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|summary=Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is puzzled. Living with her former pop-star mother in a New York apartment she is having strange visions. It seems she has forgotten all about her previous time travelling adventures (in The Queen Must Die) although someone appears to be trying to send her some clues to prompt her memory. Her friends from Victorian England, Princess Alice and James, are facing difficulties of their own, with a very sick friend and also the threat of war. They need Katie's help, but how can they get her to travel back in time to them?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870558</amazonuk>
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|author=Toni Jordan
|title=Nine Days
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Christopher 'Kip' Westaway lives in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia with mother Jean, sister Connie and his twin, Francis. Kip's mother considers him a layabout who doesn't deserve the special privileges of his educationally elite brother and so he works at the big house next door for the Hustings, caring for their horses. One day Mr Husting presents Kip with a shilling; their little secret. As its 1939, that's a fair amount of money so Kip hides it away, not realising how special that coin will become as the decades pass.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444763555</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Casey
|title=How to Fall
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
Freya dies after a fall from a cliff. But was it an accident, suicide, or - horror of horrors - murder?
 
Jess Tennant can't bear a mystery and so she sets out to solve the mystery of the death of the cousin she never met. She meets with nothing but obstruction and hostility, but perhaps it's little wonder. Not only is Jess a stranger in the parochial town of Port Sentinel, she is also the spitting image of Freya. She unsettles everyone for these reasons but, even despite them, Jess is an unsettling girl. She's blunt, direct, and she never takes no for an answer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566039</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Butler
|title=Ten Things I've Learnt About Love
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Alice returns home to spend time with her dying father. She's been travelling in Mongolia, finding temporary escape from the issues that had haunted her life in London but now, on her return, events bring the pain she thought was behind her into sharp focus. Meanwhile Daniel is an elderly vagrant who calls the streets of London home. He seeks his lost child, leaving a trail of random items across the city in the hope of reunion like someone occupying a verse of ''Eleanor Rigby''. Disparate lives, seeking love and acceptance in a world that seems to exclude it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447222490</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Johanne Mercier
|title=Arthur and the Earthworms
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Arthur has got himself a new job. He might be only seven but a boy can never start too soon. He's going to be selling earthworms from a table at the side of the road and the idea came when his pet duck started pulling up the worms. They were his favourite food, you see and on a rainy day you could find a lot of them just near the surface. He and Grandad managed to get quite a few worms together, but trade wasn't very brisk on the first and the woman who was determined to buy his pet duck did rather scare him. But the next day, trade picked up (although some of the customers did look suspiciously ''family'') and then the big order came in...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912177</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brodi Ashton
|title=Everbound
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This is the second in the [[Everneath by Brodi Ashton|Everneath]] trilogy and picks up two months from where the first book finished. Two months ago the Tunnels of the Everneath came to claim Nikki Beckett, to take her back to the Underworld where she would be used as a human battery forever. That night, Nikki's boyfriend, Jack, made the ultimate sacrifice and took Nikki's place in the Everneath. Now, Nikki is haunted by Jack, who appears in her dreams every night, lost, confused and slowly having the life sucked out of him. On the Surface everybody is blaming Nikki for Jack's disappearance; Jack's Mum has hired a Private Detective who's following Nikki around, convinced that she will take him to Jack.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074636</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd
|title=I Love You
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This is the fourth ''I love …'' publication from the prolific Giles Andreae, this time partnered by illustrator Emma Dodd. Judging by the little trike the child rides, this book is aimed at one and two year old children. It would be a good choice for a child not yet up for a simple story, since here, the language is the emotional narrative. Repetitive rhyming couplets explore familiar aspects of a young child’s world. The best books for pre-language children at bedtime secure and settle, and the appeal of this book is in its predictable rhythmn and happy emotion, rather than a challenging vocabulary or exciting story line.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408324326</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gavin Extence
|title=The Universe Versus Alex Woods
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= While re-entering the UK with some human ashes and a stash of marijuana, Alex Woods is stopped by customs and referred to the police. It all started 6 years before when, as an 11 year old living in England's West Country, his escape from bullies necessitates breaking into a shed; the shed of a man with a gun pointing at Alex. The man is American Vietnam veteran Isaac Peterson and, whatever his school teachers may say to the contrary, this is the moment when Alex's education really begins; this and the moment when he was hit on the head by a passing meteor of course.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444765884</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar Baldursson
|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the Orchestra
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=One day Maxi wanders into a rehearsal of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he is entranced to hear Ravel’s Bolero. He encounters most of the orchestral instruments and there’s a lot of whimsical humour as Maxi moves from instrument to instrument. Eventually he falls asleep on the stage, tired out by the excitement of his adventures. He wakes to a loud booming noise as the beginning of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is played, and he finds that the orchestra is in concert. He scuttles down into a packed auditorium. At the end of the concert, Maximus joins in the standing ovation which precedes the stirring home-grown encore.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kindle Direct Publishing
|title=Publish on Amazon Kindle with Kindle Direct Publishing
|rating=2
|genre=Reference
|summary=If you're thinking of going down the road of self-publishing your book but are unwilling or unable to fund the services offered by some of the leaders in the field then publishing on Kindle is the obvious place to look first. It's a big step though and you want to get it right - not least because what you publish could be out there to haunt you for a very long time. This book comes, as it were, from the horse's mouth and I was expecting explanations, guidance, advice and, well, something which would leave me with the feeling that I ''could'' do this successfully. How did it square up?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B004LX069M</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tracey Corderoy and Joe Berger
|title=Whizz Pop, Granny Stop!
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=
Grannies come in for a lot of negative press. Absent-minded geriatric, witch with a black cat, spoiling the kids, always getting it wrong ... you know the stereotypes. Well I’m fighting back. I latched onto this book, of course, as a granny. And in this neatly rhyming story, Granny, as seen through the practical eyes of her small grand-daughter, is all these things as well as being notably peculiar. Tracey Corderoy has pretty much got us metaphorically taped!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631314</amazonuk>
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