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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Lark by Anthony McGowan:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:5starSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's 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 evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the case, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? [[:Category:Confident ReadersDead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
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This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page.
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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] 1997. 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. [[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz|Full Review]] <!-- Lucy Foley Jewell -->
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===[[The Hunting Party Watching You by Lucy FoleyLisa Jewell]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeThrillers|CrimeThrillers]]
To begin with we don't know A teenage boy spies on a great dealteenage girl from his bedroom window. We know that there's a body and before too long we know that Doug, Down the gamekeeperroad, doesn't think it was an accident. You get the feeling that Doug a woman is convinced she knows about these things. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers on a man in the train: however you cut village and that one, the seating he is going to be awkwardfollowing her. Someone is going to be left on their ownMeanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The highland lodge is stunning thoughman's wife, meanwhile, but these people who donengages the services of the young woman't usually get outside s husband in some work around the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what house. Oh, and that teenage boy? He''isolated'' really meanss her son. In this case it means that itAnd the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's an hourthe mother of the girl he's drive spying on. Plus, the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman''road'' s husband (and that's when is also the weathernew headteacher at her daughter's goodschool). But this new yearWhichever way you look at it, the weather definitely there''isn't'' good. This is serious snows a lot of watching going on in this book. [[The Hunting Party Watching You by Lucy FoleyLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies by Richard Rutherford]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersFantasy|Emerging ReadersFantasy]]
In some ways it was This novel is set about a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselveshundred years into the future. They flew kites The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and went sledging if there was snow aroundwhat's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Tim Women run this world and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story it is probably set in very proud of having defeated the nineteen seventiesold patriarchy. Something which hasnMen must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playgroundmedicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. TimAnd if that doesn's probably about ten - just at the stage where het work, they's beginning re sent to feel responsible for his younger sisterwork camps, who's two years younger than himaway from open society, but heor even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bulliesborders. [[Tadcaster and the Bullies Fish Seeking Bicycle by Richard RutherfordKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Elaine Robertson NorthJames Atkinson]]===
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When we first meet Dani she's about to get an offer that would appear to be James Atkinson has all too easy to refuse. She's Alex Cambridge's agent the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and the indications are that he's about to make looks the big timepart. He's good looking, charismatic been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and appealing - wellhe spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's an actor so that's part of been on the spec - but his suggestion that other side. There was a time when he was overweight and Dani should start not particularly strong. As a relationship is hedged by a statement child he was slow to develop. This means that he's got no intention of leaving his wife and three children. So, 'understands'' whatit's in like and he knows how his clients feel: it for Dani? No, there's no need to answer that. Dani understands much more helpful than the situation all too well twenty-something who was born super-fit and tells him sowith an attitude problem. [[I Can't Tell You Why Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Elaine Robertson NorthJames 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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[[imageFor 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:5starScience, 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Live Forever Manual:Category:Confident ReadersScience, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull|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 Anders -->
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest City In The Middle Of The Night by Jason F BoggsCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Young Nelson Jones was January is a young dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'totally uninhabitable. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict The other half is pure darkness and self-discoveryice, he became where a changed mancreature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. Picking up 20 months after In the events of ''The Devil's Dragon''middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, Nelson is on an expedition stray too close to uncover the mystery of the sungatesone side you die, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhileclose to the other, you die and yet the humans heat from the sun and the Aesini fight water from the ice are necessary for their very existencelife. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, as Nelson's nemesisand hard, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glory. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threatarduous, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… will anything ever change? [[The Dragon's Harvest City In The Middle Of The Night by Jason F BoggsCharlie 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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===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkstyle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [["vertical-align:Categorytop; text-align:Teensleft;"|Teens]], ===[[:Category:Horror|HorrorThe Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]] ===
Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], read on![[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Charlie is on a school tripWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, skiing in determined to identify the Austrian mountains. Hemysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's not having much funpossessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. A miserable home life has given Charlie Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a bad attitude reputation time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he's not a popular kidhid something very different. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you're staying in a ski resort - and In this is what brings him into contact with one story of the ski guideslove, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory loss and this forms betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a connection between them. speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) The Hidden by Gabriel Dylan Mary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook Painting Snails by Felicity CloakeStephen John Hartley]]===
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It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a novel concept for year on an allotment it would be a cookery lifestyle book: these are , but you're not Felicity Cloake's recipes but going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best ones she found to do a particular job - results. The answer would be something along the job lines of delivering the best meal, the 'try it and see'Completely Perfect'' meal of the title. Think of it Then I considered popular science as the equivalent of Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a comparison site for when you want to renew the car insurance busker, finally got into medical school and then taking the best elements out of each recipe to make perfectionis now an A&E consultant (part time). ThereI found out that there's nothing cutting edge here: itan awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn's t really what the sort of food which webook've been eating for decades and probably will be for decades to comes about. There's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn'workst actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way' and providing ? Yep - that you don't have a vegetarian or a vegan at table, its the one. It's a meal which is unlikely to do other than go down wellautobiography. [[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook Painting Snails by Felicity CloakeStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man Who Came to London Haven: Book 1 by A S CooksonSimon Lelic]]===
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''In 1948When Ollie and Nancy, the first set police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of Caribbean nationals arrived the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush"network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. They struggled And there is an immediate enemy to find housingfight. They worked as labourersOllie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. They faced open discrimination, forcing them And Maddy intends to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes destroy the same journeycity.'' [[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic|Full Review]]
''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?'' Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers. 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 Thames. 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! [[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson|Full Review]]  <!-- Dean Kennedy -->
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===[[Red Snow by Will Dean]]===
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Life in the small town of Gavrik is trying to return to normal, following the grim events of ===[[Dark Pines The Things That are Lost by Will DeanAlan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|Dark Pineslink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]]. As Tuva prepares [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to move on from both the death of her mother and her small hometownScotland, she is drawn into another dark investigationproviding trade craft spy training. One suicide, and one murder. Are they connected? With black liquorice coins covering the murdered manIt's eyes, the hashtag #ferryman starts trending, stifling and suffocating and the local people stocking up on ammunition. With only feels as much like a fortnight to investigate before moving prison to Alex as anything the South, Tuva Germans would provide. And where is further troubled by a blizzard Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that descends on '' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the towndisinformation campaign, cutting Gavrik off from the larger worldand returned to find her missing. Desperate to stop the killer, Tuva must go delve deep into the heart of the community – A failed mission is one thing but whono Justine is quite another. Alex can's to say t get Justine out of his head. Has she left the Ferryman will let her goservice? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Red Snow The Things That are Lost by Will DeanAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Magda SzaboDouglas Lindsay]]===
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This is A man walked into a story about the pastpolice station in Estonia. A specific past, certainly, in the form He told a tale of pre-war Budapesthaving been held prisoner, but also used as a story about how that past can impact on the present donor for organ harvesting and the futuresperm donation. In X-rays and medical examination bear out this bookpart of his story, but this man, or the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness a heartman he says he is - John Baden -rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survivedied twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to longby his parents -gone times, feelings and experiences which mark then the here and nowbody was buried. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, staining and warping but that brings some baggage with it into anothertoo. Westphall cannot, will not, subtler miseryget on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Katalin Street Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Magda SzaboDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Winter A Pinch of the Witch Magic by Katherine ArdenMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:5star''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]If we do, we'll die by the next sunset. ''
''The Winter A Pinch of the WitchMagic'' is follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the conclusion isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the story following Vasyaneighbouring inescapable prison, Vasilisa Petronovafor their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she negotiates can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her way towards her destiny through from seeing everything that the world of medieval males and the Catholic Church's perception of witchcrafthas to offer. The story picks up directly from the action But in the second novelsetting out to do just that, [[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden|The Girl in the Tower]]she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, and as well as a reader too much is lost if you haven't read this at the very least. My advice would be to read all three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters and lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a wonderful balance set of magic wooden nesting dolls and action. This final novel, however, is an absolute triumphantique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[The Winter A Pinch of the Witch Magic by Katherine ArdenMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Paper Avalanche Never Tell by Lisa WilliamsonGardner]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCrime|TeensCrime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Ro Snow spends her time at school trying to pass under the radar. She doesnEvie Carter't want anyone to notice her, because then they might start asking questions, or they might want to be friends, s husband was shot dead in his own home and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over to was found with the gun in her househands. You seeWas 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, Robut there's mum is no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a hoardertragic accident' everyone said, and their whole house, with as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each other. D D had no worries at the exception of Ro's bedroomtime, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is an ever-growing mound of rubbish and paper, and Ro lives in fear of social services finding out and taking her Evie about to get away. with murder again? [[Paper Avalanche Never Tell by Lisa WilliamsonGardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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[[image:4starAfter 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 think her mum even ''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, and then doesn't come back.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, so her life can go back to normal? [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. 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 and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]]  <!-- Dodd Kate London -->
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===[[Lightning Chase Me Home Gallowstree Lane by Amber Lee DoddKate London]]===
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Named after two famous female explorersSpencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, Amelia Hester McLeod loves begging him not to listen let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to stories save Spence. Just one of exciting adventuresthose things you might, think. Tragic, but when it comes teenage boys seem to being brave herself she finds it very difficult. She lives be getting stabbed on a small Scottish island with her dad and her grandad, and spends her the streets of London all the time daydreaming about where her adventurous mother might be off exploring. When her mum had lived His friend Ryan was with them, she had home-schooled Amelia, and her dad and grandad tried to continue that for a whileSpence when he was stabbed. But now her dad has decided itIt was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic's time for Amelia to go to school on instruction, sobbing as he held the mainlandphone. Amelia is afraid - afraid of having But Ryan wasn't prepared to make new friends, afraid accept that it was just one of being picked on because of her problems with reading, and afraid of what's happening to her since she went and made a wish on a mysterious rock in the sea… those things. He wanted revenge. [[Lightning Chase Me Home Gallowstree Lane by Amber Lee DoddKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Glenis WilsonEce Temelkuran]]===
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Of course it A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't champion jackey Harry Radcliffe's fault, but certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't stop him feeling guiltyknow what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. His attempts to solve the murder of prostitute Alice Goode had left his estranged wife, Annabel and her partner, Sir Jeffrey We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it was Harry who had urged them to get away as quickly as possible for the sake 's a flawed system I can't think 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 accident. It looked better one, particularly as though Jeffrey would be in a wheelchair for life and Annabel had lost the baby. On top of that there was horsebox driver John Dunston'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's apparent suicideteeth. [[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Glenis WilsonEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Lonely People A Danger to Herself and Others by David OwenAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Kat and Wesley are both loners, looking for places to fit in. Kat finds this with online communities, where she feels like she can be her true self - a feminist, an activist, someone who isn't scared to speak out. Wesley's desire They needed someone to feel a sense of belonging sees him fall in with an altogether nastier crowdblame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Bullies, trolls, extremistsTheir daughter was my best friend. When he pulls Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the final trigger on a violent, targeted online bullying campaign, Kat is forced to delete circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her entire online presence. Bereft of everything that represented her identityShe has dined in fancy restaurants, Kat's physical self starts to fade as well. As explored the entire world slowly forgets that Kat ever existed, only Wesley seems to remember most sophisticated corners of the girl whom he erased. Wesley is faced with globe and lived a choice: get sucked further into a sinister alt-right movement or help Kat to stop themlife of luxury. [[All the Lonely People A Danger to Herself and Others by David OwenAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier When You Read This by Stuart RobertsMary Adkins]]===
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My birth certificate might suggest a higher figureSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, but I know that I'm only 42. I learned a long during which time ago that I could retain that feeling by keeping my life in balanceIris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. This meant eating sensiblySmith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, getting quality sleep and having regular exercise which I enjoyed. There but his attention was an added bonus too: I was juggling four chronic conditions and living this way meant that I could keep three of them on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the background. Then a silly mis-step meant that branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the hip problem flared uppressures got too much for him. The only way I could get more than an hour or two asleep He was to take pain relief devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the duodenal ulcer started to complainage of thirty three. Because I He was masking symptoms I didn't dare to exercise - surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the black dog of depression prowled along behind meblog published as a book. [[Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier When You Read This by Stuart RobertsMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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