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===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass Bunny by Mariko Tamaki Peter Lynas and Steve PughClare Lindley]]===
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Harleen Quinzel is new in townYou might have seen Bunny on the beach where he lived. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if sheLike many beaches it was full of sand and Bunny didn's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitudet like sand, not least because it got between his toes and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time''scratched''. But here she is new in town, and the town is Gotham CityWhat he really liked was juicy green grass. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her motherAll the other rabbits lived on the top of the cliff, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with where Bunny could see a bunch lot of drag queenstasty-looking grass. She also finds school is a drag, she also finds But the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her lifecliff was very high. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass Bunny by Mariko Tamaki Peter Lynas and Steve PughClare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Summer Book Why We Quilt by Tove JanssonThomas Knauer]]===
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Tove JanssonI's short novel ve often wondered about Summer is several worlds away from the Moomintrolls she is most famous story that patchwork quilting began as a way for outside her native Scandinaviawomen (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to waste. Book yourself This undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you think about it, you need an afternoon this Summer, awful lot of material to make a quilt and take yourself the time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Like Thomas Knauer I've come to the conclusion that it began as an art and The Summer Book somewhere quiet, preferably within sight and sound of has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the sea, settle back and prepare to be transportedyears. [[The Summer Book Why We Quilt by Tove JanssonThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Lying Room by Lynda La PlanteNicci French]]===
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Jane Tennison had worked hard to get a place on the Flying Squad and she felt When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she was there on merithas something to hide. The Squad wondered who She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and shecan'd slept with t wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and Rory off on their various ways the place and bets were being taken as next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to who she'd sleep with in the first weekflat. What none of them - Jane included - knew was that she was there as an experiment, in the hope that He has a female presence would have a calming effect. The job had been advertised few hours to spare and Jane was the only female who applied who ticked all the boxes. She doesncan't tick all the boxes for the head of the Squad, DCI Murphywait to see her. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experienceOnly, when she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, dead on the appropriate set of genitals - and hefloor. The hammer that's determined that Jane will failbeen used on his brain is at his side. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Lying Room by Lynda La PlanteNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at Madeleine Goes to the Window Moon by Rowan ColemanPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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Trudy Heaton Madeleine is going home, to a house where very lucky girl: in her roots burrow back through room she has all a girl could ask for in the centuries way of toys, books, games and to dollies. She's a mother very lucky girl in another way too: she hasn't spoken has imagination and everything in her room can be used to for sixteen yearstake her on adventures. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she can heal herself and try likes to come to terms with be alone, but Madeleine's not alone on all the traumatic loss of her husbandtrips she takes. She needs We'll find out that yesterday she was told to build bridges with tidy her mother and convince her grieving son room, but instead of doing that his father is deadshe went to the moon. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at Madeleine Goes to the Window Moon by Rowan ColemanPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are The Dead Dutch House by Mike ShackleAnn Patchett]]===
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Mike Shackle has written a really interesting When we first meet Danny and unusual story in his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they''We Are re both living at The Dead''; Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the portraits of the tag line for former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the novel walls. It's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is 'No More Heroes' distant and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story closest Danny seems to come to him is scattered when he goes out with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, and to find vengeance, in him on a world that has been utterly torn apartSaturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one Elna Conroy is importantloving, anyone can die but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and many doDanny deeply, but, like ants working together, their primary relationship is with each small character achieves their own part of other. It's a much larger plot that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued to the storybond which only death will break. [[We Are The Dead Dutch House by Mike ShackleAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know The Very Rude Toytoise by Vibrant PublishersPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]===
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I'm capable It was one of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement those blissful days in the USA) and forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisationcake. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a profit or nest. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a loss and I can look at the expenses and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future yearsweb to catch juicy flies. My problem Mrs Squirrel was that the accounts didn't really give me any help piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in making decisionsa chair, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management seriesfishing for lunch. Cost accounting provides 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! What could be better? And then... [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know The Very Rude Toytoise by Vibrant PublishersPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[A Dance of Cranes Recipe for Making a Snowman by Steve BurrowsPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune is Who knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and there's no longer with Lindy Heycooking involved! Mum, Dad and the estrangement being of his makingtwo children are absolutely meticulous though: they're going to get everything right, not hers. He hasn't explained even down to her that he is doing this - and leaving some mining to get the coal for his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep her safe from his nemesisthe eyes, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's coat and now has her first murder casepicking out the perfect piece of headgear. It looks as though thereThere's an obvious suspectquite a choice available, but Salter isn't so certain. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye the family decide on Lindy Heythe bobble hat, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey presumably to rescue his brother, Damian, who has gone missing in one keep the snowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of Canadamittens simply won's largest national parkst do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosen. [[A Dance of Cranes Recipe for Making a Snowman by Steve BurrowsPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph War and Love: A family's testament of the Spider Monkey anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Joyce Carol OatesMelanie Martin]]===
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Bobby is an angryMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, damaged man - damage particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that came her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from being abandoned as a baby the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a bus station locker, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre country with liberal values who were resistant to anotherGerman occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never far from violence or abuse. Eager allow what happened to succeed escalate in the way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a musicianvast scale, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts made up of extreme violence. Unpublished for 40 years, this edition tens of ''The Triumph thousands of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''individual tragedies. [[The Triumph War and Love: A family's testament of the Spider Monkey anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Joyce Carol OatesMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Spell Breather Snowflake, AZ by Julie PikeMarcus Sedgwick]]===
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Rayne lives This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the small, hidden village process of Penderin where she is joining a somewhat unwilling apprentice to her mothercommunity of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, the spell breatherArizona. Not everyone can spell breatheThese people are sick, but it's not a sickness you have to born with a magic spark and Rayne wishes she hadn't been born with oneve heard of. SheInstead, they's a terrible spell breatherre environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, her attempts are always followed by disaster and she positively hates Mamradiation – and their only 's spell book with 'cure'' is to stay in the town away from the real world. Though it's sharp teeth that suck your blood. When about a stranger finds their village one dayreal place, Mam must set off on a journey to the great library, leaving Rayne people in the village as their chief spell breatherit are fictional. It really is a place apart, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her mother's book and turning everyone in to monsters. She must face her fear travel across quite literally cut off from the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book outside world – people are even required to save their villagedecontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[The Last Spell Breather Snowflake, AZ by Julie PikeMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[I, Cosmo Brightfall by Carlie SorosiakJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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Cosmo's family Robin Hood is in crisis. Mom gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and Dad argue retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all the timethat he had built. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because sheMarion's too little life since has been relatively quiet - but she feels it. And Maxwhen her friends start dying, who Marion is bigger, does understand it tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and is terrified by itto save their lives. Long agoSetting off with a soldier, when Max was just a babyFey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, Cosmo made she becomes tangled in a promise to protect Max forever maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and so he sets about his mission of repairing a vicious struggle for the family with everything he's got... throne…[[I, Cosmo Brightfall by Carlie SorosiakJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, and he always has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and MadelineThe Nightjar's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just greatan unusual and exciting story. Particularly Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions doorstep one morning and allows her life begins to choose one as a giftunravel, fast. And he always says the same thingFrom 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? [[Don't Drink the Pink The Nightjar by B C R FeganDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]===
===[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyGeneral Fiction|FantasyGeneral Fiction]]  ''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 Two and a close crowd of friends was characterised by Jessica's role as trendsetterhalf centuries ago, as influencer, as leader. Strangely charismatic, Jessica invited fascination America won the Revolutionary War and obsessionGeneral George Washington was offered the crown. Nobody who met herToday, forgot her. Or the days they spent in House of Washington still sit on the Enclosure, a clearing thrown with Princess Beatrice next in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her power. But ruling the group went its separate ways, as adolescent groups do, United States and the time for her influence faded..reign is imminent.[[The Years of Fading Magic American Royals by Kenelm AverillKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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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:4star. She's somewhat surprised when Clive, the head of the charity, announces that she'll have someone shadowing her. 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: such impressions matter. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Clear My Name by Paula Daly:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
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 Narrow Marsh area of Nottingham. Then it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she'd even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. They'd been there for some time, but who - exactly - were the 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 Nicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step Some Places More Than Others by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Renee Watson]]===
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I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have 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 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 years, running most of my life ''and'' a website on 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: she's simply someone who has done this many times and she's giving us the benefit of her experience and without any added chitchat. [[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis |Full Review]]
Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father's side of the family. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and a school family history project provides her with the perfect 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. [[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|Full Review]] <!-- S Kensington Graves -->
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===[[Just Another Girl on the Road Lakes of Mars by S KensingtonMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Science Fiction|Historical Science Fiction]] When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in a group of German deserters who had raped hershuttle crash. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up for the group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of Fleet expecting a fatal deployment to the Jedburgh unitRim War, EDMONDbut instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, lead by Major Willoughby NyeCorinth Station. 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. [[Just Another Girl on the Road Lakes of Mars by S KensingtonMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]===
===[[Coming of Age by Danny Ryan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensAutobiography|TeensAutobiography]] ''He began writing novels and poetry at the age 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...''
Rose and her brother Rudder ''This a memoir from someone you have recently escaped from cultnever heard of -but will feel like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with their motheryou have. 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 Coming of Age by Patrice LawrenceDanny Ryan|Full Review]]
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Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a long timepar with comments about Marmite. Bert was SamYou's boss at CERN, but this never seemed re supposed to affect the way that the families got on. Bertlove it or hate it and I's wife, Nataliam halfway between, was Russian and seriously richlikewise the old adage is halfway true. Their twins, fifteenFrom the cover of this I had a child-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a private boarding schoolfriendly fantasy, but at weekends they were great friends what with Sam's two children, Liam that name and Hannahthat attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. Sam's wifeThat was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, Brionywith their non-standard spelling, was head as if texts of product research at Nestléscripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. Life But why was good for all eight of themI two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted and no proof that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. Itthis was what I's enough of a problem d bought in for Sam 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 Lily. ? [[Something to Tell You Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by David EdwardsMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father''You're s apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the Froth On My Soy Cappuccinoname '' begins with Frieda''A Modern Love Story'':that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside... [[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|Full Review]]
''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 in the hipster world? [[You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present by Don Behrend|Full Review]]  <!-- Mary Scott Huff Tove Jansson -->
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===[[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own A Winter Book by Mary Scott HuffTove Jansson]]===
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I love mittens - theyTove Jansson're so convenient s worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and much easier to get onto (later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and off) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloves. Theysheer 'goodness're not something you regularly see in shops, so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myselflater produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. WellSimple drawings, actuallysimple stories, simple goodness. What 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's my rationalisation of she had a feeling for the situation: in truth I love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to make them satisfying, plenty of quick work natural world and a pair the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of warm mittens in a few dayshow the world might be. Patterns, though - where do you get them from? [[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own A Winter Book by Mary Scott HuffTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[The Rage of Dragons Collective by Evan WinterLindsey Whitlock]]===
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Every so often''Illinois Territory, as a readerCollective Homesteads of America.'' Some people live in sunken houses, a book comes along that buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is utter and complete perfection. This book is one at times of thoseausterity. Utter Others are called Foresters, for they live and complete perfectionwork in trees. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in When the fantasy land of Uhmlaba small area the reader Foresters live in is instantly thrown into warplaced under compulsory purchase, the residents are given a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have pitiful amount to fight to remain on the only scrap of land clear out before they can reachget manfully cleared out. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfect Our hero, not sanctimonious. They have villainsElwyn, they have faults, they are has just left the trees for the invaders after allHills, but Winter creates a realistic to live with an uncle and honest portrayal learn their ways – he's just of a people desperate age to survivedecide things for himself, and he has decided to save themselves and their culture for future generationssee how the other half lives... [[The Rage of Dragons Collective by Evan WinterLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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===[[I, Cosmo The Man Who Killed Hitler by Carlie SorosiakAndre Pronovost]]===
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Cosmo's family Germany is split. Some of her is in crisisfavour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Mom and Dad argue all 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 timecontinent to put things right as they see it. Emmaline doesn Finding out that the war to the east isn't quite understand it because sheworking, due to Hitler's too little but she feels ittactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. And Max The only way to shore things up, and repair the splits, who is biggerto kill Hitler, does understand it and luckily the Baron Nicholas is terrified by the man to do it. Long ago He's aristocratic enough, when Max was just a babyhe knows enough people in industry, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever society and other circles of power, so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything once he's gotsucceeded 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 middle? [[I, Cosmo The Man Who Killed Hitler by Carlie SorosiakAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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