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#SixForSunday; Favourite Stories With LGBT+ Characters

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It's Sunday and perhaps time for a new #SixForSunday post, courtesy of  A Little But A Lot and the theme of the week was favourite stories with LGBT+ characters. Here's my six picks for today. Malice by Heather Walter Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Wooing the Farmer by Jenny Frame Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

#SixForSunday; Stories That Feels Like Magic

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It's Sunday and perhaps time for a new #SixForSunday post, courtesy of A Little But A Lot . The theme of the week was stories that feels like magic. Here's my six picks. Chocolat by Joanne Harris The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen by Ada Bright & Cass Grafton Astrid And Veronika by Linda Olsson The Little Bookshop of Love Stories by Jaimie Admans The Saffron Trail by Rosanna Ley

#SixForSunday; Picture Books With Nature Themes

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It's Sunday and perhaps it's time for a new Six For Sunday post, courtesy of A Little But A Lot . The theme of the week was books with nature themes and I decided narrowing it down to picture books as there's so many beatifully made picture books that deserves more recognition. Here's my six picks. If You Take Away the Otter by Susannah Buhrman-Deever The Woods by Rob Hodgson 111 Trees - How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl by Rina Singh Who Stole the Hazelnuts? by Marcus Pfister My Bison by Gaya Wisniewski When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee

#SixForSunday; Crime and Mystery Novels To Get People Out of Reading Slumps

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It's Sunday and perhaps time for a new Six For Sunday post, courtesy of A Little But A Lot . The theme of the week was books to get people out of reading slumps and I decided narrowing it down to crime and mystery novels. I can't speak for everyone else, but when I'm in a reading slump I want to get out of, I often want something action-packed and fast paced and I suspect I'm not the only one. Anyway, here's my six picks. The Secrets of the Lazarus Club by Tony Pollard Description from Goodreads London, 1857 - A series of mutilated corpses are pulled from the Thames. Young surgeon Dr George Phillips is first consulted, and then suspected, by baffled police... Meanshile, a secret society meets. This gathering of the finsest minds of the age - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin and others - wish to use their discoveries to change the world... But there are those who use the club for their own mysterious and dark ends. With his reputation and his ...

#SixForSunday; Cosy Mysteries With Green Covers

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It's yet another Sunday and perhaps time for a Six For Sunday post, courtesy of A Little But A Lot . The theme of the week was books with green covers and I decided narrowing it down to cosy mysteries I've read and enjoyed. Here's my picks. Peach Clobbered by Anna Gerard Toxic Toffee by Amanda Flower Fatal Cajun Festival by Ellen Byron Belinda Black and the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing by Heather Day Gilbert Dog-Gone Dead by Jackie Layton And Then They Were Doomed by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli

#SixForSunday; Favourite Picture Books

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It's Sunday and perhaps time for another Six For Sunday post, courtesy of A Little But A Lot . The theme of the week was favourite picture books. Here's my picks. Ritu Weds Chandni by Ameya Narvankar Flo of the Somme by Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery by Jehan Jones-Radgowski My Bison by Gaya Wisniewski Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman

#SixForSunday; Favourite Books Under 200 Pages

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It's Sunday and perhaps time for a new Six For Sunday post, courtesy of A Little But A Lot . The theme of the week was favourite books under 200 pages. Sometimes it's nice with a quick read after all. Here's my six picks and there's a bit of variety, such as a short story collection, horror, mystery and some other genres. Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit The Cryptic Lines by Richard Storry Maiden, Mother, Crone - Fantastical Trans Femmes edited by Gwen Benaway Tethered by Bryce Gibson

#SixForSunday; Red/Green Books

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It's Sunday and perhaps time for a new #SixForSunday post, courtesy of A Little But A Lot . The theme of the week was red/green books and I found six Christmas-themed books that I've read and liked. Here's my picks. The Ghost of Christmas Past by Angie Fox The Christmas Cat by Efner Tudor Holmes and Tasha Tudor Apple Cider Slaying by Julie Anne Lindsey Purring Around the Christmas Tree by Liza Mugavero Silent Knit, Deadly Knit by Peggy Ehrhart The Little Fir Tree by Christopher Corr

#SixForSunday; Favourite Spooky Books

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It's Sunday and it's perhaps time for a new #SixForSunday post, courtesy of A Little But A Lot . The theme of the week was favourite spooky books. Here's my picks. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Small Spaces by Katherine Arden The Legend of Decimus Croome: A Halloween Carol by Kevin Purdy The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Slash by Hunter Shea