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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Ruth HoganAngela Marsons]]===
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Tilda returns to BrightonSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, to tidy away starting with the remains death of her mother's life after her deathtwin when she was six years old. Whilst there Some of the events, she returns to or at least the Paradise hoteldetails of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a haven for eccentrics wealth of information and misfitsis using it to evil intent. A place where 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 themselvesrecreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the case, and let go but who has better knowledge of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive what happened to her mother for banishing than she does? If her as boss can just turn a child, from this place of wonder. With blind eye to the help of Queenie Maloneeffect it's having on her for long enough, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mothercan sort it out... Or can she? [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Ruth HoganAngela Marsons|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan Hurwitz -->
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===[[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Lark by Anthony McGowan:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]===
[[image:5star1997.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained up, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]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. [[:Category:Confident ReadersOut of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz|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.
Things have got tense at home | style="vertical- again align: top; text- for Nicky and align: left;"|===[[Watching You by Lisa Jewell]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his learning-disabled brother Kennybedroom window. Their mum Down the road, a woman is coming to visit - convinced she knows a man in the mum who abandoned them village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a long young woman has moved back home after some time agoabroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. They havenThe man't seen her for years and s wife, meanwhile, engages the impending visit is stirring up a lot services of uncomfortable feelingsthe young woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, and that teenage boy? He's her son. And Nickythe woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the girl he's girlfriend has ended thingsspying on. To take their minds off it allPlus, Nicky the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman's husband (and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across is also the moorsnew headteacher at her daughter's school). But Whichever way you look at it doesn, there't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, s a lot of watching going on in terrible dangerthis book. [[Lark Watching You by Anthony McGowanLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFantasy|CrimeFantasy]]
To begin with we don't know This novel is set about a great dealhundred years into the future. We know that thereThe world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's a body and before too long we know that Doug, left of the gamekeeper, doesn't think it was an accident. You get the feeling that Doug knows about these things. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that one, the seating old United States is going to be awkwardrun from Center City. Someone Women run this world and it is going to be left on their ownvery proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. The highland lodge is stunning thoughMen must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, but these people who if they don't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult , are medicalised to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really meanskeep their baser instincts under control. In this case it means And if that itdoesn's an hourt work, they's drive re sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the ''road'' and that's when wilderness beyond the weatherCentral Authority's good. But this new year, the weather definitely ''isn't'' good. This is serious snowborders. [[The Hunting Party Fish Seeking Bicycle by Lucy FoleyKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Richard RutherfordJames Atkinson]]===
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In some ways it was James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites workout instructor and went sledging if there was snow aroundhe looks the part. Tim and MaryHe's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set been actively involved in the nineteen seventieshealth and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. Something He has another qualification which hasnmeans a lot to me: he't changed, unfortunately, is bullying s been on the other side. There was a time when he was overweight and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playgroundparticularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. TimThis means that he ''understands'' what it's probably about ten - just at the stage where like and he's beginning to knows how his clients feel responsible for his younger sister, who: it's two years younger much more helpful than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal twenty-something who was born super-fit and with bulliesan attitude problem. [[Tadcaster and the Bullies Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Richard RutherfordJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Elaine Robertson NorthAdrian Cull]]===
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When we first meet Dani sheFor many years now I's about ve (half) joked that I intended to get an offer live forever and that would appear to be all too easy to refuseso far, it was working out OK. SheTime has passed though and although I's Alex Cambridge's agent 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 indications are that he's about to make reviewing gods brought me the big timebook I needed. He's good looking'Live Forever Manual: Science, charismatic ethics and appealing companies behind the new anti- well, heaging treatments's an actor so that's part of seemed like the spec answer to my problems - but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by a statement that he's got no intention of leaving his wife and three children. 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 only you get somuch more than just 101 tips. [[I Can't Tell You Why Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Elaine Robertson NorthAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders]]===
===[[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersScience Fiction|Confident ReadersScience Fiction]]
BridieJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, or Little Bird as she prefers pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to be knowndeath in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a crofter's daughter living on the remote Scottish island of Tornishbrief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with the disability of a wasted arm and leg and often misses her motherknife-edge, who died some time ago. Despite thisstray too close to one side you die, Little Bird has a warm and loving father, sisters to watch over herclose to the other, a good friend in Will you die and yet the heat from the sun and a laird the water from the ice are necessary for whom she is a particular favouritelife. Little Bird knows every inch Life for the inhabitants of her windsweptJanuary is long, and hard, savagely beautiful island. and arduous, will anything ever change? [[Little Bird Flies The City In The Middle Of The Night by Karen McCombieCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Jason F BoggsDavid Laws]]===
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Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in At the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a path time of conflict my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events this is hatred of 'Brexit'The Devil's Dragon''. Not just Brexit, Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the mystery but use of the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involvedword 'Brexit'. MeanwhileYes, people hate the humans people that instigated it then disappeared, and /or the Aesini fight for people who just can't seem to get their very existencefingers 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 Nelsontutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's nemesissafe to return, Major Ira Billiswhen all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, finds a terrifying new ally but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a quest very protracted manner. Just as we have to restore wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the New Era reader of this book has to gloryget through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. As Nelson and his friends race against Here, at least though, the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[The Dragon's Harvest Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Jason F BoggsDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]===
===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensLiterary Fiction|TeensLiterary Fiction]], [[:Category:HorrorHistorical Fiction|HorrorHistorical Fiction]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on!
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]]
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''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]]===
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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]]===
===[[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionConfident Readers|Historical FictionConfident Readers]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black peopleAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. But it contained more than you Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't thinkher mum even ''had'' a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. You may have heard of Francis Barber Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his willthen doesn't come back. ''The Boy in She heads out to investigate and discovers a Turban'' tells strange, secret world called the story of a fictional black characterMidnight Hour, James, in Georgian which seems to be London. Jamesduring Victorian times, then Quaccoeand is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, is brought so her life can go back to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. normal? [[The Boy in a Turban Midnight Hour by Joseph HucknallBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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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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