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|author=Sam KeanCharles Ellingworth|title=The Disappearing SpoonSilent Night
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular ScienceLiterary Fiction|summary=If The front cover describes this book as 'astonishing' and has 'the disappearing spoon mark of a classic.' We're introduced to one of the title doesn't pique your interesttwo female characters, the subtitle is bound to get your juices flowingMimi: a young, German woman. It''s 1944 in Eastern Germany and Other True Tales of Madnessif I say that things are grim, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the ElementsI'm sure you'll appreciate that it is an understatement. As far as popular science books goes, it Mimi is obviously an intelligent and curious individual and she's got all certainly not happy to be living in the ummback-of-beyond. But then again, things could be ten times worse for her. She could be living in Berlin picking through the rubble. right elements (sorry Out of the blue, sorryshe encounters a man - a French national, sorry)as it happens and things change dramatically. Welearn that along with his fellow countrymen, Mimi're taken on s husband is absent, not at home. So when she acknowledges her attraction for another man - and someone who is not German at that, she seems exhilarated, shocked and perhaps just a tour through little repelled, all at the periodic table, hearing exciting tales of scientific discovery and marvelsame time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08575202610704372126</amazonuk>
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|summary=Are ebooks the future of books? Is it the right time to get an ebook reader? We thought about it long and hard. Yes we did. We don't often think about things this long or this hard, because it hurts. But sometimes, cogitations are necessary. We wouldn't be here at Bookbag if we didn't love books but we knew that more and more people were enjoying ebooks. It was time to find out what it was really like to have up to 3,500 books in your pocket or your bag. 3,500! Yikes!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B002LVUWFE</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Kean
|title=The Disappearing Spoon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=If the disappearing spoon of the title doesn't pique your interest, the subtitle is bound to get your juices flowing: ''and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements''. As far as popular science books goes, it's got all the umm... right elements (sorry, sorry, sorry). We're taken on a tour through the periodic table, hearing exciting tales of scientific discovery and marvel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520261</amazonuk>
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|summary=Alan Lorber has written a fictional and I suspect a semi autobiographical account of his years as a top music arranger in the 1950's and early 1960's, a period of huge change in the music industry culminating with the breakthrough of the Beatles in America. Rather than simply writing a factual narrative of his involvement during this period he decided to tell the story of the fictional Benny Allen, a classically trained musician who almost by accident gets involved in the music publishing business and then goes on to produce some hugely successful orchestrations on many of the top hit records of the time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0041VXCTA</amazonuk>
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|author=Christina Courtenay
|title=Trade Winds
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It is 1731 and Killian Kinross, disgraced heir to the estate is making his way as best he can through the gambling dens of Edinburgh, trading on his skill, ability to hold his drink and the smiling fickle fortunes of lady luck. The Lady is smiling at the moment, although she hasn't always done so.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931232</amazonuk>
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|author=Nina Grunfeld
|title=How To Get What You Want
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people 'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what to do next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving it, and sets out to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>
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|author=Charlie Higson
|title=The Dead
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ok. I'm writing for two sets of readers here: those who have read the first book in the series, and those who have not.
 
The Dead is a prequel to The Enemy but both books are set in the same post-apocalyptic world in which the adult population has been decimated by a killer disease. Those that survive roam the streets as zombies, looking for untainted human flesh to eat. The only untainted flesh belongs to children who were fourteen or under when the disease struck, and were somehow immune. The Enemy is set two years after the epidemic, when it's getting more and more difficult for children to find food and shelter by scavenging and they are beginning to realise that they need to band together to start forming the prototype for a new society.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384654</amazonuk>
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|author=Martin Cohen
|title=Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=The sub-title of Martin Cohen's latest book, Mind Games, promises, rather optimistically in my case I felt, '31 days to rediscover your brain'. It is rather presumptuous of him to assume that I had ''discovered'' it in the first place, but I appreciate his confidence.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444337092</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
|title=Beautiful Creatures: Beautiful Darkness
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Growing up there, Ethan Wate always thought Gatlin was a normal enough Southern town, if you could forgive the inhabitants' obsessions with the War of Northern Aggression. That was until he met Lena Duchannes and got plunged into her family's own civil war, as her family fought to get the young Caster to choose
either Light or Dark. If you've haven't read [[Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|Beautiful Creatures]], the first novel in this sequence, break off from this review and go out and grab it now! If you have, you'll remember that Lena's 16th birthday left her with a choice to make that would kill half of her family. This book follows Ethan as he tries to support her through that choice but watches her get pulled towards her Dark cousin Ridley and a new boy in town, the mysterious John Breed. While the first novel was more of a romance, this is an adventure story which sees Ethan, his friend Link, new girl in town Liv, and a variety of others embark on a journey to save the day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326093</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Deborah Harkness
|title=A Discovery of Witches
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The back cover is full of praise for this debut novel which has been involved in a publishing 'tussle', no less. Impressive. I was looking forward to reading what all the fuss was about. The title is terrific too. But was the book a terrific read?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755374029</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Denis O'Connor
|title=Paw Tracks at Owl Cottage
|rating=3.5
|genre=Pets
|summary='Paw Tracks at Owl Cottage' is the story of four pedigree Maine Coon cats which the author and his wife acquired after moving back to a cottage where they had previously lived. This is the sequel to a volume called 'Paw Tracks in the Moonlight', which I have not read, and which features their first cat Toby Jug. Apparently, on his demise, they had sold the cottage; but now, a little more advanced in years, they buy it again, and do extensive renovations before deciding that it's ready for another cat.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849016402</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali McNamara
|title=From Notting Hill with Love... Actually
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Scarlett loves the movies; in fact that you could easily say that she is obsessed with them, much to the exasperation of her father, her fiancé David and her friends. She can't help dreaming and wishing that her life was more like the films that she loves. So, when the opportunity arises to house sit for a month in Notting Hill (the setting of her favourite film), she grabs it. It's a chance to prove to all those sceptics that life can be like the movies and also for her to examine her feelings about her forthcoming marriage to David.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751544957</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bevis Hillier
|title=The Wit and Wisdom of G K Chesterton
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), best known as the creator of the clerical detective Father Brown, seems to have slipped a little among the general reading public's estimation these days. This is surely unmerited, for he was just as versatile as and hardly less quotable than the Victorian enfant terrible.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441179585</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Melling
|title=The Scallywags Blow Their Top
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The Scallywags, for those who do not know, are a bunch of wolves who in their [[The Scallywags by David Melling|previous escapade]] had to learn a few manners in order to get along with the other animals. This time they're taking part in a play, a fairy tale story along with the other animals, and the wolves are playing the part of the dragon. Of course, things are destined to go badly and inside the dragon costume their tempers begin to fray until finally, as the costume rips, the wolves are sent home in disgrace. On the way home they all start blaming each other until they see, quite by surprise, that waiting by their house is a little sheep...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988150</amazonuk>
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