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===[[Spinning Silver Unrest by Naomi NovikJesper Stein]]===
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Miryem comes from DCI Steen is assigned a long line puzzling case – the tortured body of moneylenders a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – but her Father isn't very good at it at alla riot that had the area swarming in police. Lending freely How could anyone have been murdered and rarely collecting, he leaves left in the family open with so many police on site? Unless the edge killer is one of poverty, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart them… As the case becomes more and collecting what is owed from local villagersmore complicated, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through begins to take a King whotoll on Steen's eager to exploit Miryemalready troubled personal life. He won's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills t stop until the killer is caught, whatever the consequences. But the consequences may turn out to be more trouble greater than they're worth… expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Spinning Silver Unrest by Naomi NovikJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[The Party Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Lisa HallDominic Watson]]===
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Rachel wakes up 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 strange bedroombig one, with and it does involve leaving the worst hangover she's ever had 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and no memory the silky blue waters of the night beforeCaribbean, 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. And even though she has no memoryMy job is interesting, she knows at the core of her being that something very bad has happened I get to her at her neighbourtravel, what we do matters and it's New Yearnot badly rewarded. So no, I's Eve partym not planning to retire just yet. But with everyone there appearing to be hiding something as the premise of this book is about planning (and no one giving her a straight answer to her questionsif not now, will Rachel ever find out what happened at the partythen when? ) I was still intrigued. [[The Party Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Lisa HallDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Fred Van LenteLynda La Plante]]===
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ComicIt was February 1979 in the strike-Cons are ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a place body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the first of wonder and sanctuary for many peopletwo bodies in two days, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comicbut the first - that of a young woman -Con, he's looking would remain unidentified for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the chance boot of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his exher car by her son. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced Jane Tennison has been promoted to navigate every dark corner Sergeant and finds herself in the midst of the con in order an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs get a quick result. Four days later and intrusive fans another body to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence andadd to the count, in doing sothe police have named their suspect, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorbut Tennison has her doubts. [[The Con Artist Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Fred Van LenteLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Broken Ground by Boyd TonkinVal McDermid]]===
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ConsiderAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath''DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, but he could translate his own worksfor once, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. Itshe's in the right place at the right time when a market that has actually doubled body is dug up in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy'')the Highlands. Novels, in particular, in translation, are – Initially it looks as though the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border postsdeath dates back to WWII, but the fact that the dead man is wearing a sort pair of universal passport issued by Nikes means that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters'case is Karen's. We here at the A little while later she'Bag regularly try and give equal credit d come to the translator, without whom we wouldnthink that she't be reading what we have d been in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and I might even then have missed out conversation in a zerocafe. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through Intervening, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, itshe thought that she's not d prevented a short thingcrime, but what she said would come back to haunt her. Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Broken Ground by Boyd TonkinVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Half Moon Bay by Dr Nat TanohAlice LaPlante]]===
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Saga Half Moon Bay is eighteen anda small town on the west coast of America, like many eighteen-year oldsa little down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of food, start a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and learning about girlsher husband left her. Living Although she has begun to find a little peace in an affluentthe quiet, liberal and protected suburbseaside town, he has one day a good life. Howeverchild goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and loss and, the suburb is in Africaalso, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into rousing the conflict raging around suspicions of the dictatorship local townsfolk that Saga lives under, he she is forced to become an unlikely revolutionarysomehow involved in the disappearance. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan Half Moon Bay by Dr Nat TanohAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Storm Keeper’s Island Phantom by Catherine DoyleLeo Hunt]]===
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Fionn Sixteen-year-old Nova is off to spend some time with his grandfather on the island of Arranmore. His older sister Tara is going with him. Tara is well into adolescence an undercity dweller and she can be quite dismissive a leecher - a futuristic kind of her rather green younger brotherpickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The siblings need some time away because their mother isn't coping well with higher up in the city you live, the death of their father more sunlight you see and needs time alone to get betterthe easier your life. Grandfather For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is a strange, eccentric old man who lives in a tiny cottage full of candlestough. He has a crabby but wicked sense But with the help of humour and sometimes has trouble keeping hold of his memories. But he makes the candles dance and his eyes contain depths that hold hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the secret of Moth, Nova can sneak up to the seascity, leech some byts and at least make rent. v[[The Storm Keeper’s Island Phantom by Catherine DoyleLeo Hunt|Full Review]] <!-- Makkai Claire Askew -->
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===[[The Great Believers All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Rebecca MakkaiClaire Askew]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows As a group of friends whose lives news item, school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, but even the young people who survive are devastated always going to be scarred by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during fact that this was done to them by one of their number. It doesn't end on the late 1980’sday, either. Beginning in 1985, School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the 14th had the reader follows Yale makings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and his friends as they come one last bullet to terms with kill himself. We follow the story through the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communitylives of three women: Moira Summers, alongside their demonisation at the hands mother of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fionathe murderer, Helen Birch, a devoted friend to Yalethe newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets mother of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtone of the victims. [[The Great Believers All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Rebecca MakkaiClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Chloe DaykinRachel 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'' In 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. 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… [[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Full Review]]
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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 Bennett -->
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===[[Russian Roulette The Island by Sara SheridanM A Bennett]]===
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It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isnA contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies''t : a slightly eccentric grandmagroup of mismatched, a worldmodern-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or day teenagers must fight to survive on a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in deserted island. Link is a loft and works fish out in of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the gym after work, boxing with (venerable and trouncing) every big burly bloke 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 throw at her. Mirabelle run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may have somehow got herself involved be? When Link runs the slowest time in crime-fightingyears, with all he immediately becomes the requisite tropes butt of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who every school joke. And some students are not one hundred per cent on the right side of the law, and a refusal determined to faint at the sight of blood, but she is, as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost a ladymake his life more miserable than others.. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her in this, the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of manners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, is there? [[Russian Roulette The Island by Sara SheridanM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Colour Me When I'm Dead In by Steven RamirezLydia Ruffles]]===
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In the third Reeling from a tragedy and final part of the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' seriesunable to cope, Dave Pulaski is headed unemployed actor Arlo decides to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. With the events of book two still weighing heavily get on Dave, he struggles against the rage burning inside him a plane and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facilitygo somewhere new. As events come to a climax, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Colour Me When I'm Dead In by Steven RamirezLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two A Treachery of Tell Me When I'm Dead Spies by Steven RamirezManda Scott]]===
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Still battling When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the zombie hordes who first appeared in horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it'Tell Me When I'm Dead'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have s clear that she has been answered when killed in the Black Dragon Security team show up same way that traitors to rescue him and his wife Hollythe resistance were executed in World War Two. But things only get worse Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – with and back to a time when the virus mutatingmen and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and the infected getting smarter. When Dave more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the truth behind the contagion it will drive him present who would rather their past all limits of faith or reason stay buried – but will he able to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest many who would kill to him? keep secrets safe… [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two A Treachery of Tell Me When I'm Dead Spies by Steven RamirezManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Anomaly by Steven RamirezMichael Rutger]]===
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A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had a long road to recovery, but finally feels like he's getting his life back. Then Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X- a plague hits the townFiles episode, turning for the majority of the population into flesh-hungry monsters who crave Youtube era. Join the taste intrepid (if rather inept) team of humans. Fighting to survive - Daveinternet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly''s urge only to hide away (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and drink Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is strong - will he fight to live when the chances starting point of survival are so slim? With this book. Deep in a cave within the hordes Grand Canyon our team of the undead growing adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave..blend. [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Anomaly by Steven RamirezMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gilded Ones Water Thief by Brooke FieldhouseClaire Hajaj]]===
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It was a hot day Nick is in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for the day, but the heat wasn't the only reason why middle of wedding preparations when he wasn't feeling on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream the night before. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult route, probably somewhere decides to leave his fiancée behind in the Alps when the Porsche went off the road. The passenger, a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia...'', she said. ''It's spelled the German way.'' Of the two job interviews, the first was with an London and take up-and-coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's career. The second was with a run-down practice based post in an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloydsome un-Lewis, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with the dream of the night before was too much named west African country providing engineering support for Pulse to refuse the offer building of a jobchildren's hospital. He couldn't resist the lure of the mysteryhas no idea what he is getting himself into. [[The Gilded Ones Water Thief by Brooke FieldhouseClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Allyson JulePeter Lovesey]]===
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Children love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn'Speaking Up' has t going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions building through one of genderthose very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. It looks at our use of language The problem was that when the dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad in media, education, religionclothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, was visible in the loft of the workplace half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and personal relationshipshurried the boy away. Author Allyson Jule calls on Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, an encyclopedic body of research from unfortunate adjustment to the mid twentieth century controls left him eye to , er, eye socket with the present day. Reading it, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault corpse and the Kardashians with equal rigourpicture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to go viral. [[Speaking Up Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Allyson JulePeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[You Were Made for This Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Michelle SacksKatherine Webber]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
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]]
Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It's 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 shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. From her family, her friends, the grief and loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from her grief, it's not so clear that she's falling in love with him. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Katherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart by John Webley]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:History|HistoryBone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era[[image:4. He was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart by John WebleyCategory:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
Samkad is living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the twentieth. But Samkad has no idea about any of that. He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and his thoughts are focused on becoming a man. He's desperate for the Elders to permit him to join the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay|Full Review]] <!-- Hunter Rajaniemi -->
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===[[The Mapmakers' Race Summerland by Eirlys HunterHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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It's easily doneImagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. You nip off to fill everyone's water bottlesAfter discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and your mum starts to fret dealing with a mole buried deep in case you don't make it back before the train leavesheart of Summerland. Mum gets off to find youWhen Rachel White, you make it back in good time but she doesn'tan ambitious SIS agent, and hey prestobecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, four children she must decide how far she is willing to go and a parrot disappearing into how much she is willing to risk to uncover the unknown with no money, no home and not a parent in sighttruth. [[The Mapmakers' Race Summerland by Eirlys HunterHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Death of Mrs Westaway Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Ruth WareK D Knight]]===
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IIn 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 ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''ve The Story of H'', the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only just got into psychological thrillers so, despite being an international bestwanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a no-sellerhoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, author Ruth Ware has passed me by until nowa pile up occured at the 23rd fence. But Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, I can see why she's much acclaimed as I absolutely loved this book cleared the fence and can't wait galloped to get started on her previous three books nowthe line, winning the race at odds of 100/1. [[Going To The Death of Mrs Westaway Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Ruth WareK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HistoryFor Sharing|HistoryFor 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!''
The basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and AlexandraBiriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some of which were deliberately obscured at reason that nobody can remember, all the time for various reasons, have long since been establishedLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. For the last few months They think nothing of their lives in Russia the former Tsar and Tsarinait. So, their children and few remaining servantswhen Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted first Ticklewater frog to death in circumstances whichmanage such a feat, once the news was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europehe is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and family. [[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Frog Who Was Blue by Helen RappaportFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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