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Thomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He and his young wife Marya are travelling on a sleeper train across Ur to that engineering marvel, that fabled centre of culture, the Tower of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, taught his pupils about, and longed to visit, but the bustling and chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the desert are a long way from the quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrival, he has no option but to look for her in this strange and overwhelming place. For all his background reading before the trip, he is ill-prepared for what he finds in the Tower, both its marvels and its horrors, and thus begins Thomas Senlin's arduous quest to recover his wife.[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft|Full Review]]<br>

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Let's just get straight to it. I loved ''Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women''. And I can't let a review pass without a brief note on the fabulous production values. The cover is stunning and deeply impactful as you can see. It has that lovely, bookish smell. The paper is thick and heavy. Everything about it tells you that this is a book with interesting and important information. It simply begs to be picked up and read. Full marks to Wren and Rook for this investment.[[Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and Eve Lloyd Knight|Full Review]]<br>

Maddy, Caitlyn, Roz and Alex have all just been tested to go to the prestigious City Ballet School full time. Caitlyn, Roz and Alex all get their acceptance about a week later, but Maddy's is a little slower in coming. It was obviously delayed in the post. She was never actually worried that she wouldn't be accepted: well, she's an exceptional dancer and her family is ballet royalty. Where else would she be but City Ballet School? Caitlyn still can't quite believe the opportunity she's been given, particularly as she's not been dancing anywhere near as long as the others. It means so much to her.[[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure|Full Review]]<br><br>

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Watching this is Francejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], who have to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children'98, and they have s Non-Fiction]] ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a plan. At this stage century and a half of the UEFA European championship development of 2016 has not been awardedwomen's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, and while France remain favourites to get the jobcovering sports as diverse as swimming, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yesfencing, these two tiny countriesriding, skating, separated by 200 miles and without much more. Think of a brilliant connection from one to the other, sport and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when a pioneering women succeeding at it comes to winning things, are unlikely hostsis probably in this book somewhere. But what if France could persuade the world it was Each entry is a double page spread with a good idea - brief biography and let Russian espionage prove it not a striking portrait. [[Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to be so, with all the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead in the water, and Russia would win outWin by Rachel Ignotofsky|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Elphinstone -->[[image:Elphinstone Sky. And who's to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1546282998<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28product/12 1471146073?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-->|author21&linkCode=as2&camp=Paul Stidolph|title1634&creative=Forests in the Sahara|rating6738&creativeASIN=41471146073]]|genre===[[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone]]===Thrillers  [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The Ice Queen has cast a man can hear from his new partnerspell on Erkenwald, but she doesn't lie in this instanceseparating the Fur and Feather Tribes and making the third – the Tusk Tribe – the enemy of both. He is Jeffrey HarveyEager to secure her position by gaining eternal life, a young Cambridge professor, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities the Ice Queen is consuming the voices of water purifiedthe Erkenwald people. Get an iceberg or There seems little anyone can do until three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still a scarce resourcechildren – Eska, Flint and the trees can do their bit Blu – come together. With help from 'the wild', they set off on a quest to find the legendary 'Frost Horn' and the water magical 'Sky Song' that will advance free Erkenwald from the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneur. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-up involved in the project, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on a case reaching back several years. 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Being the only Flores left in her family she is left to sort through her mother's possessions, and having to reconnect with her past makes Anna question something she hasn't dared think about in years – what happened to Gabriella?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150983950X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 23/12 -->|title=The Adventures of Billy Bog Brush!: The Fire Brigade |author=Ian Campbell and Tim Constable |rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Billy Bog Brush's family have gone out for the day, leaving him staring out of the window at the lovely weather outside and wondering what he could do to pass the time. Suddenly, he hears a desperate cry for help. Mrs Brown's house is on fire, the key is inside, and her little boy Tommy is locked in. 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Just every now and again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683094</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Banks|title= W|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= SM Wilson|title= The Extinction Trials|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. LincolnIce Queen's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers..control.[[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1474927343</amazonuk>}}