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===[[The Water Thief Unrest by Claire HajajJesper Stein]]===
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Nick DCI 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 middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind area swarming in London police. How could anyone have been murdered and take up a post left in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building 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 childrentoll on Steen's hospitalalready troubled personal life. He has no idea what he won't stop until the killer is getting himself intocaught, whatever the consequences. But the consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[The Water Thief Unrest by Claire HajajJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Peter LoveseyDominic Watson]]===
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Children love wrecking ballsEven with a birthday fast approaching, so the I'm still a bit young lad wasn't going to pass up be reading about retirement. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the opportunity 9 to watch one hit 5 behind for a building through one yacht and the silky blue waters of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the dust settled Caribbean, but only for a skeletonyear, sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to then I will be a few hundred back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years oldstill to come. Also, was visible in the loft of the half-demolished buildingI like work. The ladMy job is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters and it's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so luckybadly rewarded. Viewing the corpse from a cherry pickerSo no, an unfortunate adjustment I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the controls left him eye topremise of this book is about planning (and if not now, er, eye socket with the corpse and the picture then when?) I was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to go viralstill intrigued. [[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Peter LoveseyDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Katherine WebberLynda La Plante]]===
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Though itIt was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost Winter of her sister every day, forever 14Discontent' when a body was discovered in Peckham. It's something that brings her comfortwas to be the first of two bodies in two days, but also the first - that of a constant reminder that she has to make up young woman - would remain unidentified for being one when there should have been twosome time. The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of her car by her son. She Jane Tennison has been promoted to shine bright enough for both Sergeant and finds herself in the midst of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escapeinvestigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a quick result. From her family, her friends, the grief Four days later and loss that continue another body to add to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After allthe count, who wouldn't fall for gorgeousthe police have named their suspect, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from but Tennison has her grief, it's not so clear that she's falling in love with himdoubts. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Katherine WebberLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Ground by Val McDermid]]===
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[[image:4As 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 in the right place at the right time when a body is dug up in the Highlands. Initially it looks as though the death dates back to WWII, but the fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the case is Karen's. 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 cafe.5star Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to haunt her.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersBroken Ground by Val McDermid|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
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]] <!-- Rajaniemi LaPlante -->
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===[[Summerland Half Moon Bay by Hannu RajaniemiAlice LaPlante]]===
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Imagine Half Moon Bay is a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery small town on the west coast of the afterlifeAmerica, the British Empire a little down from San Francisco. Jane has extended its reach into Summerlandjust moved there, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in to start a race against Soviet spies new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and dealing with her husband left her. Although she has begun to find a mole buried deep little peace in the heart quiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of Summerland. When Rachel Whiteher grief and loss and, an ambitious SIS agentalso, becomes suspicious about rousing the suspicions of the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far local townsfolk that she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover somehow involved in the truthdisappearance. [[Summerland Half Moon Bay by Hannu RajaniemiAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by K D Knight]]===
===[[Phantom by Leo Hunt]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesTeens|Short StoriesTeens]]
In the opening story Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket leecher - and his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem a futuristic kind of whether or not pickpocket who uses tech hacks to run his horse steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the Gold Cup when city you live, the ground is against himmore sunlight you see and the easier your life. My favourite was ''The Story of H''For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the story of Foinavon. H surface, life is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please peopletough. After changing hands on various occasions he came to But with the yard help of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a nohacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-hoper. In one of corps hacker the most dramatic runnings of the raceMoth, a pile Nova can sneak up occured at to the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adriftcity, cleared the fence leech some byts and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/1least make rent. v[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing Phantom by K D KnightLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew]]===
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[[imageAs a news item, school shootings always terrify me:4star 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.jpg|link=Category It doesn't end on the day, either. School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and one last bullet to kill himself. We follow the story through the lives of three women:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Moira Summers, the mother of the murderer, Helen Birch, the newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of the victims. [[:Category:For SharingAll the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew|For SharingFull Review]]
''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!'' 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 manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and family. [[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]] <!-- Singer Aaron -->
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===[[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]===
[[image:5star''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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is In the dystopian world of Attack on her way home Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the Isle of Arranenemies outside. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by bordersKnown as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, checkpoints with sharp hungry teeth and soldiers with gunsregenerative powers. Mhairi has made it across Africa Difficult to kill and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said innumerable they roam the Earth looking for Muma prey, and Papa. She's even made it whilst the walls have always kept them out of the detention centre at the airport. And during this journey, Mhairi that has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else begun to rely on you... change… [[The Survival Game Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Nicky SingerRachel Aaron|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Island by Anna MazzolaM A Bennett]]===
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Audrey, A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a complex mix of flights group of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needingmismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to be more than what everyone expects survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of her, escapes water. Newly arrived from the straightjacket of her home. Where every actionAmerica, every thought, every yearning he is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution finding it hard to settle into the wind venerable and married way beneath him for loveprestigious Osney School. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to upholding understand? And what is right, what is properkind 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 bastion butt of doing what is expectedevery school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[The Story Keeper Island by Anna MazzolaM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Four Colour Me In by Andy JonesLydia Ruffles]]===
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Friends are nice, Reeling from a tragedy and couple friends are doubly niceunable to cope, giving you like minded people unemployed actor Arlo decides to spend time with. A pair of pairs, or get on a couple of couples. Married couple Sally plane and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al through work. His go somewhere new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared history, she's a lot of fun – a bit younger than the rest of them, an actress and so on. [[Four Colour Me In by Andy JonesLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[An Italian Summer A Treachery of Spies by Fanny BlakeManda Scott]]===
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Set against When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the backdrop horrific murder of Rome and Naplesa strikingly beautiful elderly lady, ten very different people meet on a small she'Taste s puzzled – whilst the identity of Italythe woman has been erased, it' sightseeing trips clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. This is a story Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of family, friendships this woman – and relationships – my favourite. However, it was back to a departure from time when the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their twenties or thirtiesNazi oppressors. Here the characters As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are middle-aged with children many in the present who would rather their twenties and rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges of maintaining love, empty nest syndrome, past stay buried – and the loss of loved ones. Essentially it is a story of breaking out and new beginnings. many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[An Italian Summer A Treachery of Spies by Fanny BlakeManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Believe Me The Anomaly by J P DelaneyMichael Rutger]]===
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Claire Wright wanted to be Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an actressX-Files episode, but she was penniless and living in New Yorkfor the Youtube era. She might have had a scholarship to cover her school fees, but she still had 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 the money to live in one . Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the most expensive cities starting point of this book. Deep in a cave within the world. There was a solution, although it didn't provide Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a regular income: she became a decoy for a firm Stephen King plot with added levels of divorce lawyers. The job was to trap straying husbands paranoia and tape them as they propositioned her. There were rules though: she couldn't hit on them directly - they had to proposition her. There was no intention to trap conspiracy thrown into the innocentblend. [[Believe Me The Anomaly by J P DelaneyMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling The Water Thief by Laura SolomonClaire Hajaj]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read Nick is in the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much middle of a spoiler wedding preparations when he decides to say that Marsha bested the devil leave his fiancée behind in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one to London and take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as up a 'goody two shoes' post in Hell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil endshospital. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem has no idea what he is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hellgetting himself into. [[Hell's Unveiling The Water Thief by Laura SolomonClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by M J TjiaPeter Lovesey]]===
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ItChildren love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn's 1863 and t going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit a little girl has been found murdered at building through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the family home dust settled a skeleton, sitting in Stoke Newington. A few days later an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a few miles across Londonhundred years old, a man is found dead was visible in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse loft of Heloise Chancey, courtesan the half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and part-time detectivehurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Could they be connected? And what Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, if anything, does either of them have an unfortunate adjustment to the controls left him eye to do with Heloise's maid, Amah Li Leener, eye socket with the corpse and the troubling events in her past which are threatening picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to resurface?go viral. [[A Necessary Murder Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by M J TjiaPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsKatherine Webber]]===
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This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off ghost of her sister every Apollo by Matt Fitchday, Chris Baker and Mike Collinsforever 14. This is It's something that brings her comfort, but also a story we know well and because of this the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing constant reminder that we can fill in the blanksshe has to make up for being one when there should have been two. These shortcuts are the only downside She has to the bookshine bright enough for both of them. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. From her family, her friends, the slight feeling that there are scenes missing grief and loss that dialogue has been trimmedcontinue to scar them all. This Seth is a graphic novel 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 could easily have been three times as long and still felt too shortshe's falling in love with him. [[Apollo Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science FictionBone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
Europe – 1963[[image:4. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday people. What they don't know however, is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges of the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, and is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, 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 the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the dark5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield:Category: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]] <!-- Lewis Rajaniemi -->
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===[[Run Wild Summerland by Gill LewisHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find Imagine a huge waste ground world in the shadow of a derelict gasometer which death was no longer something to fear but something to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have aspire to drag Izzy's younger brother with them. The following day they all want to returnAfter discovery of the afterlife, as does the brother's schoolfriendBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, despite – the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and of course because of – there being dealing with a huge wolf living mole buried deep in the siteheart of Summerland. Can When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the children survive living in potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers? truth. [[Run Wild Summerland by Gill LewisHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by C M TaylorK D Knight]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is In the opening story a Yorkshireman through man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and through and being honest, Yorkshirehis wife. In ''A Grey Day's where he'd really like an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but he's living run his horse in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a pubGold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Viva Espagñe isnStory of H''t flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UK, what with the uncertainty story of Brexit and everything, but there are Foinavon. H is depicted as a couple of problemskind horse who only wanted to please people. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back After changing hands on various occasions he came to the UKyard of John Kempton. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a backstory there that's not being talked aboutno-hoper. Then there's In one of the most dramatic runnings of the pubrace, which isn't doing well enough to sella pile up occured at the 23rd fence. In fact Tony's cleaning Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain fence and returned homegalloped to the line, in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends winning the race at least come in sight odds of each other, even if they never meet100/1. [[Staying On Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by C M TaylorK D Knight|Full Review]]
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Jess is in Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a meeting with Dr Harrisonhome there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the school counsellorLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come to terms with the death They think nothing of her room-mate, Hannait. But he's not having much successSo, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feels. Insteadwhen Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, she feigns the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a grief she does not feel so that feat, he is satisfied filled with excitement and she gets out of there as quickly as possiblehis only worry is how much he will miss his friends and family. [[The Truth About Lies Frog Who Was Blue by Tracy DarntonFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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