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===[[To Catch a Killer Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Emma KavanaghAngela Marsons]]===
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If youSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone're a detective on a murder squad one s past, starting with the death of the first things you learn is detachmenther twin when she was six years old. You develop a distance from Some of the victim: it allows you do do your job with events, or at least the minimum amount details of emotionthem, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to evil intent. That's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when they're already dead might seem bad enough, but DS Alice Parr met the woman they would need to call Jane Doe when she was alive, albeit only justbrutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. She was being tended by an offStone probably - well, certainly -duty paramedic shouldn't be on the case, but who was struggling has better knowledge of what happened to cope with the fact that the woman's throat had been cut and her than she'd been stabbed several times. does? The attack had been called in by If her boss can just turn a dog walker and Alice had been walking blind eye to work when the call came over effect it's having on her Airwave radiofor long enough, she can sort it out. .. Or can she? [[To Catch a Killer Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Emma KavanaghAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]===
[[image:41997. 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.5star Evan Smoak is Orphan X.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensOut of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz|TeensFull Review]]
It's two years since Suzanne hit rock bottom. She's had extensive therapy and a stint with a lovely foster family. And now she's eighteen and must leave the Looked After system. Suzanne is apprehensive but excited. She's found herself a job, a bedsit has been rented, and she's about to return to Brighton, the only place she's ever felt truly at home, and to Caddy and Rosie, her two best friends. [[Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard|Full Review]]<!-- Clear Jewell -->
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I've said this before but there are some books A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that you seek outhe is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some books that you stumble across time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband in some books work around the house. Oh, and that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She'Atomic Habitss the mother of the girl he's spying on. Plus, the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman' s husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in the last categorythis book. [[Atomic Habits Watching You by James ClearLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death by Tony Kent]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:ThrillersFantasy|ThrillersFantasy]]
The death of This novel is set about a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made hundred years into the news: his crucifixion dominated it future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Metwhat's Major Incident Team was left of the person whose job old United States is was to find his killerrun from Center City. She never thought that Women run this world and it would be easy: the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in is very proud of having defeated the course of his work for over half a centuryold patriarchy. It seems unreasonable Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to suggest keep their baser instincts under control. And if that the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her a ray of hopedoesn't work, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All thatthey's needed is re sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to find out what connects the two caseswilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Marked for Death Fish Seeking Bicycle by Tony KentKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Ruth HoganJames Atkinson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]
[[image:5starJames Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, [[Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me:Categoryhe's been on the other side. There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel:Humour|Humour]], it's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Home Workout for Beginners:Category:Paranormal6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson|ParanormalFull Review]]
Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]<!-- McGowan Adrian Cull -->
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia FriendlyLifestyle|Dyslexia FriendlyLifestyle]], [[:Category:TeensPopular Science|TeensPopular Science]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  I'll warn you first. 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 - again - for Nicky For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and his learning-disabled brother Kennythat so far, it was working out OK. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a long few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time ago. They haven't seen her to look for years a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelingsbook I needed. And Nicky 's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all'Live Forever Manual: Science, Nicky ethics and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across companies behind the moors. But it doesnnew anti-aging treatments''t go seemed like the answer to plan and an accident puts both boys my problems - and their dog, Tina, in terrible dangeronly you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Lark Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Anthony McGowanAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hunting Party City In The Middle Of The Night by Lucy FoleyCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeScience Fiction|CrimeScience Fiction]]
To January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with we don't know a great deal. We know that there's a body One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and before too long we know that Dougice, the gamekeeperwhere a creature can freeze to death in seconds, doesn't think it was an accidentand totally uninhabitable. You get In the feeling middle is a brief twilight that Doug knows about these thingsis barely survivable. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers on the train: however Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you cut that onedie, the seating is going to be awkward. Someone is going close to be left on their own. The highland lodge is stunning thoughthe other, but these people who don't usually get outside you die and yet the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really means. In this case it means that it's an hour's drive to heat from the ''road'' sun and that's when the weather's goodwater from the ice are necessary for life. But this new year, Life for the weather definitely ''isn't'' good. This inhabitants of January is serious snow. long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The Hunting Party City In The Middle Of The Night by Lucy FoleyCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Bullies Prime Minister by Richard RutherfordDavid Laws]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersThrillers|Emerging ReadersThrillers]]
In some ways it was a gentler At the time: video games were aroundof my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow aroundthis is hatred of 'Brexit'. Tim and MaryNot just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changedYes, unfortunatelypeople hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not /or the people who just for Tim can't seem to get their fingers out and Mary complete it, but for other children who gather in they also hate the use of the playgroundword. Tim's probably about ten This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea- just at cups in high dudgeon and leave the stage where heroom until it's beginning safe to feel responsible for his younger sisterreturn, who's two years younger than himwhen all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but hebecause 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 not yet theme really arises. Here, at least though, the stage where he knows how to deal with bulliesauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Tadcaster and Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Bullies Prime Minister by Richard RutherfordDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why The Hidden by Elaine Robertson NorthMary Chamberlain]]===
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When we first meet Dani Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph shehas found among her mother's about to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuse. She's Alex Cambridge's agent possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and the indications are that he's about swiftly forced to make confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the big Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time. He's good lookingwhen she concealed her Jewish identity, charismatic and appealing - wellJoe, he's an actor so that's part of the spec - but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by Catholic Priest, remembers a statement that time when he's got no intention hid something very different. In this story of leaving his wife love, loss and three children. Sobetrayal, what's in it for Dani? No, there's no need remains to answer that. Dani understands be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the situation all too well and tells him so. darkest shadows of war… [[I Can't Tell You Why The Hidden by Elaine Robertson NorthMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley]]===
===[[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Confident ReadersLifestyle|Confident ReadersLifestyle]]
Bridie, or Little Bird It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as she prefers to it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be knowna lifestyle book, is a crofterbut you's daughter living re not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the remote Scottish island of Tornishbest results. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with The answer would be something along the disability lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a wasted arm busker, finally got into medical school and leg and often misses her mother, who died some is now an A&E consultant (part time ago). Despite this 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'', Little Bird has but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a warm and loving fatherlot about rock & roll, sisters which seems to watch over herbe the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a good friend in Will and a laird category for whom she is a particular favourite'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. Little Bird knows every inch of her windswept, savagely beautiful island It's autobiography. [[Little Bird Flies Painting Snails by Karen McCombieStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest by Jason F Boggs]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[The Haven:Category:Science Fiction|Science FictionBook 1 by Simon Lelic]]===
Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'[[image:4star. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] When Ollie and self-discoveryNancy, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon''police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, Nelson is on an expedition to uncover are abducted in the mystery middle of the sungatesnight, when things take a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involveddangerous turn. MeanwhileRescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existenceHaven, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally secret underground community based in a quest network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to restore the New Era battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to gloryfight. As Nelson and his friends race against Ollie would have been the clock in order hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… destroy the city. [[The Dragon's Harvest Haven: Book 1 by Jason F BoggsSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) The Things That are Lost by Gabriel DylanAlan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]
Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on![[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Charlie is on a school trip, skiing The final novel in the Austrian mountains. HeAlan Kennedy's not having much funWW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and heIt's not stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a popular kidprison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. Charlie tends And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went 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 'that'' disastrous meeting with one John Cabot, instigator of the ski guidesdisinformation campaign, Hannaand returned to find her missing. Hanna herself doesnA failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't have get Justine out of his head. Has she left the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between them. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) The Things That are Lost by Gabriel Dylan Alan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Felicity CloakeDouglas Lindsay]]===
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It's A man walked into a novel concept for police station in Estonia. He told a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found to do tale of having been held prisoner, used as a particular job donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X- the job rays and medical examination bear out this part of delivering the best mealhis story, but this man, or the ''Completely Perfect'' meal of the titleman he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. Think of it as the equivalent of a comparison site for when you want to renew the car insurance His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then taking the best elements out of each recipe to make perfectionbody was buried. There's nothing cutting edge here: 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's the sort of food which we've been eating for decades and probably will be for decades to cometoo. There's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' and providing that you don't have a vegetarian or a vegan at tableWestphall cannot, will not, it's get on a meal which is unlikely to do other plane. His last experience of flight was more than go down wellenough for one lifetime. [[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Felicity CloakeDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionTeens|General FictionTeens]] ''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.''
''Does he find a place No Widdershins girl has ever been able to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?leave Crowstone. If we do, we'll die by the next sunset. ''
Freddie arrives in London in ''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the early 2000sisle of Crowstone, answering infamous for its surrounding marshes and the call neighbouring inescapable prison, for teacherstheir entire lives. He thinks about his own Jamaican educationThe middle sister, based on the British systemBetty, 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 way he was taught English nursery rhymes world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and about the River Thamesher sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. He thinks about the love From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of cricket wooden nesting dolls and football, shared by both countries. And he thinks an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the generations of eye and could possibly be the diaspora who came before himkey to their problem. 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 A Pinch of Magic by A S CooksonMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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Life in the small town of Gavrik is trying to return to normal[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], following the grim events of [[Dark Pines by Will Dean:Category:Thrillers|Dark PinesThrillers]] Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands. As Tuva prepares to move on from both the death Was this a domestic dispute which had got out of her mother and her small hometown, she is drawn into another dark investigationhand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. One suicide It might have been sixteen years ago, and one murder. Are they connected? With black liquorice coins covering the murdered manbut there's eyes, no mistaking the hashtag #ferryman starts trending, teenager who had accidentally shot and the local people stocking up on ammunition. With only killed her father: 'a fortnight to investigate before moving to the Southtragic accident' everyone said, Tuva is further troubled by a blizzard that descends on as there was no doubt about the town, cutting Gavrik off from love the larger worldtwo had for each other. Desperate to stop D D had no worries at the killertime, Tuva must go delve deep into the heart of the community – but who's just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to say the Ferryman will let her goget away with murder again? [[Red Snow Never Tell by Will DeanLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street The Midnight Hour by Magda SzaboBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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This is After a story about the past. A specific past, certainly, in the form of prebig blow-war Budapestup fight with her mum, but also 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 story about how that past can impact job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on the present and the future. In this book Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 then doesn't come back. She heads out to investigate and now newly translated and reissued, we witness discovers a heart-rending nostalgia for happier daysstrange, guilt about those who did not survivesecret world called the Midnight Hour, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling which seems to long-gone be London during Victorian times, feelings and experiences which mark the is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here ? And will she be able to find them and nowrescue them, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. so her life can go back to normal? [[Katalin Street The Midnight Hour by Magda SzaboBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[The Winter of the Witch Gallowstree Lane by Katherine ArdenKate London]]===
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''Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him die. The Winter stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one of the Witch'' is the conclusion of the story following Vasyathose things you might, Vasilisa Petronovathink. Tragic, as she negotiates her way towards her destiny through but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the world streets of medieval males and London all the Catholic Church's perception of witchcrafttime. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. The story picks up directly from It was Ryan who called the action in ambulance on the second novelparamedic's instruction, [[The Girl in sobbing as he held the Tower by Katherine Arden|The Girl in the Tower]], and as a reader too much is lost if you havenphone. But Ryan wasn't read this at the very least. My advice would be prepared to read all three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters and a wonderful balance accept that it was just one of magic and actionthose things. This final novel, however, is an absolute triumph He wanted revenge. [[The Winter of the Witch Gallowstree Lane by Katherine ArdenKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Paper Avalanche How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Lisa WilliamsonEce Temelkuran]]===
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Ro Snow spends her time at school trying A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to pass under come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the radarfactors which led to... '' She doesnI agreed that she was right and wasn't want anyone to notice her, because then they might start asking questions, certain whether it was a good or they might want to be friends, and she canbad thing that we didn't have any friends because she canknow what all 'this't ever have anyone come over was leading to her house. You see, RoI think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's mum is a hoarder, and their whole houseflawed system I can't think of a better one, with particularly as the exception of Ro'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's bedroom, is an ever-growing mound of rubbish and paper, and Ro lives in fear of social services finding out and taking her awayteeth. [[Paper Avalanche How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Lisa WilliamsonEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
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[[image:4star''They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxury.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionA Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|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 Mary Adkins -->
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===[[Lightning Chase Me Home When You Read This by Amber Lee DoddMary Adkins]]===
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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 she finds it very difficult. She lives on a small Scottish island with her dad Smith Simonyi and her grandadIris Massey worked together for four years, and spends her during which time daydreaming about where Iris left her adventurous mother might be off exploringhusband at the altar on their wedding day. When her mum had lived with themSmith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, she had but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home-schooled Ameliafees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and her dad and grandad tried to continue that losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for a whilehim. But now her dad has decided it's time for Amelia to go to school on He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the mainlandage of thirty three. Amelia is afraid - afraid of having to make new friends, afraid of being picked on because He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her problems with reading, life and afraid her final request of what's happening to her since she went and made Smith is that he gets the blog published as a wish on a mysterious rock in the sea… book. [[Lightning Chase Me Home When You Read This by Amber Lee DoddMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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