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===[[The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)]]===
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Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942[[image:5star. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish, and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. In this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the War… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator):Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''  ''I am a girl trying to forget.'' ''She is a woman trying to remember.'' Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home. The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to find Kelly-Anne, who was the first to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the garden of what looks to be an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, Toffee. And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more and because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Toffee by Sarah Crossan|Full Review]]<!-- AMS Bowling -->
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===[[In The Department Shadow of Sensitive Crimes Heroes by Alexander McCall SmithNicholas Bowling]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Life as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the household of the scholar Tullus when he was a baby, his keenness to learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a member of the family, rather than a despised, barely human creature. [[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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Long| style="vertical-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a diealign: top; text-hard fan of AMSalign: left;"|===[[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding]]===[[image:4. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters5star. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and her husband have just welcomed the knee, the disappearance arrival of an imaginary boyfriendchildren – twin boys, who they decide to name Riley and a case of potential werewolvesMorgan. TheyBut something're the crimes s wrong. While everyone else is celebrating, Lauren starts to worry – that perhaps nobody else would bother someone out there is coming to deal withtake her children away, and I rather enjoyed themif she looks away for even a second, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim. they'll strike… [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes Little Darlings by Alexander McCall SmithMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney]]===
 
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Aimee Sinclair is just on the edge of making it big time as an actor. Right now she's the sort of person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but that's all about to change. That's a little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. That's not at the front of her mind though when she comes home one day and finds that her husband, Ben Bailey, has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney|Full Review]]
 
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Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his permaIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-student statusDay goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. They feel that Dividing the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that endnation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, they have managed to find him a job tutoring the children of wall running through it like a highly regarded politicianscar. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the way murder of expectation. Victor, the politician is not at home. But Esis, his former wife, Jane isdetermined to clear his name. A beautiful but isolated womanIn doing so, Esis shows little interest in Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, right to the library in which he will teach highest levels of the children, state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. murderous secret police… [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror Liberation Square by Mark LinganeGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Into the River by Mark Brandi]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersNot My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
Two boys, Ben and Fab, are growing up in a small town in Northern Australia in the late 80's. They do all the normal things that boys of that age do - go yabbying (fishing), play cricket, fight their battles at school and think about girls. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from a happy home, whilst Fab is the son of Italian immigrants who clearly have little money, and has a father who is very violent. Yet despite their differences, they are fiercely loyal to each other. So far, so normal. But with the arrival of a new neighbour for Ben, a man called Ronnie, things begin to change. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for him, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable about this[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Into the River by Mark Brandi:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
''Maya and Rose won't talk to each other. Even though they are sisters. Not since the accident. Maya is turning wild and Rose doesn't know what to do. And now Maya and Rose have to go away together on a week-long school trip. Will the trip fix their sibling bond... or break it for good?'' [[Not My Fault by Cath Howe|Full Review]]<!-- Clark Lupo -->
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===[[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionTeens|Literary FictionTeens]]  ''In a sealed-off city, a young woman, Lena, is running for her life. She has been sentenced to death and her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear - those with magic.'' ''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]determined to find a way back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.''
In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. EmmelineSo, Lena is a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middlecryptling -aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live low caste individual living in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery city of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusionDuke's Forest. [[In The Full Light of the Sun We Are Blood And Thunder by Clare ClarkKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Dread Nation Things in Jars by Justina IrelandJess Kidd]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:HorrorCrime (Historical)|HorrorCrime (Historical)]]
''Two days after I A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was born … not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the dead rose up rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and started to walk on scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a battlefield couple of pages in , you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a small town widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[Things in Jars by Jess Kidd|Full Review]]
Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changed world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Review]] <!-- Arnold Beckett -->
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In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart''South America, he continues to tell the story of the Quantum twins1990. Born on Ben Ronson, a parallel worldBritish police officer, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time arrives in a mysterious forest to our earth - and investigate a series spate of adventures ensued in the following bookskillings of Duendes. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the bush These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - adopted by a Bushman family with long limbs and made part of black button eyes - have a tribe. Twin Qwelby howeverstrange psychic effect on people, is not doing so well - shocked by unleashing the violence on the earthsubconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Rescued Ben becomes fascinated by an old friendthe Duendes, but the closer he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between gets, the twins as they try more he begins to reconnectunravel, with terrifying results... [[Betrayed Beneath the World, A Sea by Geoffrey ArnoldChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Pamela BrookesM J Lee]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia FriendlyCrime|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging ReadersCrime]]
What do you do when your It really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readershanging by a thread, but the sounds is off to collect them at his mother-in the book might not be the ones you-law've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect s house for an evening out. Traffic was heavy on the young dyslexic than M60 (a child without that problemmatch at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. You need to be able to buy books at Then a man wearing only a reasonable price which concentrate pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, briefly put his hands on what youRidpath've been working on, without anything else being thrown s car then ran into the mixpath of an articulated lorry. You need a story which engages the young mind The driver had no chance of stopping and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumpsnaked man was killed instantly. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, eitherGlancing to the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. Reading - This was now a crime scene and ''learning'' to read the resulting seventeen- should mile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath's worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a pleasure. It should be ''fun''hurry. [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Pamela BrookesM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence A Perfect Explanation by Philip KazanEleanor Anstruther]]===
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Deep in Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the Tuscan countryside face of fifteenth century Italyit, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and homehad everything. Alone in Leading the forest, she meets a band life of an aristocrat – full of soldiers whoinherited wealth and splendour, believing her to be a boy train glamourous locales and develop her high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate threatening both Enid and those close to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable againher. Along the wayAfter losing custody of her children, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey Enid sells her son to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family historyher sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, Celavini must revisit or an act of desperation? Exploring the past he shares with Onoriatrue story of her own grandmother, in Eleanor Anstruther has found the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to restperfect subject for an explosive, before it's too late..moving and beautifully well written debut. [[The Phoenix of Florence A Perfect Explanation by Philip KazanEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[55 by James Delargy]]===
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[[image:4starTwo men enter a police station, both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the clutches of a man who intended to kill them. As they escaped they ran through a graveyard and they were not the first victim. The stories match, the evidence is compelling and each man blames the other.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Now the question is, who is guilty? [[:Category:Teens55 by James Delargy|TeensFull Review]]
Jasmine and Chelsea go to a high school with an excellent reputation. It places strong emphasis on extra curricular activities and all pupils are encouraged to join clubs and associations. But Jasmine is fed up with her drama group because she's always typecast in the loud, "hysterical" roles (Jasmine is black and resents the angry black woman trope). And Chelsea is fed with poetry club because the only poetry it ever covers was written by men who lived and died years ago. So, along with friends Isaac and Nadine, they start a new group called Write Like a Girl. [[Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan|Full Review]] <!-- Rachel Lynch Cercas -->
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===[[Bitter Edge Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (D I Kelly Portertranslator) by Rachel Lynch]]===
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The girl had once been a promising athlete, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completely. Eventually she was driven to commit suicide in ''Lord Of All the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off Dead'' is a cliff in the Lake District. It worried DI Kelly Porter, but she had no reason to investigate, although several of her cases keep bringing her back journey to uncover the girlauthor's school lost ancestor's life and a darker story emergeddeath. One of the pupils goes missing at the local fair: her best friend Cercas is searching for the girl who has accused a teacher of luring her to meaning behind his flat and then sexually assaulting hergreat uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. It seems that the teacher also has paedophilia on his computerManuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, but is the downloading eerily coincides with figure who looms large over the girlbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's visit to forces. Cercas ruminates on why his flatuncle fought for this dictator. What The question at the centre of this book is going on, but - most importantly - where whether it is Faith? possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. [[Bitter Edge Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (D I Kelly Portertranslator) by Rachel Lynch|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Angela MarsonsRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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Someone It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stoneneed of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's pastbiggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, starting with the death of her twin when she course – first he was six years old. Some of patching up the eventsdams, or at least but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the details of themsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are not public knowledgesuffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but whoever something else is behind this has a wealth much worse. A major bout of information and food poisoning is using hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth do with what looks like sabotage of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on flood barriers and the case, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye efforts to correct the effect it's having on her for long enoughclimate, she can sort it out... Or can she? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Angela MarsonsRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz]]===
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1997[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained up, mission ready. And yet untestedI should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP.'' He's in Not only am I a foreign city on an officially unofficial missionleft-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, which he executes along with all everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the impeccable training that his youth beliesabsolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. Evan Smoak is Orphan XYou're just as useless. [[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Watching You Mera: Tidebreaker by Lisa JewellDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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A teenage boy spies Meet Mera. She's the latest in a line of young women intent on a teenage girl from his bedroom windowfighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Down Her father, the roadking of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a woman is convinced she knows a hunky man in the village and that he is following an arranged marriage as her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home future – after some time abroadall, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The manMera's wifemother, meanwhile, engages the services of the young womanterritory's husband in some work around the housewarrior queen, is long dead. Oh, and that teenage boy? He Mera doesn's her son. And t fancy the woman with cosseting or the conspiracy theories? She's fella involved at all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the mother cosh of the girl heAtlantean power, for Xebel's spying onroyalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. Plus So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the man Atlantis heir, she thinks is out rushes off to get her is the woman's husband quest (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's schoolpromised throne)all for herself. Whichever way you look at it But of course, there's a lot she has no idea what kind of watching going on in this book. person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done… [[Watching You Mera: Tidebreaker by Lisa JewellDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Poster Boy by N J Crosskey]]===
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[[image:4starI first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality".jpg|link=Category My only response to that is:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] too late! [[:Category:FantasyPoster Boy by N J Crosskey|FantasyFull Review]]
This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]] <!-- James Atkinson Lucie Whitehouse -->
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Critical Incidents by James AtkinsonLucie Whitehouse]]===
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James Atkinson has all the qualifications which When you need reach a certain stage in a workout instructor and he looks life the part. Hephrase 'going home's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineershopefully harmonious visit. He has another qualification which means a lot The woman who used to me: he's been on the other side. There be DCI Robin Lyons, but was a time when he now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was overweight and not particularly strongdismissed from the Met. As a child he She was slow going home to develop. This means that he the room which she''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feeld had as a child: it's much more helpful than she would have the twentybottom bunk and Elena -something Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the top bunk. The room was born superredolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke -fit and with an attitude problemthey weren't good memories. [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Critical Incidents by James AtkinsonLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments A Memory Called Empire by Adrian CullArkady Martine]]===
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For many years now IThe problem with Martine've (half) joked s fiction debut is that I intended she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to live forever be too clever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though she wants her fictional languages to be complex and although I'm a great deal fitter rich and healthier than errs on the side of making them unpronounceable by most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balancereaders. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happensI can see why she does both, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. but it's a disappointment because they'Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind re the blocks against which the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like brilliance of the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tipsbook stumbles. [[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments A Memory Called Empire by Adrian CullArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Charlie Jane AndersUk-Bae Lee]]===
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January There is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlightplace on this earth that, pureat the time of writing, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitableis resplendent with life. The other half is pure darkness and iceIn the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, where a creature can freeze to death for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in seconds, and totally uninhabitableplace. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edgeautumn, stray too close to one side you diesalmon come upstream, to close to the otherlooking doleful as well they might, you for they will spawn and die and yet , if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the heat from hills – if the sun and the water landmines men left behind do not prevent them from the ice are necessary for doing so. This is a snapshot of life. Life for in the inhabitants of January is longDMZ, and hardthe demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and arduous, will anything ever change? it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[The City In The Middle Of The Night When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Charlie Jane AndersUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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