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===[[The Great Believers Unrest by Rebecca MakkaiJesper Stein]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows DCI Steen is assigned a group puzzling case – the tortured body of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis a man found in a cemetery in Chicago Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the late 1980’sarea swarming in police. Beginning How could anyone have been murdered and left in 1985, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms open with so many police on site? Unless the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at killer is one of them… As the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fionacase becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the streets of Pariskiller is caught, trying whatever the consequences. But the consequences may turn out to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt. be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[The Great Believers Unrest by Rebecca MakkaiJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Chloe DaykinDominic Watson]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersLifestyle|Lifestyle]] Even with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and the silky blue waters of the Caribbean, but only for a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, I like work. My job is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters and it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Elvis Crampton Lucas was found, as a baby, on a bench at the zoo. He knows little else about himself, other than that's where his father found him one day and he took him home and named him after the first three vinyl records he took down from the shelf! Elvis' life has been a happy one, but as his twelfth birthday comes around he finds himself suddenly wanting to know, and needing to know, the truth about who left him on the bench and why. Elvis' quest takes him far away, to a new country, facing challenges he'd never imagined in his desire to know the truth. [[The Boy Who Hit Play by Chloe Daykin|Full Review]]<!-- Sheridan Lynda La Plante -->
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===[[Russian Roulette Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Sara SheridanLynda La Plante]]===
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It makes was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a pleasant change body was discovered in Peckham. It was to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandmabe the first of two bodies in two days, but the first - that of a worldyoung woman -weary cop with as many hangwould remain unidentified for some time. The second -ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or a slick, skinny, sharpan older lady -shooting type who lives in a loft and works out was found in the gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at boot of her car by herson. Mirabelle may have somehow got Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself involved in crime-fighting, with all the requisite tropes midst of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the right side of the law, an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a refusal quick result. Four days later and another body to add to faint at the sight of blood, but she is, as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost a lady. Indeedcount, the first encounter we police have with her in thisnamed their suspect, the sixth book in this excellent series, sees but Tennison has her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of mannersdoubts. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, is there? [[Russian Roulette Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Sara SheridanLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Broken Ground by Steven RamirezVal McDermid]]===
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In As the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the third and final part scene of the crime, but for once, she''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski s in the right place at the right time when a body is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retributiondug up in the Highlands. With Initially it looks as though the events of book two still weighing heavily on Davedeath dates back to WWII, he struggles against but the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – fact that the dead man is wearing a young escapee from pair of Nikes means that the secret testing facilitycase is Karen's. As events A little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a climaxcafe. Intervening, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and she thought that she'd prevented a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alivecrime, the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And but what kind of world will he have left? she said would come back to haunt her. [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Broken Ground by Steven RamirezVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Half Moon Bay by Steven RamirezAlice LaPlante]]===
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Still battling Half Moon Bay is a small town on the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead''west coast of America, a little down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered to start a new life after losing everything when the Black Dragon Security team show up to rescue him her teenage daughter was killed and his wife Hollyher husband left her. But things only get worse – with Although she has begun to find a little peace in the virus mutatingquiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and loss and , also, rousing the infected getting smarter. When Dave discovers suspicions of the truth behind local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the contagion it will drive him past all limits of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him? disappearance. [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Half Moon Bay by Steven RamirezAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez]]===
===[[Phantom by Leo Hunt]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorTeens|HorrorTeens]]
A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a long road futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to recoverysteal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the city you live, but finally feels like he's getting his the more sunlight you see and the easier your life back. Then - a plague hits For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the townsurface, turning life is tough. But with the majority help of the population into fleshhacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-hungry monsters who crave corps hacker the taste of humans. Fighting to survive - Dave's urge to hide away and drink is strong - will he fight Moth, Nova can sneak up to live when the chances of survival are so slim? With the hordes of the undead growing city, leech some byts and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave..at least make rent. v[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Phantom by Steven RamirezLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gilded Ones All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Brooke FieldhouseClaire Askew]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
It was As a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for news item, school shootings always terrify me: the daydeaths are bad enough, but even the heat wasn't young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the only reason why he wasnfact that this was done to them by one of their number. It doesn't feeling end on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream the night before. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult routeday, probably somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the roadeither. The passenger, School shootings cast a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia...'', she saidvery long shadow. ''It's spelled May the German way.'' Of 14th had the two job interviews, the first was with an upmakings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students -and-coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's careerone last bullet to kill himself. The second was with a run-down practice based in an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-LewisWe follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, whose wifethe mother of the murderer, FreiaHelen Birch, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with the dream of newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the night before was too much for Pulse to refuse killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, the offer mother of a job. He couldn't resist the lure one of the mysteryvictims. [[The Gilded Ones All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Brooke FieldhouseClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Allyson JuleRachel Aaron]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] ''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
[[image:4starIn the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change… [[:Category:Popular ScienceGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Popular ScienceFull Review]]
'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the mid twentieth century to the present day. Reading it, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour. [[Speaking Up by Allyson Jule|Full Review]]
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===[[You Were Made for This The Island by Michelle SacksM A Bennett]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[The Island by M A Bennett|Full Review]] <!-- Ruffles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444937685.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444937685/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
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I'm not really sure what to say about this book. It was a really good psychological thriller with plenty of twists and turns but unfortunately it just wasn't really my cup of tea[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Reeling from a tragedy and unable to cope, unemployed actor Arlo decides to get on a plane and go somewhere new. [[Colour Me In by Lydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life Treachery of George Engleheart Spies by John WebleyManda Scott]]===
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George Engleheart was one When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the leading portrait miniaturists identity of Georgian Londonthe woman has been erased, with a career lasting from it's clear that she has been killed in the 1770s same way that traitors to the Regency eraresistance were executed in World War Two. He was also one Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the most prolificmen and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, painting nearly 5brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of Inès discovers that time he carefully recorded there are many in the names of each of his clients, present who would rather their past stay buried – and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred many who would kill to as his fee book. keep secrets safe… [[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life Treachery of George Engleheart Spies by John WebleyManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mapmakers' Race Anomaly by Eirlys HunterMichael Rutger]]===
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ItTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''s easily done. You nip off to fill everyonean anomaly's water bottles, and your mum starts to fret in case you don't make it back before the train leaves. Mum gets off only to (spoilers) actually find youone. Imagine if, you make it back in good time but she doesn'tinstead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and hey presto, four children and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. Deep in a parrot disappearing into cave within the unknown Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with no money, no home added levels of paranoia and not a parent in sightconspiracy thrown into the blend. [[The Mapmakers' Race Anomaly by Eirlys HunterMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The Death of Mrs Westaway Water Thief by Ruth WareClaire Hajaj]]===
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I've only just got into psychological thrillers so, despite being an international bestNick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-seller, author Ruth Ware has passed me by until now. But, I can see why shenamed west African country providing engineering support for the building of a children's much acclaimed as I absolutely loved this book and can't wait to get started on her previous three books nowhospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[The Death of Mrs Westaway Water Thief by Ruth WareClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Helen RappaportPeter Lovesey]]===
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The basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and AlexandraChildren love wrecking balls, some of which were deliberately obscured at so the time for various reasons, have long since been established. For young lad wasn't going to pass up the last few months opportunity to watch one hit a building through one of their lives those very tempting holes in Russia fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the former Tsar and Tsarinadust settled a skeleton, their children sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a few remaining servantshundred years old, were held was visible in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivitythe loft of the half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. To prevent them Viewing the corpse from being rescueda cherry picker, in July 1918 an unfortunate adjustment to the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted controls left him eye to death in circumstances which, once er, eye socket with the news corpse and the picture was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europecaught by a press photographer. It was too good not to go viral. [[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Helen RappaportPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Take Me In Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Sabine DurrantKatherine Webber]]===
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ItThough it's not pleasantbeen 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Daveghost of her sister every day, forever 14. TheyIt've taken their toddler, Joshs something that brings her comfort, but also a constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to Greece on holiday and in the blink shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an eye something awful happensescape. Tessa isn't thereFrom her family, Marcus isn't lookingher friends, but Dave steps in the grief and disaster loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is avertedinstantly smitten with her. Just. TheyAfter all, who wouldn're grateful to himt fall for gorgeous, of course they are, but after popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyoneescape that he represents from her grief, theyit's not so clear that she're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of their week s falling in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe love with him a great deal, he is a little, well, intense. [[Take Me In Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Sabine DurrantKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde]]===
===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionConfident Readers|General FictionConfident Readers]]
Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for Samkad is living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the best when he waited for his three children nineteenth century turns to arrive one Friday nightthe twentieth. But Samkad has no idea about any of that. He might be has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and his thoughts are focused on becoming a retired lawyer, a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedman. Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want He's desperate for the Elders to talk about permit him going into a retirement home. George, a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a professor to join the ranks of English Literature, the warriors who lived locally and kept and visited him regularlyprotect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happeneven though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Bone Talk by Elisabeth HydeCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[Riddle of the Runes Summerland by Janina RamirezHannu Rajaniemi]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]
The name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural historyImagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the afterlife, especially of early medieval timesthe British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, are both lively and informativethe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. She shares her extensive learning with In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a light hand (race against Soviet spies and dealing with a frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the subjects potential rogue agent, she discusses. But must decide how will that translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull far she is willing to go and fact-packed? Will how much she hold up is willing to risk to uncover the action to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it! truth. [[Riddle of the Runes Summerland by Janina RamirezHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Grey Bastards Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Jonathan FrenchK D Knight]]===
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In the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''The A Grey BastardsDay'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, this book owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is so much funagainst him. A word My favourite was ''The Story of caution thoughH'', this the story of Foinavon. H is not suitable for all readersdepicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. As H (or Foinavon) was entered in the tittle suggests there is Grand National and considered a lot no-hoper. In one of bad languagethe most dramatic runnings of the race, a LOT of bad language, thrown around all pile up occured at the time in general speech23rd fence. In addition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit cleared the fence and not as constant as galloped to the language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not line, winning the book for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must readrace at odds of 100/1. [[Going To The Grey Bastards Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Jonathan FrenchK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersFor Sharing|ThrillersFor Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
Cecilia is picking her daughters up Biriwita hails from swimming when the pool's receptionist asks Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a quick favour of her – to drop off a little boy from home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect himLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. The pool is about to close, and it's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that They think nothing of it will interrupt her routine. ButSo, minor inconvenience isn't really when Biriwita wins a good enough reason place at Croak College, the first Ticklewater frog to say no so she agrees and bundles the boy whose name manage such a feat, he is Tobias into the car filled with her girls. This excitement and his only worry is a decision that how much he will change her life, miss his friends and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking momentfamily. [[The Boy at the Door Frog Who Was Blue by Alex DahlFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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