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===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Bunny by Lynda La PlantePeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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Jane Tennison had worked hard to get a place You might have seen Bunny on the Flying Squad and she felt that she was there on meritbeach where he lived. The Squad wondered who sheLike many beaches it was full of sand and Bunny didn'd slept with to get the place t like sand, not least because it got between his toes and bets were being taken as to who she'd sleep with in the first week'scratched''. What none of them - Jane included - knew was that she was there as an experiment, in the hope that a female presence would have a calming effect. The job had been advertised and Jane he really liked was the only female who applied who ticked all the boxesjuicy green grass. She doesn't tick all All the boxes for other rabbits lived on the head top of the Squadcliff, DCI Murphywhere Bunny could see a lot of tasty-looking grass. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experience, and But the appropriate set of genitals - and he's determined that Jane will failcliff was very high. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Bunny by Lynda La PlantePeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window Why We Quilt by Rowan ColemanThomas Knauer]]===
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Trudy Heaton is going home, to I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries way for women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to a mother she hasn't spoken make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to for sixteen yearswaste. HomeThis undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you think about it, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss you need an awful lot of her husband. She needs material to build bridges with her mother make a quilt and convince her grieving son the time could have been better spent if all that his father is deadwas required was bedding. Where better than Like Thomas Knauer I've come to the house full of light conclusion that it began as an art and shadow, has largely continued down that nurtured her throughout her childhood? same road with fluctuations in popularity over the years. [[The Girl at the Window Why We Quilt by Rowan ColemanThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are The Dead Lying Room by Mike ShackleNicci French]]===
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Mike Shackle When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; something to hide. She crept into the tag line for house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the novel is 'No More Heroeswashing machine and she can' t wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather Rory off on their various ways the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to survive, the flat. He has a few hours to fight back, spare and can't wait to find vengeance, in a world that has been utterly torn apartsee her. The plot does not hang on any one character Only, no one is importantwhen she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, anyone can die her boss and many dolover, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part of a much larger plot dead on the floor. The hammer that 's been used on his brain is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued to the storyat his side. [[We Are The Dead Lying Room by Mike ShackleNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Vibrant PublishersPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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I'm capable of drawing up Madeleine is a profit and loss account (income statement very lucky girl: in the USA) and her room she has all a balance sheet and I do so girl could ask for my own business in the way of toys, books, games and for another organisationdollies. The accounts give me She''broadly'' what I needs a very lucky girl in another way too: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss she has imagination and I everything in her room can look at the expenses and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future yearsused to take her on adventures. My problem was She spends all day there: Dad thinks that the accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned she likes to ''Cost Accounting and Management''be alone, part of Vibrant Publishersbut Madeleine' Self-Learning and Management seriess not alone on all the trips she takes. Cost accounting provides the information required by authorities external to the company We''and'' to those within it who need ll find out that yesterday she was told to make decisionstidy her room, so don't worry but instead of doing that you're going she went to have to draw up two sets of accounts! the moon. [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Vibrant PublishersPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[A Dance of Cranes The Dutch House by Steve BurrowsAnn Patchett]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer When we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they're both living at The Dutch House with Lindy Hey, their parents and under the gaze of the estrangement being portraits of his making, not hersthe former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. He hasnIt't explained s a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and the closest Danny seems to her that come to him is when he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. Elna Conroy is doing this - and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks loving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that this she will keep her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayesnot be returning. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and now has her first murder caseDanny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each other. It looks 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 has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parksbond which only death will break. [[A Dance of Cranes The Dutch House by Steve BurrowsAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Very Rude Toytoise by Joyce Carol OatesPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]===
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Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby It was one of those blissful days in a bus station locker, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to another, never far from violence or abusethe forest. Eager Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to succeed as make a musician, he arrives in Hollywood cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable build a capacity for acts of extreme violencenest. Unpublished for 40 years, this edition of ''The Triumph of the Mrs Spider Monkey'' comes combined with was busily spinning a connected novella – ''Loveweb to catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chair, Careless Love''fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then... [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Very Rude Toytoise by Joyce Carol OatesPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Spell Breather Recipe for Making a Snowman by Julie PikePeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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Rayne lives in the small, hidden village of Penderin where she is Who knew it? You can even get a somewhat unwilling apprentice to her mother, the spell breather. Not everyone can spell breathe, recipe book which tells you have how to born with make a magic spark snowman - and Rayne wishes she hadn't been born with one. Shethere's a terrible spell breatherno cooking involved! Mum, her attempts Dad and the two children are always followed by disaster and she positively hates Mamabsolutely meticulous though: they'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 spell book with itcoat and picking out the perfect piece of headgear. There's sharp teeth that suck your blood. When quite a stranger finds their village one daychoice available, Mam must set off but the family decide on a journey to the great librarybobble hat, leaving Rayne in presumably to keep the village as their chief spell breather, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her mothersnowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won's book t do and turning everyone in to monsters. She must face her fear travel across the monster-ridden country to find Mam a pair with purple and restore the book to save their villagepink stripes are chosen. [[The Last Spell Breather Recipe for Making a Snowman by Julie PikePeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[IWar and Love: A family's testament of anguish, Cosmo endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Carlie SorosiakMelanie Martin]]===
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CosmoMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's family is in crisisstories were equally fascinating. Mom A hundred and Dad argue all seven thousand Jews were deported from the time. Emmaline doesn't quite city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand it because she's too little but she feels ithow this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. And Max, Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who is biggerthought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, does understand it and is terrified by that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that itdid, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. Long ago, when Max was just It's an atrocity on a babyvast scale, Cosmo but made a promise to protect Max forever up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. [[War and so he sets about his mission of repairing the Love: A family with everything he's got... [[Itestament of anguish, Cosmo endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Carlie SorosiakMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline This is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberrya deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. HeThe novel's always busy story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in his workshopthe curiously named town of Snowflake, creating crazy potionsArizona. These people are sick, and he always has but it's not a smile on his facesickness you've heard of. MadelineInstead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only ''s dad thinks hecure's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks is to stay in the town away from the same but gives him a pass because hereal world. Though it's oldabout a real place, the people in it are fictional. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry It really is just great. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions and allows her place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thing..decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Don't Drink the Pink Snowflake, AZ by B C R FeganMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]===
===[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  ''What if you could subtly change the lives of ordinary people around you?'', [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Jessica Turner was Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one of the more radical teens knows quite what led him to come out of Eastfieldabandon all that he had built. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd of friends was characterised by JessicaMarion's role as trendsetterlife since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, as influencer, as leaderMarion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Strangely charismaticSetting off with a soldier, Jessica invited fascination a Fey Lord and obsession. Nobody who met hera sullen Robin Hood, forgot her. Or the days they spent she becomes tangled in the Enclosure, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But the group went its separate waysmaze of betrayals, as adolescent groups docomplicated relationships, and her influence faded...a vicious struggle for the throne…[[The Years of Fading Magic Brightfall by Kenelm AverillJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Clear My Name The Nightjar by Paula DalyDeborah Hewitt]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, a charity investigating the cases of prisoners who can convince them that they've been wrongly convicted and they're just moving on to their next case[[image:4. She's somewhat surprised when Clive, the head of the charity, announces that she'll have someone shadowing her5star. Avril's in her mid twenties and rather gauche as well as prone to putting her foot in it. One of the reasons they're now going to look at the case of Carrie Kamara is that she's female and Innocence have never yet taken up the case of a womanjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: such impressions matter. Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[Clear My Name by Paula Daly:Category:Literary Fiction|Full ReviewLiterary Fiction]]
''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]]
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===[[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step American Royals by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Katharine McGee]]===
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I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional housesTwo and a half centuries ago, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have America won the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the answer is inevitably that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with thatcrown. Despite having used a computer for about thirty yearsToday, running most the House of my life ''and'' a website Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the first time. 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 a computer expert: sheBeatrice's simply someone who whole life has done this many times been building up to her ruling the United States and she's giving us the benefit of time for her experience and without any added chitchatreign is imminent. [[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide American Royals by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Katharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[Just Another Girl on the Road Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by S KensingtonNicola Monaghan]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionCrime|Historical FictionCrime]]
When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she It was just eighteen years old and fleeing from more than a little bit of a farmhouse surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a group former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of German deserters who had raped herNottingham. Despite being outnumbered Then it was a shock when she was giving just about as good as found two bodies in the cellar before she 'd even got when Farr settled in - and Valentine intervened and finished managed to break a bone in her foot in the group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part course of making the Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nyediscovery. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - heThey'd worked on her fatherbeen there for some time, but who - exactly - were the man and the woman, wrapped in each other's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush arms? Having spent ten years on Nye. When he offered her the Murder Squad, ending up as a job with his unitDCI she knows what's going to happen next, but she accepted's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to get. [[Just Another Girl on the Road Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by S KensingtonNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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===[[Rose, Interrupted Some Places More Than Others by Patrice LawrenceRenee Watson]]===
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Rose Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, father's side of the Pilgrims, along with their motherfamily. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying But her father hasn't spoken to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and Rudder both her parents are trying resistant to navigate the worldly worldidea. It's But Amara is nothing if not easy when everything is new persistent and a school family history project provides her with the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missingperfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Rose, Interrupted Some Places More Than Others by Patrice LawrenceRenee Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Something to Tell You Lakes of Mars by David EdwardsMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Science Fiction|Dystopian Science Fiction]] Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was SamAaron Sheridan doesn's boss at CERN, but this never seemed t want to affect the way that the families got onlive anymore. Bert's wifeHis entire family is dead by his own hand, Natalia, was Russian and seriously richkilled in a shuttle crash. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went Unable to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends deal with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. Sam's wife, Brionythe guilt, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good he signs up for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of Fleet expecting a problem for Sam and Bert fatal deployment to drag the head of CERNRim War, Prof Ralph Moyeurbut instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, out of a family lunchCorinth Station.. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily. [[Something to Tell You Lakes of Mars by David EdwardsMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present Coming of Age by Don BehrendDanny Ryan]]===
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''You're He began writing novels and poetry at the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino'' begins with ''A Modern Love Storyage of twelve, but it was to take him a further forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for all that time, he remains a shining example of hope over experience...'':
''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 ''This a memoir from someone you have never heard of - but will feel like you not laugh at this gently mocking take on love in the hipster world? have.'' [[You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present Coming of Age by Don BehrendDanny Ryan|Full Review]]
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The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I love mittens - theyput on a par with comments about Marmite. You're so convenient supposed to love it or hate it and much easier to get onto (I'm halfway between, and off) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloveslikewise the old adage is halfway true. They're not something you regularly see in shopsFrom the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, so I knew what with that name and that if I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myselfattractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. WellThat was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, actuallywith their non-standard spelling, thatas if texts of scripture in this book's my rationalisation of the situation: in truth I love knitting mittensworld predated our standardised literacy. They have But why was I two chapters in and just enough technique to make them satisfyingfinding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, plenty of quick work and a pair of warm mittens no proof that this was what I'd bought in a few days. Patterns, though - where do you get them fromfor? [[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Mary Scott HuffMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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Every so oftenBerlin, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfection1989. This book Miriam is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in the fantasy land middle of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into wara city freshly united, a battle for survival for with the Omehi Wall newly broken down and people. Fleeing their homeland, they have able to fight to remain on cross at liberty for the only scrap of land they can reachfirst time in decades. The culture She is in the middle of the Omehi people is rich and deep such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not perfectleft her father's apartment in weeks, not sanctimoniousnursing him as he lies dying. They have villains One standard bed-bath, however, they have faultsis very different, they are when he gasps the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and honest portrayal of she sees for the first time ever a people desperate to survivetattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, to save themselves and their culture for future generationstwo inside... [[The Rage of Dragons Rabbit Girls by Evan WinterAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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[[image:4Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness.5starWhat is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the natural world and the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersA Winter Book by Tove Jansson|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Cosmo's family is in crisis. Mom and Dad argue all the time. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because she's too little but she feels it. And Max, who is bigger, does understand it and is terrified by it. Long ago, when Max was just a baby, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything he's got... [[I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak|Full Review]]<!-- Linda Jones Whitlock -->
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In late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their way to spend the week before Christmas property is at their grandfather's housetimes of austerity. It was snowing heavily Others are called Foresters, for they live and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering work in trees. When the back of small area the car. Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviourForesters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, but then that's your prerogative when you're the residents are given a grown-up eleven year oldpitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared out. The snow was getting heavier and Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the journey longer when Emily opened trees for the car window Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – he's just a couple of inches. There was a dreadful smell age to decide things for himself, and Dylan saw a horrible, snake-like figure clawing at he has decided to see how the car windowother half lives... [[Deadwood Hall The Collective by Linda JonesLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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Few government trade missions arrive by luxury linerGermany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'much isn' t. Some of her is berthed in Kinloch harbour and stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on board are high-powered international delegatesthe other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. ItFinding out that the war to the east isn's hard t working, due to avoid the suspicion that itHitler's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionairestactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things up, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour repair the countrysplits, is to kill Hitler, golfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnelluckily the Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. ItHe's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quicklyaristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfortsociety and other circles of power, but itso once he's not long before one of the crew members and succeeded he might be able to keep a local bird watcher go missingGerman presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the capitalists and communists from meeting in the middle? [[A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) The Man Who Killed Hitler by Denzil MeyrickAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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