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===[[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionToffee by Sarah Crossan]]===
It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park[[image:5star. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (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]]<!-- Collins Bowling -->
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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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===[[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding]]===
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Lauren Tranter and her husband have just welcomed the arrival of children – twin boys, who they decide to name Riley and Morgan. But something's wrong. While everyone else is celebrating, Lauren starts to worry – that someone out there is coming to take her children away, and if she looks away for even a second, they'll strike… [[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding|Full Review]]
 
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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]]
Vetty, her dad, and her little sister are about to move back to London and Vetty can't wait. The family has been staying with Aunt Wendy since the death of Vetty's mother several years ago. With the girls older and Aunt Wendy getting married, it's time to get back to their lives. Vetty, mostly, is looking forward to reconnecting with Pez. She and he were inseparable - spending all their time together and knowing each other inside out, without the need for words. Vetty could do with a friend like that right now, as her inner feelings of difference get ever stronger... [[All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins|Full Review]]<!-- Dahl Rubin -->
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===[[The Courier Liberation Square by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Gareth Rubin]]===
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NaziIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied Osloby Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, 1942. There, I've given and Americans from the game awaywest. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – Dividing the Nazisnation between them, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen London soon finds itself split in this volumetwo, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is 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 for the late 1960smurder of his former wife, when great consternation Jane is being feltdetermined to clear his name. In this timelinedoing so, Jane follows a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering trail of corruption that female victim, even though she leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and he lived together with their baby as a young family, except he was thought by all soon finds herself desperate to have died in stay one step ahead of the War… murderous secret police… [[The Courier Liberation Square by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Gareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith]]===
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Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMS. 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 parameters. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolves. They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith: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]]<!-- Lingane Lupo -->
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===[[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror We Are Blood And Thunder by Mark LinganeKesia Lupo]]===
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Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that end, they have managed to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victor, the politician is not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]
''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, 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.'' So, Lena is a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the city of Duke's Forest.[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo|Full Review]]  <!-- Brandi Kidd -->
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===[[Into the River Things in Jars by Mark BrandiJess Kidd]]===
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Two boys, Ben A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and Fabfrustration left by a previous case, are growing up where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a small town in Northern Australia in private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the late 80's. They do setting is Victorian London, with all the normal things that boys rich and colourful paradoxes of that age do - go yabbying (fishing), play cricket, fight their battles at school era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and think about girlsthe downright hideous. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from And before you're more than a happy homecouple of pages in, whilst Fab you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the son of Italian immigrants who clearly have little moneytobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, and has what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a father who lady to do!) is very violentmixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. Yet despite their differences, they are fiercely loyal The fact that it's actually meant to each othercure bronchial problems is by the by. So farHer housemaid, so normalbeing seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. But with And then, of course, there's the arrival of ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a new neighbour soft spot for Ben, a man called Ronnie, things begin to changethe determined young woman. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for himIf he really exists, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable about thisthat is. [[Into the River Things in Jars by Mark BrandiJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Full Light of Beneath the Sun World, A Sea by Clare ClarkChris Beckett]]===
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In 1930's BerlinSouth America, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal1990. EmmelineBen Ronson, a wayward young studentBritish police officer, Juliusarrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, an anxious middlevaguely humanoid creatures -aged art expert, with long limbs and Rachmann, black button eyes - have a mysterious art dealerstrange psychic effect on people, live in unleashing the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings fears. Ben becomes fascinated by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and Duendes, but the Naziscloser he gets, the discovery of the art allows these characters more he begins to explore authenticityunravel, vanity and self-delusionwith terrifying results... [[In The Full Light of Beneath the Sun World, A Sea by Clare ClarkChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Dread Nation Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Justina IrelandM J Lee]]===
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It really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in-law'Two days after I s house for an evening out. Traffic was born … heavy on the dead rose up M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. Then a man wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the path of an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of stopping and started the naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to walk on the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. This was now a battlefield crime scene and the resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath's worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''hurry. [[Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by M J Lee|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 Anstruther -->
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In an extension Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart''it, he continues to tell had everything. Leading the story life of the Quantum twins. Born on a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and were hurtled through space-time to our earth - splendour, glamourous locales and a series of adventures ensued in the following bookshigh expectations. When we rejoin them in 'Only Enid'Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to s life in the bush - adopted has been plagued by a Bushman family mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and made part those close to her. After losing custody of a tribe. Twin Qwelby howeverher children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is not doing so well - shocked by this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the violence on true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the earth. Rescued by perfect subject for an old friendexplosive, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may moving and beautifully well prove to drive a wedge between the twins as they try to reconnect..written debut. [[Betrayed A Perfect Explanation by Geoffrey ArnoldEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readersTwo men enter a police station, but both tell the sounds in the book might not be same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more clutches of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problemman who intended to kill them. You need to be able to buy books at As they escaped they ran through a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into graveyard and they were not the mixfirst victim. You need a story which engages The stories match, the young mind evidence is compelling and you need stages which progress steadily through each man blames the learning process without there being any large jumpsother. Some online support and games wouldn't go amissNow the question is, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''. who is guilty? [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 55 by Pamela BrookesJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Lord Of All the Dead by Philip KazanJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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Deep in ''Lord Of All the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives Dead'' is a massacre that destroys her family journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and homedeath. Alone in Cercas is searching for the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation meaning behind his great uncle's death in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murdersSpanish Civil War. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family historyManuel Mena, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with OnoriaCercas' great uncle, in is the hope that they can lay figure who looms large over the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before itbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's too lateforces.Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator.The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. [[The Phoenix of Florence Lord Of All the Dead by Philip KazanJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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Jasmine It's the near future, and Chelsea go to every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a high school with an excellent reputationhuge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. It places strong emphasis on extra curricular activities and all pupils are encouraged But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to join clubs and associationsrelocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. But Jasmine Superman is fed helping out, of course – first he was patching up with her drama group because shethe dams, but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's always typecast perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the loudcoast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, "hysterical" roles (Jasmine but something else is black and resents the angry black woman trope)much worse. And Chelsea A major bout of food poisoning is fed with poetry club because hitting the only poetry city. But it ever covers was written by men who lived and died years ago. So, along can't possibly have anything to do with friends Isaac what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and Nadinethe efforts to correct the climate, they start a new group called Write Like a Girl. can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Watch Us Rise Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Renee Watson Ridley Pearson and Ellen HaganIle Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimePolitics and Society|CrimePolitics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
The girl had once been At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a promising athlete, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completely. Eventually she was driven to commit suicide in the most gruesome way - Recovering MP by throwing herself off 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 to the girl's school and a darker story emerged. One of the pupils goes missing at the local fair: her best friend is the girl who has accused a teacher of luring her to his flat and then sexually assaulting her. It seems that the teacher also has paedophilia on his computer, but the downloading eerily coincides with the girl's visit to his flat. Nick de Bois What is going on, but - most importantly - where is Faith? [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Mera: Tidebreaker by Angela MarsonsDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim StoneMeet Mera. She's pastthe latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, starting with the death king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her twin when she was six years oldfuture – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Some of Mera doesn't fancy the events, cosseting or the fella involved at least all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the details cosh of themAtlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth merely puppets of information and is using it to evil intentAtlantean masters. That might seem bad enough, but So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the brutal truth world of the matter is that people - innocent people us air- are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - wellbreathing humans, certainly - shouldn't be on and kill the caseAtlantis heir, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye rushes off to get the quest (and the effect it's having on her promised throne) all for long enoughherself. But of course, she can sort has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it out... Or can she? will be to get the job done… [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Mera: Tidebreaker by Angela MarsonsDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark Poster Boy by Gregg HurwitzN J Crosskey]]===
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1997I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. Evan Smoak is 19 years old It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell''trained ups nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, mission ready. And yet untestedwere out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn'' He's in t put a foreign city date on an officially unofficial missionthe 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, which he executes with I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all the impeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is Orphan Xalready 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". My only response to that is: too late! [[Out of the Dark Poster Boy by Gregg HurwitzN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Watching You Critical Incidents by Lisa JewellLucie Whitehouse]]===
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A teenage boy spies on When you reach a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down certain stage in life the road, a woman phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is convinced she knows best if it means a man in the village short and that he is following herhopefully harmonious visit. Meanwhile The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, a young woman has moved back but was now just Robin Lyons, went home after some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbourthirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages She was going home to the services of the young womanroom which she's husband in some work around d had as a child: she would have the house. Oh, bottom bunk and that teenage boy? He's Elena - Lennie to those who knew her sonwell - would have the top bunk. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother The room was redolent of the girl hetime she's spying on. Plus, d shared the man she thinks is out to get room with her is the woman's husband (brother Luke - and is also the new headteacher at her daughterthey weren's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this bookt good memories. [[Watching You Critical Incidents by Lisa JewellLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]===
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[[imageThe problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing:4star she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on the side of making them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why she does both, but it's a disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the book stumbles.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyA Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine|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 Lee -->
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss When Spring Comes to the DMZ by James AtkinsonUk-Bae Lee]]===
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James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in There is a workout instructor and he looks place on this earth that, at the parttime of writing, is resplendent with life. He's been actively involved In the spring seals gambol in the health and fitness arena river – not venturing too far, for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member fear of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been being slashed open on the other siderazor wire the humans have put in place. There was a time when he was overweight In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not particularly strongprevent them from doing so. As This is a child he was slow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what snapshot of life in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and it's like and he knows how his clients feel: itthe world's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problemleast welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss When Spring Comes to the DMZ by James AtkinsonUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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