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===[[Loved to Bits Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonAngela Marsons]]===
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Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone''Loved to Bits'' is s past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of the events, or at least the heartwarming story details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a boy's love for his bear. Bear's adventures with boy take him to all kinds wealth of places information and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their wayis using it to evil intent. That might seem bad enough, from but the jungle to brutal truth of the seamatter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Inevitably mishaps occur Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the way . case, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? The loss of an arm, If her boss can just turn a leg, an ear or an blind eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery the effect it''don't worrys having on her for long enough, I've got one more''she can sort it out.. But boy loves him just as he is and won't hear of him being mended. His place, after all, is in Boy's bed. Or can she? [[Loved to Bits Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise Out of the Dark by Julie CohenGregg Hurwitz]]===
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What would you be like1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained up, right now, if youmission ready. And yet untested.'' He'd been born s in a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of geneticsforeign city on an officially unofficial mission, and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at which he executes with all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the same day, to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the other a girlimpeccable training that his youth belies. Does it really make a difference, the gender box that Evan Smoak is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, how they still are, and prompts you to think about how they could be..Orphan X. [[Louis and Louise Out of the Dark by Julie CohenGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Watching You by Gill LewisLisa Jewell]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, living in A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the UK with her mum and Robelroad, a woman is convinced she knows a man who controls their money, their food, and their every move in the UK. He threatens them village and that if they don't do what he saysis following her. Meanwhile, they'll be sent a young woman has moved back homeafter some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. One dayThe man's wife, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stallmeanwhile, strangely drawn to engages the services of the bird that decorates young woman's husband in some work around the hathouse. When she takes it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside the hat boxOh, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years ago. Semira finds herself caught up in Henand that teenage boy? He's story, finding in it an escape from her own life that is full of hunger and lossson. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She finds that she is challenged by 's the mother of the girl in he's spying on. Plus, the diary, man she thinks is out to speak up in get her own life is the woman's husband (and fight for is also the new headteacher at her place daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in the worldthis book. [[The Closest Thing to Flying Watching You by Gill LewisLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]]===
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DCI Harry NelsonThis novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's life left of the old United States is complicated. His two oldest daughters are either living away run from home or really should beCenter City. His youngest daughter was conceived in a (Women run this world and it is very) brief affair (let's not call it a one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowayproud of having defeated the old patriarchy. MichelleMen must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, Nelsonif they don's wifet, knows about Kate and has been very understanding, but then there's the matter of her affair with a black policeman which she'd rather not have are medicalised to discuss with her daughterskeep their baser instincts under control. Nelson knows about it and knows And if that the baby which Michelle is about doesn't work, they're sent to deliverwork camps, could be Tim's. That's a lot away from open society, or even worse: expelled to cope with - and thatthe wilderness beyond the Central Authority's before he gets to workborders. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Fish Seeking Bicycle by Elly GriffithsKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Jonathan KellermanJames Atkinson]]===
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It was James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a bridesmaid who found workout instructor and he looks the victimpart. He's body been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a rather disreputable toilet at member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been on the wedding venueother side. She didn't know who she There was a time when he was overweight and neither did the bride or groomnot particularly strong. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girl, but she As a child he was furious that someone had set out slow to disrupt her weddingdevelop. Baby (yes, This means that was he ''understands'' what people called Brearley) didnit't come across as being particularly likeable, despite the fact that she said that everyone liked her, s like and her groom, Garrett didnhe knows how his clients feel: it't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis s much more helpful than the twenty-something who was the senior investigating officer born super-fit and he called on the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawarewith an attitude problem. [[The Wedding Guest Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Jonathan KellermanJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Douglas KennedyAdrian Cull]]===
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Douglas KennedyFor many years now I's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by just about everyoneve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, and it often feels as though that was the intentionworking out OK. Though the novel often feels like Time has passed though and although I'm a pastiche great deal fitter and healthier than most people of the great American novel – epic in scope, preoccupied with matters my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of money balance. It was time to look for a new approach and literature, fixated with New York – it as so often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogether. Initiallyhappens, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family drama, in reviewing gods brought me the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since the 70sbook I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the rapid rise of the hypernew anti-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated aging treatments'' seemed like the west since the election of Ronald Reagan. Though it takes place over a twentyanswer to my problems -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 themonly you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[The Great Wide Open Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Douglas KennedyAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me The City In The Middle Of The Night by Susan WilkinsCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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January is a dying planet. Itwasn's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sistert exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, Sarahblazing heat, was murdered and her life since has been lived totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the shadow of what happenedmiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Jo was only eleven at Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the time other, you die and her parents' marriage broke up in yet the heat from the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go sun 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 the police, but water from the job satisfies Joice are necessary for life. She's passed her sergeant's exams but in Life for the Met these days it's a case inhabitants of dead men's shoes January is long, and no one seems inclined to make way for the younger generation. Stillhard, being a detective is better than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes uparduous, Jo grabs it. will anything ever change? [[It Should Have Been Me The City In The Middle Of The Night by Susan WilkinsCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Yancey WilliamsDavid Laws]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonAt the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtNot just Brexit, Degas and Vermeerbut use of the word 'Brexit'. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about Yes, people hate the whereabouts of the paintingspeople that instigated it then disappeared, even promises that and/or the case was about people who just can't seem to be solvedget their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the paintings are still missingword. Yancey Williams This biggest turn-off has a theory, which he delaborates on made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in his novel high dudgeon and leave the room until it''The Resurrection s safe to return, when all mention of Jesus''it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, and whilst his suspects might seem unlikelyit seems, who's so the reader of this book has to say that heget through a lot from Europe before the title's wrong? theme really arises. Forget Here, at least though, the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Yancey WilliamsDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) The Hidden by David MarkMary Chamberlain]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by a concerned stranger that When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she and has found among her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived in a nearby cottage but she hadnmother't been for s possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a few days. Perhaps McAvoy could check that time when she was alright? No - she wouldn't go with himconcealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, but she'd tell him where the house was. And so McAvoy wenta Catholic Priest, only to find the windows open on remembers a freezing cold day - and inside an old lady was in her bath encased in icetime when he hid something very different. It ''might'' have been a tragic accidentIn this story of love, but McAvoy suspected murder - loss and he thought that someone had watched betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the woman die. darkest shadows of war… [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) The Hidden by David MarkMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer Painting Snails by Emma KavanaghStephen John Hartley]]===
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If It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're a detective not going to get advice on a murder squad one of what to plant when and where for the first things you learn is detachmentbest results. You develop a distance from The answer would be something along the victim: lines of 'try it allows you do do your job with the minimum amount of emotionand 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). ThatI found out that there's relatively easy when an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you encounter your victim when they're already dead ll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but DS Alice Parr met that isn't really what the woman they would need to call Jane Doe when she was alive, albeit only justbook's about. She was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to cope with be the fact that the womanreal passion of Hartley's throat had been cut and shelife, but it didn'd been stabbed several timest actually fit into the entertainment genre either. The attack had been called in by Did we have a dog walker and Alice had been walking to work when category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the call came over her Airwave radioone. It's autobiography. [[To Catch a Killer Painting Snails by Emma KavanaghStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Fierce Fragile Hearts The Haven: Book 1 by Sara BarnardSimon Lelic]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:4When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued.5starAnd Maddy intends to destroy the city.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Haven:Category:TeensBook 1 by Simon Lelic|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 Kennedy -->
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IThe final novel in Alan Kennedy've said this before but there are some books that you seek outs WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, some books that you stumble across providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, feels as much like, right now! a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''Atomic Habitsthat'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is in quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the last category. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Atomic Habits The Things That are Lost by James ClearAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Tony KentDouglas Lindsay]]===
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The death A man walked into a police station in Estonia. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made the news: his crucifixion dominated it donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the Met's Major Incident Team 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 person whose job is body was to find his killerburied. She never thought that it would be easy: the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in the course of his work for over half a century. So, who is this man? It seems unreasonable DI Ben Westphall is sent to suggest that the crucifixion Estonia because of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her a ray of hopehis background in MI6, but surely two such grisly killings that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot be random? , will not, get on a plane. All that's needed is to find out what connects the two casesHis last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Marked for Death Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Tony KentDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel A Pinch of Magic by Ruth HoganMichelle Harrison]]===
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Tilda returns ''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to Brightonleave Crowstone. If we do, to tidy away we'll die by the remains next sunset. '' ''A Pinch of her motherMagic''s life after her death. Whilst therefollows three sisters – Betty, she returns to Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the Paradise hotelisle of Crowstone, a haven infamous for eccentrics its surrounding marshes and misfitsthe neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. A place where people The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can be themselves, remember and she is determined that nothing and let go of thoughts no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that torment them elsewherethe world has to offer. Little wonder But in setting out to do just that Tilda cannot forgive , she and her mother sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for banishing her generations. From their ancestors, as well as a childlifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, from this place a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of wonder. With which are more than meets the help of Queenie Malone, caring, eye and gregarious, Tilda begins could possibly be the key to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mothertheir problem. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel A Pinch of Magic by Ruth HoganMichelle Harrison|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan Lisa Gardner -->
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===[[Never Tell by Lisa Gardner]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia FriendlyCrime|Dyslexia FriendlyCrime]], [[: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 Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - she was found with the mum who abandoned them a long time agogun in her hands. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up Was this a lot domestic dispute which had got out of uncomfortable feelingshand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. And Nicky It might have been sixteen years ago, but there's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and Kenny plan killed her father: 'a day outtragic accident' everyone said, trekking across as there was no doubt about the love the moorstwo had for each other. But it doesn't go D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger. get away with murder again? [[Lark Never Tell by Anthony McGowanLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hunting Party Midnight Hour by Lucy FoleyBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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To begin After a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with we don't know a great dealher dad. We know that there's a body and before too long we know that Doug, the gamekeeper, doesnHer mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think it was an accident. You get the feeling that Doug knows about these things. Three days earlier there her mum even ''had been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that one, the seating '' a job) and so she is going to be awkward. Someone not quite sure what is going to be left on their own. The highland lodge is stunning thoughThings turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, but these people who donand then doesn't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really meanscome back. In this case it means that it's an hour's drive She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the ''road'' Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, and is full of magical beings (and that's when the weather's good. monsters!) What were her parents doing here? But this new yearAnd will she be able to find them and rescue them, the weather definitely ''isn't'' good. This is serious snow. so her life can go back to normal? [[The Hunting Party Midnight Hour by Lucy FoleyBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies Gallowstree Lane by Richard RutherfordKate London]]===
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In some ways it Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a gentler time: video games were aroundcomplete stranger for help, but children usually went outside begging him not to enjoy themselveslet him die. They flew kites and went sledging if there The stranger was snow aroundan off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventiesJust one of those things you might, think. Something which hasn't changedTragic, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all the playgroundtime. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where His friend Ryan was with Spence when he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, was stabbed. It was Ryan whocalled the ambulance on the paramedic's two years younger than himinstruction, but sobbing as heheld the phone. But Ryan wasn's not yet at the stage where he knows how t prepared to deal with bulliesaccept that it was just one of those things. He wanted revenge. [[Tadcaster and the Bullies Gallowstree Lane by Richard RutherfordKate London|Full Review]]
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When A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we first meet Dani she's about were living through what in years to get an offer that come would appear to be all too easy discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to refuse. She..'s Alex Cambridge's agent I agreed that she was right and the indications are wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that hewe didn's about t know what all 'this' was leading to make the big time. He's good looking, charismatic I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and appealing - well, hewhilst it's an actor so thata flawed system I can's part t think of a better one, particularly as 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 children. So, whatbenevolent dictator's in it for Dani? No, thereis as rare as hen's no need to answer that. Dani understands the situation all too well and tells him soteeth. [[I Can't Tell You Why How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Elaine Robertson NorthEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Bridie, or Little Bird as she prefers ''They needed someone to be knownblame, is a crofter's and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter living on was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the remote Scottish island of Tornishleast I could do under the circumstances. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with the disability of a wasted arm and leg and often misses '' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her mother, who died some time ago. Despite this, Little Bird She has a warm and loving fatherdined in fancy restaurants, sisters to watch over her, a good friend in Will explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a laird for whom she is a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch life of her windswept, savagely beautiful islandluxury. [[Little Bird Flies A Danger to Herself and Others by Karen McCombieAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest When You Read This by Jason F BoggsMary Adkins]]===
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Young Nelson Jones was a young Smith Simonyi and gifted military cadet in Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'altar on their wedding day. As Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his experiences led him attention was on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devilmaking enough money to cover his mother's Dragon''nursing home fees in Wisconsin, Nelson is on an expedition to uncover running the mystery of branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries pressures got too much for all involvedhim. Meanwhile, the humans He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a terrifying new ally blog in a quest to restore the New Era to glory. As Nelson last six months of her life and his friends race against her final request of Smith is that he gets the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing blog published as a power beyond imagination… book. [[The Dragon's Harvest When You Read This by Jason F BoggsMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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