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===[[Unrest by Jesper Stein]]===
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[[image:4starDCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the area swarming in police. How could anyone have been murdered and left in the open with so many police on site? Unless the killer is one of them… As the case becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take a toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the killer is caught, whatever the consequences.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But the consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[:Category:TeensUnrest by Jesper Stein|TeensFull Review]]
Jess is in a meeting with Dr Harrison, the school counsellor. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come to terms with the death of her room-mate, Hanna. But he's not having much success, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feels. Instead, she feigns a grief she does not feel so that he is satisfied and she gets out of there as quickly as possible. [[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton|Full Review]] <!-- Nadin Watson -->
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===[[Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson]]===
===[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersLifestyle|Confident ReadersLifestyle]]
Bridie - Birdy - Jones is eleven and finding Even with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life rather hard. After her mother diedchange in the pipeline will be a big one, and it used does involve leaving the 9 to be just Birdy 5 behind for a yacht and Dad the silky blue waters of the Caribbean, but only for a year, and that was okaythen I will be back, tanned and refreshed but now there's Birdybarely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, DadI like work. My job is interesting, an overbearing step mumI get to travel, a little sister what we do matters and another baby on the wayit's not badly rewarded. ThereSo no, I's precious little room for Birdy any more and m not planning to retire just yet. But as the only place she really feels happy premise of this book is about planning (and secure is at her grandfather's pigeon loft. Birdy loves pigeons. She loves caring for themif not now, training them, and releasing them to wait for them to find their way homethen when?) I was still intrigued. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Joanna NadinDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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Elizabeth KlehfothIt was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent's debut novel is when a mystery thriller written from body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the perspective first of Charlie Callowaytwo bodies in two days, but the first - that of a teenage girl young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of her final years at boarding school who is plagued car by her mother’s disappearanceson. As Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the story progresses she begins midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a quick result. Four days later and another body to learn more about what happened add to her motherthe count, finding out along the way that not everyone was who she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers toopolice have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubts. [[All These Beautiful Strangers Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Elizabeth KlehfothLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls Broken Ground by Carrie Hope FletcherVal McDermid]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you As the Officer in from Charge of the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash scene of the crime, but for once, she''Whodunit'' s in the right place at the thrill of romance, (right time when a body is dug up in the course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghostHighlands. The ghost appears once a yearInitially it looks as though the death dates back to WWII, but the fact that the principal star dead man is wearing a pair of her very own show, to meet with Nikes means that the love of her life and re-enact her deathcase is Karen's. A tragic accident with little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in the roots buried deep within wrong place at the whole array of human naturewrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. Love Intervening, joyshe thought that she'd prevented a crime, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stagebut what she said would come back to haunt her.[[Broken Ground by Val McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Half Moon Bay by Naomi NovikAlice LaPlante]]===
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Miryem comes from Half Moon Bay is a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family small town on the edge west coast of povertyAmerica, until Miryem must step ina little down from San Francisco. Hardening Jane has just moved there, to start a new life after losing everything when her heart teenage daughter was killed and collecting what is owed from local villagers, her husband left her. Although she becomes has begun to find a person of great interest when she borrows little peace in the quiet, seaside town, one day a pouch child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of silver pennies from her Grandfather grief and returns it full of goldloss and, also, soon becoming entangled with an array rousing the suspicions of strange creatures, from the dark beings local townsfolk that haunt she is somehow involved in the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… disappearance. [[Spinning Silver Half Moon Bay by Naomi NovikAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Party by Lisa Hall]]===
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Rachel wakes up in a strange bedroom, with the worst hangover she's ever had and no memory of the night before[[image:4star. And even though she has no memory, she knows at the core of her being that something very bad has happened to her at her neighbour's New Year's Eve party. But with everyone there appearing to be hiding something and no one giving her a straight answer to her questions, will Rachel ever find out what happened at the party? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Party by Lisa Hall:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the city you live, the more sunlight you see and the easier your life. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is tough. But with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Nova can sneak up to the city, leech some byts and at least make rent. v[[Phantom by Leo Hunt|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE Claire Askew -->
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===[[The Con Artist All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Fred Van LenteClaire Askew]]===
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Comic-Cons As a news item, school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, but even the young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of their number. It doesn't end on the day, either. School shootings cast a place very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comicbeing a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students -Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creatorsone last bullet to kill himself. We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, plus the chance mother of maybethe murderer, just maybe reuniting with his ex. HoweverHelen Birch, when his rival is found deadthe newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner the mother of one of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorvictims. [[The Con Artist All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Fred Van LenteClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Boyd TonkinRachel Aaron]]===
[[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ReferenceDystopian Fiction|ReferenceDystopian Fiction]]
Consider, 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'', but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 You want me to be like everyone else and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as spend my life hiding inside the introduction here so smartly puts walls where it – ''a privileged means of passing border postss safe, a sort of universal passport issued by but that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our handss an illusion. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as So long as a fortnightthere are titans out there… no one is safe's holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thing. Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin|Full Review]]
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]]  <!-- Tanoh Bennett -->
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Island by Dr Nat TanohM A Bennett]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls A contemporary take on the savage classic ''hop-hipLord of the Flies'', eating copious amounts : a group of foodmismatched, and learning about girls. Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a good lifedeserted island. However, the suburb Link is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instanta fish out of water. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives underNewly arrived from America, he is forced finding it hard to become an unlikely revolutionarysettle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Can chubby Saga really stand up Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to a murderous regimeunderstand? 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 stay one step ahead immediately becomes the butt of the soldiers desperate every school joke. And some students are determined to stop him? make his life more miserable than others... [[The Day of the Orphan Island by Dr Nat TanohM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Colour Me In by Lydia Ruffles]]===
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[[image:5starReeling from a tragedy and unable to cope, unemployed actor Arlo decides to get on a plane and go somewhere new.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersColour Me In by Lydia Ruffles|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Fionn 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 and she can be quite dismissive of her rather green younger brother. The siblings need some time away because their mother isn't coping well with the death of their father and needs time alone to get better. Grandfather is a strange, eccentric old man who lives in a tiny cottage full of candles. He has a crabby but wicked sense of humour and sometimes has trouble keeping hold of his memories. But he makes the candles dance and his eyes contain depths that hold the secret of the seas. [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle|Full Review]]<!-- Makkai Scott -->
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===[[The Great Believers A Treachery of Spies by Rebecca MakkaiManda Scott]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she''The Great Believers'' follows a group s puzzled – whilst the identity of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed in Chicago during the late 1980’ssame way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Beginning in 1985, Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the reader follows Yale history of this woman – and his friends as they come back to terms with a time when the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communitymen and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, alongside brutal fight for survival against their demonisation at the hands of a conservative AmericaNazi oppressors. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend As more and more secrets come to Yalelight, is searching for her estranged daughter on Inès discovers that there are many in the streets of Paris, trying present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt. keep secrets safe… [[The Great Believers A Treachery of Spies by Rebecca MakkaiManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Anomaly by Chloe DaykinMichael Rutger]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersHorror|Horror]] Tomb 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 ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. Deep in a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend. [[The Anomaly by Michael Rutger|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 Hajaj -->
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===[[Russian Roulette The Water Thief by Sara SheridanClaire Hajaj]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction]]
It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives Nick is in a loft and works out in the gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the right side middle of the law, and a refusal wedding preparations when he decides to faint at the sight of blood, but she is, as everyone around her will attest, first leave his fiancée behind in London and foremost take up a lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her post in this, some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving building of a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of manners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, therechildren's hospital. He has no reason not to be polite, idea what he is there? getting himself into. [[Russian Roulette The Water Thief by Sara SheridanClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Steven RamirezPeter Lovesey]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorCrime|HorrorCrime]]
In Children love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the third opportunity to watch one hit a building through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and final part clad in clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, was visible in the loft of the half-demolished building. The lad''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge s father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and retributionhurried the boy away. With Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the events of book two still weighing heavily on Davecorpse from a cherry picker, he struggles against an unfortunate adjustment to the rage burning inside controls left him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facility. As events come eye to a climax, er, eye socket with the corpse and Dave finds himself pursued the picture was caught 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? press photographer. It was too good not to go viral. [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Steven RamirezPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Steven RamirezKatherine Webber]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]]
Still battling Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers but also a constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been answered when 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 Black Dragon Security team show up grief and loss that continue to rescue him and his wife Hollyscar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But things only get worse – while she falls in love with the virus mutatingescape that he represents from her grief, and the infected getting smarter. When Dave discovers the truth behind the contagion it will drive him past all limits of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing 's not so clear that she's falling in love with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him? . [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Steven RamirezKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Horror|HorrorBone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had a long road to recovery, but finally feels like he's getting his life back. Then - a plague hits the town, turning the majority of the population into flesh-hungry monsters who crave the taste of humans. Fighting to survive - Dave's urge to hide away and drink is strong - will he fight to live when the chances of survival are so slim? With the hordes of the undead growing and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave.[[image:4.5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven RamirezCategory: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]] <!-- Brooke Fieldhouse Rajaniemi -->
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===[[The Gilded Ones Summerland by Brooke FieldhouseHannu Rajaniemi]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeDystopian Fiction|CrimeDystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Science Fiction|Literary Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]
It was Imagine a hot day world in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for the day, which death was no longer something to fear but the heat wasn't the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top formsomething to aspire to. He'd had a disturbing dream After discovery of the night before. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult routeafterlife, probably somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the road. The passengerBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia...'', she said. ''It's spelled Big Smoke for the German wayrecently deceased.'' Of the two job interviews, In 1938 the first was with an British Empire is caught up-and-coming design studio in Brighton a race against Soviet spies and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's career. The second was dealing with a run-down practice based mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel White, an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewisambitious SIS agent, whose wifebecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with the dream of the night before was too she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much for Pulse she is willing to risk to refuse the offer of a job. He couldn't resist the lure of uncover the mysterytruth. [[The Gilded Ones Summerland by Brooke FieldhouseHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Allyson JuleK D Knight]]===
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'Speaking Up' In the opening story a man whose wife has a fascinating subject matter deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - how language reflects and shapes our notions his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of genderwhether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H'', the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. It looks at our use After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of language John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in media, education, religion, the workplace Grand National and personal relationshipsconsidered a no-hoper. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body In one of the most dramatic runnings of research from the mid twentieth century to race, a pile up occured at the present day23rd fence. Reading it Foinavon, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever who had been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the Kardashians with equal rigourrace at odds of 100/1. [[Speaking Up Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Allyson JuleK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.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!''
I'm not really sure what Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the first Ticklewater frog to say about this book. It was manage such a really good psychological thriller feat, he is filled with plenty of twists excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and turns but unfortunately it just wasn't really my cup of teafamily. [[You Were Made for This The Frog Who Was Blue by Michelle SacksFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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