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===[[Drowned Lives Bunny by Stephen BoothPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an old man who wants his help in healing a decades' old family rift You might have seen Bunny on the beach where he's reluctant to get involved, but then Chris is reluctant to get involved in anything but a pint in the pub these dayslived. It could just be the way that he isLike many beaches it was full of sand and Bunny didn't like sand, or the fact that henot least because it got between his toes and ''s just lost both his parents within three months of each other. Hescratched's currently existing in the family home and wondering when he's going to be made redundant from his job with the council. The short answer to that one is 'soon'What he really liked was juicy green grass. Chris does his best to deter All the other rabbits lived on the top of the old mancliff, but it's not before he's left where Bunny could see a lot of papers with his neighbourtasty-looking grass. Then the old man is murdered and But the police come calling on Chriscliff was very high. [[Drowned Lives Bunny by Stephen BoothPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass Why We Quilt by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughThomas Knauer]]===
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Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if sheI's been around ve often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a long time, way for she women (and myth would have it that it was always has a very fresh attitude, and seems women) to look make an extra blanket out of those large eyes at everything anew each timematerial which would otherwise go to waste. But here she is new in townThis undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you think about it, you need an awful lot of material to make a quilt and the town is Gotham Citytime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but Like Thomas Knauer I've come to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large conclusion that it began as an art and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters has largely continued down that will have a big impact on her lifesame road with fluctuations in popularity over the years. 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 Why We Quilt by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Summer Book Lying Room by Tove JanssonNicci French]]===
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Tove JanssonWhen we meet Neve Connolly it's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from the Moomintrolls pretty obvious that she is most famous for outside her native Scandinaviahas something to hide. Book yourself an afternoon this Summer She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and take yourself she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and The Summer Book somewhere quietchildren Mabel, preferably within sight Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. He has a few hours to spare and sound of can't wait to see her. Only, when she gets to the seaflat she finds Saul Stevenson, settle back her boss and prepare to be transportedlover, dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Summer Book Lying Room by Tove JanssonNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Lynda La PlantePeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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Jane Tennison had worked hard to get Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room she has all a place on girl could ask for in the Flying Squad way of toys, books, games and she felt that she was there on meritdollies. The Squad wondered who She's a very lucky girl in another way too: she'd slept with to get the place has imagination and bets were being taken as everything in her room can be used to who she'd sleep with in the first weektake her on adventures. What none of them - Jane included - knew was She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she was there as an experimentlikes to be alone, in the hope that a female presence would have a calming effect. The job had been advertised and Jane was the only female who applied who ticked all the boxes. She doesnbut Madeleine't tick s not alone on all the boxes for the head of the Squad, DCI Murphytrips she takes. He wanted someone with at least ten yearsWe' experiencell find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her room, and the appropriate set but instead of genitals - and he's determined doing that Jane will failshe went to the moon. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Lynda La PlantePeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window Dutch House by Rowan ColemanAnn Patchett]]===
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Trudy Heaton is going homeWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, to a house where her roots burrow back through they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen yearswalls. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself It's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and try the closest Danny seems to come to terms him is when he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the traumatic loss of her husbandfamily owns. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son Elna Conroy is loving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that his father is deadshe will not be returning. Where better than the house full of light In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and shadowDanny deeply, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? but their primary relationship is with each other. It's a bond which only death will break. [[The Girl at the Window Dutch House by Rowan ColemanAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are The Dead Very Rude Toytoise by Mike ShacklePeter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]===
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Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story It was one of those blissful days in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so differentforest. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to survive, make a cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to fight back, and build a nest. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web to find vengeance, catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a world that has been utterly torn apartchair, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then.. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part of a much larger plot that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued to the story. [[We Are The Dead Very Rude Toytoise by Mike ShacklePeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Recipe for Making a Snowman by Vibrant PublishersPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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I'm capable of drawing up Who knew it? You can even get a profit and loss account (income statement in the USA) and recipe book which tells you how to make a balance sheet snowman - and I do so for my own business there's no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and for another organisation. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I needthe two children are absolutely meticulous though: I know whether wethey're making a profit or a loss and I can look at going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the expenses and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future years. My problem was that coal for the accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisionseyes, which was why I turned to searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman'Cost Accounting s coat and Management'', part picking out the perfect piece of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management seriesheadgear. Cost accounting provides There's quite a choice available, but the information required by authorities external family decide on the bobble hat, presumably to keep the company 'snowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and a pair with purple 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! pink stripes are chosen. [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Recipe for Making a Snowman by Vibrant PublishersPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[War and Love: A Dance family's testament of Cranes anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Steve BurrowsMelanie Martin]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy HeyMelanie 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 stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the estrangement being of his makingcity during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not hersunderstand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. He hasn't explained to her Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that he is doing this - and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks the Germans might reach the city were convinced that this will keep her safe from his nemesisthey would soon be pushed back, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to sergeant and now has her first murder caseescalate in the way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. 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 atrocity on a treacherous journey to rescue his brothervast scale, Damian, who has gone missing in one but made up of tens of thousands of Canada's largest national parksindividual tragedies. [[War and Love: A Dance family's testament of Cranes anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Steve BurrowsMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Snowflake, AZ by Joyce Carol OatesMarcus Sedgwick]]===
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Bobby This is an angrya deep, damaged interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man - damage that came from being abandoned as named Ash in the process of joining a baby community of sick people in a bus station locker, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to anotherthe curiously named town of Snowflake, never far from violence or abuseArizona. Eager to succeed as a musicianThese people are sick, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable 's not a capacity for acts sickness you've heard of extreme violence. Unpublished for 40 yearsInstead, this edition of they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only 'The Triumph of the Spider Monkey'cure' comes combined with a connected novella – 'is to stay in the town away from the real world. Though it'Loves about a real place, Careless Love''the people in it are fictional. It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Snowflake, AZ by Joyce Carol OatesMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Spell Breather Brightfall by Julie PikeJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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Rayne lives in the small, hidden village of Penderin where she Robin Hood is a somewhat unwilling apprentice to her mothergone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, the spell breather. Not everyone can spell breathe, you have and retreating to born with a magic spark and Rayne wishes she hadn't been born with monastery – although no-oneknows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. SheMarion's a terrible spell breatherlife since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, her attempts are always followed Marion is tasked by disaster Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and she positively hates Mam's spell book to save their lives. Setting off with it's sharp teeth that suck your blood. When a stranger finds their village one daysoldier, Mam must set off on a journey to the great libraryFey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, leaving Rayne she becomes tangled in the village as their chief spell breathera maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her mother's book and turning everyone in to monsters. She must face her fear travel across a vicious struggle for the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book to save their village. throne…[[The Last Spell Breather Brightfall by Julie PikeJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[I, Cosmo The Nightjar by Carlie SorosiakDeborah Hewitt]]===
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Cosmo's family 'The Nightjar'' is in crisis. Mom an unusual and Dad argue all the timeexciting story. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she's too little but she feels itfinds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. And MaxFrom that very moment, who her life is biggerflooded with magic, loss, does understand it expectation and is terrified by itparticularly, betrayal. Long agoAs everything around her shifts, all that she knows, when Max was just a babyall that she thinks she knows, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything he's gotmust change... Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[I, Cosmo The Nightjar by Carlie SorosiakDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]===
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[[image:4starTwo and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond Today, the House of Grandfather GilderberryWashington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. HeBeatrice's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, and he always whole life has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers been building up to her ruling the United States and Madeline's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry time for her reign is just greatimminent. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thing... [[Don't Drink the Pink American Royals by B C R FeganKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan]]===
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[[image:4starIt 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyDead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan|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 Renee Watson -->
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===[[Clear My Name Some Places More Than Others by Paula DalyRenee Watson]]===
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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. 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 woman: such impressions matter. [[Clear My Name by Paula Daly|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]]
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===[[The Simple Act Lakes of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step Mars by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]], [[:Category:ReferenceScience Fiction|Reference]], [[:Category:Self-Publishing|Self PublishingScience Fiction]] I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they donAaron Sheridan doesn't have the big bucks required want to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their likelive anymore. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the answer His entire family is inevitably that they wouldn't know where dead by his own hand, killed in a shuttle crash. Unable to start. I can empathise deal with that. Despite having used the guilt, he signs up for the Fleet expecting a computer for about thirty yearsfatal deployment to the Rim War, running but instead ends up at their most of my life ''and'' a website on lineprestigious command school, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something newCorinth Station. 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 Lakes of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide Mars by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionComing of Age by Danny Ryan]]===
When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a group of German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, 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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington:Category:Autobiography|Full ReviewAutobiography]]
''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...''  ''This a memoir from someone you have never heard of - but will feel like you have.'' [[Coming of Age by Danny Ryan|Full Review]]  <!-- Patrice LawrenceMaxwell N Andrews -->
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The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|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 Ellory -->
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Sam Murray Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and Bert Leinster had been friends people able to cross at liberty for a long the first timein decades. Bert was Sam's boss at CERNShe is in the middle of such euphoria, but this never seemed to affect the way that the families got on. Bertcannot feel it, for she has not left her father's wifeapartment in weeks, Natalia, was Russian and seriously richnursing him as he lies dying. Their twinsOne standard bed-bath, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Joshhowever, went to a private boarding schoolis very different, but at weekends they were great friends with Samwhen he gasps the name ''Frieda''s two children, Liam that she does not recognise – and Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good she sees for all eight of them, until Sam - the first time ever a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentiallytattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. It's enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERNOne bombshell outside, Prof Ralph Moyeurthen, out of a family lunchand two inside.. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily. [[Something to Tell You The Rabbit Girls by David EdwardsAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[A Winter Book by Tove Jansson]]===
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[[image:4starTove 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. 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 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:AnthologiesA Winter Book by Tove Jansson|AnthologiesFull Review]]
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''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>
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[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity. Others are called Foresters, for they live and work in trees. When the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared out. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himself, and he has decided to see how the other half lives... [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]] <!-- Mary Scott Huff Andre Pronovost -->
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I love mittens - they're so convenient Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much easier 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 get onto (and off) cold hands than a pair of fiddly glovesput things right as they see it. TheyFinding out that the war to the east isn're not something you regularly see in shopst working, so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to knit them myselfheed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. WellThe only way to shore things up, actuallyand repair the splits, that's my rationalisation of is to kill Hitler, and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the situation: in truth I love knitting mittensman to do it. They have just He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough technique to make them satisfyingpeople in industry, plenty society and other circles of quick work and power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a pair of warm mittens German presence in a few daysEurope. Patterns, though - where do you get them But will he still be able to keep the capitalists and communists frommeeting in the middle? [[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own Man Who Killed Hitler by Mary Scott HuffAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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