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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]===
===[[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Harper's life is pretty disastrous at the moment, through no fault of her own. Her mother has cancer and not long to live. Her father has scarpered but not taken his debts with him. And her brother is forever getting into trouble. But Harper soldiers on nonetheless, despite coping with her own cerebral palsy. One day, she sees an attempted abduction of young girl and intercedes, only to find herself kidnapped in the girl's place. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldn't have guessed where she was being taken... [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid KemmererCrime|Full ReviewCrime]]
Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, 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 blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Loved to Bits Out of the Dark by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonGregg Hurwitz]]===
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1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''Loved to Bitstrained up, mission ready. And yet untested.'' is the heartwarming story of a boyHe's love for his bear. Bear's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their way, from the jungle to the sea. Inevitably mishaps occur a foreign city on the way . The loss of an armofficially unofficial mission, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off which he executes with all injuries with a cheery ''don't worry, I've got one more''the impeccable training that his youth belies. But boy loves him just as he is and won't hear of him being mended. His place, after all, Evan Smoak is in Boy's bedOrphan X. [[Loved to Bits Out of the Dark by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise Watching You by Julie CohenLisa Jewell]]===
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What would you be likeA teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, right nowa woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a matter fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of geneticsthe young woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, and your life would still have unfolded in that teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the same wayconspiracy theories? Or would She's the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all mother of the abovegirl he's spying on. Plus, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the same day, man she thinks is out to get her is the same parents, but in one storyline Lou woman's husband (and is a boy, and in also the other a girlnew headteacher at her daughter's school). Does Whichever way you look at it really make , there's a difference, the gender box that is ticked when we arrive lot of watching going on 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..book. [[Louis and Louise Watching You by Julie CohenLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying by Gill Lewis]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFantasy|Confident ReadersFantasy]]
Semira This novel is an Eritraen refugee, living in set about a hundred years into the UK with her mum future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and Robel, a man who controls their money, their food, what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and their every move in it is very proud of having defeated the UKold patriarchy. He threatens them that Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't do what he says, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they'll be re sent home. One dayto work camps, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stallaway from open society, strangely drawn or even worse: expelled to the bird that decorates wilderness beyond the hat. 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 ago. Semira finds herself caught up in HenCentral Authority's story, finding in it an escape from her own life that is full of hunger and loss. She finds that she is challenged by the girl in the diary, to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in the worldborders. [[The Closest Thing to Flying Fish Seeking Bicycle by Gill LewisKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Elly GriffithsJames Atkinson]]===
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DCI Harry Nelson's life is complicated. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should beJames Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. His youngest daughter was conceived in a (very) brief affair (letHe's not call it been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowaymember of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. Michelle, NelsonHe has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's wife, knows about Kate and has been very understanding, but then there's on the matter of her affair with other side. There was a black policeman which she'd rather time when he was overweight and not have particularly strong. As a child he was slow to discuss with her daughtersdevelop. Nelson knows about This means that he ''understands'' what it 's like and he knows that the baby which Michelle is about to deliver, could be Timhow his clients feel: it's. That's a lot to cope with much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super- fit and that's before he gets to workwith an attitude problem. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Elly GriffithsJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Jonathan KellermanAdrian Cull]]===
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It For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a bridesmaid who found the victim's body in great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venuefew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. She didn't know who she It was time to look for a new approach and neither did as so often happens, the bride or groomreviewing gods brought me the book I needed. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girl, but she was furious that someone had set out to disrupt her wedding. Baby (yes, that was what people called Brearley) didn't come across as being particularly likeableLive Forever Manual: Science, despite ethics and companies behind the fact that she said that everyone liked her, and her groom, Garrett didnnew anti-aging treatments''t inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was seemed like the senior investigating officer and he called on the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawareanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[The Wedding Guest Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Jonathan KellermanAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open City In The Middle Of The Night by Douglas KennedyCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Douglas KennedyJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by just about everyonet exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and it often feels as though that was the intentiontotally uninhabitable. Though the novel often feels like The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a pastiche of the great American novel – epic creature can freeze to death in scopeseconds, preoccupied with matters of money and literature, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is trying to reversea knife-engineer the concept altogether. Initiallyedge, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family dramastray too close to one side you die, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining close to the turn of American society since the 70sother, you die and yet the rapid rise of heat from the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated sun and the west since water from the election of Ronald Reaganice are necessary for life. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between Life for the 70s inhabitants of January is long, and the 90shard, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trumpand arduous, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without will anything ever explicitly referencing them. change? [[The Great Wide Open City In The Middle Of The Night by Douglas KennedyCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Susan WilkinsDavid Laws]]===
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It's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sisterAt the time of my writing this, Sarahthere is one thing uniting Britain, was murdered and her life since has been lived in the shadow this is hatred of what happened'Brexit'. Jo was only eleven at Not just Brexit, but use of the time and her parentsword 'Brexit' marriage broke up in . Yes, people hate the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go people that instigated it then disappeared, and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother /or the people who was mentally frail and not coping with everyday life. She wasnjust can't pleased when Jo decided seem to join the policeget their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the job satisfies Joword. She's passed her sergeant's exams but This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the Met these days room until it's a case safe to return, when all mention of dead men's shoes and no one it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems inclined to make way for get to the younger generationactual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. StillJust as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, being a detective is better than being so the reader of this book has to get through a PC and when lot from Europe before the opportunity to go undercover comes uptitle's theme really arises. Here, at least though, Jo grabs itthe author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[It Should Have Been Me Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Susan WilkinsDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Hidden by Yancey WilliamsMary Chamberlain]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandtpossessions, Degas Dora and VermeerJoe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about Revisiting their time on the whereabouts of the paintingsChannel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, even promises that the case was about to be solvedand Joe, the paintings are still missing. Yancey Williams has a theoryCatholic Priest, which remembers a time when he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection hid something very different. In this story of Jesus''love, loss and whilst his suspects might seem unlikelybetrayal, who's to say that he's wrong? Forget the assertions that it was down remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilver. darkest shadows of war… [[The Resurrection of Jesus Hidden by Yancey WilliamsMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Painting Snails by David MarkStephen John Hartley]]===
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It all began almost innocently's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': DS Aector McAvoy was told by originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a concerned stranger that she and her son had regularly seen year on an old woman who lived in allotment it would be a nearby cottage lifestyle book, but she hadnyou't been re not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for a few daysthe best results. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she was alright? No - she wouldnThe answer would be something along the lines of 't go with him, but shetry it and see'd tell him where the house was. And so McAvoy wentThen I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, only to find the windows open on did an engineering apprenticeship, became a freezing cold day - busker, finally got into medical school and inside is now an old lady was in her bath encased in iceA&E consultant (part time). It 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'might', but that isn' have been t really what the book's about. There's a tragic accidentlot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but McAvoy suspected murder it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - and he thought that someone had watched 's the woman dieone. It's autobiography. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Painting Snails by David MarkStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer by Emma Kavanagh]]===
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If you're a detective on a murder squad one of the first things you learn is detachment. You develop a distance from When Ollie and Nancy, the victim: it allows you do do your job police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the minimum amount middle 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 when she was alivenight, albeit only justthings take a dangerous turn. She was being tended Rescued by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling Dodge, Ollie is taken to cope with the fact Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the woman's throat had been cut and she'd been stabbed several timesLondon above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. The attack had Ollie would have been called in by a dog walker and Alice the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been walking rescued. And Maddy intends to work when destroy the call came over her Airwave radiocity. [[To Catch a Killer The Haven: Book 1 by Emma KavanaghSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[Fierce Fragile Hearts The Things That are Lost by Sara BarnardAlan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' 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 quite another.5starAlex can't get Justine out of his head.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[:Category:TeensThe Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|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 Douglas Lindsay -->
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I've said 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-rays and medical examination bear out this before part of his story, but there are some books that you seek outthis 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, some books but that you stumble across and brings some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read thembaggage with it too. Westphall cannot, likewill not, right now! get on a plane. ''Atomic Habits'' is in the His last categoryexperience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Atomic Habits Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by James ClearDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death A Pinch of Magic by Tony KentMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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The death ''A Pinch of a retired Lord Chief Justice would Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have made lived on the news: his crucifixion dominated it isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Met's Major Incident Team was neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the person whose job is was world has to find his killeroffer. She never thought But in setting out to do just that it would be easy: the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in the course of his work , she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for over half generations. From their ancestors, as well as a century. It seems unreasonable to suggest that the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have given her each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a ray set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of hope, but surely two such grisly killings cannot which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be random? All that's needed is the key to find out what connects the two casestheir problem. [[Marked for Death A Pinch of Magic by Tony KentMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Never Tell by Ruth HoganLisa Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
[[image:5starEvie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands. Was this a domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately.jpg|link=Category It might have been sixteen years ago, but there's no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]'a tragic accident' everyone said, [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each other. D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? [[:Category:ParanormalNever Tell by Lisa Gardner|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 Read -->
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===[[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:5star4star.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 After a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is the fourth left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a job) and last story about Nicky so she is not quite sure what is going on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and Kennythen doesn't come back. Try not She heads out to cry before you've even read investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the first page.Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, so her life can go back to normal? [[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger. [[Lark by Anthony McGowan|Full Review]] <!-- Lucy Foley Kate London -->
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===[[The Hunting Party Gallowstree Lane by Lucy FoleyKate London]]===
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To begin with we don't know Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a great dealcomplete stranger for help, begging him not to let him die. We know that there's a body and before too long we know that Doug, the gamekeeper, doesn't think it The stranger was an accidentoff-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. You get the feeling that Doug knows about these Just one of those thingsyou might, think. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the train: however you cut that one, streets of London all the seating is going to be awkwardtime. Someone is going to be left on their ownHis friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. The highland lodge is stunning though, but these people It was Ryan who don't usually get outside called the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really means. In this case it means that it's an hour's drive to ambulance on the ''road'' and thatparamedic's when instruction, sobbing as he held the weather's goodphone. But this new year, the weather definitely ''isnRyan wasn't'' goodprepared to accept that it was just one of those things. This is serious snowHe wanted revenge. [[The Hunting Party Gallowstree Lane by Lucy FoleyKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Richard RutherfordEce Temelkuran]]===
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In some ways it was A little while ago a gentler time: video games friend asked me if I thought that we were around, but children usually went outside 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 enjoy themselves. ..'' They flew kites I agreed that she was right and went sledging if there wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was snow aroundleading to. Tim I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and Marywhilst it's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasnflawed system I can't changed, unfortunatelythink of a better one, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in particularly as the playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where hebenevolent dictator's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, whois as rare as hen's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bulliesteeth. [[Tadcaster and the Bullies How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Richard RutherfordEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why A Danger to Herself and Others by Elaine Robertson NorthAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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When we first meet Dani she's about 'They needed someone to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuseblame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. She's Alex Cambridge's agent and Playing the scapegoat was the indications are that he's about to make least I could do under the big timecircumstances. He's good looking, charismatic and appealing - well, he's an actor Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so that's part her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the spec - but his suggestion that he globe and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by lived a statement that he's got no intention life of leaving his wife and three childrenluxury. So, what's in it for Dani? No, there's no need [[A Danger to answer that. Dani understands the situation all too well Herself and tells him so. [[I Can't Tell You Why Others by Elaine Robertson NorthAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction]]
BridieSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, or Little Bird as she prefers meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to be known, is a croftercover his mother's daughter living on nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the remote Scottish island of Tornishpressures got too much for him. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with the disability of He was devastated when Iris developed a wasted arm and leg terminal cancer and often misses her mother, who died some time agoat the age of thirty three. Despite this, Little Bird has He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a warm blog in the last six months of her life and loving father, sisters to watch over her, a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch of her windswept, savagely beautiful islandbook. [[Little Bird Flies When You Read This by Karen McCombieMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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