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===[[The Day We Met Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Roxie CooperAngela Marsons]]===
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This Someone is an epic love story spanning ten years of recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone'will theys past, won't they'starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Stephanie 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 Jamie are 'meant is using it to be'evil intent. When they meet on an art course they have an instant strong connection That might seem bad enough, but both the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are with other peopledying so that these dramas can be recreated. HoweverStone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the case, but who has better knowledge of what I loved was that happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's not a 'typical boy meets girlhaving on her for long enough, falls in love and lives happily ever after' storyshe can sort it out... In fact far from it, without wanting to give too much away, the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignant. Or can she? [[The Day We Met Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Roxie CooperAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Good Mood Food: Unlock Out of the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Dark by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaGregg Hurwitz]]===
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I thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked the idea of a series of recipes which would make me feel happy1997. For once this isnEvan Smoak is 19 years old 't a case of 'if it sounds too good to be truetrained up, it probably ismission ready. And yet untested.'' - itHe's in a case of getting something foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which could change your life for he executes with all the better - for good - rather than a quick fiximpeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[Good Mood Food: Unlock Out of the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Dark by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Watching You by Hanna JamesonLisa Jewell]]===
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Jon Keller A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is in convinced she knows a hotel in Switzerland man in the remote countryside when the world endsvillage and that he is following her. He Meanwhile, a young woman has no idea if his family is alivemoved back home after some time abroad, he has no idea whatand develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's going on in the nearest citywife, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shockedmeanwhile, amid engages the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at services of the hotel rather than attempt to get to young woman's husband in some work around the airport house. Oh, and home. that teenage boy? He's not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small communityher son. One day, when helping And the woman with the hotel manager, Jon finds conspiracy theories? She's the body mother of a the girl deemed he's spying on. Plus, the man she thinks is out to have been killed before get her is the world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girlwoman's killer husband (and finding the truth about what is possibly also the last community new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on earthin this book. [[The Last Watching You by Hanna JamesonLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Historical FictionFantasy|Historical FictionFantasy]]
For those This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next stephaving defeated the old patriarchy. It begins, after Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all, with someone escaping Dachau times and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and youif they don'd not blame her one minutet, as her career was deemed are medicalised to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germanskeep their baser instincts under control. In MunichAnd if that doesn't work, she stumbles on help they're sent to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for workcamps, or companyaway from open society, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then even worse: expelled to the next chapter sees her going back into wilderness beyond the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raisedCentral Authority's borders. [[Deviation Fish Seeking Bicycle by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Kate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Alok Ranjan TripathyJames Atkinson]]===
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So, what brought me to this book? As James Atkinson has all the owner of qualifications which you need in a small business workout instructor and a buyer of IT services I should be he looks the senior partner part. He's been actively involved in the relationship with my suppliershealth and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, but IRoyal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he've frequently found myself s been on the junior partner other side. There was a time when he was overweight and I've regularly been let down by themnot particularly strong. I needed As a child he was slow to know where I could improve develop. This means that relationship and, by looking at the situation from the supplierhe ''understands''s point of view, what steps I needed to take. Alok Tripathyit's book looked as though like and he knows how his clients feel: it might provide help 's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and possibly some of the answers as to how my suppliers could better help mewith an attitude problem. [[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Alok Ranjan TripathyJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull]]===
===[[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensLifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Popular Science|TeensPopular Science]]
HarperFor many years now I's life is pretty disastrous at the momentve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, through no fault of her ownit was working out OK. Her mother Time has cancer passed though and not long although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time 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 nonethelesslook for a new approach and as so often happens, despite coping with her own cerebral palsythe reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. One day ''Live Forever Manual: Science, she sees an attempted abduction of young girl ethics and intercedes, only to find herself kidnapped in companies behind the girlnew anti-aging treatments''s place. But even an imaginative girl seemed like Harper couldn't have guessed where she was being takenthe answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips... [[A Curse So Dark Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and Lonely companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Brigid KemmererAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[Loved to Bits The City In The Middle Of The Night by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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''Loved to Bits'' January is the heartwarming story of a boy's love for his beardying planet. BearIt wasn's adventures t exactly pleasant to begin with boy take him to all kinds of places . One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and together they fight totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and defeat every obstacle put ice, where a creature can freeze to death in their wayseconds, from the jungle to the seaand totally uninhabitable. Inevitably mishaps occur on In the way middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. The loss of an armLife is a knife-edge, a legstray too close to one side you die, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''don't worryclose to the other, I've got one more''you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. But boy loves him just as he Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and won't hear of him being mended. His placehard, after alland arduous, is in Boy's bed. will anything ever change? [[Loved to Bits The City In The Middle Of The Night by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Julie CohenDavid Laws]]===
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What would you be likeAt the time of my writing this, right nowthere is one thing uniting Britain, if youand this is hatred of 'Brexit'd been born a different gender? . Not just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit'. Would Yes, people hate the people that instigated it simply be a matter of geneticsthen disappeared, and your life would still have unfolded in /or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the same way? word. Or would the way you had been raised affect This biggest turn-off has made people who you became have never so much as tutted in their life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and Louise, born on leave the same day, room until it's safe to the same parentsreturn, but when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in one storyline Lou relation to this book because it is a boypartly about Brexit, and but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in the other a girlvery protracted manner. Does Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it really make a differenceseems, so the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in reader of this world? book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. We all know that men and women are treated differentlyHere, at least though, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, how they still author's delaying tactics are, and prompts you to think about how they could be..much more forgiveable. [[Louis and Louise Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Julie CohenDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Hidden by Gill LewisMary Chamberlain]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction]]
Semira is an Eritraen refugeeWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, living in determined to identify the UK with mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mum mother's possessions, Dora and Robel, a man who controls Joe find their money, worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their food, and pasts. Revisiting their every move in time on the UK. He threatens them that if they don't do what he saysChannel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, they'll be sent home. One dayand Joe, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stall, strangely drawn to the bird that decorates the hat. When she takes it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside the hat boxCatholic Priest, written by remembers a young girl called Hen over 100 years agotime when he hid something very different. Semira finds herself caught up in Hen's In this storyof love, finding in it an escape from her own life that is full of hunger loss and loss. She finds that she is challenged by the girl in the diarybetrayal, it remains to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the world. darkest shadows of war… [[The Closest Thing to Flying Hidden by Gill LewisMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Painting Snails by Elly GriffithsStephen John Hartley]]===
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DCI Harry NelsonIt's life is complicatedvery difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should The answer would besomething along the lines of 'try it and see'. His youngest daughter was conceived in Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (verypart time) brief affair (let's not call it a one-night stand: . I found out that there's an awful lot more emotion to what goes on in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway. Michelle, Nelsona Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty''s wife, knows about Kate and has been very understanding, but then therethat isn's t really what the matter of her affair with a black policeman which shebook'd rather not have to discuss with her daughterss about. Nelson knows There's a lot about it and knows that the baby rock & roll, which Michelle is about seems to deliver, could be Timthe real passion of Hartley'slife, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. ThatDid we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way's a lot to cope with ? Yep - and that's before he gets to workthe one. It's autobiography. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Painting Snails by Elly GriffithsStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|CrimeConfident Readers]]
It was a bridesmaid who found When Ollie and Nancy, the victim's body police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venue. She didn't know who she was and neither did middle of the bride or groomnight, things take a dangerous turn. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girlRescued by Dodge, but she was furious that someone had set out Ollie is taken to disrupt her wedding. Baby (yesthe Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that was what people called Brearley) didn't come across as being particularly likeable, despite the fact that she said that everyone liked herLondon above ground knows nothing about. Here, and her groom, Garrett didn't inspire confidence eitherchildren work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Lt Milo Sturgis was Ollie would have been the senior investigating officer and hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he called on not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawarecity. [[The Wedding Guest Haven: Book 1 by Jonathan KellermanSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy]]===
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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: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]] <!-- Susan Wilkins Douglas Lindsay -->
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===[[It Should Have Been Me Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Susan WilkinsDouglas Lindsay]]===
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It's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sisterA man walked into a police station in Estonia. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, Sarahbut this man, was murdered and her life since has been lived in or the shadow of what happenedman he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. Jo His body was only eleven at the time identified by his partner, Emily King and her by his parents' marriage broke up in - and then the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who body was mentally frail and not coping with everyday lifeburied. She wasn't pleased when Jo decided So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to join the policeEstonia because of his background in MI6, but the job satisfies Jothat brings some baggage with it too. She's passed her sergeant's exams but in the Met these days it's Westphall cannot, will not, get on a case of dead men's shoes and no one seems inclined to make way for the younger generationplane. Still, being a detective is better His last experience of flight was more than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs itenough for one lifetime. [[It Should Have Been Me Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Susan WilkinsDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection A Pinch of Jesus Magic by Yancey WilliamsMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4''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:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]''
In March 1990 two police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandt'A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Degas Fliss and Vermeer. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might Charlie – who have been rumours about lived on the whereabouts isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the paintingsneighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, even promises 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 case was about world has to offer. But in setting out to be solveddo just that, the paintings are still missingshe and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. Yancey Williams has From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a theorymagical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus'', are more than meets the eye and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, who's to say that he's wrong? Forget could possibly be the assertions that it was down key to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilvertheir problem. [[The Resurrection A Pinch of Jesus Magic by Yancey WilliamsMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Never Tell by David MarkLisa Gardner]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy Evie Carter's husband was told by a concerned stranger that she shot dead in his own home and her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived in a nearby cottage but she hadn't been for a few days. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she was alright? No - she wouldn't go found with him, but she'd tell him where the house wasgun in her hands. And so McAvoy went, only to find the windows open on Was this a freezing cold day - and inside an old lady was in her bath encased in icedomestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It ''mighthave been sixteen years ago, but there's no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: ' have been a tragic accident' everyone said, but McAvoy suspected murder - and he thought that someone as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each other. D D had watched no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman die. have - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Never Tell by David MarkLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer The Midnight Hour by Emma KavanaghBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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If you're After a detective on a murder squad one of the first things you learn big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is detachmentleft alone with her dad. You develop Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a distance from the victim: it allows you do do your job with the minimum amount of emotion) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. That's relatively easy Things turn even stranger still when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the woman they would need her dad goes off to call Jane Doe when she was alivefind her mum, albeit only justand then doesn't come back. She was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling heads out to cope with investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the fact that the woman's throat had been cut 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'd been stabbed several times. The attack had been called in by a dog walker be able to find them and Alice had been walking rescue them, so her life can go back to work when the call came over her Airwave radio. normal? [[To Catch a Killer The Midnight Hour by Emma KavanaghBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane by Kate London]]===
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[[image:4Spencer 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 stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one of those things you might, think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all 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't prepared to accept that it was just one of those things.5star He wanted revenge.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensGallowstree Lane by Kate London|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 Ece Temelkuran -->
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A little while ago a friend asked me if Ithought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question 've said this before but there are some books 'Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that you seek out, some books that you stumble across she was right and some books wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now! that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can'Atomic Habitst think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is in the last categoryas rare as hen's teeth. [[Atomic Habits How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by James ClearEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death A Danger to Herself and Others by Tony KentAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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The death of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made ''They needed someone to blame, and I was the news: his crucifixion dominated it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the Met's Major Incident Team scapegoat was the person whose job is least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was to find his killerborn mature – or so her parents tell her. She never thought that it would be easy: the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the course most sophisticated corners of his work for over half a century. It seems unreasonable to suggest that the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her globe and lived a ray life of hope, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All that's needed is to find out what connects the two casesluxury. [[Marked for Death A Danger to Herself and Others by Tony KentAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel When You Read This by Ruth HoganMary Adkins]]===
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Tilda returns to BrightonSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to tidy away the remains of her cover his mother's life after her death. Whilst therenursing home fees in Wisconsin, she returns to running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the Paradise hotel, a haven pressures got too much for eccentrics and misfitshim. A place where people can be themselves, He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and let go died at the age of thoughts that torment them elsewherethirty three. Little wonder He was surprised too when he discovered that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as Iris had been writing a child, from this place of wonder. With blog in the help last six months of Queenie Malone, caring, her life and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart her final request of Smith is that he gets the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant motherblog published as a book. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel When You Read This by Ruth HoganMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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