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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Gill LewisAngela Marsons]]===
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Semira Someone is an Eritraen refugeerecreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, living in starting with the UK with death of her mum and Robeltwin when she was six years old. Some of the events, a man who controls their moneyor at least the details of them, their foodare not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and their every move in the UKis using it to evil intent. He threatens them That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that if they don't do what he says, they'll these dramas can be sent homerecreated. One dayStone probably - well, Semira finds herself buying an old hat certainly - shouldn't be on the case, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a market stall, strangely drawn blind eye to the bird that decorates the hat. When she takes effect it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside the hat box, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years ago. Semira finds herself caught up in Hen's storyhaving on her for long enough, finding in she can sort it an escape from her own life that is full of hunger and lossout... She finds that Or can she is challenged by the girl in the diary, to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in the world. ? [[The Closest Thing to Flying Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Gill LewisAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Out of the Dark by Elly GriffithsGregg Hurwitz]]===
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DCI Harry Nelson's life is complicated1997. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should be. His youngest daughter was conceived in a (very) brief affair (letEvan Smoak is 19 years old 's not call it a one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowaytrained up, mission ready. And yet untested. Michelle, Nelson's wife, knows about Kate and has been very understanding, but then there' He's the matter of her affair with in a black policeman foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which she'd rather not have to discuss he executes with her daughtersall the impeccable training that his youth belies. Nelson knows about it and knows that the baby which Michelle Evan Smoak is about to deliver, could be Tim's. That's a lot to cope with - and that's before he gets to workOrphan X. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Out of the Dark by Elly GriffithsGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest Watching You by Jonathan KellermanLisa Jewell]]===
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It was A teenage boy spies on a bridesmaid who found teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the victim's body road, a woman is convinced she knows a man in a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venuevillage and that he is following her. She didn't know who she was Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and neither did the bride or groomdevelops a fascination with her new neighbour. The bride wasnman't particularly worried about s wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the dead girlhouse. Oh, but she was furious and that someone had set out to disrupt teenage boy? He's her weddingson. Baby (yes, that was what people called Brearley) didnAnd the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the girl he't come across as being particularly likeables spying on. Plus, despite the fact that man she said that everyone liked thinks is out to get her, is the woman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her groomdaughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, Garrett didnthere't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was the senior investigating officer and he called s a lot of watching going on the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawarein this book. [[The Wedding Guest Watching You by Jonathan KellermanLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy]]===
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Douglas Kennedy's ''This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The Great Wide Open'' world has been described as epic decimated by just about everyone, nuclear conflict and it often feels as though that was what's left of the intentionold United States is run from Center City. Though the novel often feels like a pastiche Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the great American novel – epic in scopeold patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, preoccupied with matters of money and literatureif they don't, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying are medicalised to reverse-engineer the concept altogetherkeep their baser instincts under control. InitiallyAnd if that doesn't work, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family dramathey're sent to work camps, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American away from open society since the 70s, and or even worse: expelled to the rapid rise of wilderness beyond the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reagan. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90s, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing themCentral Authority's borders. [[The Great Wide Open Fish Seeking Bicycle by Douglas KennedyKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Susan WilkinsJames Atkinson]]===
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ItJames Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's seventeen been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years since DC Jo Bodenas a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's sister, Sarah, was murdered and her life since has been lived in on the shadow of what happenedother side. Jo There was only eleven at the a time and her parents' marriage broke up in the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who when he was mentally frail overweight and not coping with everyday lifeparticularly strong. She wasn't pleased when Jo decided As a child he was slow to join the police, but the job satisfies Jodevelop. SheThis means that he ''understands's passed her sergeant's exams but in the Met these days what it's a case of dead menlike and he knows how his clients feel: it's shoes and no one seems inclined to make way for much more helpful than the younger generation. Still, being a detective is better than being a PC twenty-something who was born super-fit and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs itwith an attitude problem. [[It Should Have Been Me Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Susan WilkinsJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Yancey WilliamsAdrian Cull]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonFor many years now I's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museumve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandt, Degas Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and Vermeerhealthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. The frames remain empty It was time to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts of the paintingslook for a new approach and as so often happens, even promises that the case was about to be solved, reviewing gods brought me the paintings are still missingbook I needed. Yancey Williams has a theory, which he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, whocompanies behind the new anti-aging treatments's to say that he's wrong? Forget seemed like the assertions that it was down answer to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilvermy problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Yancey WilliamsAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) The City In The Middle Of The Night by David MarkCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by January is a concerned stranger that she and her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived in a nearby cottage but she hadn't been for a few daysdying planet. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she was alright? No - she wouldnIt wasn't go exactly pleasant to begin with him. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, but she'd tell him where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the house wasmiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. And so McAvoy wentLife is a knife-edge, only stray too close to one side you die, to close to find the windows open on a freezing cold day - other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and inside an old lady was in her bath encased in the water from the iceare necessary for life. It ''might'' have been a tragic accidentLife for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, but McAvoy suspected murder - and he thought that someone had watched the woman die. arduous, will anything ever change? [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) The City In The Middle Of The Night by David MarkCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Emma KavanaghDavid Laws]]===
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If youAt the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit're a detective on a murder squad one . Not just Brexit, but use of the first things you learn is detachmentword 'Brexit'. You develop a distance from Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the victim: people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it allows you do do your job with , but they also hate the minimum amount use of emotionthe word. ThatThis 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 relatively easy safe to return, when you encounter your victim when they're already dead all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but DS Alice Parr met because it too seems to get to the woman they would need to call Jane Doe when she was alive, albeit only justactual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. She was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to cope with get anywhere, it seems, so the fact that reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the womantitle's throat had been cut and she'd been stabbed several timestheme really arises. The attack had been called in by a dog walker and Alice had been walking to work when Here, at least though, the call came over her Airwave radioauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[To Catch a Killer Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Emma KavanaghDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]===
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[[image:4When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts.5starRevisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[:Category:TeensThe Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|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 Stephen John Hartley -->
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It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally Ithought that as it've said this before s loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but there are some books that you seek 're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out, some books that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you stumble across and some books 'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that drop into your life because you isn't really MUST read themwhat the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, likewhich seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, right now! but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'Atomic Habits? Yep - that's the one. It' is in the last categorys autobiography. [[Atomic Habits Painting Snails by James ClearStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death by Tony Kent]]===
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The death When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the news: his crucifixion dominated it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the Met's Major Incident Team was the person whose job London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is was an immediate enemy to find his killerfight. She never thought that it Ollie would be easy: have been the Lord Chief Justice hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been making enemies in the course of his work for over half a centuryrescued. It seems unreasonable And Maddy intends to suggest that the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her a ray of hope, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All that's needed is to find out what connects destroy the two casescity. [[Marked for Death The Haven: Book 1 by Tony KentSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|ParanormalThe Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]===
Tilda returns [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[: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 BrightonScotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to tidy away Alex as anything the remains of Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her mothersince he went to 's life after her death. Whilst there'that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, she returns to instigator of the Paradise hoteldisinformation campaign, a haven for eccentrics and misfitsreturned to find her missing. A place where people failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can be themselves, and let go 't get Justine out of thoughts that torment them elsewherehis head. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With Has she left the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship service? Does she know too much? Is she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. even still alive? [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel The Things That are Lost by Ruth HoganAlan Kennedy|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan Douglas Lindsay -->
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:TeensCrime|TeensCrime]], [[: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 A man walked into a police station in Estonia. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X- for Nicky rays and medical examination bear out this part of his learningstory, but this man, or the man he says he is -disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit John Baden - the mum who abandoned them a long time died twelve years ago. They haven't seen her for years His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the impending visit body was buried. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is stirring up a lot sent to Estonia because of uncomfortable feelingshis background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it too. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all Westphall cannot, will not, Nicky and Kenny plan get on a day out, trekking across the moorsplane. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Lark Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Anthony McGowanDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hunting Party A Pinch of Magic by Lucy FoleyMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone.5starIf we do, we'll die by the next sunset.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]''
To begin with we don't know a great deal. We know that there's a body A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and before too long we know that DougCharlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the gamekeeperneighbouring inescapable prison, doesn't think it was an accidentfor their entire lives. You get the feeling The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that Doug knows about these things. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers on the train: however you cut nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that one, the seating is going world has to be awkwardoffer. Someone is going But in setting out to be left on do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their ownfamily for generations. The highland lodge is stunning thoughFrom their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, but these people who don't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really means. In this case it means that it's a set of wooden nesting dolls and an hour's drive to antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the ''road'' eye and that's when could possibly be the weather's good. But this new year, the weather definitely ''isn't'' good. This is serious snowkey to their problem. [[The Hunting Party A Pinch of Magic by Lucy FoleyMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies Never Tell by Richard RutherfordLisa Gardner]]===
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In some ways it Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands. Was this a gentler time: video games were arounddomestic 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, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim 's no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and Marykilled her father: 's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasntragic accident't changedeveryone said, unfortunately, is bullying and as there was no doubt about the love the two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but had for each other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about ten - just D D had no worries at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than himtime, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to deal get away with bullies. murder again? [[Tadcaster and the Bullies Never Tell by Richard RutherfordLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why The Midnight Hour by Elaine Robertson NorthBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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When we first meet Dani she's about to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuseAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. SheHer mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had's Alex Cambridge's agent a job) and the indications are that heso 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's about to make the big timet come back. He's good looking, charismatic She heads out to investigate and appealing - welldiscovers a strange, he's an actor so that's part of secret world called the spec - but his suggestion that he Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by a statement that he's got no intention full of leaving his wife magical beings (and three children. monsters!) So, what's in it for DaniWhat were her parents doing here? No, there's no need And will she be able to answer that. Dani understands the situation all too well find them and tells him rescue them, so. her life can go back to normal? [[I Can't Tell You Why The Midnight Hour by Elaine Robertson NorthBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane by Kate London]]===
===[[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]]
BridieSpencer 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, or Little Bird as she prefers think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be known, is a crofter's daughter living getting stabbed on the remote Scottish island streets of TornishLondon all the time. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the disability of a wasted arm and leg and often misses her motherparamedic's instruction, who died some time agosobbing as he held the phone. Despite this, Little Bird has a warm and loving father, sisters But Ryan wasn't prepared to watch over her, a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she is a particular favouriteaccept that it was just one of those things. Little Bird knows every inch of her windswept, savagely beautiful island He wanted revenge. [[Little Bird Flies Gallowstree Lane by Karen McCombieKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The Dragon's Harvest 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Jason F BoggsEce Temelkuran]]===
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Young Nelson Jones was A little while ago a young and gifted military cadet 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 fascist new world order called the question 'New Era'Discuss the factors which led to.. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn's Dragont know what all 'this', Nelson is on an expedition was leading to uncover the mystery of the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelsonwhilst it's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in flawed system I can't think of a quest to restore better one, particularly as the New Era to glory'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order [[How to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing Lose a power beyond imagination… [[Country: The Dragon's Harvest 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Jason F BoggsEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:HorrorGeneral Fiction|HorrorGeneral Fiction]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on!
Charlie is on a school trip''They needed someone to blame, skiing in and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the Austrian mountainscircumstances. He's not having much fun' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. A miserable home life She 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 dined in a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory globe and this forms lived a connection between themlife of luxury. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) A Danger to Herself and Others by Gabriel Dylan Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook When You Read This by Felicity CloakeMary Adkins]]===
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It's a novel concept Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloakefour years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's recipes but the best ones she found to do a particular job - the job of delivering the best mealnursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the ''Completely Perfect'' meal of branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the titlepressures got too much for him. Think of it as the equivalent of He was devastated when Iris developed a comparison site for when you want to renew the car insurance terminal cancer and then taking died at the best elements out age of each recipe to make perfectionthirty three. There's nothing cutting edge here: it's He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the sort last six months of food which we've been eating for decades her life and probably will be for decades to come. There's a reason for her final request of Smith is that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' and providing that you don't have he gets the blog published as a vegetarian or a vegan at table, it's a meal which is unlikely to do other than go down wellbook. [[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook When You Read This by Felicity CloakeMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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