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===[[The Anomaly Unrest by Michael RutgerJesper Stein]]===
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Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team tortured body 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 a man found something; in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that is had the starting point of this bookarea swarming in police. Deep How could anyone have been murdered and left in a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot open with added levels so many police on site? Unless the killer is one of paranoia them… As the case becomes more and conspiracy thrown into more complicated, it soon begins to take a toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the blendkiller is caught, whatever the consequences. But the consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[The Anomaly Unrest by Michael RutgerJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Claire HajajDominic Watson]]===
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Nick is Even with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the 9 to leave his fiancée 5 behind in London for a yacht and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building silky blue waters of the Caribbean, but only for a childrenyear, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, I like work. My job is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters and it's hospitalnot badly rewarded. He has So no idea what he , I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is getting himself intoabout planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[The Water Thief Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Claire HajajDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Beau Death Murder Mile (Peter Diamond MysteryJane Tennison 4) by Peter LoveseyLynda La Plante]]===
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Children love wrecking balls, so It was February 1979 in the young lad wasnstrike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent't going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit when a building through one of those very tempting holes body was discovered in fencing which you find around building sitesPeckham. The problem It was that when to be the dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad first of two bodies in clothes which looked to be a few hundred years oldtwo days, was visible in but the loft first - that of the halfa young woman -demolished buildingwould remain unidentified for some time. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried second - an older lady - was found in the boy awayboot of her car by her son. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment Jane Tennison has been promoted to the controls left him eye to, er, eye socket with the corpse Sergeant and finds herself in the picture was caught midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a press photographerquick result. It was too good not Four days later and another body to add to go viralthe count, the police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubts. [[Beau Death Murder Mile (Peter Diamond MysteryJane Tennison 4) by Peter LoveseyLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Broken Ground by Katherine WebberVal McDermid]]===
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Though it's been 5 years since Mika diedAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, Reiko still sees DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the ghost scene of her sister every daythe crime, but for once, forever 14. Itshe's something that brings her comfort, but also in the right place at the right time when a constant reminder that she has to make body is dug up for being one when there should have been twoin the Highlands. She has Initially it looks as though the death dates back to shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. From her family, her friendsWWII, but the fact that the grief and loss dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that continue to scar them all. Seth the case is instantly smitten with herKaren's. After all, who wouldn A little while later she't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while d come to think that she falls 'd been in love with the escape that he represents from her griefwrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. Intervening, it's not so clear she thought that she's falling in love with himd prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to haunt her. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Broken Ground by Katherine WebberVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante]]===
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Samkad Half Moon Bay is living high up in a small town on the mountainous Philippine jungle west coast of America, a little down from San Francisco. Jane has just as the nineteenth century turns moved there, to the twentiethstart a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and her husband left her. But Samkad Although she has no idea about any begun to find a little peace in the quiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of that. He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe her grief and loss and his thoughts are focused on becoming a man. He's desperate for , also, rousing the Elders to permit him to join suspicions of the ranks of local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behinddisappearance. [[Bone Talk Half Moon Bay by Candy GourlayAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi]]===
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Imagine Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks tosteal byts from hapless corps workers. After discovery of The higher up in the afterlifecity you live, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, more sunlight you see and the Big Smoke for the recently deceasedeasier your life. In 1938 For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the British Empire surface, life is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing tough. But with a mole buried deep in the heart help of Summerland. When Rachel Whitethe hacking program Phantom, an ambitious SIS agentinvented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, becomes suspicious about Nova can sneak up to the potential rogue agentcity, she must decide how far she is willing to go leech some byts and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truthat least make rent. v[[Summerland Phantom by Hannu RajaniemiLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by K D KnightClaire Askew]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesCrime|Short StoriesCrime]]
In As a news item, school shootings always terrify me: the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little moneydeaths are bad enough, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with even the problem of whether or not young people who survive are always going to run his horse in be scarred by the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. fact My favourite that this was ''The Story done to them by one of H'their number. It doesn't end on the day, the story of Foinavoneither. H is depicted as School shootings cast a kind horse who only wanted to please peoplevery long shadow. After changing hands on various occasions he came to May the 14th had the yard makings of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered being a nonormal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students -hoperand one last bullet to kill himself. In one We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, the most dramatic runnings mother of the racemurderer, Helen Birch, a pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, newly-promoted detective inspector who had been many lengths adrift, cleared will investigate the fence killings and galloped to the lineIshbel Hodgekiss, winning the race at odds mother of 100/1one of the victims. [[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by K D KnightClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]===
[[image:4star''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:For Sharing|For Sharing]]So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
''Biriwita In the blue frog longs dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to be accepted at Croak Collegekeep 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 most famous school Earth looking for frogs in Malawiprey, but and whilst the other students all turn their backs walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change… [[Garrison Girl (Attack on him. He is just too different!''Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Full Review]]
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.
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===[[The Island by M A Bennett]]===
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[[imageA contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'':5stara group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[:Category:Dystopian FictionThe Island by M A Bennett|Dystopian FictionFull Review]]
Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the detention centre at the airport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to rely on you... [[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla Ruffles -->
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===[[The Story Keeper Colour Me In by Anna MazzolaLydia Ruffles]]===
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Audrey, Reeling from a complex mix of flights of fancy tragedy and seriousness, wanting, needing, unable to be more than what everyone expects of hercope, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution unemployed actor Arlo decides to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now get on a widower plane and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expectedgo somewhere new. [[The Story Keeper Colour Me In by Anna MazzolaLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[Four A Treachery of Spies by Andy JonesManda Scott]]===
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Friends are nice, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to spend time with. A pair investigate the horrific murder of pairs, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from universitystrikingly beautiful elderly lady, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared historys puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, sheit's a lot clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of fun this woman – and back to a bit younger than time when the rest men and women of them1940s France were engaged in a desperate, an actress brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and so on. more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Four A Treachery of Spies by Andy JonesManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[An Italian Summer The Anomaly by Fanny BlakeMichael Rutger]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's FictionHorror|Women's FictionHorror]]
Set against Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the backdrop intrepid (if rather inept) team of Rome and Naples, ten very different people meet internet adventurers as they head out on a small yet another search for ''an anomaly'Taste of Italy' sightseeing triponly to (spoilers) actually find one. This is a story Imagine if, instead of familybeing scared by their own acting, friendships Derek Acorah and relationships – my favouriteYvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. However, it was Deep in a departure from cave within the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in their twenties or thirties. Here the characters are middle-aged a Stephen King plot with children in their twenties and rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges added levels of maintaining love, empty nest syndrome, paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the loss of loved ones. Essentially it is a story of breaking out and new beginningsblend. [[An Italian Summer The Anomaly by Fanny BlakeMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[Believe Me The Water Thief by J P DelaneyClaire Hajaj]]===
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Claire Wright wanted to be an actress, but she was penniless and living Nick is in New York. She might have had a scholarship to cover her school fees, but she still had to find the money middle of wedding preparations when he decides to live leave his fiancée behind in one of the most expensive cities London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the world. There was building of a solution, although it didnchildren't provide a regular income: she became a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers. The job was to trap straying husbands and tape them as they propositioned her. There were rules though: she couldn't hit on them directly - they had to proposition hers hospital. There was He has no intention to trap the innocentidea what he is getting himself into. [[Believe Me The Water Thief by J P DelaneyClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Laura SolomonPeter Lovesey]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[MarshaChildren love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by t going to pass up the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''watch one hit a building through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say The problem was that Marsha bested when the devil dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad in ''Marsha's Deal''clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, but was visible in the loft of the devil is not one to take defeat lying downhalf-demolished building. HeThe lad's out to wage war on Planet Earth father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell)hurried the boy away. Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concernedDetective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Daniel is framed for Viewing the corpse from a crime he didn't commit and sent cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment to juvenile detention and refused permission to return the controls left him eye to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeteder, but - worst of all - subverted to eye socket with the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears corpse and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragilethe picture was caught by a press photographer. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator It was too good not to Hellgo viral. [[Hell's Unveiling Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Laura SolomonPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder Only Love Can Break Your Heart by M J TjiaKatherine Webber]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)Teens|Crime (Historical)Teens]]
Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It's 1863 and something that brings her comfort, but also a little girl constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been found murdered at the family home in Stoke Newingtontwo. A few days later and a few miles across London, a man is found dead in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse She has to shine bright enough for both of Heloise Chanceythem. When she befriends outsider Seth, courtesan and part-time detectivehe presents her with an escape. Could they be connected? And whatFrom her family, if anythingher friends, does either of the grief and loss that continue to scar them have to do all. Seth is instantly smitten with Heloiseher. After all, who wouldn's maidt fall for gorgeous, Amah Li Leenpopular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from her grief, and the troubling events it's not so clear that she's falling in her past which are threatening to resurface?love with him. [[A Necessary Murder Only Love Can Break Your Heart by M J TjiaKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular ScienceBone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
This incredible graphic novel [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Samkad is a love letter to living high up in the Moon landings and mountainous Philippine jungle just as the passion for nineteenth century turns to the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collinstwentieth. This is a story we know well and because But Samkad has no idea about any of this the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts 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 only downside Elders to permit him to join the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation ranks of a film you the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too shortmean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Apollo Bone Talk by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Summerland by Nick SetchfieldHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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Europe – 1963. The Imagine a world is used in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to . After discovery of the constant tensions between afterlife, the West and RussiaBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in Big Smoke for the lives of everyday peoplerecently deceased. What they don't know however, is that In 1938 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 Empire is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, caught up in a race against Soviet spies and is forced into dealing with a tense, unwelcome alliance with mole buried deep in the lethal Karina Lazarovaheart of Summerland. As the threats riseWhen Rachel White, 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 ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the enemypotential rogue agent, Christopher she must decide how far she is taken from ruins in Bavaria through willing to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire go and black glass. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in how much she is willing to risk to uncover the darktruth. [[The War in the Dark Summerland by Nick SetchfieldHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Gill LewisK D Knight]]===
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Meet Izzy In the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and Ashahis wife. Bullied away from In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the local attempt at a skateparkground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H'', they find a huge waste ground in the shadow story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a derelict gasometer kind horse who only wanted to practise please people. After changing hands on, which they duly do, even though they have various occasions he came to drag Izzy's younger brother with themthe yard of John Kempton. The following day they all want to return, as does H (or Foinavon) was entered in the brother's schoolfriend, despite – Grand National and considered a no-hoper. In one of course because the most dramatic runnings of – there being the race, a huge wolf living in pile up occured at the site23rd fence. Can Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the children survive living in fence and galloped to the urban wildernessline, alongside such obvious dangers? winning the race at odds of 100/1. [[Run Wild Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Gill LewisK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On by C M Taylor]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] 's where he'd really like Biriwita the blue frog longs to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectaccepted at Croak College, but he's living the most famous school for frogs 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 everythingMalawi, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UKother students all turn their backs on him. SheHe is just too different!'d have you believe that she's not well, but there's  Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a backstory home there , including frogs. For some reason that's not being talked about. Then there's nobody can remember, all the pub, which isn't doing well enough to sellLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools They think nothing of expats who have left Spain and returned homeit. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, in order the first Ticklewater frog to make manage such a bit of money to try feat, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetfamily. [[Staying On The Frog Who Was Blue by C M TaylorFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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