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===[[Claudia The Company of Eight by Anthony TrevelyanHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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When Claudia is called to Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitorMagical District, but as she doesnhasn't expect it to be her father figure – a man the slightest ability in that direction she hasndoesn't seen for fifteen yearsexactly fit in. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild SamsonShe takes after her dad, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudiashe hopes desperately that she's life ll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and into a world join the Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the islands of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's helpthe Longest World. ReggieHer guardian Mrs Potts, however, Samsondoes 's son, has joined a mysterious cult called 'not'Tarantula'approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a sedate, genteel job instead: governess, maybe, a group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudiaor draper's journey takes model. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her far from father left her home in Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… . [[Claudia The Company of Eight by Anthony TrevelyanHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Us vs Them: The Man I Think I Know Failure of Globalism by Mike GayleIan Bremmer]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives havenIt wasn't taken them where they were supposed to gobe like this, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. At an all time low time for both The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of themthe world, the two men reconnect fuelling refugee crises and slowly find they're exactly what worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming to take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the other needsworld. Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This And inequality is as much of a beautiful story about friendship and what problem as it really means to help another personever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Man I Think I Know Failure of Globalism by Mike GayleIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Ghost Boys Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Jewell Parker RhodesNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]] <!-- Keeley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789013313.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789013313/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
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''How small I look. Laid out flat, my stomach touching ground. ===[[My right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood.''Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]===
Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in fear for his life, that Danny, a five foot tall, twelve-year-old boy, was a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and eliminate the threat[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
In ''My Favourite People'' the central character takes us to meet all the important people in his life. There's Auntie Meg, who does brilliant haircuts and loves cats. She has four of them! There's Uncle Steve, who's a gentle giant and an inveterate joker. There's best friend Alice, who can do that clever whistle when you put your fingers in your mouth. There's Carmel the library lady, who always suggests brilliant books to read. And loads more. The book ends with a fabulous party to which everyone is invited. [[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Butland Togawa -->
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Lady Killer by Stephanie ButlandMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeJapan, the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lovely way with a world of both innocence and just as seedy nightclubs. When a young girl enters one alone for a drink she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the rounds of the call that she needed, that venues for tips – as does a heart was available for her to have man with a transplantdistinctive bass voice. They leave together. Previously Six months later, she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog clings to make decisions for hera balcony at work, running polls amongst her readers thinks about it – and drops to decide on her actionsdeath in suicide. She was pregnant. But the man involved, a rampant womaniser with her new heartan intricate diary of all his comings and goings, she has been given is not having a new lifeperfect time, either. Can Ailsa manage He returns to start an old flame, to live on find her ownmurdered – and then the lady who would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, and will her mother let her do thatso on. From our point of view, he cannot be a killer of ladies, as the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae Lady Killer by Stephanie ButlandMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Christie Hall -->
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===[[Spirit The Industry of Human Happiness by Sally ChristieJames Hall]]===
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Matt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest 'The Industry of his class when theyHuman Happiness're playing the 'truth game' on first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the school bussimplest of places. Now most Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of the class think he's either mad or opening a liargramophone company. To make matters worseHowever, his classmate their ambition and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy Ohubris soon puts them on a course towards London'Hanlon, believes him s underworld. They will ascend broken and she's determined to find a way to share his experience, even if that means losing her best friendtheir lives changed forever. [[Spirit The Industry of Human Happiness by Sally ChristieJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Smoke Thieves Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Sally GreenPhilip Kerr]]===
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Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian SeaSet in Germany in 1957, and peace ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is definitely not on everyone's agendaa historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Instead power Bernie Gunther is sought by forcea Berliner, and political manoeuvring of who was a sarjeant during the worst kind sees families torn apart second world war and innocent victims swept up now, in this novel, is working in the falloutmorgue of a hospital. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challengedark times of the war. There are five separate story lines With layered plots and double-crossing left, each led by a colourful right and interesting charactercentre, and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwinethere's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story. [[The Smoke Thieves Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Sally GreenPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[All Rivers Run Free by Natasha Carthew]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonCategory:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]===
[[image:4starIa Pendilly lives in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and common law husband, she's never yet had her own baby. Discovering a waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a new found strength to escape and to embark on a new journey. The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a damaged, hurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, remake her and perhaps give her the elusive sense of freedom she's been seeking.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionAll Rivers Run Free by Natasha Carthew|Historical FictionFull Review]]
Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Daniel Peltz Rogers -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Tale of a Tooth by Daniel PeltzAllie Rogers]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical General Fiction|Historical General Fiction]]
When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're Danny lives in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariasmall Sussex town with his mother, which Natalie. Life is what the ruins of the Chiesa poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a chapel - have now becomebenefits sanction. Crowds flock A Job Centre employee looks to see its centrepiecebe their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old. Molly uses the history resulting changes are described to entertain the tourists, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of reader through the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago naive yet perceptive and one wholly original eyes of whose descendants is the director of the museumfour-year-old Danny. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Tale of a Tooth by Daniel PeltzAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Claudia by Stefan MohamedAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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When your best friend vanishesClaudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, how can you begin she doesn't expect it to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether theybe her father figure – a man she hasn're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? t seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – all questions that Vanessa faces every dayotherwise known as Wild Samson, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappearsThe Aztec and The Sun King, shewalked out of Claudia's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but also by the fact that now he's returned and he hasnneeds Claudia's help. Reggie, Samson't aged a day – for hims son, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shockedjoined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', confused a group who prepare for the end of the world and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home town in order Manchester to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either end of them could ever have dreamt… the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Falling Leaves Claudia by Stefan MohamedAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle]]===
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[[image:4starJames DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for both of them, the two men reconnect and slowly find they're exactly what the other needs. Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another person.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersThe Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle|Emerging ReadersFull Review]]
Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto|Full Review]] <!-- MacDibble Rhodes -->
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===[[How to Bee by Bren MacDibble]]===
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Imagine Danny was playing with a world without bees. Not just how nice it would be toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to eat jam sandwiches in the garden without having the little yellow and black torpedoes attacking you - ''really'' imagine it. No bees, no pollination. No pollination, no new plants. No new plants, no food. Simple. Sohim when he was shot by Officer Moore, if those pesky chemicals we use kill off practically every bee who claims he was in the worldfear for his life, humans will have to take over their work. Childrenthat Danny, in facta five foot tall, because you need smalltwelve-year-old boy, nimble fingers was a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to work those tiny feathers full of pollen into reach for his gun and eliminate the flowers and turn them into delicious fruitsthreat. [[How to Bee Ghost Boys by Bren MacDibbleJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[Turn a Blind Eye The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Vicky NewhamStephanie Butland]]===
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DI Maya Rahman is Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just back from Bangladesh and as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to have a transplant. Previously she should be on compassionate leave as had felt so helpless that she went there had used her blog to bury make decisions for her, running polls amongst her brother after he committed suicidereaders to decide on her actions. Instead of grieving at home and getting over But with her jet lag new heart, she's pitched straight into a murder investigation as has been given a new member of staff discovers the body of popular headteacher Linda Gibson in life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her study at Mile End High School. Her hands are bound own, and beside will her strangled body is a card with a Buddhist precept: ''I shall abstain from taking the ungiven.'' It's the second of five precepts and Maya is worried that there's been a murder mother let her do that hasn't been spotted - and that there will be more deaths. ? [[Turn a Blind Eye The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Vicky NewhamStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Spirit by David O'ConnellSally Christie]]===
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Archie McBudge is sitting in Matt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest of Honeystone Hall with his motherclass when they're playing the 'truth game' on the school bus. And Now most of the class think he's either mad or a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information for Archieliar. A great uncle he has never heard of has died To make matters worse, his classmate and Archie is his sole heir. This means that Honeystone Hall now belongs to Archie. But that isn't all new next- this young boy is now sole owner of Scotlanddoor neighbour, Jazzy O's premier sweets giant: McBudgeHanlon, believes him and she's Fudge and Confectionery Company..determined to find a way to share his experience, even if that means losing her best friend. [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Spirit by David O'ConnellSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward The Smoke Thieves by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistSally Green]]===
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When I read Tension exists among the blurb for this bookkingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone's agenda. Instead power is sought by force, I found myself instantly interested and political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in its premise the fallout. This story of two people trying to start warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. There are five separate story lines, each led by a colourful and interesting character, and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappointintertwine. [[Two Steps Forward The Smoke Thieves by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistSally Green|Full Review]]
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[Precept:Category:Crime|CrimeA Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]===
Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is on a birding trip to Colombia[[image: well it's ostensibly a birding trip, but the reality is that he's trying to establish what really happened in the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitive4star. It's a difficult situation as the police force don't want him to do this and the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctant, but Jejeune has always been a law unto himself. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on the North Norfolk coast there's been a brutal murder of a woman, and DI Marvin Laraby, Jejeune's nemesis, has been drafted in to replace Jejeune during his absence. How's that going to work out? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds by Steve Burrows:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Carter Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[I Stop Somewhere The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by T E CarterDaniel Peltz]]===
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Ellie has to change schools. ItWhen we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we's re in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a chance for renewal and Ellie sets to work to make part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the most ruins of itthe Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. She doesn't want Crowds flock to be homecoming queen or anything - she just wants to fit in without anyone noticing that she's see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a bit too curvy history which grabs the attention of young and doesn't have old. Molly uses the money history to buy fashionable clothes. With entertain the help of a neighbourtourists, Kate, she manages it pretty well. And so, when Caleb notices her, tells her she's beautiful, Ellie can almost believe it. But but there's something not quite right about Caleb. He blows hot and cold and his smile doesn't quite meet his eyes. But more too it's nice to be wanted than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and so Ellie ignores one of whose descendants is the warning signs..director of the museum. [[I Stop Somewhere The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by T E CarterDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Falling Leaves by Lucy WorsleyStefan Mohamed]]===
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When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIIIre okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, she's love affair with Anne Boleyn, shocked not only by his divorce from Katherine of Aragonpresence back in her life, Annebut also by the fact that he hasn's execution t aged a day – for adulteryhim, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heirno time has passed since his disappearance. This timeShocked, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughterconfused and emotionally reeling, Mary. Mary's hopes of Vanessa must return to her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of home town in order to help Mark find the Boleyn factionanswers he so desperately craves. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you canBut what't help but root s waiting for the little girl stuck in the middle them is far more surprising than either of these tumultuous events. them could ever have dreamt… [[Lady Mary Falling Leaves by Lucy WorsleyStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wolf by Leo Carew]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyEmerging Readers|FantasyEmerging Readers]]
Travel to a world that Nickerbacher is familiar and yet utterly differentdoing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. We are in a version That dragonly duty is, of ancient Britain with enough landmarks to make us feel at home yet it is a smoked glasscourse, princess-guarding. North of the river Abus we have the AnakimThat's what dragons are for, a race that after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite human; they are something more. The Anakim are virtual giants boring really and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below the Abus are the Sutheners, humans. Theirs she is an ancient grudge and one where blood much less interested in fairy tales than she is spilled frequently in pitched battlewatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Unfortunately Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it is rare when humans are involved for things 's his favourite TV show because he wants to be straightforward and the same is true here. On both sides politics and machinations complicate the quests for glory. With the Anakim we have a boy coming to power and vying with the greatest warrior in the land for the thronestand-up comedian himself. Amongst the Sutheners we see a commoner having the temerity to lead an army alongside He tries out his betters. Both battles are jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as interesting as the war itselfNickerbacher intended. [[The Wolf Nickerbacher by Leo CarewTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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