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===[[Dead Memories (D I Can't Tell You Why Kim Stone) by Elaine Robertson NorthAngela Marsons]]===
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When we first meet Dani sheSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's about to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to refuseevil intent. She's Alex Cambridge's agent and That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the indications matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that he's about to make the big timethese dramas can be recreated. He's good looking, charismatic and appealing Stone probably - well, hecertainly - shouldn's an actor so that's part of t be on the spec - case, but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by a statement that he's got no intention who has better knowledge of leaving his wife and three children. what happened to her than she does? So, whatIf her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's in it having on her for Dani? Nolong enough, there's no need to answer thatshe can sort it out... Dani understands the situation all too well and tells him so. Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Can't Tell You Why Kim Stone) by Elaine Robertson NorthAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz]]===
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[[image:5star1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained up, mission ready. And yet untested.'' He's in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all the impeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan X.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersOut of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Bridie, or Little Bird as she prefers to be known, is a crofter's daughter living on the remote Scottish island of Tornish. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with the disability of a wasted arm and leg and often misses her mother, who died some time ago. Despite this, Little Bird has a warm and loving father, sisters to watch over her, a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she is a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch of her windswept, savagely beautiful island. [[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie|Full Review]] <!-- Jason Boggs Jewell -->
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Watching You by Jason F BoggsLisa Jewell]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionThrillers|Science FictionThrillers]]
Young Nelson Jones was A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a young and gifted military cadet man in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'village and that he is following her. As his experiences led him on Meanwhile, a path of conflict young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and self-discovery, he became develops a changed manfascination with her new neighbour. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devilman's Dragon''wife, meanwhile, Nelson is on an expedition to uncover engages the mystery services of the sungatesyoung woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involvedand that teenage boy? He's her son. Meanwhile, And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the humans and mother of the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelsongirl he's nemesisspying on. Plus, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest the man she thinks is out to restore get her is the New Era to glory. As Nelson woman's husband (and his friends race against is also the clock in order to defeat this new threatheadteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, they find themselves facing there's a power beyond imagination… lot of watching going on in this book. [[The Dragon's Harvest Watching You by Jason F BoggsLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) Fish Seeking Bicycle by Gabriel DylanKate Cooch]]===
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Are you up for This novel is set about a sleepless night hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or two? If so, read on!even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]]
Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you're staying in a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one of the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between them. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan |Full Review]] <!-- Felicity Cloake James Atkinson -->
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===[[Completely PerfectHome Workout for Beginners: 120 Essential Recipes 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Every Cook Long Term Weight Loss by Felicity CloakeJames Atkinson]]===
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It's James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a novel concept for a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloakeworkout instructor and he looks the part. He's recipes but been actively involved in the best ones she found to do health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a particular job - the job member of delivering the best meal9 Parachute Regiment, the Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he''Completely Perfect'' meal of s been on the titleother side. Think of it as the equivalent of There was a comparison site for time when you want to renew the car insurance he was overweight and then taking the best elements out of each recipe to make perfectionnot particularly strong. There's nothing cutting edge here: it's the sort of food which we've been eating for decades and probably will be for decades As a child he was slow to comedevelop. ThereThis means that he 's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble 'understands'works'what it' s like and providing that you don't have a vegetarian or a vegan at table, he knows how his clients feel: it's a meal which is unlikely to do other much more helpful than go down wellthe twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Completely PerfectHome Workout for Beginners: 120 Essential Recipes 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Every Cook Long Term Weight Loss by Felicity CloakeJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull]]===
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For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull|Full Review]] <!-- Anders -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:4star1785653199.jpg|link=Categoryhttp:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785653199/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.''
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Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers[[image:3. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames5star. He thinks about the love of cricket and football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson:Category:Science Fiction|Full ReviewScience Fiction]]
January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders|Full Review]] <!-- Dean Laws -->
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===[[Red Snow Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Will DeanDavid Laws]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Life in At the small town time of Gavrik my writing this, there is trying to return to normalone thing uniting Britain, following the grim events of [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Dark Pines]]. As Tuva prepares to move on from both the death of her mother and her small hometown, she this is drawn into another dark investigationhatred of 'Brexit'. One suicide Not just Brexit, and one murder. Are they connected? With black liquorice coins covering but use of the murdered manword 'Brexit's eyes. Yes, people hate the hashtag #ferryman starts trendingpeople that instigated it then disappeared, and /or the local people stocking up on ammunitionwho just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the word. With only a fortnight This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's safe to investigate before moving return, when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to the South, Tuva this book because it is further troubled by a blizzard that descends on the townpartly about Brexit, cutting Gavrik off from but because it too seems to get to the larger worldactual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Desperate Just as we have to stop the killerwade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, Tuva must go delve deep into so the heart reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the community – but whotitle's to say theme really arises. Here, at least though, the Ferryman will let her go? author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Red Snow Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Will DeanDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street The Hidden by Magda SzaboMary Chamberlain]]===
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This is a story about the past. A specific pastWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, certainly, in determined to identify the form of pre-war Budapestmysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and the futureare swiftly forced to confront their pasts. In this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote Revisiting their time on the same theme between 1969 Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and 1987 and now newly translated and reissuedJoe, we witness a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not surviveCatholic Priest, and remembers a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone timestime when he hid something very different. In this story of love, feelings and experiences which mark the here loss and nowbetrayal, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[Katalin Street The Hidden by Magda SzaboMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Winter of the Witch Painting Snails by Katherine ArdenStephen John Hartley]]===
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It's very difficult to classify 'The Winter of the Witch'Painting Snails'' is the conclusion of the story following Vasya, Vasilisa Petronova, : originally I thought that as she negotiates her way towards her destiny through the world of medieval males and the Catholic Churchit's perception of witchcraft. The story picks up directly from the action in the second novelloosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, [[The Girl in but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the Tower by Katherine Arden|best results. The Girl in answer would be something along the Tower]], lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a reader too much busker, finally got into medical school and is lost if now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you haven'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't read this at really what the very leastbook's about. My advice would There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be to read all threethe real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters and Did we have a wonderful balance of magic and actioncategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. This final novel, however, is an absolute triumph It's autobiography. [[The Winter of the Witch Painting Snails by Katherine ArdenStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Paper Avalanche by Lisa Williamson]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]]
Ro Snow spends her time at school trying to pass under When Ollie and Nancy, the radar. She doesn't want anyone to notice herpolice officer tasked with guarding our young hero, because then they might start asking questionsare abducted in the middle of the night, or they might want to be friendsthings take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over Ollie is taken to her house. You seethe Haven, Ro's mum is a hoarder, and their whole house, with secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the exception of Ro's bedroomLondon above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an ever-growing mound immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of rubbish and paper, and Ro lives in fear of social services finding out and taking her awayMaddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[Paper Avalanche The Haven: Book 1 by Lisa WilliamsonSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy in a Turban Things That are Lost by Joseph HucknallAlan Kennedy]]===
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You might not think that Georgian London contained many black peopleThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson It's stifling and suffocating and was feels as much like a beneficiary of his willprison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''The Boy in a Turbanthat'' tells disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the story of a fictional black characterdisinformation campaign, James, in Georgian Londonand returned to find her missing. James, then Quaccoe, A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his two daughtershead. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Boy in a Turban Things That are Lost by Joseph HucknallAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Lightning Chase Me Home Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Amber Lee DoddDouglas Lindsay]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Crime]] A man walked into a police station in Estonia. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the body was buried. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay|Full Review]] <!-- Michelle Harrison --> |-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Confident Readers[[image:1471124290.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471124290/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone. If we do, we'll die by the next sunset. ''
Named after two famous female explorers''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Amelia Hester McLeod loves to listen to stories Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of exciting adventuresCrowstone, but when it comes to being brave herself she finds it very difficult. She lives on a small Scottish island with her dad infamous for its surrounding marshes and her grandadthe neighbouring inescapable prison, and spends her time daydreaming about where her adventurous mother might be off exploringfor their entire lives. When her mum had lived with themThe middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she had homecan remember and she is determined that nothing and no-schooled Amelia, and one will prevent her dad and grandad tried from seeing everything that the world has to continue that for a whileoffer. But now in setting out to do just that, she and her dad sisters discover a deadly curse which has decided it's time haunted their family for Amelia to go to school on the mainlandgenerations. Amelia is afraid - afraid of having to make new friendsFrom their ancestors, afraid of being picked as well as a lifetime trapped on because Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of her problems with reading, wooden nesting dolls and afraid an antique handheld mirror – all of what's happening to her since she went which are more than meets the eye and made a wish on a mysterious rock in could possibly be the sea… key to their problem. [[Lightning Chase Me Home A Pinch of Magic by Amber Lee DoddMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) Never Tell by Glenis WilsonLisa Gardner]]===
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Of course it wasn't champion jackey Harry RadcliffeEvie Carter's faulthusband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands. Was this a domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen years ago, but that didnthere't stop him feeling guilty. His attempts to solve s no mistaking the murder of prostitute Alice Goode teenager who had left his estranged wife, Annabel accidentally shot and killed her partnerfather: 'a tragic accident' everyone said, Sir Jeffrey in danger and it as there was Harry who no doubt about the love the two had urged them to get away as quickly as possible for the sake of themselves and their unborn child. It would be quite a while before he woke in hospital to find that Jeffrey and Annabel had been involved in a serious car accidenteach other. It looked as though Jeffrey would be in a wheelchair for life and Annabel D D had lost no worries at the baby. On top of that there was horsebox driver John Dunston's apparent suicide. time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? [[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) Never Tell by Glenis WilsonLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Lonely People The Midnight Hour by David OwenBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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Kat and Wesley are both lonersAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, looking for places to fit inEmily is left alone with her dad. Kat finds this with online communities, where Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a job) and so she feels like she can be is not quite sure what is going on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her true self - a feministmum, an activist, someone who isnand then doesn't scared to speak come back. She heads out. Wesley's desire to feel investigate and discovers a sense of belonging sees him fall in with an altogether nastier crowd. Bulliesstrange, trolls, extremists. When he pulls secret world called the final trigger on a violentMidnight Hour, targeted online bullying campaignwhich seems to be London during Victorian times, Kat and is forced to delete her entire online presence. Bereft full of everything that represented magical beings (and monsters!) What were her identity, Kat's physical self starts parents doing here? And will she be able to fade as well. As the entire world slowly forgets that Kat ever existedfind them and rescue them, only Wesley seems so her life can go back to remember the girl whom he erased. Wesley is faced with a choice: get sucked further into a sinister alt-right movement or help Kat to stop them. normal? [[All the Lonely People The Midnight Hour by David OwenBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier Gallowstree Lane by Stuart RobertsKate London]]===
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My birth certificate might suggest Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a higher figurecomplete stranger for help, begging him not to let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but I know that I'm only 42even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. I learned a long time ago that I could retain that feeling by keeping my life in balanceJust one of those things you might, think. This meant eating sensiblyTragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting quality sleep and having regular exercise which I enjoyedstabbed on the streets of London all the time. There His friend Ryan was an added bonus too: I with Spence when he was juggling four chronic conditions and living this way meant that I could keep three of them in the backgroundstabbed. Then a silly mis-step meant that It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the hip problem flared up. The only way I could get more than an hour or two asleep was to take pain relief and paramedic's instruction, sobbing as he held the duodenal ulcer started to complainphone. Because I was masking symptoms I didnBut Ryan wasn't dare prepared to exercise - and the black dog accept that it was just one of depression prowled along behind methose things. He wanted revenge. [[Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier Gallowstree Lane by Stuart RobertsKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Gone How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Midnight by Candice FoxEce Temelkuran]]===
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In A little while ago a hotel friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in Cairns, a group of 7 grown ups go for dinner, leaving their 4 children upstairs in a hotel roomyears to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to.. When they return, only 3 children remain. Wow, '' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing thatwe didn's t know what all a bit…familiar'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. But the resemblance to the McCann case ends there, We are in many ways. Parents may be suspects danger of losing democracy and judgements may be made whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of their choice to leave a better one, particularly as the children unsupervised, but beyond that this 'benevolent dictator' is not the same story, not least because by the end of this book we do know once and for all what happened to Richieas rare as hen's teeth. [[Gone by Midnight How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Candice FoxEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[The Twisted Tree A Danger to Herself and Others by Rachel BurgeAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Martha's world has changed'They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing giftTheir daughter was my best friend. She can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the weave, revealing insights she doesncircumstances.'t really want, and knowledge she doesn't understandSeventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She flees to her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to givehas dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and stumbles into world lived a life of menaceluxury. [[The Twisted Tree A Danger to Herself and Others by Rachel BurgeAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Friends Like These When You Read This by Sarah AldersonMary Adkins]]===
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Life in London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young Smith Simonyi and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of a balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. She works in the entertainment industryIris Massey worked together for four years, but her job itself is probably not one you’d covet. She doesn’t have much spare during which time, but that’s because she’s been working through some self-improvement. If they could only see Iris left her nowhusband at the altar on their wedding day. And Smith, wellmeanwhile, actuallyrelied on Iris, they canbut his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, although there’s running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a lot less terminal cancer and died at the age of her to see than there once thirty three. He was. But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the past last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the people from itblog published as a book. [[Friends Like These When You Read This by Sarah AldersonMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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