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===[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Bunny by Vibrant PublishersPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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I'm capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in You might have seen Bunny on the USA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisationbeach where he lived. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look at the expenses and see what looks as though Like many beaches it could be trimmed back in future years. My problem was that the accounts full of sand and Bunny didn't really give me any help in making decisionslike sand, which was why I turned to not least because it got between his toes and ''Cost Accounting and Managementscratched''. What he really liked was juicy green grass. All the other rabbits lived on the top of the cliff, part where Bunny could see a lot of Vibrant Publishers' Selftasty-Learning and Management serieslooking grass. Cost accounting provides But the information required by authorities external to the company ''and'' to those within it who need to make decisions, so don't worry that you're going to have to draw up two sets of accounts! cliff was very high. [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Bunny by Vibrant PublishersPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[A Dance of Cranes Why We Quilt by Steve BurrowsThomas Knauer]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy Hey, I've often wondered about the estrangement being story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of his making, not hersmaterial which would otherwise go to waste. He hasnThis undoubtedly 't explained 'did'' happen but when you think about it, you need an awful lot of material to her that he is doing this - make a quilt and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks the time could have been better spent if all that this will keep her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayeswas required was bedding. Lauren Salter has been promoted Like Thomas Knauer I've come to sergeant and now has her first murder case. It looks the conclusion that it began as though there's an obvious suspect, but Salter isn't so certain. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Hey, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey to rescue his brother, Damian, who art and has gone missing largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in one of Canada's largest national parkspopularity over the years. [[A Dance of Cranes Why We Quilt by Steve BurrowsThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Lying Room by Joyce Carol OatesNicci French]]===
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Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that came from being abandoned as a baby in a bus station lockershe has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre she can't wait to anotherget husband Fletcher and children Mabel, never far from violence or abuseConnor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. Eager to succeed as He has a musician, he arrives in Hollywood few hours to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions spare and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violencecan't wait to see her. Unpublished for 40 years Only, this edition of ''The Triumph of when she gets to the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Loveflat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, Careless Love'dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Lying Room by Joyce Carol OatesNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Spell Breather Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Julie PikePeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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Rayne lives Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room she has all a girl could ask for in the small, hidden village way of Penderin where she is a somewhat unwilling apprentice to her mothertoys, the spell breather. Not everyone can spell breathebooks, you have to born with a magic spark games and Rayne wishes she hadn't been born with onedollies. She's a terrible spell breather, very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and everything in her room can be used to take her attempts are always followed by disaster and she positively hates Mam's spell book with it's sharp teeth that suck your bloodon adventures. When a stranger finds their village one She spends all day, Mam must set off on a journey there: Dad thinks that she likes to the great library, leaving Rayne in the village as their chief spell breatherbe alone, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her motherMadeleine's book and turning everyone in not alone on all the trips she takes. We'll find out that yesterday she was told to monsters. She must face tidy her fear travel across the monster-ridden country room, but instead of doing that she went to find Mam and restore the book to save their villagemoon. [[The Last Spell Breather Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Julie PikePeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[I, Cosmo The Dutch House by Carlie SorosiakAnn Patchett]]===
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CosmoWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they's family is in crisis. Mom re both living at The Dutch House with their parents and Dad argue all under the gaze of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the timewalls. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because she It's too little but she feels it. And Max, who a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is bigger, does understand it distant and the closest Danny seems to come to him is terrified by itwhen he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. Long ago Elna Conroy is loving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when Max was just a babythe children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family but their primary relationship is with everything heeach other. It's gota bond which only death will break... [[I, Cosmo The Dutch House by Carlie SorosiakAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Very Rude Toytoise by Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]===
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[[image:4starIt was one of those blissful days in the forest.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather GilderberryMrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a cake. He's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, and he always has Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a smile on his facenest. Madeline's dad thinks he's Mrs Spider was busily spinning a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's oldweb to catch juicy flies. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a selection of potions and allows her to choose one as a giftchair, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And he always says the same thingthen... [[Don't Drink the Pink The Very Rude Toytoise by B C R FeganPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[Recipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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[[imageWho knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and there's no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and the two children are absolutely meticulous though:4starthey're going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the coal for the eyes, searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's coat and picking out the perfect piece of headgear. There's quite a choice available, but the family decide on the bobble hat, presumably to keep the snowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosen.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyRecipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|FantasyFull Review]]
''What if you could subtly change the lives of ordinary people around you?'' Jessica Turner was one of the more radical teens to come out of Eastfield. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd of friends was characterised by Jessica's role as trendsetter, as influencer, as leader. Strangely charismatic, Jessica invited fascination and obsession. Nobody who met her, forgot her. Or the days they spent in the Enclosure, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But the group went its separate ways, as adolescent groups do, and her influence faded...[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill|Full Review]] <!-- Paula Daly Melanie Martin -->
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===[[Clear My Name War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Paula DalyMelanie Martin]]===
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Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UKMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, a charity investigating the cases particularly in ''The Diary of prisoners who can convince them that theyAnn Frank've been wrongly convicted and they're just moving on to their next case. Shebut then realised that her own family's somewhat surprised when Clive, stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the head of city during the charitywar years, announces that she'll have someone shadowing her. Avril's in her mid twenties but only five thousand survived and rather gauche as well as prone Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to putting her foot happen in ita country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. One of Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the reasons city were convinced that they're now going would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to look at escalate in the case of Carrie Kamara is way that sheit did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's female and Innocence have never yet taken an atrocity on a vast scale, but made up the case of a woman: such impressions mattertens of thousands of individual tragedies. [[Clear My Name War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Paula DalyMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step Snowflake, AZ by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Marcus Sedgwick]]===
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This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I frequently meet authors who 've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are struggling to be published by the traditional housessick, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they donit's not a sickness you't have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their likeve heard of. I then ask if Instead, they've considered Kindle re environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and the answer is inevitably that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty yearsfabrics, pesticides, static electricity, running most of my life and radiation – and their only ''andcure'' a website on line, I'm still nervous when it comes is to starting something newstay in the town away from the real world. I like someone to hold my hand as I go through Though it for 's about a real place, the first timepeople in it are fictional. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk. Author Georgianne Landy-Kordis doesn't profess to be It really is a computer expert: she's simply someone who has done this many times and she's giving us place apart, quite literally cut off from the benefit of her experience and without any added chitchatoutside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide Snowflake, AZ by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Just Another Girl on the Road Brightfall by S KensingtonJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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When Sergeant Farr Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old his love Marian, and fleeing from retreating to a farmhouse and a group of German deserters who monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had raped herbuilt. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when Farr her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and Valentine intervened and finished the group to save their lives. Setting off. It was 1944 with a soldier, a Fey Lord and Farr and Valentine were part a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of the Jedburgh unitbetrayals, EDMONDcomplicated relationships, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye. When he offered her a job with his unit, she accepted. vicious struggle for the throne…[[Just Another Girl on the Road Brightfall by S KensingtonJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Rose, Interrupted The Nightjar by Patrice LawrenceDeborah Hewitt]]===
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''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the worldly world. It's not easy when everything is new and the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]] <!-- David Edwards McGee -->
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===[[Something to Tell You American Royals by David EdwardsKatharine McGee]]===
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Sam Murray Two and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERNhalf centuries ago, but this never seemed to affect America won the way that the families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie Revolutionary War and Josh, went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, General George Washington was head of product research at Nestléoffered the crown. Life was good for all eight of themToday, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting House of Washington still sit on the earth had risen exponentiallythrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. ItBeatrice's enough of a problem for Sam whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and Bert to drag the head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lilytime for her reign is imminent. [[Something to Tell You American Royals by David EdwardsKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan]]===
===[[You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present by Don Behrend]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AnthologiesCrime|AnthologiesCrime]]  ''You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino'' begins with ''A Modern Love Story'': ''You’re the froth on my soy cappuccino''<br>''You’re the spread on my paleo toast''<br>''You’re the nose of my GM-free Pinot''<br>''You’re organic, my love. You’re the most!''<br>
Ha! How can you not laugh at this gently mocking take on love It was more than a little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in the hipster world? Narrow Marsh area of Nottingham. [[YouThen it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she're d even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her foot in the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems course of making the discovery. They'd been there for some time, but who - exactly - were the Present man and the woman, wrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years on the Murder Squad, ending up as a DCI she knows what's going to happen next, but she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to get. [[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Don BehrendNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own Some Places More Than Others by Mary Scott HuffRenee Watson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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I love mittens - theyAmara're so convenient and much easier to get onto (s twelfth birthday is coming up and off) cold hands she wants nothing more for it than a pair trip to New York to meet her father's side of fiddly glovesthe family. TheyBut her father hasn're not something you regularly see in shops, so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have t spoken to knit them myself. Well, actually, thatAmara's my rationalisation of grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the situation: in truth I love knitting mittensidea. They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, plenty of quick work But Amara is nothing if not persistent and a pair of warm mittens school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a few dayssecret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. Patterns, though - where do you get them from? [[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own Some Places More Than Others by Mary Scott HuffRenee Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Rage Lakes of Dragons Mars by Evan WinterMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in a shuttle crash. Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up for the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment to the Rim War, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station... [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so often, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfection. This book is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of a people desperate to survive, to save themselves and their culture for future generations. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]] <!-- Sorosiak Ryan -->
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===[[I, Cosmo Coming of Age by Carlie SorosiakDanny Ryan]]===
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Cosmo's family is in crisis. Mom 'He began writing novels and Dad argue all poetry at the time. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because she's too little age of twelve, but she feels it. And Max, who is bigger, does understand it and is terrified by it. Long ago, when Max was just to take him a babyfurther forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for all that time, Cosmo made he remains a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission shining example of repairing the family with everything he's gothope over experience... ''  ''This a memoir from someone you have never heard of - but will feel like you have.'' [[I, Cosmo Coming of Age by Carlie SorosiakDanny Ryan|Full Review]] <!-- Linda Jones Maxwell N Andrews -->
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In late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on their way a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to spend love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise the week before Christmas at their grandfather's houseold adage is halfway true. It was snowing heavily From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in the back attractive artwork of the caran attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. Emily That was rather brusque only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with her ninetheir non-year-old brother's behaviourstandard spelling, but then thatas if texts of scripture in this book's your prerogative when you're a grown-up eleven year oldworld predated our standardised literacy. The snow But why was getting heavier I two chapters in and the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a couple of inches. There was a dreadful smell finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and Dylan saw a horriblemore flashbacks, snake-like figure clawing at the car window. and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Deadwood Hall Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Linda JonesMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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Few government trade missions arrive by luxury linerBerlin, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' 1989. Miriam is berthed in Kinloch harbour the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and on board are high-powered international delegatespeople able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. It's hard to avoid She is in the suspicion that middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's not apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''entirelyFrieda'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs that she does not recognise – and their civil service minders tour she sees for the country, golfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnelfirst time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quicklyOne bombshell outside, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfortthen, but it's not long before one of the crew members and a local bird watcher go missingtwo inside... [[A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) The Rabbit Girls by Denzil MeyrickAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Starlight Watchmaker A Winter Book by Lauren JamesTove Jansson]]===
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This is a dyslexia-friendlyTove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells written in the tale 1940s and later becoming television characters of Hugothe simplicity, an unwanted naivety and rather lonely androidsheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, who makes simple stories, simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a living serious writer…that she wrote for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands adults as well as children…and that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is she had a mystery to be solved, feeling for the natural world and is the simple life that not only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the planet never before known to existworld might be. [[The Starlight Watchmaker A Winter Book by Lauren JamesTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Cold Granite (Logan McRae) The Collective by Stuart MacBrideLindsey Whitlock]]===
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DS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a killer'Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America. He's just about OK and he's supposed Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to be easing himself back into the swing disguise how large their property is at times of the job in a gentle way - until three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditchausterity. He'd been missing Others are called Foresters, for some time they live and it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's work in trees. When the first of several child murders. To add to small area the complications Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, the police even have residents are given a body but no child reported missingpitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared out. A serial killerOur hero, a child killer and abuserElwyn, is on has just left the loose in Aberdeen and trees for the press are missing no opportunity Hills, to bay for blood. As if that wasnlive with an uncle and learn their ways – he't bad enough there seems s just of age to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalistdecide things for himself, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that's happeningand he has decided to see how the other half lives... [[Cold Granite (Logan McRae) The Collective by Stuart MacBrideLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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ThereGermany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's a prologue tactical ineptitude and we know that we're dealing with someone who inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is very disturbedfive seasons away from being in Berlin. The descriptions are horrifyingonly way to shore things up, and repair the splits, is to kill Hitler, but worst of all and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the coldness man to do it. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the capitalists and communists from meeting in the killer. middle? [[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) The Man Who Killed Hitler by Angela MarsonsAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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