|summary=At the start of Shadow of the Hawk, our heroes are in disarray. Drew, having bitten off his hand to escape Vanmorten and the undead, is in captivity, about to be forced to fight as a gladiator. The Staglord Manfred and the Wereshark Vega, two of the three remaining members of the Wolf's Council, are on the run, spiriting Drew's mother to safety. And Hector, the third of the Council... oh, Hector!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141340495</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Niven
|title=The Second Coming
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=God has come back from a holiday and has some catching up to do. What’s been happening on Earth for the last couple of hundred years? The realisation hits him hard... it makes him sick in fact. So what’s the answer? To quote the religious cliché, Jesus is. After a board meeting with the senior saints, God decides that his son must be torn away from jamming with Hendrix to go back to the streets of the world to remind the sinners of the way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535521</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christoph Marzi
|title=Heaven
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''The night that Heaven lost her heart was cold and moonless. But the blade that sliced it out was warm with her dark blood.''
David Pettyfer stumbles into this explosive first scene as he takes his usual shortcut over the rooftops of night-time London on his way to deliver a book to one of Miss Trodwood's most valued customers. David hates closed-in spaces and in particular the Tube, but loves the open air and the freedom he feels on the roofs. And so, it turns out, does this beautiful, enigmatic girl who claims that evil men have cut out her heart. David can feel the danger but he is lost right from his first glimpse of Heaven. He couldn't walk away from this girl even if he tried.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314665</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=R J Palacio
|title=Wonder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=August Pullman was born with a rare genetic defect that has caused extreme facial disfiguration. He has undergone 27 surgeries since he was born and has always been vulnerable to illness. In order to deal with his medical needs and to shield him from the staring and cruelty of the world, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents for his entire life. But Auggie is stronger now and all of that is about to change. Auggie is about to enter school for the first time – and he’s petrified. ‘Wonder’ is the story of Auggie’s first year at Beecher Prep and his first journey alone into the outside world. But can he confront the challenges that wait for him there and convince his classmates, new friends, family and himself that, underneath his unusual appearance, he is just the same as everybody else?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370332288</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Darynda Jones
|title=First Grave on the Right
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Charley Davidson is a private investigator with a difference - she's the Grim Reaper, ushering souls towards the light. When three lawyers from the same firm are murdered, they ask her to solve the case to allow them to rest in peace. With the help of her uncle, a detective, she sets out to do just that - as long as she can avoid being distracted by the nightly dreams she's having of a sexy entity…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749956046</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gene Sharp
|title=From Dictatorship to Democracy
|rating=3
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Gene Sharp is an American politologist and a veritable (and venerable) guru of non-violent struggle. The story behind the ''From Dictatorship to Democracy'' is a fascinating one. The book, or a booklet really as it consists of 160 small pages, was apparently created in response to a request from Burmese dissenters in the early 1990's. Sharp responded to this request by producing a generic text, a manual for the subversive that lies out the theory and practical advice for those engaged in a struggle to bring down a dictatorship.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688396</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Will Tidey
|title=Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United
|rating=4
|genre=Sport
|summary=In his 25 years as manager of Manchester United Football Club, Sir Alex Ferguson has won everything, most of them more than once. He's taken his team to the top of English football with some lavish purchases, some expert man management and a ruthless dedication to his club and his players. Depending which side of the fence you sit on, this has made him either the most popular, or most hated, man in English football. I'm in the latter group. I'm a Liverpool fan.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408149516</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julie Cross
|title=Tempest
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jackson has a secret – he can travel through time. Sadly, it’s not as cool as it seems. He can just pop back a few hours, observe things, and not change anything. His friend Adam, who he’s trusted with this, is trying to get him to record every time he does this so they can find out more about the mysterious ability he developed eight months or so ago, but Jackson looks on it as little more than something fun. And then everything changes… armed men burst into his girlfriend’s room, and attack the pair, leaving her dying. Panicking, he jumps back in time 2 years, far further than he’s ever gone before. This time, he can’t get back to 2009. Somehow, Jackson needs to try and find a way to get back to his own time and save Holly, but it’s quickly apparent that there is an awful lot that he needs to learn about himself before he can get to grips with this.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230756263</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Giselle Green
|title=Falling for You
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Rose is full of worries and insecurities. Her father is frail, her mother died some years previously. Rose is desperately hoping for a letter offering her a place at the university of her dreams... but has no idea how her father will survive without her there to look after him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B006KHWSJ8</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kes Gray and Lee Wildish
|title=Leave Me Alone
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A young boy sits in a field, and to every advance by the animal friends around him he declares 'Leave me alone.' He finally explains that his problems are too big for anyone to help him with because his problem is a giant who bullies and teases him. When the bully appears the animals gather together and tell him to leave the boy alone.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900145</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex T Smith
|title=Claude at the Circus
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's no secret that I am a big fan of Alex T Smith. I first discovered him in Claude's first story, [[Claude in the City by Alex T Smith|Claude in the City]] and fell in love with the little dog in the red beret and his best friend, Sir Bobblysock. I know, I can already sense some of you rolling your eyes at the thought of a story featuring a dog and a sock, but really you'd be doing yourself a favour to just stop being a grown up for fifteen minutes and let yourself revel in the pleasure of a highly enjoyable story!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999039</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer E Smith
|title=The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=The story takes place over the course of only twenty four hours but so much happens during that small amount of time. It starts when the reader meets Hadley having missed her flight to London by a mere four minutes. As it turns out, those four minutes are some of the most significant of her life, as they result in her booking a later flight and consequently meeting Oliver with whom she is seated throughout the journey across the Atlantic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755392175</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Lyndon
|title=Hawk Quest
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''Hawk Quest'' is an epic of a historic novel set in the 11th century. A band of companions led by Vallon, the mysterious Frankish warrior, travel from England to Scandinavia and on to Anatolia in order to capture and deliver four rare pure white falcons as a ransom for Sir Walter, the son of a Norman nobleman held by the Seljuk Turks.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847444970</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Janey Fraser
|title=The Playgroup
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Gemma Merryfield is really looking forward to her first term in charge of Puddleducks Playgroup. The children are delightful, although sometimes challenging, and the parents are generally supportive. There are visits to local farms to organise, a Halloween assembly to plan and the end of term Nativity play to look forward to. She loves writing the monthly newsletters and creating little rhymes to help the children with their learning. These provide delightful interludes at various points in the story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955819X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenny Han
|title=The Summer I Turned Pretty
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=For as long as she can remember, Belly and her brother Stephen have holidayed in Cousins Beach with her mother, her mother’s friend Susannah, and Susannah’s two sons Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly lives for these summers – even if Conrad and Jeremiah only ever seem to see her as the young tag-along. This summer, though, she knows that’s going to change…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330538</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kaui Hart Hemmings
|title=The Descendants
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On the face of it Matt King is very lucky. He's descended from one of Hawaii's largest landowners and is a wealthy man as well as being an attorney. He's married to the flighty, flirtatious Joanie and has two daughters, teenager Alex, a model who might just have a bit of a drug problem and ten year old Scottie. She's feisty, clever and - for me - stole the book. Have you ever noticed that when luck changes it doesn't do it in baby steps? It does it in ''lumps''. Joanie is involved in a powerboat accident and sinks into an irreversible coma as a result of a head injury. But there's more piling up. Matt discovers that Joanie has been having an affair. Does the man who's been - er - enjoying his wife have the right to say his goodbyes too?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570246</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Harvey
|title=Good Bait
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Karen Shields runs the over-stretched Homicide and Serious Crimes Unit and it's an early-morning call which takes her to Hampstead Heath and a seventeen-year-old Moldovan boy who's dead under the ice in the pond. Even working out who he was is difficult and she's got no idea that she's at the edge of a web of organised crime and gang warfare which will take up much of her time. Hundreds of miles away DI Trevor Cordon lives in a sail loft in Newlyn and his day-to-day duties are, well, undemanding but he's shaken out of his rut when an old acquaintance dies in London and he heads off to the capital to find the friend's daughter. It's going to be a lot more complicated than he realises - and it touches on Karen Shield's problems in a way that neither of them could ever have imagined.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434021628</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Womersley
|title=Bereft
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Quinn Walker, a young Australian man fresh from fighting on the European front in World War One, returns to the very town he was drummed out of ten years before, after being accused of raping and killing his own younger sister. Two things have beaten him to the small settlement - one, the global flu pandemic; two a telegram saying he died bravely in action earlier in the war. And the less you know of what he meets and does back in Flint the better, the more to keep this fresh and brilliant book's many intrigues as secret as they were for me.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386549</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Megan Miranda
|title=Fracture
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Delaney Maxwell just died. Except, she didn't. After 11 minutes under the ice, she was declared officially dead, only to make a full recovery. As far as the doctors are concerned, it's a medical miracle. As far as Delaney's concerned, it's traumatic - not just for the obvious reasons, but because she came back changed. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to people who are about to die, and unable to make sense of why her life was spared. Can the mysterious Troy, who has the same ability, explain what's going on, or does he have a different reason for wanting to get close to her?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881739X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Kreidler
|title=The Voodoo Wave - Inside a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick's
|rating=4
|genre=Sport
|summary=Maverick's is one of the biggest, nastiest, jaw droppingly huge waves in the Pacific Ocean and as such has become something of a Mecca for the world's top surfers. Situated off the coast of Northern California its freezing cold conditions make it a far cry from the sun drenched breaks in Hawaii, Mexico and South Africa with the number of surfers adequately qualified (and fearless enough) to take on the cliff like drops probably numbering less than 100.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393065359</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Williams
|title=The Pleasures of Men
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Catherine Sorgeiul is a woman with burdens. Living with her uncle in London’s East End during the reign of Queen Victoria, hers is a life that seems empty – yet in fact is full of things she is trying to push away.
Filling her days has become a problem, so when a series of grisly murders begins, Catherine is drawn to the mystery of the Man of Crows in a way that seems bound to change her life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951399</amazonuk>
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