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Aliens Don't Eat Dog Food

Author
Dinah Capparucci
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Well here is a story of three children who always get blamed for everything. They go to school together and between them also have two dogs and what they get up to in this story is just a whole lot of trouble.

As the back of the book says and I agree, how could they have known that trying to save the world they would end up being accidental reality TV stars, which would just end in disaster for everyone.

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A Scandalous Man

Author
Gavin Esler
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This is an absorbing politcal sophisticated thriller.  I found reading this book that it seems everyone in politics is in someone else's pocket, perhaps that has always been true but I just never realised that so many people were out to get so many others and do the dirty on them!

We can very well imagine that this all did happen, as the book jacket says it is built around the truth of a real scandal.  

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The Everyday Life Bible - Amplified Version

Author
Joyce Meyer
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This is a beautiful edition of the Bible produced by Warner Faith in burgundy bound leather, guilded gold edges and commentry and bible notes by Joyce Meyer.  I was thrilled to get one of these really expensive books to review and read.

This bible has some wonderful notes by Joyce a the start of each book/chapter  about where and what part in time this plays in the chronological order of the most famous book in the world.  This Bible is also one of the most widely translated and distributed though out the world and it tops all the book sellers charts where ever it is sold.

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Foreign Body

Author
Robin Cook
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I have waited patiently till this third book of Medical Crime novels by Robin Cook to reach our shores.

Robin has done it again kept us in complete suspence until the end about who did what, and why to whom!! 

These books are different because they are hospital base crime and not your in the street, such as most crime fiction writers write.  I think because of the nurse in me, I can see how that the art of defining a crime in a hospital is so hard to do, and for it to succeed in the way it has in this book is amazing. 

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Rebus Audio Box Set - The first 10 Stories

Author
Ian Rankin
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This is a brilliant set of amazing discs covering the first 10 books on 32CD's.

This set are read by two very well known people, James Macpherson and Bill Patterson. Both are fantastic at getting the stories across and doing the many voices that are needed for each book.  Because they both come from north of the border, Bill from Glasgow and James from Edinburgh there is that rich gaelic tone to their voices which is so perfect for these stories written by one of Edinburgh's finest - Ian Rankin.

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Urgum and the GooGooBah

Author
Kjartan Poskitt
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Urgum returns for more riotous adventures. This book is rip-roaringly funny but includes some very smelly incidents with smelly trousers and a fall down a forgotten crater!

This book had me laughing at the antics of Urgum.  What a name and what a wonderful bunch of hilariously funny incident - it is brilliantly well illustrated by Phillip Reeve and l would say one of the funniest books I've read this month.

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Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets.

Author
Dav Pilkey
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A Crazy action packed laugh a minute flip-o-rama book that's just a pound.  

I laughed at the antics and the drawings which are very good, and they are all done in black and white but you just can not stop laughing from cover to cover.

Well Thought out, great for kids and teenagers and adults will enjoy it as well !!!!!

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Irish Poems

Author
Matthew Sweeney
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This is a glorious collection of classic and modern Irish poems.  It takes in all the old favorites like 'Mollie Malone from Dublin's Fare city' and many others that I have not read before.

I enjoyed this book very much because as some may know I contacted my real roots back in the summer and met my Irish Family. They love Irish poetry and Dad was forever teasing his grand children because they did not know some of the old favorites - neither did I but don't tell Dad!

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Scottish Poems

Author
John Rice
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A fabulous group of wonderful Scottish Poetry.  This collection chosen by John Rice are very readeable and some are real old favorites.

I enjoy poetry and this collection covers quite a few of my favorite Scottish poets, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edwin Muir, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns.

This collection is great because it is small enough to fit in a pocket or a handbag when your out walking the hills or just sitting in a quiet place.

Fantastic collection, well chosen and beautifully packaged.

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The Dead and Gone

Author
Susan Pfeffer
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The Dead and the Gone, is ferociously gripping and I understand it follows on to the 'Life as We Knew it ' the previous novel of Susan Pfeffer

This is an unusual story and it covers mainly one family's children Alex, Julie and Bri.  This is a really strange story, which starts after an asteroid hits the moon and then the problems keep coming for these kids, and what they go through is just mind blowing.

The book is very well written and the storyline is very easy to follow and I think that young teenages will enjoy the mystery and the plot.

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