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===[[The Last Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Hanna JamesonAngela Marsons]]===
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Jon Keller Someone is recreating every traumatic event in a hotel in Switzerland in Kim Stone's past, starting with the remote countryside death of her twin when the world endsshe was six years old. He has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea what's going on in Some of the nearest cityevents, or if at least the nearest city details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has been obliterateda wealth of information and is using it to evil intent. Shocked That might seem bad enough, amid but the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at brutal truth of the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. He's not alone, twenty other matter is that people - innocent people also stay and gradually form a small community- are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. One day Stone probably - well, when helping certainly - shouldn't be on the hotel managercase, Jon finds the body but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a girl deemed blind eye to have been killed before the world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girleffect it's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community having on earthher for long enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? [[The Last Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Hanna JamesonAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation Out of the Dark by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Gregg Hurwitz]]===
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For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step1997. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''d not blame her one minutetrained up, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germansmission ready. And yet untested. In Munich, she stumbles '' He's in a foreign city on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for workan officially unofficial mission, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwisewhich he executes with all the impeccable training that his youth belies. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[Deviation Out of the Dark by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Gregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Watching You by Alok Ranjan TripathyLisa Jewell]]===
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SoA teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, what brought me to this book? As a woman is convinced she knows a man in the owner of village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a small business young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a buyer fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of IT services I should be the senior partner young woman's husband in some work around the relationship with my suppliershouse. Oh, but I've frequently found myself the junior partner and Ithat teenage boy? He've regularly been let down by thems her son. I needed to know where I could improve that relationship and, by looking at And the situation from woman with the supplierconspiracy theories? She's point the mother of viewthe girl he's spying on. Plus, what steps I needed the man she thinks is out to takeget her is the woman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Alok TripathyWhichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some of the answers as to how my suppliers could better help me. [[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Watching You by Alok Ranjan TripathyLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[A Curse So Dark and Lonely Fish Seeking Bicycle by Brigid KemmererKate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Harper's life is pretty disastrous at the moment, through no fault of her own[[image:4star. 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... jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer:Category:Fantasy|Full ReviewFantasy]]
This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Loved to Bits Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonJames Atkinson]]===
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''Loved to Bits'' is James Atkinson has all the heartwarming story of qualifications which you need in a boy's love for his bearworkout instructor and he looks the part. Bear He's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places been actively involved in the health and together they fight fitness arena for more than twenty years and defeat every obstacle put in their wayhe spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, from the jungle Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been on the seaother side. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. The loss of an arm, As a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing child he was slow to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery develop. This means that he ''donunderstands't worry, I've got one morewhat it''. But boy loves him just as s like and he is and won't hear of him being mended. His place, after all, is in Boyknows how his clients feel: it's bedmuch more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Loved to Bits Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and Louise companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Julie CohenAdrian Cull]]===
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What would you be like, right For many years nowI've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, if youit was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'd been born m a different gender? Would it simply be great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a matter few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of genetics, and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? balance. Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis It was time to look for a new approach and Louiseas so often happens, born on the same day, to reviewing gods brought me the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the other a girlbook I needed. Does it really make a difference''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the gender box that 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 new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the past, how they still are, and prompts answer to my problems - only you to think about how they could be..get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Louis Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and Louise companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Julie CohenAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying City In The Middle Of The Night by Gill LewisCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Semira January 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 UKdying planet. He threatens them that if they donIt wasn't do what he says, they'll be sent homeexactly pleasant to begin with. One dayhalf is scorching sunlight, pure, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stallblazing heat, strangely drawn to the bird that decorates the hatand totally uninhabitable. When she takes it home she discovers there The other half is an old diary hidden inside the hat boxpure darkness and ice, written by where a young girl called Hen over 100 years ago. Semira finds herself caught up creature can freeze to death in Hen's storyseconds, finding in it an escape from her own life and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is full of hunger and lossbarely survivable. She finds that she Life is challenged by a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the girl in water from the diary, to speak up in her own ice are necessary for life and fight . Life for her place in the world. inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The Closest Thing to Flying City In The Middle Of The Night by Gill LewisCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Elly GriffithsDavid Laws]]===
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DCI Harry NelsonAt the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit's life is complicated. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should beNot just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit'. His youngest daughter was conceived in a (very) brief affair (letYes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who just can's not call t seem to get their fingers out and complete it a one, but they also hate the use of the word. This biggest turn-night stand: there's more emotion off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway. Michelle, Nelsonlife slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's wifesafe to return, knows when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Kate and has been very understandingBrexit, but then there's because it too seems to get to the matter of her affair with actual Brexiting in a black policeman which she'd rather not very protracted manner. Just as we have to discuss with her daughters. Nelson knows about wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it and knows that seems, so the baby which Michelle is about reader of this book has to deliver, could be Timget through a lot from Europe before the title'stheme really arises. ThatHere, at least though, the author's a lot to cope with - and that's before he gets to workdelaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Elly GriffithsDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest Hidden by Jonathan KellermanMary Chamberlain]]===
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It was a bridesmaid who When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found the victimamong her mother's body in a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venue. She didn't know who she was possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and neither did the bride or groomare swiftly forced to confront their pasts. The bride wasn't particularly worried about Revisiting their time on the dead girlChannel Islands during World War II, but Dora remembers a time when she was furious that someone had set out to disrupt concealed her wedding. Baby (yesJewish identity, and Joe, that was what people called Brearley) didn't come across as being particularly likeablea Catholic Priest, despite the fact that she said that everyone liked herremembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story of love, loss and her groombetrayal, Garrett didn't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the senior investigating officer and he called on the help darkest shadows of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delaware. war… [[The Wedding Guest Hidden by Jonathan KellermanMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Painting Snails by Douglas KennedyStephen John Hartley]]===
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Douglas KennedyIt's very difficult to classify ''The Great Wide OpenPainting Snails'' has been described : originally I thought that as epic by just about everyoneit'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 it often feels as though that was where for the intentionbest results. Though The answer would be something along the novel often feels like lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scopebusker, preoccupied with matters of money finally got into medical school and literature, fixated with New York – it often feels is now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's an awful lot more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the concept altogetherbook's about. Initially There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the novel presents itself as an intimate study real passion of family dramaHartley's life, in the latter half of the novel but it smoothly turns to examining didn't actually fit into the turn of American society since entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the 70s, and impossible the rapid rise of the hyperhard way'? Yep -capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated 's the west since the election of Ronald Reaganone. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90s, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing them It's autobiography. [[The Great Wide Open Painting Snails by Douglas KennedyStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me by Susan Wilkins]]===
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It's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sisterWhen Ollie and Nancy, Sarahthe police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, was murdered and her life since has been lived are abducted in the shadow middle of what happened. Jo was only eleven at the time and her parents' marriage broke up in the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who was mentally frail and not coping with everyday lifenight, things take a dangerous turn. She wasn't pleased when Jo decided Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to join the policeHaven, but the job satisfies Jo. She's passed her sergeant's exams but a secret underground community based in the Met these days it's a case network of dead men's shoes and no one seems inclined to make way for underground tunnels that the younger generationLondon above ground knows nothing about. StillHere, being a detective children work together to battle great evils. And there is better than being a PC and when an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the opportunity hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs itdestroy the city. [[It Should Have Been Me The Haven: Book 1 by Susan WilkinsSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus by Yancey Williams]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary General Fiction|Literary General Fiction]]
In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandt, Degas WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and Vermeer. The frames remain empty banished to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts of the paintingsScotland, even promises that the case was about providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to be solved, Alex as anything the paintings are still missingGermans would provide. Yancey Williams has a theory, which And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he delaborates on in his novel went to ''The Resurrection of Jesusthat''disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, who's returned to say that hefind her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can's wrongt get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? Forget the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilver. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Things That are Lost by Yancey WilliamsAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones Song of the Dead (DS McAvoy 8DI Westphall) by David MarkDouglas Lindsay]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by A man walked into a concerned stranger that she and her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived police station in Estonia. He told a nearby cottage but she hadn't tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for a few daysorgan harvesting and sperm donation. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she was alright? No X- she wouldn't go with himrays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, but she'd tell him where this man, or the house wasman he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. And so McAvoy wentHis body was identified by his partner, only to find the windows open on a freezing cold day Emily King and by his parents - and inside an old lady then the body was in her bath encased in iceburied. It ''might'' have been a tragic accidentSo, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but McAvoy suspected murder - and he thought that someone had watched the woman diebrings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Cold Bones Song of the Dead (DS McAvoy 8DI Westphall) by David MarkDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer A Pinch of Magic by Emma KavanaghMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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If you're a detective 'A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on a murder squad one the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the first things you learn 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 detachment. You develop a distance determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the victim: it allows you do do your job with the minimum amount of emotionworld has to offer. That's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the woman they would need But in setting out to call Jane Doe when she was alive, albeit only do 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 , she and she'd been stabbed several timesher sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. The attack had been called in by From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a dog walker set of wooden nesting dolls and Alice had been walking an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to work when the call came over her Airwave radiotheir problem. [[To Catch a Killer A Pinch of Magic by Emma KavanaghMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Never Tell by Lisa Gardner]]===
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[[image:4Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands.5star 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]] 'a tragic accident' everyone said, 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:TeensNever Tell by Lisa Gardner|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 Read -->
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IAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and then doesn've said this before but there are some books that you seek t come back. She heads outto investigate and discovers a strange, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themsecret world called the Midnight Hour, likewhich seems to be London during Victorian times, right nowand is full of magical beings (and monsters! ) ''Atomic Habits'' What were her parents doing here? is in the last category. And will she be able to find them and rescue them, so her life can go back to normal? [[Atomic Habits The Midnight Hour by James ClearBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death Gallowstree Lane by Tony KentKate London]]===
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Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him die. The death stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made those things you might, think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the news: his crucifixion dominated it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy streets of London all the Met's Major Incident Team time. His friend Ryan was the person whose job is with Spence when he was to find his killerstabbed. She never thought that it would be easy: It was Ryan who called the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in ambulance on the course of his work for over half a centuryparamedic's instruction, sobbing as he held the phone. It seems unreasonable But Ryan wasn't prepared to suggest accept that the crucifixion it was just one of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her a ray of hope, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? those things. All that's needed is to find out what connects the two casesHe wanted revenge. [[Marked for Death Gallowstree Lane by Tony KentKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ruth HoganEce Temelkuran]]===
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Tilda returns A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to Brighton, to tidy away come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the remains of her motherquestion ''s life after her deathDiscuss the factors which led to... Whilst there, '' I agreed that she returns to the Paradise hotel, was right and wasn't certain whether it was a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts good or bad thing that torment them elsewherewe didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. Little wonder I think now that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonderI do know. With the help We are in danger of Queenie Malone, caring, losing democracy and gregariouswhilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, Tilda begins to pick apart particularly as the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ruth HoganEce Temelkuran|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan Schienmel -->
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction]]  I'll warn you first.
This is ''They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kennycircumstances. Try not to cry before you've even read ' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the first pagemost sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxury.[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|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 Mary Adkins -->
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===[[The Hunting Party When You Read This by Lucy FoleyMary Adkins]]===
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To begin with we don't know a great deal. We know that there's a body Smith Simonyi and before too long we know that DougIris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the gamekeeper, doesn't think it was an accidentaltar on their wedding day. You get the feeling that Doug knows about these things. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that oneSmith, meanwhile, the seating is going to be awkward. Someone is going to be left relied on their own. The highland lodge is stunning thoughIris, but these people who don't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult his attention was on making enough money to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really means. In this case it means that itcover his mother's an hour's drive to nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the ''road'' branding agency in New York and that's losing money gambling when the weather's goodpressures got too much for him. But this new year, He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the weather definitely ''isn't'' goodage of thirty three. This He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is serious snowthat he gets the blog published as a book. [[The Hunting Party When You Read This by Lucy FoleyMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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