely woken up by happy birds singing outside her window. It's a good day, unless you're a young boy called Stinkbomb who's just been woken up by his sister jumping on him. It's a good day until they find a piggy bank raided, and can only assume the thieves were badgers – the clue is in the 'bad' bit. So they go off to meet the king, and a song gets sung, and a major crime-busting task-force is formed, and someone eats an elephant. Yes, it's a good day.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192734490</amazonuk>~~

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~~|title=Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle England~~

~~|author=Nigel Cawthorne~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Humour~~

|summary=It was ever thus… cyclists go too fast, without using a hooter or lights; there are hoodlums everywhere one looks, and no public conveniences; people pretend to have qualifications and degrees they haven't rightfully earned; buses are too busy with shopping women who should be indoors already, cooking for their working menfolk… It's a very clever idea to show exactly what is behind the 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' tag, and as a book to be shelved alongside those with the wackier letters sent to the ''Daily Telegraph'', these selections from the Royal town's press itself make a great eye-opener to the complaints and complainants of Kent.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096918</amazonuk>~~

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