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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Yancey WilliamsAngela Marsons]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museumpast, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtSome of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, Degas but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and Vermeeris using it to evil intent. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there That might have been rumours about seem bad enough, but the whereabouts brutal truth of the paintings, even promises matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that the case was about to these dramas can be solved, the paintings are still missingrecreated. Yancey Williams has a theoryStone probably - well, which he delaborates certainly - shouldn't be on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus'', and whilst his suspects might seem unlikelythe case, but who's has better knowledge of what happened to say that he's wrongher than she does? Forget If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the assertions that effect it's having on her for long enough, she can sort it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverout... Or can she? [[The Resurrection of Jesus Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Yancey WilliamsAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Out of the Dark by David MarkGregg Hurwitz]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by a concerned stranger that she and her son had regularly seen an 1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old woman who lived in a nearby cottage but she hadn't been for a few days. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she was alright? No - she wouldn't go with himtrained up, but she'd tell him where the house wasmission ready. And so McAvoy went, only to find the windows open on a freezing cold day - and inside an old lady was in her bath encased in iceyet untested. It ''mightHe'' have been s in a tragic accidentforeign city on an officially unofficial mission, but McAvoy suspected murder - and which he thought executes with all the impeccable training that someone had watched the woman diehis youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Out of the Dark by David MarkGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer Watching You by Emma KavanaghLisa Jewell]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
If you're A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a detective on woman is convinced she knows a murder squad one of man in the first things you learn village and that he is detachmentfollowing her. You develop Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a distance from the victim: it allows you do do your job fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the minimum amount services of emotionthe young woman's husband in some work around the house. ThatOh, and that teenage boy? He's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when theyher son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the girl he're already dead but DS Alice Parr met s spying on. Plus, the woman they would need to call Jane Doe when man she was alive, albeit only just. She was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling thinks is out to cope with the fact that get her is the woman's throat had been cut husband (and sheis also the new headteacher at her daughter'd been stabbed several timess school). The attack had been called Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in by a dog walker and Alice had been walking to work when the call came over her Airwave radiothis book. [[To Catch a Killer Watching You by Emma KavanaghLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[Fierce Fragile Hearts Fish Seeking Bicycle by Sara BarnardKate Cooch]]===
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It's two This novel is set about a hundred years since Suzanne hit rock bottominto the future. She's had extensive therapy The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and a stint with a lovely foster family. And now shewhat's eighteen and must leave left of the Looked After systemold United States is run from Center City. Suzanne Women run this world and it is apprehensive but excitedvery proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. SheMen must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don's found herself a jobt, a bedsit has been rentedare medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, and shethey's about re sent to return work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to Brighton, the only place shewilderness beyond the Central Authority's ever felt truly at home, and to Caddy and Rosie, her two best friendsborders. [[Fierce Fragile Hearts Fish Seeking Bicycle by Sara BarnardKate Cooch|Full Review]] <!-- Clear James Atkinson -->
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IJames Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He've said this before but there are some books that you seek outs 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, some books that you stumble across Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been on the other side. There was a time when he was overweight and some books not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. This means that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! he ''understands''Atomic Habitswhat it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it' is in s much more helpful than the last categorytwenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Atomic Habits Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James ClearAtkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Tony KentAdrian Cull]]===
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The death of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made the news: his crucifixion dominated For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Met's Major Incident Team was the person whose job is was to find his killerworking out OK. She never thought that it would be easy: the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in the course Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of his work for over half my age there were a centuryfew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It seems unreasonable was time to suggest that the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her look for a ray of hopenew approach and as so often happens, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. All that's needed is 'Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the answer to find out what connects the two casesmy problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Marked for Death Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Tony KentAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel The City In The Middle Of The Night by Ruth HoganCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Science Fiction|General Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]
Tilda returns January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to Brightonbegin with. One half is scorching sunlight, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst therepure, she returns to the Paradise hotelblazing heat, a haven for eccentrics and misfitstotally uninhabitable. A place The other half is pure darkness and ice, where people a creature can be themselvesfreeze to death in seconds, and let go of thoughts totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that torment them elsewhereis barely survivable. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as Life is a childknife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from this place of wonderthe sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. With Life for the help inhabitants of Queenie MaloneJanuary is long, caringand hard, and gregariousarduous, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. will anything ever change? [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel The City In The Middle Of The Night by Ruth HoganCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan Laws -->
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David Laws]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:TeensThrillers|TeensThrillers]], [[: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 At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and his learning-disabled brother Kennythis is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit'. Their mum is coming to visit - Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the mum people who abandoned them a long time ago. They havenjust can't seen her for years seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the impending visit is stirring up a lot use of uncomfortable feelingsthe word. And Nicky 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 girlfriend safe to return, when all mention of it has ended thingssubsided. To take their minds off I mention this in relation to this book because it allis partly about Brexit, Nicky and Kenny plan but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a day outvery protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, trekking across so the moorsreader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog Here, Tinaat least though, in terrible dangerthe author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Lark Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Anthony McGowanDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hunting Party Hidden by Lucy FoleyMary Chamberlain]]===
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To begin with we don't know a great deal. We know that thereWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's a body possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and before too long we know that Doug, the gamekeeper, doesn't think it was an accidentare swiftly forced to confront their pasts. You get the feeling that Doug knows about these things. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers Revisiting their time on the train: however you cut that oneChannel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, the seating is going to be awkward. Someone is going to be left on their own. The highland lodge is stunning thougha Catholic Priest, but these people who don't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really meansremembers a time when he hid something very different. In this case story of love, loss and betrayal, it means that it's an hour's drive remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the ''road'' and that's when the weather's good. But this new year, the weather definitely ''isn't'' good. This is serious snow. darkest shadows of war… [[The Hunting Party Hidden by Lucy FoleyMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies Painting Snails by Richard RutherfordStephen John Hartley]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Emerging ReadersLifestyle|Emerging ReadersLifestyle]]
In some ways It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it was 's loosely based around a gentler time: video games were aroundyear on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but children usually went outside you're not going to enjoy themselvesget advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. They flew kites The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and went sledging if there was snow aroundsee'. Tim Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and Maryis now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's great-grandfather started an awful lot more to what goes on in a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the nineteen seventiesbook's about. Something There's a lot about rock & roll, which hasnseems to be the real passion of Hartley't changed, unfortunatelys life, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in it didn't actually fit into the playgroundentertainment genre either. TimDid we have a category for 's probably about ten - just at doing the impossible the stage where hehard way's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who? Yep - that's two years younger than him, but hethe one. It's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bulliesautobiography. [[Tadcaster and the Bullies Painting Snails by Richard RutherfordStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why by Elaine Robertson North]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's FictionConfident Readers|Women's FictionConfident Readers]]
When we first meet Dani she's about to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuse. She's Alex Cambridge's agent Ollie and Nancy, the indications police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are that he's about to make abducted in the middle of the big timenight, things take a dangerous turn. He's good lookingRescued by Dodge, charismatic and appealing - wellOllie is taken to the Haven, 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 secret underground community based in a statement network of underground tunnels that he's got no intention of leaving his wife and three the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, childrenwork together to battle great evils. So, what's in it for Dani? No, And there's no need is an immediate enemy to answer thatfight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. Dani understands And Maddy intends to destroy the situation all too well and tells him socity. [[I Can't Tell You Why The Haven: Book 1 by Elaine Robertson NorthSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[Little Bird Flies The Things That are Lost by Karen McCombieAlan Kennedy]]===
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Bridie, or Little Bird as she prefers The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to be knownScotland, is a crofterproviding trade craft spy training. It's daughter living on stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the remote Scottish island of TornishGermans would provide. Life And where is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disability of a wasted arm and leg and often misses her mother, who died some time ago. Despite thisdisinformation campaign, Little Bird has a warm and loving father, sisters returned to watch over find her, a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is a particular favouritequite another. Little Bird knows every inch Alex can't get Justine out of her windswept, savagely beautiful islandhis head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Little Bird Flies The Things That are Lost by Karen McCombieAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Jason F BoggsDouglas Lindsay]]===
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Young Nelson Jones was A man walked into a young and gifted military cadet police station in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'Estonia. As his experiences led him on He told a path tale of conflict having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and selfsperm donation. X-discoveryrays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the man he says he became a changed manis - John Baden - died twelve years ago. Picking up 20 months after His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the events of ''The Devil's Dragon''body was buried. So, Nelson who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is on an expedition sent to uncover the mystery Estonia because of the sungateshis background in MI6, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involvedbut that brings some baggage with it too. Meanwhile, the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existenceWestphall cannot, as Nelson's nemesiswill not, Major Ira Billis, finds get on a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to gloryplane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[The Dragon's Harvest Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Jason F BoggsDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]===
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Are you up ''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a sleepless night or two? If sodeadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, read as well as a lifetime trapped on!Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison|Full Review]]
Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you're staying in a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one of the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between them. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan |Full Review]] <!-- Felicity Cloake Lisa Gardner -->
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook Never Tell by Felicity CloakeLisa Gardner]]===
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ItEvie Carter's a novel concept for a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found to do a particular job - the job of delivering the best meal, the ''Completely Perfect'' meal of with the titlegun in her hands. Think of it as the equivalent of Was this a comparison site for when you want to renew the car insurance and then taking the best elements domestic dispute which had got out of each recipe to make perfectionhand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. ThereIt might have been sixteen years ago, but there's nothing cutting edge hereno mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: it's a tragic accident' everyone said, as there was no doubt about the love the sort of food which we've been eating two had for decades and probably will be for decades to comeeach other. There's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' and providing that you don't D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have a vegetarian - or a vegan at table, it's a meal which is unlikely Evie about to do other than go down well. get away with murder again? [[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook Never Tell by Felicity CloakeLisa Gardner|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:General FictionThe Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder|General FictionFull Review]]
''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 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 Kate London -->
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===[[Red Snow Gallowstree Lane by Will DeanKate London]]===[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Life in the small town of Gavrik is trying to return to normal, following the grim events of [[Dark Pines by Will Deanimage:4star.jpg|Dark Pineslink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]]. As Tuva prepares to move on from both the death of her mother and her small hometown, she is drawn into another dark investigation. One suicide, and one murder. Are they connected? With black liquorice coins covering the murdered man's eyes, the hashtag #ferryman starts trending, and the local people stocking up on ammunition. With only a fortnight to investigate before moving to the South, Tuva is further troubled by a blizzard that descends on the town, cutting Gavrik off from the larger world. Desperate to stop the killer, Tuva must go delve deep into the heart of the community – but who's to say the Ferryman will let her go? [[Red Snow by Will Dean:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
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 stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one of those things you might, think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all the time. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic's instruction, sobbing as he held the phone. But Ryan wasn't prepared to accept that it was just one of those things. He wanted revenge. [[Gallowstree Lane by Kate London|Full Review]] <!-- Szabo Ece Temelkuran -->
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===[[Katalin Street How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Magda SzaboEce Temelkuran]]===
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This is a story about the past. A specific past, certainly, in the form of pre-war Budapest, but also little while ago a story about how friend asked me if I thought that past can impact on we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the present and question ''Discuss the futurefactors which led to... In '' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this book, the first ' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 losing democracy and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness whilst it's a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survive, and flawed system I can't think of a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone timesbetter one, feelings and experiences which mark particularly as the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[Katalin Street How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Magda SzaboEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[The Winter of the Witch A Danger to Herself and Others by Katherine ArdenAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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''The Winter of 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 Witchcircumstances.'' is the conclusion of the story following Vasya, Vasilisa Petronova, as she negotiates Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her way towards parents tell her destiny through the world of medieval males and the Catholic Church's perception of witchcraft. The story picks up directly from the action She has dined in the second novelfancy restaurants, [[The Girl in explored the Tower by Katherine Arden|The Girl in the Tower]], and as a reader too much is lost if you haven't read this at most sophisticated corners of the very least. My advice would be to read all three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters globe and lived a wonderful balance life of magic and action. This final novel, however, is an absolute triumphluxury. [[The Winter of the Witch A Danger to Herself and Others by Katherine ArdenAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Paper Avalanche When You Read This by Lisa WilliamsonMary Adkins]]===
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Ro Snow spends Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her time husband at school trying to pass under the radaraltar on their wedding day. She doesn't want anyone to notice herSmith, meanwhile, because then they might start asking questionsrelied on Iris, or they might want but his attention was on making enough money to be friendscover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over to her houselosing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. You see, Ro's mum is He was devastated when Iris developed a hoarder, terminal cancer and their whole house, with died at the exception age of Ro's bedroom, is an ever-growing mound of rubbish and paper, and Ro lives thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in fear the last six months of social services finding out her life and taking her awayfinal request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[Paper Avalanche When You Read This by Lisa WilliamsonMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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