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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Richard RutherfordAngela Marsons]]===
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In some ways it Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with the death of her twin when she was a gentler time: video games were aroundsix years old. Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but children usually went outside whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to enjoy themselvesevil intent. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and Mary's greatThat might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people -grandfather started a business in 1899 are dying so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventiesthat these dramas can be recreated. Something which hasnStone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't changed, unfortunatelybe on the case, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? Tim's probably about ten - If her boss can just at turn a blind eye to the stage where heeffect it's beginning to feel responsible having on her for his younger sisterlong enough, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bulliesshe can sort it out... Or can she? [[Tadcaster and the Bullies Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Richard RutherfordAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why Out of the Dark by Elaine Robertson NorthGregg Hurwitz]]===
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When we first meet Dani she's about to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuse1997. SheEvan Smoak is 19 years old ''s Alex Cambridgetrained up, mission ready. And yet untested.'s agent and the indications are that he's about to make the big time. He's good looking, charismatic and appealing - wellin a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he's an actor so that's part of executes with all the spec - but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by a statement impeccable training that he's got no intention of leaving his wife and three childrenyouth belies. So, what's in it for Dani? No, there's no need to answer that. Dani understands the situation all too well and tells him soEvan Smoak is Orphan X. [[I Can't Tell You Why Out of the Dark by Elaine Robertson NorthGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Little Bird Flies Fish Seeking Bicycle by Karen McCombieKate Cooch]]===
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Bridie, or Little Bird as she prefers to be known, This novel is set about a crofterhundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's daughter living on left of the remote Scottish island of Tornishold United States is run from Center City. Life Women run this world and it is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with very proud of having defeated the disability of a wasted arm old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and leg deferentially at all times and often misses her mother, who died some time agoif they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. Despite thisAnd if that doesn't work, Little Bird has a warm and loving father, sisters they're sent to watch over herwork camps, a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she is a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch of her windsweptaway from open society, savagely beautiful islandor even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Little Bird Flies Fish Seeking Bicycle by Karen McCombieKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Jason F BoggsJames Atkinson]]===
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Young Nelson Jones was James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a young workout instructor and gifted military cadet he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a path member of conflict and self-discovery9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nelson is been on an expedition to uncover the mystery of the sungates, other side. There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a terrible secret leads child he was slow to horrifying discoveries for all involveddevelop. Meanwhile, the humans This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelsonhe knows how his clients feel: it's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore much more helpful than the New Era to glorytwenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[The Dragon's Harvest Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Jason F BoggsJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull]]===
===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensLifestyle|TeensLifestyle]], [[:Category:HorrorPopular Science|HorrorPopular Science]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on!
Charlie is on a school tripFor many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, skiing in the Austrian mountainsit was working out OK. He Time has passed though and although I's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie m a bad attitude reputation great deal fitter and he's not healthier than most people of my age there were a popular kidfew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. Charlie tends It was time to go off by himself - not always look for a safe thing to do if younew approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ''re staying in a ski resort - Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and this is what brings him into contact with one of companies behind the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesnnew anti-aging treatments''t have seemed like the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between themanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Gabriel Dylan Adrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook The City In The Middle Of The Night by Felicity CloakeCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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January is a dying planet. Itwasn's a novel concept for 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 cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found creature can freeze to do a particular job - the job of delivering the best mealdeath in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the ''Completely Perfect'' meal of the titlemiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Think of it as the equivalent of Life is a comparison site for when knife-edge, stray too close to one side you want die, to close to renew the car insurance other, you die and then taking yet the best elements out of each recipe to make perfection. There's nothing cutting edge here: it's heat from the sort of food which we've been eating for decades sun and probably will be the water from the ice are necessary for decades to comelife. There's a reason Life for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and providing that you don't have a vegetarian or a vegan at tablearduous, it's a meal which is unlikely to do other than go down well. will anything ever change? [[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook The City In The Middle Of The Night by Felicity CloakeCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David Laws]]===
 
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At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit'. Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the word. 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 return, when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David Laws|Full Review]]
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''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called | style="Empire Windrushvertical-align: top; text-align: left;". 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.''|===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]===
''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Freddie When Barbara Hummel arrives in London in , determined to identify the early 2000smysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, answering the call for teachersDora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based Revisiting their time on the British systemChannel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and the way Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thameshid something very different. He thinks about the In this story of love of cricket , loss and footballbetrayal, shared by both countries. And he thinks it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the generations darkest shadows 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! war… [[The Man Who Came to London Hidden by A S CooksonMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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Life in the small town of Gavrik is trying to return to normal, following the grim events of [[Dark Pines by Will Deanimage:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Dark PinesAutobiography]]. As Tuva prepares to move on from both the death of her mother and her small hometown, she is drawn into another dark investigation. One suicide, and one murder. Are they connected? With black liquorice coins covering the murdered man's eyes, the hashtag #ferryman starts trending, and the local people stocking up on ammunition. With only a fortnight to investigate before moving to the South, Tuva is further troubled by a blizzard that descends on the town, cutting Gavrik off from the larger world. Desperate to stop the killer, Tuva must go delve deep into the heart of the community – but who's to say the Ferryman will let her go? [[Red Snow by Will Dean:Category:Lifestyle|Full ReviewLifestyle]]
It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is 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'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's autobiography. [[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley|Full Review]] <!-- Szabo Lelic -->
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===[[Katalin Street by Magda Szabo]]===
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This is a story about the past. A specific past, certainly, in the form of pre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on the present and the future. In this book, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Katalin Street by Magda Szabo:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic|Full Review]] <!-- Arden Kennedy -->
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===[[The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyGeneral Fiction|FantasyGeneral Fiction]]
''The Winter of the Witchfinal novel in Alan Kennedy'' is the conclusion of the story following Vasyas WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, Vasilisa Petronova, as she negotiates her way towards her destiny through the world of medieval males and the Catholic Churchproviding trade craft spy training. It's perception of witchcraft. The story picks up directly from the action in the second novel, [[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden|The Girl in the Tower]], stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a reader too much prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is lost if you havenJustine? Alex hasn't read this at the very least. My advice would be seen her since he went to read all three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical ''that'' disastrous meeting with extraordinary characters and a wonderful balance John Cabot, instigator of magic the disinformation campaign, and actionreturned to find her missing. This final novel, however, A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is an absolute triumphquite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Winter of the Witch Things That are Lost by Katherine ArdenAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Paper Avalanche Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Lisa WilliamsonDouglas Lindsay]]===
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Ro Snow spends her time at school trying to pass under the radarA 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. She doesn't want anyone to notice herX-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, because then they might start asking questionsbut this man, or they might want to be friendsthe man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over to her houseby his parents - and then the body was buried. You seeSo, Ro's mum who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is a hoarder, and their whole housesent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with the exception of Ro's bedroomit too. Westphall cannot, is an ever-growing mound of rubbish and paperwill not, and Ro lives in fear get on a plane. His last experience of social services finding out and taking her awayflight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Paper Avalanche Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Lisa WilliamsonDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall:Category:Teens|Teens]]===
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You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard ''A Pinch of Francis BarberMagic'' follows three sisters – Betty, the black African slave Fliss and Charlie – who became have lived on the friend isle of lexicographer Samuel Johnson Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and was a beneficiary of his willthe neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black charactermiddle sister, JamesBetty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. But in Georgian Londonsetting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. JamesFrom their ancestors, then Quaccoeas well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, is brought to the capital from they have each inherited a Jamaican plantation by magical object – an old carpet bag, a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughtersset of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[The Boy in a Turban A Pinch of Magic by Joseph HucknallMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Lightning Chase Me Home Never Tell by Amber Lee DoddLisa Gardner]]===
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Named after two famous female explorers, Amelia Hester McLeod loves to listen to stories of exciting adventures, but when it comes to being brave herself Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she finds it very difficultwas found with the gun in her hands. She lives on Was this a small Scottish island with her dad and her grandad, and spends her time daydreaming about where her adventurous mother might be off exploringdomestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. When her mum had lived with themIt might have been sixteen years ago, she but there's no mistaking the teenager who had home-schooled Amelia, accidentally shot and killed her dad and grandad tried to continue that for father: 'a while. But now her dad has decided ittragic accident's time everyone said, as there was no doubt about the love the two had for Amelia to go to school on the mainlandeach other. Amelia D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is afraid - afraid of having Evie about to make new friends, afraid of being picked on because of her problems get away with reading, and afraid of what's happening to her since she went and made a wish on a mysterious rock in the sea… murder again? [[Lightning Chase Me Home Never Tell by Amber Lee DoddLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) The Midnight Hour by Glenis WilsonBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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Of course it wasnAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't champion jackey Harry Radcliffethink her mum even 's fault'had'' a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, but that didnand then doesn't stop him feeling guiltycome back. His attempts She heads out to solve investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the murder of prostitute Alice Goode had left his estranged wifeMidnight Hour, Annabel and her partnerwhich seems to be London during Victorian times, Sir Jeffrey in danger and it was Harry who had urged them to get away as quickly as possible for the sake is full of themselves magical beings (and their unborn child. monsters!) What were her parents doing here? It would And will she be quite a while before he woke in hospital able to find that Jeffrey them and Annabel had been involved in a serious car accident. It looked as though Jeffrey would be in a wheelchair for rescue them, so her life and Annabel had lost the baby. On top of that there was horsebox driver John Dunston's apparent suicide. can go back to normal? [[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) The Midnight Hour by Glenis WilsonBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Lonely People Gallowstree Lane by David OwenKate London]]===
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Kat Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and Wesley are both lonersasked a complete stranger for help, looking for places begging him not to fit inlet him die. Kat finds this with online communities, where she feels like she can be her true self The stranger was an off- a feminist, an activist, someone who isn't scared duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to speak outsave Spence. Wesley's desire to feel a sense Just one of belonging sees him fall in with an altogether nastier crowdthose things you might, think. Bullies Tragic, trolls, extremistsbut teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all the time. When His friend Ryan was with Spence when he pulls was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the final trigger ambulance on a violent, targeted online bullying campaign, Kat is forced to delete her entire online presence. Bereft of everything that represented her identity, Katthe paramedic's physical self starts to fade instruction, sobbing as well. As the entire world slowly forgets that Kat ever existed, only Wesley seems to remember he held the girl whom he erasedphone. Wesley is faced with a choice: get sucked further into a sinister alt-right movement or help Kat But Ryan wasn't prepared to stop themaccept that it was just one of those things. He wanted revenge. [[All the Lonely People Gallowstree Lane by David OwenKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Your Health and Fitness For LifeHow to Lose a Country: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Stuart RobertsEce Temelkuran]]===
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My birth certificate might suggest A little while ago a higher figure, but friend asked me if I know thought that Iwe were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''m only 42Discuss the factors which led to. I learned a long time ago that I could retain that feeling by keeping my life in balance. This meant eating sensibly, getting quality sleep and having regular exercise which I enjoyed. '' There was an added bonus too: I agreed that she was juggling four chronic conditions right and living wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this way meant that I could keep three of them in the background' was leading to. Then a silly mis-step meant I think now that the hip problem flared upI do know. The only way I could get more than an hour or two asleep was to take pain relief We are in danger of losing democracy and the duodenal ulcer started to complain. Because I was masking symptoms whilst it's a flawed system I didncan't dare to exercise - and think of a better one, particularly as the black dog of depression prowled along behind me'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[Keep Your Health and Fitness For LifeHow to Lose a Country: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Stuart RobertsEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[Gone A Danger to Herself and Others by Midnight by Candice FoxAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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In a hotel in Cairns, a group of 7 grown ups go for dinner, leaving their 4 children upstairs in a hotel room. When they return''They needed someone to blame, and I was the only 3 children remainavailable scapegoat. Wow, that's all a bit…familiarTheir daughter was my best friend. But Playing the resemblance to scapegoat was the least I could do under the McCann case ends there, circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in many ways. Parents may be suspects and judgements may be made of their choice to leave the children unsupervisedfancy restaurants, but beyond that this is not explored the same story, not least because by most sophisticated corners of the end globe and lived a life of this book we do know once and for all what happened to Richieluxury. [[Gone by Midnight A Danger to Herself and Others by Candice FoxAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[The Twisted Tree When You Read This by Rachel BurgeMary Adkins]]===
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Martha's world has changedSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree Smith, she wakes with a disturbing gift. She can read people through their clothesmeanwhile, secrets tumble from the weaverelied on Iris, revealing insights she doesnbut his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother't really wants nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and knowledge she doesn't understandlosing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. She flees to He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her grandmother, Mormor's cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to give, life and stumbles into world her final request of menaceSmith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[The Twisted Tree When You Read This by Rachel BurgeMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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