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===[[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaAngela Marsons]]===
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I thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with the idea death of a series of recipes which would make me feel happyher twin when she was six years old. For once Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this isn't has a case wealth of 'if information and is using it sounds too good 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 truerecreated. Stone probably - well, it probably is' certainly - itshouldn's a t be on the case , but who has better knowledge of getting something which could change your life for what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the better - effect it's having on her for good - rather than a quick fixlong enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? [[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Out of the Dark by Hanna JamesonGregg Hurwitz]]===
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Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends1997. He has no idea if his family Evan Smoak is alive, he has no idea what19 years old ''s going on in the nearest citytrained up, or if the nearest city has been obliteratedmission ready. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and homeAnd yet untested. '' He's not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form in a small community. One dayforeign city on an officially unofficial mission, when helping which he executes with all the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before the world endedimpeccable training that his youth belies. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the truth about what Evan Smoak is possibly the last community on earthOrphan X. [[The Last Out of the Dark by Hanna JamesonGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation Watching You by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Lisa Jewell]]===
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For those of you who have read books of 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 Nazi camps – village and of coursethat he is following her. Meanwhile, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, young woman has moved back home after allsome time abroad, and develops a fascination with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work assignment during a bombing raidaround the house. Oh, and youthat teenage boy? He'd not blame s her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the Germansgirl he's spying on. In MunichPlus, the man she stumbles on help thinks is out to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to is the woman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look for workat it, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her there's a lot of watching going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raisedon in this book. [[Deviation Watching You by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Lisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and FinanceFantasy|Business and FinanceFantasy]]
So, This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what brought me to 's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this book? As the owner of a small business world and a buyer it is very proud of IT services I should be having defeated the senior partner in the relationship with my suppliersold patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, but Iare medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn've frequently found myself the junior partner and It work, they've regularly been let down by them. I needed re sent to know where I could improve that relationship andwork camps, by looking at the situation away from the supplier's point of viewopen society, what steps I needed or even worse: expelled to take. Alok Tripathythe wilderness beyond the Central Authority's book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some of the answers as to how my suppliers could better help meborders. [[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Fish Seeking Bicycle by Alok Ranjan TripathyKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]===
[[imageJames Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me:4starhe's been on the other side.jpg|link=Category There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] it's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Home Workout for Beginners:Category:Teens6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson|TeensFull Review]]
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 Kemmerer|Full Review]]   <!-- Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson Adrian Cull -->
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===[[Loved to Bits Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonAdrian Cull]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingLifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Popular Science|For SharingPopular Science]]
For many years now I''Loved ve (half) joked that I intended to Bitslive forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'' is the heartwarming story m a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a boy's love for his bearfew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. Bear's adventures with boy take him It was time to all kinds of places look for a new approach and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their wayas so often happens, from the jungle to reviewing gods brought me the seabook I needed. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way . The loss of an arm, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''donLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments't worry, I've got one seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more''. But boy loves him than just as he is and won't hear of him being mended. His place, after all, is in Boy's bed101 tips. [[Loved to Bits Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise The City In The Middle Of The Night by Julie CohenCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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What would you be likeJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, right nowpure, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of geneticsblazing heat, and your life would still have unfolded totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death 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 all of the aboveseconds, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on totally uninhabitable. In the same daymiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boyside you die, and in to close to the other a girl. Does it really make a difference, you die and yet the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men heat from the sun and women the water from the ice are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in necessary for life. Life for the pastinhabitants of January is long, how they still areand hard, and prompts you to think about how they could be... arduous, will anything ever change? [[Louis and Louise The City In The Middle Of The Night by Julie CohenCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Gill LewisDavid Laws]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, living in At the UK with her mum and Robeltime of my writing this, a man who controls their money, their foodthere is one thing uniting Britain, and their every move in the UKthis is hatred of 'Brexit'. He threatens them that if they donNot just Brexit, but use of the word 't do what he says, theyBrexit'll be sent home. One day, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stallYes, strangely drawn to people hate the bird people that decorates instigated it then disappeared, and/or the hat. When she takes people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside , but they also hate the use of the hat box, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years agoword. Semira finds herself caught up This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in Henhigh dudgeon and leave the room until it's storysafe to return, finding when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it an escape from her own life that is full of hunger and losspartly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. She finds that she is challenged by Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the girl in reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the diarytitle's theme really arises. Here, at least though, to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in the worldauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[The Closest Thing to Flying Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Gill LewisDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Hidden by Elly GriffithsMary Chamberlain]]===
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DCI Harry NelsonWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's life is complicated. His two oldest daughters possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are either living away from home or really should beswiftly forced to confront their pasts. His youngest daughter was conceived in a (very) brief affair (let's not call it a one-night stand: there's more emotion in Revisiting their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway. Michelletime on the Channel Islands during World War II, Nelson's wifeDora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, knows about Kate and has been very understandingJoe, a Catholic Priest, but then there's the matter of her affair with remembers a black policeman which she'd rather not have to discuss with her daughterstime when he hid something very different. Nelson knows about In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it and knows that the baby which Michelle is about remains to deliver, could be Tim's. That's seen whether a lot to cope with - and that's before he gets to work. speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Hidden by Elly GriffithsMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest Painting Snails by Jonathan KellermanStephen John Hartley]]===
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It was a bridesmaid who found the victim's body in 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 rather disreputable toilet at lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the wedding venuebest results. She didnThe answer would be something along the lines of 't know who she was try it and neither see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did the bride or grooman engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). The bride wasnI 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''t particularly worried about the dead girl, but she was furious that someone had set out to disrupt her weddingisn't really what the book's about. Baby (yes, that was what people called Brearley) didnThere't come across as being particularly likeables a lot about rock & roll, despite which seems to be the fact that she said that everyone liked herreal passion of Hartley's life, and her groom, Garrett but it didn't inspire confidence actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Lt Milo Sturgis was Did we have a category for 'doing the senior investigating officer and he called on impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawareone. It's autobiography. [[The Wedding Guest Painting Snails by Jonathan KellermanStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[The Haven:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary FictionBook 1 by Simon Lelic]]===
Douglas Kennedy's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by just about everyone, and it often feels as though that was the intention. Though the novel often feels like a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scope, preoccupied with matters of money and literature, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogether. Initially, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family drama, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since the 70s, and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reagan. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90s, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing them[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
When 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. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Wilkins Kennedy -->
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===[[It Should Have Been Me by Susan Wilkins]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|CrimeThe Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]===
It's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sister, Sarah, was murdered and her life since has been lived in the shadow of what happened[[image:4star. Jo was only eleven at the time and her parents' marriage broke up in the aftermathjpg|link=Category: 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 life. She wasn't pleased when Jo decided to join the police, but the job satisfies Jo. She's passed her sergeant's exams but in the Met these days it's a case of dead men's shoes and no one seems inclined to make way for the younger generation. Still, being a detective is better than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs it. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[It Should Have Been Me by Susan Wilkins:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
The 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. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|Full Review]] <!-- Yancey Williams Douglas Lindsay -->
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===[[The Resurrection Song of Jesus the Dead (DI Westphall) by Yancey WilliamsDouglas Lindsay]]===
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In March 1990 two A man walked into a police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museumstation in Estonia. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtHe told a tale of having been held prisoner, Degas used as a donor for organ harvesting and Vermeersperm donation. The frames remain empty to X-rays and medical examination bear out this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts part of the paintingshis story, even promises that the case was about to be solvedbut this man, or the paintings are still missingman he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. Yancey Williams has a theory, which he delaborates on in His body was identified by his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus''partner, Emily King and whilst by his suspects might seem unlikelyparents - and then the body was buried. So, who's to say that he's wrongis this man? Forget the assertions DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilvermore than enough for one lifetime. [[The Resurrection Song of Jesus the Dead (DI Westphall) by Yancey WilliamsDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) A Pinch of Magic by David MarkMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:3''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone.5starIf we do, we'll die by the next sunset.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]''
It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by a concerned stranger that she ''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and her son had regularly seen an old woman Charlie – who have lived in a nearby cottage but she hadn't been on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for a few daystheir entire lives. Perhaps McAvoy could check The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that she was alright? No nothing and no- she wouldn't go with himone will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, but she'd tell him where the house wasand her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. And so McAvoy wentFrom their ancestors, only to find the windows open as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a freezing cold day - and inside magical object – an old lady was in her bath encased in ice. It ''might'' have been carpet bag, a tragic accident, but McAvoy suspected murder - set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and he thought that someone had watched could possibly be the woman diekey to their problem. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) A Pinch of Magic by David MarkMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer Never Tell by Emma KavanaghLisa Gardner]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
If youEvie Carter're a detective on a murder squad one of s husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the first things you learn is detachmentgun in her hands. You develop Was this a distance from the victim: domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it allows you do do your job with the minimum amount of emotionpregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. ThatIt might have been sixteen years ago, but there's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when theyno mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a tragic accident're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the woman they would need to call Jane Doe when she was aliveeveryone said, albeit only just. She as there was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling to cope with no doubt about the fact that love the woman's throat two had been cut and she'd been stabbed several timesfor each other. The attack D D had been called in by a dog walker and Alice had been walking no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to work when the call came over her Airwave radio. get away with murder again? [[To Catch a Killer Never Tell by Emma KavanaghLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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[[image:4After 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.5star Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and then doesn't come back.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the 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? [[:Category:TeensThe Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder|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 Kate London -->
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I've said this before but there are some books that you seek Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped outinto a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, some books that begging him not to let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one of those things you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themmight, likethink. Tragic, right now! but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all the time. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic's instruction, sobbing as he held the phone. But Ryan wasn'Atomic Habits'' t prepared to accept that it was just one of those things. is in the last categoryHe wanted revenge. [[Atomic Habits Gallowstree Lane by James ClearKate London|Full Review]]
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The death of A little while ago a retired Lord Chief Justice friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would have made be discussed by A level history students when faced with the news: his crucifixion dominated it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Metquestion ''s Major Incident Team was Discuss the person whose job is was factors which led to find his killer. ..'' She never thought I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it would be easy: the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in the course of his work for over half was a centurygood or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. It seems unreasonable to suggest I think now that the crucifixion I do know. We are in danger of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her losing democracy and whilst it's a ray flawed system I can't think of hopea better one, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All thatparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's needed is to find out what connects the two casesteeth. [[Marked for Death How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Tony KentEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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Tilda returns ''They needed someone to Brightonblame, to tidy away and I was the remains of her mother's life after her deathonly available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Whilst there, she returns to Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfitscircumstances. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive '' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her mother for banishing parents tell her as a child. She has dined in fancy restaurants, from this place of wonder. With explored the help most sophisticated corners of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky globe and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant motherlived a life of luxury. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel A Danger to Herself and Others by Ruth HoganAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan Mary Adkins -->
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===[[When You Read This by Mary Adkins]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:TeensGeneral Fiction|TeensGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page.
Things have got tense at home - again - Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long four years, during which time ago. They haven't seen Iris left her for years and husband at the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelingsaltar on their wedding day. And Nicky Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it allnursing home fees in Wisconsin, Nicky running the branding agency in New York and Kenny plan losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a day out, trekking across terminal cancer and died at the moorsage of thirty three. But it doesn't go to plan He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible dangerher final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[Lark When You Read This by Anthony McGowanMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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