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===[[An Italian Summer Unrest by Fanny BlakeJesper Stein]]===
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Set against DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the backdrop tortured body of Rome 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 Naples, ten very different people meet left in the open with so many police on a small 'Taste of Italy' sightseeing trip. This site? Unless the killer is a story one of family, friendships them… As the case becomes more and relationships – my favourite. Howevermore complicated, it was soon begins to take a departure from the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused toll on sassy independent female characters in their twenties or thirtiesSteen's already troubled personal life. Here He won't stop until the characters are middle-aged with children in their twenties and rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges of maintaining lovekiller is caught, empty nest syndrome, and whatever the loss of loved onesconsequences. Essentially it is a story of breaking But the consequences may turn out and new beginnings. to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[An Italian Summer Unrest by Fanny BlakeJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Believe Me Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by J P DelaneyDominic Watson]]===
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Claire Wright wanted Even with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be an actress, but she was penniless and living reading about retirement. My next life change in New York. She might have had the pipeline will be a scholarship to cover her school feesbig one, but she still had and it does involve leaving the 9 to find 5 behind for a yacht and the money to live in one silky blue waters of the most expensive cities in the world. There was a solutionCaribbean, although it didn't provide a regular income: she became a decoy but only for a firm of divorce lawyersyear, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, I like work. The My job was is interesting, I get to trap straying husbands travel, what we do matters and tape them as they propositioned herit's not badly rewarded. There were rules though: she couldnSo no, I't hit on them directly - they had m not planning to proposition herretire just yet. There But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was no intention to trap the innocentstill intrigued. [[Believe Me Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by J P DelaneyDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Laura SolomonLynda La Plante]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I It was delighted by February 1979 in the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveilingstrike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent'when a body was discovered in Peckham. It's probably not much of a spoiler was to say that Marsha bested be the devil first of two bodies in ''Marsha's Deal''two days, but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought first - that of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell)young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of her car by her foster children are concernedson. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent Jane Tennison has been promoted to juvenile detention Sergeant and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all finds herself in the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst midst of all - subverted an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to the devil's evil endsget a quick result. He's out Four days later and another body to add to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster childrenthe count, the police have named their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operationsuspect, either - the devil but Tennison has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hellher doubts. [[Hell's Unveiling Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Laura SolomonLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder Broken Ground by M J TjiaVal McDermid]]===
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ItAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, but for once, she's 1863 and a little girl has been found murdered in the right place at the family home right time when a body is dug up in Stoke Newingtonthe Highlands. A few days later and a few miles across London Initially it looks as though the death dates back to WWII, but the fact that the dead man is wearing a man pair of Nikes means that the case is found dead Karen's. A little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chancey, courtesan and part-wrong place at the wrong time detectivewhen she overheard a conversation in a cafe. Could they be connected? And what Intervening, if anythingshe thought that she'd prevented a crime, does either of them have but what she said would come back to do with Heloise's maid, Amah Li Leen, and the troubling events in haunt her past which are threatening to resurface?. [[A Necessary Murder Broken Ground by M J TjiaVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo Half Moon Bay by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsAlice LaPlante]]===
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This incredible graphic novel Half Moon Bay is a love letter to small town on the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitchwest coast of America, Chris Baker and Mike Collinsa little down from San Francisco. This is Jane has just moved there, to start a story we know well new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and because of this the authors take her husband left her. Although she has begun to find a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill little peace in the blanks. These shortcuts are quiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and loss and, also, rousing the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation suspicions of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and local townsfolk that dialogue has been trimmed. This she is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too shortsomehow involved in the disappearance. [[Apollo Half Moon Bay by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield]]===
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Europe – 1963. The world Sixteen-year-old Nova is used to the constant tensions between the West an undercity dweller and Russia, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the lives of everyday people. What they don't know howevercity you live, is that the real cold war is fought on more sunlight you see and the borders of this worldeasier your life. For leechers like Nova, far from prying eyes at the edges of four hundred storeys below the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrongsurface, and life is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance tough. But with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As help of the threats risehacking program Phantom, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the enemyMoth, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through Nova can sneak up to the haunted Hungarian bordercity, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire leech some byts and black glass. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the darkleast make rent. v[[The War in the Dark Phantom by Nick SetchfieldLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Gill LewisClaire Askew]]===
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Meet Izzy and AshaAs 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. Bullied away from It doesn't end on the local attempt at a skateparkday, they find either. School shootings cast a huge waste ground in very long shadow. May the shadow 14th had the makings of being a derelict gasometer normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have shoot thirteen fellow students - and one last bullet to drag Izzy's younger brother with themkill himself. The following day they all want to return We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, as does the brother's schoolfriendmother of the murderer, Helen Birch, despite – the newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, the mother of course because one of – there being a huge wolf living in the sitevictims. Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers? [[Run Wild All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Gill LewisClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by C M TaylorRachel 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:General FictionGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|General FictionFull Review]]
Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UK, what with the uncertainty of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meet. [[Staying On by C M Taylor|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island by M A Bennett]]===
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Jess 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 in a meeting with Dr Harrisonfish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the school counsellorvenerable and prestigious Osney School. Dr Harrison is hoping Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to help Jess come to terms with understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the death of her roomschool quad -matehowever ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, Hanna. But he's not having much success, largely because Jess has no intention immediately becomes the butt of telling him how she feelsevery school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others.. 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 Island by Tracy DarntonM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Colour Me In by Lydia Ruffles]]===
===[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Confident ReadersTeens]]
Bridie - Birdy - Jones is eleven Reeling from a tragedy and finding life rather hard. After her mother diedunable to cope, it used unemployed actor Arlo decides to be just Birdy and Dad and that was okay, but now there's Birdy, Dad, an overbearing step mum, get on a little sister and another baby on the way. There's precious little room for Birdy any more and the only place she really feels happy plane and secure is at her grandfather's pigeon loft. Birdy loves pigeonsgo somewhere new. She loves caring for them, training them, and releasing them to wait for them to find their way home. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones Colour Me In by Joanna NadinLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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Elizabeth KlehfothWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it's debut novel is a clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery thriller written from will lead Inès deep into the perspective history of Charlie Calloway, this woman – and back to a teenage girl time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in her final years at boarding school who is plagued by her mother’s disappearancea desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As the story progresses she begins to learn more about what happened and more secrets come to her motherlight, finding out along Inès discovers that there are many in the way that not everyone was present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers too. would kill to keep secrets safe… [[All These Beautiful Strangers A Treachery of Spies by Elizabeth KlehfothManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls Anomaly by Carrie Hope FletcherMichael Rutger]]===
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A thoroughlyTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from for the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards Youtube era. Join the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''Whodunitan anomaly'' the thrill of romance, only to (the course of which never runs smoothly,spoilers) and an unpredictable ghostactually find one. The ghost appears once a yearImagine if, the principal star instead of her very being scared by their own showacting, to meet with Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the love starting point of her life and re-enact her deaththis book. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep Deep in a cave within the whole array Grand Canyon our team of human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stageadventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend.[[The Anomaly by Michael Rutger|Full Review]]
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Miryem comes from a long line Nick is in the middle of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting, wedding preparations when he leaves the family on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step decides to leave his fiancée behind in. Hardening her heart London and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes take up a person post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building 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 to a King whochildren's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[Spinning Silver The Water Thief by Naomi NovikClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Party Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Lisa HallPeter Lovesey]]===
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Rachel wakes Children love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the 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 clad in clothes which looked to be a strange bedroomfew hundred years old, with was visible in the loft of the worst hangover shehalf-demolished building. The lad's ever had father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and no memory of hurried the night beforeboy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. And even though she has no memory Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, she knows at an unfortunate adjustment to the core of her being that something very bad has happened controls left him eye to her at her neighbour's New Year's Eve party. But , er, eye socket with everyone there appearing to be hiding something the corpse and no one giving her the picture was caught by a straight answer press photographer. It was too good not to her questions, will Rachel ever find out what happened at the party? go viral. [[The Party Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Lisa HallPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Fred Van LenteKatherine Webber]]===
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Comic-Cons are a place Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of wonder and sanctuary for many peopleher sister every day, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, heforever 14. It's looking 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 that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybethem. When she befriends outsider Seth, just maybe reuniting he presents her with his exan escape. HoweverFrom her family, when his rival is found deadher friends, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs grief and intrusive fans loss that continue to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence andscar 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 doing love with the escape that he represents from her grief, it's not so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorclear that she's falling in love with him. [[The Con Artist Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Fred Van LenteKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin]]===
===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]=== [[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ReferenceConfident Readers|ReferenceConfident Readers]]
Consider, if you will, translated fictionSamkad is living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the twentieth. Some say it's impossible – But Samkad has no idea about any of that if a book was so good in one tongue it could . He has never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', but he could translate met anyone from outside his own works, small tribe and other equally complex pieces can cross bordershis thoughts are focused on becoming a man. ItHe's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as desperate for the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit Elders to permit him to join the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one ranks of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I diewarriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, he knows it's not a short thingwill mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Bone Talk by Boyd TonkinCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Summerland by Dr Nat TanohHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts . After discovery of foodthe afterlife, and learning about girls. Living in an affluentthe British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good lifethe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. However, In 1938 the suburb British Empire is caught up in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in an instantthe heart of Summerland. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the dictatorship that Saga lives underpotential rogue agent, he she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is forced willing to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up risk to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of uncover the soldiers desperate to stop him? truth. [[The Day of the Orphan Summerland by Dr Nat TanohHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by K D Knight]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]]===
[[image:5starIn 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 ''The Story of H'', the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted 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-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/1.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Going To The Last:Category:Confident ReadersShort Stories About Horse Racing by K D Knight|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 Kermani -->
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===[[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT FictionFor Sharing|LGBT FictionFor 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 Great Believers'' follows Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’shome there, including frogs. Beginning in 1985For some reason that nobody can remember, all the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of a conservative Americait. Thirty years later FionaSo, when Biriwita wins a devoted friend to Yaleplace at Croak College, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying first Ticklewater frog to rebuild manage such a relationship beset by memories feat, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and old hurtfamily. [[The Great Believers Frog Who Was Blue by Rebecca MakkaiFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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