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===[[Louis and Louise Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Julie CohenAngela Marsons]]===
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What would you be like, right now, if youSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of geneticss past, and your life would still have unfolded in starting with the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? death of her twin when she was six years old. This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all Some of the aboveevents, covering or at least the stories details of Louis and Louisethem, born on the same day, to the same parentsare not public knowledge, but in one storyline Lou whoever is behind this has a boy, wealth of information and in the other a girlis using it to evil intent. Does it really make a differenceThat might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the gender box that matter is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women people - innocent people - are treated differentlydying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the case, but this story really highlights how things have been in who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the pasteffect it's having on her for long enough, how they still are, and prompts you to think about how they could beshe can sort it out... Or can she? [[Louis and Louise Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Julie CohenAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Out of the Dark by Gill LewisGregg Hurwitz]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, living in the UK with her mum and Robel, a man who controls their money, their food, and their every move in the UK1997. He threatens them that if they donEvan Smoak is 19 years old 't do what he says, they'll be sent home. One day, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stalltrained up, strangely drawn to the bird that decorates the hatmission ready. When she takes it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside the hat box, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years agoAnd yet untested. Semira finds herself caught up in Hen'' He's story, finding in it a foreign city on an escape from her own life officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all the impeccable training that is full of hunger and losshis youth belies. She finds that she Evan Smoak is challenged by the girl in the diary, to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in the worldOrphan X. [[The Closest Thing to Flying Out of the Dark by Gill LewisGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Watching You by Elly GriffithsLisa Jewell]]===
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DCI Harry Nelson's life 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 he is complicatedfollowing her. His two oldest daughters are either living away from Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home or really should beafter some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. His youngest daughter was conceived in a (very) brief affair (letThe man's not call it a one-night stand: therewife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's more emotion husband in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowaysome work around the house. MichelleOh, Nelsonand that teenage boy? He's wife, knows about Kate and has been very understanding, but then thereher son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the matter mother of her affair with a black policeman which the girl he's spying on. Plus, the man she'd rather not have thinks is out to discuss with get her daughters. Nelson knows about it is the woman's husband (and knows that is also the baby which Michelle is about to deliver, could be Timnew headteacher at her daughter'sschool). ThatWhichever way you look at it, there's a lot to cope with - and that's before he gets to workof watching going on in this book. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Watching You by Elly GriffithsLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFantasy|CrimeFantasy]]
It was This novel is set about a bridesmaid who found hundred years into the victimfuture. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's body in a rather disreputable toilet at left of the wedding venueold United States is run from Center City. She didn't know who she was Women run this world and neither did it is very proud of having defeated the bride or groomold patriarchy. The bride wasnMen must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't particularly worried about the dead girl, but she was furious that someone had set out are medicalised to disrupt her weddingkeep their baser instincts under control. Baby (yes, And if that was what people called Brearley) didndoesn't come across as being particularly likeablework, despite the fact that she said that everyone liked herthey're sent to work camps, and her groomaway from open society, Garrett didn't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was or even worse: expelled to the senior investigating officer and he called on wilderness beyond the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex DelawareCentral Authority's borders. [[The Wedding Guest Fish Seeking Bicycle by Jonathan KellermanKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Douglas KennedyJames Atkinson]]===
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Douglas Kennedy's ''The Great Wide Open'' James Atkinson has been described as epic by just about everyone, all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and it often feels as though that was he looks the intentionpart. Though He's been actively involved in the novel often feels like a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scope, preoccupied with matters of money health and literature, fixated with New York – it often feels fitness arena for more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogether. Initially, the novel presents itself than twenty years and he spent nine years as an intimate study a member of family drama9 Parachute Regiment, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to examining me: he's been on the turn of American society since the 70s, other side. There was a time when he was overweight and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. This means that have dominated he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the west since the election of Ronald Reagan. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s something who was born super-fit and the 90s, it notably always keeps one with 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 themattitude problem. [[The Great Wide Open Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Douglas KennedyJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Susan WilkinsAdrian Cull]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersLifestyle|ThrillersLifestyle]], [[:Category:CrimePopular Science|CrimePopular Science]]
It's seventeen For many years since DC Jo Bodennow I's sister, Sarahve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was murdered working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and her healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life since has been lived in the shadow out of what happenedbalance. Jo It was only eleven at the time and her parents' marriage broke up in the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go look for a new approach and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who was mentally frail and not coping with everyday life. She wasn't pleased when Jo decided to join as so often happens, the police, but reviewing gods brought me the job satisfies Jobook I needed. She's passed her sergeant's exams but in Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the Met these days itnew anti-aging treatments's a case of dead men's shoes and no one seems inclined seemed like the answer to make way for the younger generationmy problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. Still[[Live Forever Manual: Science, being a detective is better than being a PC ethics and when companies behind the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs it. [[It Should Have Been Me new anti-aging treatments by Susan WilkinsAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus City In The Middle Of The Night by Yancey WilliamsCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Science Fiction|Literary Science Fiction]]
In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museumt exactly pleasant to begin with. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtOne half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, Degas and Vermeertotally uninhabitable. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts of the paintingsother half is pure darkness and ice, even promises that the case was about where a creature can freeze to be solveddeath in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the paintings are still missingmiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Yancey Williams has Life is a theoryknife-edge, which he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus'', and whilst his suspects might seem unlikelystray too close to one side you die, who's to say that he's wrong? Forget the assertions that it was down close to the Mafia other, you die and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar yet the heat from the sun and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverthe water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The Resurrection of Jesus City In The Middle Of The Night by Yancey WilliamsCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David MarkLaws]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeThrillers|CrimeThrillers]]
It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by a concerned stranger that she At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived in a nearby cottage this is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but she hadnuse of the word 'Brexit't been for a few days. Perhaps McAvoy could check Yes, people hate the people that she was alright? No - she wouldninstigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who just can't go with himseem to get their fingers out and complete it, but she'd tell him where they also hate the use of the house wasword. And This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so McAvoy wentmuch as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's safe to return, when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, only but because it too seems to get to find the windows open on actual Brexiting in a freezing cold day - and inside an old lady was in her bath encased in icevery protracted manner. It ''might'' Just as we have been to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the reader of this book has to get through a tragic accidentlot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, but McAvoy suspected murder - and he thought that someone had watched the woman dieauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David MarkLaws|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer The Hidden by Emma KavanaghMary Chamberlain]]===
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If youWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother're a detective s possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on a murder squad one of the first things you learn is detachment. You develop Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a distance from the victim: it allows you do do your job with the minimum amount of emotion. That's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the woman they would need to call Jane Doe time when she was aliveconcealed her Jewish identity, albeit only just. She was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling to cope with the fact that the woman's throat had been cut and she'd been stabbed several timesJoe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different. The attack had been called in by a dog walker In this story of love, loss and Alice had been walking betrayal, it remains to work when be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the call came over her Airwave radio. darkest shadows of war… [[To Catch a Killer The Hidden by Emma KavanaghMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley]]===
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[[imageIt's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'':4originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you'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).5star 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'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's autobiography.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensPainting Snails by Stephen John Hartley|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 Lelic -->
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I've said this before but there When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are some books that you seek outabducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, some books a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themthe London above ground knows nothing about. Here, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' children work together to battle great evils. And there is in an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the last categorycity. [[Atomic Habits The Haven: Book 1 by James ClearSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death by Tony Kent]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:ThrillersGeneral Fiction|ThrillersGeneral Fiction]]
The death of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made the news: his crucifixion dominated it final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Metbanished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's Major Incident Team was stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the person whose job Germans would provide. And where is was Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to find his killer. She never thought ''that it would be easy: '' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in the course of his work for over half a century. It seems unreasonable disinformation campaign, and returned to suggest that the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given find her a ray of hope, missing. A failed mission is one thing but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All thatno Justine is quite another. Alex can's needed is to find t get Justine out what connects of his head. Has she left the two cases. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Marked for Death The Things That are Lost by Tony KentAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Ruth HoganDouglas Lindsay]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
[[image:5starA 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-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the body was buried. 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 too.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Westphall cannot, [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[:Category:ParanormalSong of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay|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 Michelle Harrison -->
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===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  I'll warn you first.
This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone. Try not to cry before youIf we do, we've even read ll die by the first pagenext sunset.''
Things ''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have got tense at home - again - lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for Nicky its surrounding marshes and his learning-disabled brother Kennythe neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. Their mum The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is coming to visit determined that nothing and no- one will prevent her from seeing everything that the mum who abandoned them a long time agoworld has to offer. They haven't seen But in setting out to do just that, she and her for years and the impending visit is stirring up sisters discover a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend deadly curse which has ended thingshaunted their family for generations. To take From their minds off it allancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, Nicky and Kenny plan they have each inherited a day outmagical object – an old carpet bag, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan a set of wooden nesting dolls and an accident puts both boys - antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their dog, Tina, in terrible dangerproblem. [[Lark A Pinch of Magic by Anthony McGowanMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hunting Party Never Tell by Lucy FoleyLisa Gardner]]===
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To begin with we don't know a great deal. We know that thereEvie Carter's a body husband was shot dead in his own home and before too long we know that Doug, the gamekeeper, doesn't think it she was an accident. You get found with the feeling that Doug knows about these thingsgun in her hands. Three days earlier there Was this a domestic dispute which had been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that one, the seating is going to be awkward. got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Someone is going to be left on their ownDetective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. The highland lodge is stunning thoughIt might have been sixteen years ago, 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 an hourthere's drive to no mistaking the ''road'' teenager who had accidentally shot and thatkilled her father: 's when the weathera tragic accident's good. But this new yeareveryone said, as there was no doubt about the love the weather definitely ''isn't'' goodtwo had for each other. This D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is serious snow. Evie about to get away with murder again? [[The Hunting Party Never Tell by Lucy FoleyLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and the Bullies by Richard RutherfordLaura Trinder]]===
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In some ways it was After a gentler time: video games were aroundbig blow-up fight with her mum, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselvesEmily is left alone with her dad. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and MaryHer mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had''s great-grandfather started a business in 1899 job) and so our story she is not quite sure what is probably set in the nineteen seventiesgoing on. Something which hasnThings turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and then doesn't changedcome back. She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the Midnight Hour, unfortunatelywhich seems to be London during Victorian times, and is bullying full of magical beings (and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. monsters!) What were her parents doing here? Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning And will she be able to feel responsible for his younger sisterfind them and rescue them, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how so her life can go back to deal with bullies. normal? [[Tadcaster The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and the Bullies by Richard RutherfordLaura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why Gallowstree Lane by Elaine Robertson NorthKate London]]===
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When we first meet Dani she's about 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 get let him die. The stranger was an offer that would appear 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 too easy to refusethe time. She's Alex Cambridge's agent and the indications are that His friend Ryan was with Spence when he's about to make the big timewas stabbed. HeIt was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic's good looking, charismatic and appealing - wellinstruction, sobbing as he's an actor so that's part of held the spec - but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by a statement that he's got no intention of leaving his wife and three childrenphone. So, whatBut Ryan wasn's in it for Dani? No, there's no need t prepared to answer accept thatit was just one of those things. Dani understands the situation all too well and tells him soHe wanted revenge. [[I Can't Tell You Why Gallowstree Lane by Elaine Robertson NorthKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran]]===
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[[image:5starA little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[How to Lose a Country:Category:Confident ReadersThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Bridie, or Little Bird as she prefers to be known, is a crofter's daughter living on the remote Scottish island of Tornish. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with the disability of a wasted arm and leg and often misses her mother, who died some time ago. Despite this, Little Bird has a warm and loving father, sisters to watch over her, a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she is a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch of her windswept, savagely beautiful island. [[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie|Full Review]] <!-- Jason Boggs Schienmel -->
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest A Danger to Herself and Others by Jason F BoggsAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Young Nelson Jones ''They needed someone to blame, and I was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'only available scapegoat. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed manTheir daughter was my best friend. Picking up 20 months after Playing the events of ''The Devil's Dragonscapegoat 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, Nelson is on an expedition to uncover explored the mystery most sophisticated corners of the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans globe and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds lived a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glorylife of luxury. 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 A Danger to Herself and Others by Jason F BoggsAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This by Mary Adkins]]===
===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4.5star.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 tripSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, skiing in during which time Iris left her husband at the Austrian mountainsaltar on their wedding day. He Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's not having nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much funfor him. A miserable home life has given Charlie He was devastated when Iris developed a bad attitude reputation terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he's not discovered that Iris had been writing a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you're staying blog in a ski resort - the last six months of her life and this her final request of Smith is what brings him into contact with one of that he gets the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory and this forms blog published as a connection between thembook. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) When You Read This by Gabriel Dylan Mary Adkins|Full Review]]
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