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===[[When You Read This Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Mary AdkinsAngela Marsons]]===
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Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four yearsSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, during which time Iris left starting with the death of her husband at the altar on their wedding daytwin when she was six years old. SmithSome of the events, meanwhileor at least the details of them, relied on Irisare not public knowledge, but his attention was on making whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to evil intent. That might seem bad enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running but the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when brutal truth of the pressures got too much for himmatter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the age case, but who has better knowledge of thirty three. what happened to her than she does? He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing If her boss can just turn a blog in blind eye to the last six months of effect it's having on her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a bookfor long enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? [[When You Read This Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Mary AdkinsAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day We Met Out of the Dark by Roxie CooperGregg Hurwitz]]===
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This 1997. Evan Smoak is an epic love story spanning ten 19 years of old ''will theytrained up, wonmission ready. And yet untested.'t they'. Stephanie and Jamie are He'meant to be'. When they meet s in a foreign city on an art course they have an instant strong connection but both are officially unofficial mission, which he executes with other people. However, what I loved was all the impeccable training that it's not a 'typical boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after' storyhis youth belies. In fact far from it, without wanting to give too much away, the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignantEvan Smoak is Orphan X. [[The Day We Met Out of the Dark by Roxie CooperGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Watching You by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaLisa Jewell]]===
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I thought I was getting A teenage boy spies on a cookbook: I liked teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a man in the idea of village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a series fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of recipes which would make me feel happythe young woman's husband in some work around the house. For once this isnOh, and that teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She't a case s the mother of the girl he'if it sounds too good s spying on. Plus, the man she thinks is out to be true, it probably get her is the woman's husband (and isalso the new headteacher at her daughter' - s school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a case lot of getting something which could change your life for the better - for good - rather than a quick fixwatching going on in this book. [[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Watching You by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last by Hanna Jameson]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian FictionFantasy|Dystopian FictionFantasy]]
Jon Keller This novel is in set about a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when hundred years into the future. The world ends. He has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's going on in left of the nearest city, or if old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the nearest city has been obliteratedold patriarchy. ShockedMen must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, amid the mass hysteria and exodusif they don't, Jon decides are medicalised to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and homekeep their baser instincts under control. HeAnd if that doesn's not alonet work, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. One daythey're sent to work camps, when helping the hotel manageraway from open society, Jon finds or even worse: expelled to the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before wilderness beyond the world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girlCentral Authority's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earthborders. [[The Last Fish Seeking Bicycle by Hanna JamesonKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)James Atkinson]]===
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For those of James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you who have read books of life need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the Nazi camps – health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of course9 Parachute Regiment, for those of you who have not – this can be considered Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a next steplot to me: he's been on the other side. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during There was a bombing raid, time when he was overweight and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career particularly strong. As a child he was deemed slow to be cess-tank cleaner develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and sewage unblocker by he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the Germans. In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for nontwenty-something who was born super-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, fit and by then eyebrows are being raisedwith an attitude problem. [[Deviation Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)James Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the I.T Journey new anti- How to move from Supplier to Partner aging treatments by Alok Ranjan TripathyAdrian Cull]]===
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SoFor many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, what brought me to this book? it was working out OK. As the owner of Time has passed though and although I'm a small business great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a buyer few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of IT services I should be the senior partner in the relationship with my suppliers, but I've frequently found myself the junior partner and I've regularly been let down by thembalance. I needed It was time to know where I could improve that relationship look for a new approach andas so often happens, by looking at the situation from reviewing gods brought me the supplier's point of view, what steps book I needed to take. Alok Tripathy's book looked as though it might provide help 'Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and possibly some of companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the answers as answer to how my suppliers could better help meproblems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Fast-track Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the I.T Journey new anti- How to move from Supplier to Partner aging treatments by Alok Ranjan TripathyAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]===
[[image:4starJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is 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 water from the ice are necessary for life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[:Category:TeensThe City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders|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 Laws -->
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===[[Loved to Bits Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonDavid Laws]]===
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At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of the word 'Loved to BitsBrexit'. Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who just can' is t seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the heartwarming story use of a boy's love for his bearthe word. Bear This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's adventures with boy take him safe to return, when all kinds mention of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put it has subsided. I mention this in their wayrelation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, from the jungle but because it too seems to get to the seaactual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Inevitably mishaps occur on Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the way . The loss reader of an arm, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing this book has to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with get through a cheery ''don't worry, I've got one more'lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. But boy loves him just as he is and won't hear of him being mended. His placeHere, after allat least though, is in Boythe author's beddelaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Loved to Bits Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise The Hidden by Julie CohenMary Chamberlain]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|General Historical Fiction]]
What would you be likeWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, right now, if youdetermined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of geneticss possessions, Dora and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis Joe find their worlds upended – and Louise, born are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the same day, to the same parentsChannel Islands during World War II, but in one storyline Lou is Dora remembers a boytime when she concealed her Jewish identity, and in the other Joe, a girl. Does it really make Catholic Priest, remembers a difference, the gender box that is ticked time when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, but he hid something very different. In this story really highlights how things have been in the pastof love, how they still areloss and betrayal, and prompts you it remains to think about how they could be... seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[Louis and Louise The Hidden by Julie CohenMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Painting Snails by Gill LewisStephen John Hartley]]===
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Semira is It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an Eritraen refugee, living in the UK with her mum and Robel, allotment it would be a man who controls their money, their foodlifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and their every move in where for the UKbest results. He threatens them that if they donThe answer would be something along the lines of 't do what he says, theytry it and see'll be sent home. One dayThen I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, Semira finds herself buying did an old hat on engineering apprenticeship, became a market stallbusker, strangely drawn to the bird that decorates the hatfinally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). When she takes it home she discovers I found out that there is 's an old diary hidden inside awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the hat box, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years agobook's about. Semira finds herself caught up in HenThere's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's storylife, finding in but it an escape from her own life that is full of hunger and lossdidn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. She finds that she is challenged by Did we have a category for 'doing the girl in impossible the diary, to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in hard way'? Yep - that's the worldone. It's autobiography. [[The Closest Thing to Flying Painting Snails by Gill LewisStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|CrimeConfident Readers]]
DCI Harry Nelson's life is complicated. His two oldest daughters When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are either living away from home or really should be. His youngest daughter was conceived abducted in the middle of the night, things take a (very) brief affair (let's not call it a one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowaydangerous turn. MichelleRescued by Dodge, Nelson's wifeOllie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about Kate and has been very understanding. Here, but then there's the matter of her affair with a black policeman which she'd rather not have children work together to discuss with her daughtersbattle great evils. Nelson knows about it and knows that the baby which Michelle And there is about an immediate enemy to deliver, could be Tim'sfight. That's a lot to cope with - and that's before Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he gets not been rescued. And Maddy intends to workdestroy the city. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Haven: Book 1 by Elly GriffithsSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeGeneral Fiction|CrimeGeneral Fiction]]
It was a bridesmaid who found the victimThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's body in a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venueWW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. She didnIt't know who she was s stifling and suffocating and neither did feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the bride or groomGermans would provide. The bride wasnAnd where is Justine? Alex hasn't particularly worried about the dead girl, but she was furious that someone had set out seen her since he went to disrupt her wedding. Baby (yes, ''that was what people called Brearley) didn't come across as being particularly likeable' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, despite instigator of the fact that she said that everyone liked herdisinformation campaign, and returned to find her groom, Garrett didnmissing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was the senior investigating officer and he called on the help get Justine out of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawarehead. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Wedding Guest Things That are Lost by Jonathan KellermanAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas KennedyLindsay]]===
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Douglas Kennedy's ''The Great Wide Open'' has A man walked into a police station in Estonia. He told a tale of having been described held prisoner, used as epic by just about everyone, a donor for organ harvesting and it often feels as though that was the intentionsperm donation. Though the novel often feels like a pastiche X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of the great American novel – epic in scopehis story, preoccupied with matters of money and literaturebut this man, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy or the man he says he is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogetherJohn Baden - died twelve years ago. Initially His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family dramabody was buried. So, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to examining the turn Estonia because of American society since the 70shis background in MI6, and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values but that have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reaganbrings some baggage with it too. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90s Westphall cannot, will not, it notably always keeps one an eye get on the present day (Trump, a plane. His last experience of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing themflight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[The Great Wide Open Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas KennedyLindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me A Pinch of Magic by Susan WilkinsMichelle Harrison]]===
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It's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sister, Sarah, was murdered and her life since No Widdershins girl has ever been lived in the shadow of what happened. Jo was only eleven at the time and her parents' marriage broke up in the aftermath: her brother Carl opted able to go and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who was mentally frail and not coping with everyday lifeleave Crowstone. She wasnIf we do, we't pleased when Jo decided to join the police, but ll die by the job satisfies Jonext sunset. 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. [[It Should Have Been Me by Susan Wilkins|Full Review]]
''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison|Full Review]] <!-- Yancey Williams Lisa Gardner -->
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Never Tell by Yancey WilliamsLisa Gardner]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonEvie Carter's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museumhusband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands. They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandt, Degas and VermeerWas this a domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there It might have been rumours about sixteen years ago, but there's no mistaking the whereabouts of the paintingsteenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a tragic accident' everyone said, even promises that the case as there was no doubt about to be solved, the paintings are still missinglove the two had for each other. Yancey Williams has a theoryD D had no worries at the time, which he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus'', and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, who's but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to say that he's wrongget away with murder again? Forget the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilver. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Never Tell by Yancey WilliamsLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) The Midnight Hour by David MarkBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by After a concerned stranger that she and 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 son mum even ''had regularly seen an old woman who lived in '' a nearby cottage but job) and so she hadnis not quite sure what is going on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and then doesn't been for a few dayscome back. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she was alright? No - she wouldn't go with himShe heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, but she'd tell him where secret world called the house was. 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 so McAvoy went, only will she be able to find the windows open on a freezing cold day - them and inside an old lady was in rescue them, so her bath encased in ice. It ''might'' have been a tragic accident, but McAvoy suspected murder - and he thought that someone had watched the woman die. life can go back to normal? [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) The Midnight Hour by David MarkBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer Gallowstree Lane by Emma KavanaghKate London]]===
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If you're Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a detective on London Street and asked a murder squad 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 the first those things you learn is detachmentmight, think. You develop a distance from Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the victim: it allows you do do your job with streets of London all the minimum amount of emotiontime. That's relatively easy His friend Ryan was with Spence when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the woman they would need to call Jane Doe when she he was alive, albeit only juststabbed. She It was being tended by an off-duty paramedic Ryan who was struggling to cope with called the fact that ambulance on the womanparamedic's throat had been cut and sheinstruction, sobbing as he held the phone. But Ryan wasn'd been stabbed several timest prepared to accept that it was just one of those things. The attack had been called in by a dog walker and Alice had been walking to work when the call came over her Airwave radioHe wanted revenge. [[To Catch a Killer Gallowstree Lane by Emma KavanaghKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran]]===
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[[image:4A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know.5star We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[How to Lose a Country:Category:TeensThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran|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 Schienmel -->
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I've said this before but there are some books that you seek out'They needed someone to blame, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.''Atomic Habits'' is Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the last categorymost sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxury. [[Atomic Habits A Danger to Herself and Others by James ClearAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death When You Read This by Tony KentMary Adkins]]===
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The death of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the news: altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his crucifixion dominated it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Met's Major Incident Team was the person whose job is attention was on making enough money to find cover his killer. She never thought that it would be easy: mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the course of his work pressures got too much for over half him. He was devastated when Iris developed a centuryterminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. It seems unreasonable to suggest He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the crucifixion last six months of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her a ray life and her final request of hope, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All Smith is that's needed is to find out what connects he gets the two casesblog published as a book. [[Marked for Death When You Read This by Tony KentMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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