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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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===[[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition Why We Quilt by Kalpesh AsharThomas Knauer]]===
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I''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background, who ve often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have risen in a company, the knowledge it that it was always women) to understand the accounts which show how the company is doing. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on to give make an excellent overview of the types extra blanket out of accounting systems material which will be encountered and the terms usedwould otherwise go to waste. We then look in detail at the balance sheetThis undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you think about it, the income statement and the statement of cash flows. If you understand these three sections on a set need an awful lot of accounts they will tell you material to make a storyquilt and the time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. You will understand Like Thomas Knauer I've come to the company (or indeed any other business) but if you don't understand what's there you will be missing vital clues conclusion that it began as to whether or not an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the company is thrivingyears. [[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition Why We Quilt by Kalpesh AsharThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass The Lying Room by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughNicci French]]===
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Harleen Quinzel is new in townWhen we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She alwayscrept into the house after midnight, to me, seems new in town, even if carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and shecan's been around a long timet wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, for Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she always has gets a very fresh attitude, and seems text telling her to come to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the town is Gotham Cityflat. Expecting He has a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead few hours to spare and herself with no option but can't wait to stay with a bunch of drag queenssee her. She also finds school is a dragOnly, when she also finds gets to the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but flat she also finds two characters that will have a big impact Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, dead on her lifethe floor. One The hammer that's been used on his brain 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… his side. [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass The Lying Room by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Summer Book Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer Madeleine is several worlds away from the Moomintrolls a very lucky girl: in her room she is most famous has all a girl could ask for outside her native Scandinaviain the way of toys, books, games and dollies. Book yourself an afternoon this Summer, She's a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and everything in her room can be used to take yourself and The Summer Book somewhere quiether on adventures. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, preferably within sight and sound of but Madeleine's not alone on all the seatrips she takes. We'll find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her room, settle back and prepare but instead of doing that she went to be transportedthe moon. [[The Summer Book Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Dutch House by Lynda La PlanteAnn Patchett]]===
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Jane Tennison had worked hard to get a place When we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, 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 Flying Squad and she felt that she was there on meritwalls. The Squad wondered who sheIt'd slept with s a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and the closest Danny seems to get the place and bets were being taken as come to who she'd sleep him is when he goes out with in him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the first weekfamily owns. What none of them - Jane included - knew was that she was there as an experimentElna Conroy is loving, in but absent increasingly often until the hope point comes when the children are told that a female presence would have a calming effectshe will not be returning. The job had been advertised In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Jane was the only female who applied who ticked all the boxes. She doesn't tick all the boxes for the head of the SquadDanny deeply, DCI Murphybut their primary relationship is with each other. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experience, and the appropriate set of genitals - and heIt's determined that Jane a bond which only death will failbreak. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Dutch House by Lynda La PlanteAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window Very Rude Toytoise by Rowan ColemanPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]===
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Trudy Heaton is going home, It was one of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a mother she hasn't spoken nest. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web to for sixteen yearscatch juicy flies. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husbandMrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is deadAnd Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chair, fishing for lunch. Where What could be better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? And then... [[The Girl at the Window Very Rude Toytoise by Rowan ColemanPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are The Dead Recipe for Making a Snowman by Mike ShacklePeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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Mike Shackle has written Who knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a really interesting snowman - and unusual story in there's no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and the two children are absolutely meticulous though: they'We Are The Dead''; re going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the tag line coal for the novel is eyes, searching through the bits 'No More Heroesn bobs jar for buttons for the snowman' s coat and that is what makes this story so differentpicking out the perfect piece of headgear. There are villains galore 's quite a choice available, but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survivefamily decide on the bobble hat, presumably to fight back, and to find vengeance, in a world that has been utterly torn apartkeep the snowman warm. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part of a much larger plot that is rich pair with purple and complex and keeps the reader glued to the storypink stripes are chosen. [[We Are The Dead Recipe for Making a Snowman by Mike ShacklePeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Vibrant PublishersMelanie Martin]]===
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I'm capable of drawing up a profit Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and loss account (income statement was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in the USA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. The accounts give me ''broadlyThe Diary of Ann Frank'' what I need: I know whether webut then realised that her own family're making a profit or a loss s stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and I can look at seven thousand Jews were deported from the expenses city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and see what looks as though it Martin could not understand how this could be trimmed back allowed to happen in future yearsa country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. My problem was Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisionsGermans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, which was why I turned that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to ''Cost Accounting and Management''escalate in the way that it did, part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management seriesbut initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. Cost accounting provides the information required by authorities external to the company It''and'' to those within it who need to make decisionss an atrocity on a vast scale, so don't worry that you're going to have to draw but made up two sets of accounts! tens of thousands of individual tragedies. [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Vibrant PublishersMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[A Dance of Cranes Snowflake, AZ by Steve BurrowsMarcus Sedgwick]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune This is no longer with Lindy Heya 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 estrangement being process of his makingjoining a community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's not hersa sickness you've heard of. He hasnInstead, they't explained to her that he is doing this - re environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep her safe from his nemesisfabrics, pesticides, static electricity, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to sergeant and now has her first murder casestay in the town away from the real world. It looks as though thereThough it's an obvious suspectabout a real place, but Salter isn't so certainthe people in it are fictional. Sgt Danny Maik It really is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Heya place apart, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to rescue his brother, Damian, who has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parksdecontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[A Dance of Cranes Snowflake, AZ by Steve BurrowsMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Brightfall by Joyce Carol OatesJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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Bobby Robin Hood is an angrygone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, damaged man and retreating to a monastery – although no- damage one knows quite what led him to abandon all that came from being abandoned as a baby in a bus station lockerhe had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to anothersave their lives. Setting off with a soldier, never far from violence or abuse. Eager to succeed as a musicianFey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, he arrives she becomes tangled in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violence. Unpublished vicious struggle for 40 years, this edition of ''The Triumph of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''. throne…[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Brightfall by Joyce Carol OatesJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Spell Breather Nightjar by Julie PikeDeborah Hewitt]]===
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Rayne ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in the small, hidden village of Penderin where London until she is finds a somewhat unwilling apprentice box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to her motherunravel, the spell breatherfast. Not everyone can spell breatheFrom that very moment, you have to born her life is flooded with a magic spark , loss, expectation and Rayne wishes she hadn't been born with oneparticularly, betrayal. She's a terrible spell breatherAs everything around her shifts, her attempts are always followed by disaster and all that she positively hates Mam's spell book with it's sharp teeth knows, all that suck your blood. When a stranger finds their village one dayshe thinks she knows, Mam must set off on a journey to the great library, leaving Rayne in the village as their chief spell breather, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her mother's book and turning everyone in to monsterschange. She Who can she trust? Who must face her fear travel across the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book to save their village. she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Last Spell Breather Nightjar by Julie PikeDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[I, Cosmo American Royals by Carlie SorosiakKatharine McGee]]===
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Cosmo's family is in crisis. Mom Two and Dad argue all a half centuries ago, America won 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 Revolutionary War and is terrified by itGeneral George Washington was offered the crown. Long agoToday, when Max was just a baby, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission the House of repairing Washington still sit on the family thrown with everything hePrincess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's gotwhole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent... [[I, Cosmo American Royals by Carlie SorosiakKatharine 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. HeThen it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she's always busy d even got settled in his workshop, creating crazy potions, - and he always has managed to break a smile on his facebone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. Madeline They's dad thinks hed 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 bit bonkers and MadelineDCI she knows what's mum thinks the same going to happen next, but gives him a pass because heshe's not prepared for quite how personal it's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions and allows her all going to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thingget... [[Don't Drink the Pink Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by B C R FeganNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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===[[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson]]===
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Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father'What if you could subtly change s side of the lives of ordinary people around you?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]]
Jessica Turner was one of the more radical teens to come out of Eastfield<!-- Graves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:194927201X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd uk/dp/194927201X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lakes of friends was characterised Mars by JessicaMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesn's role as trendsetter, as influencer, as leadert want to live anymore. Strangely charismaticHis entire family is dead by his own hand, Jessica invited fascination and obsessionkilled in a shuttle crash. Nobody who met herUnable to deal with the guilt, forgot her. Or the days they spent in he signs up for the Enclosure, Fleet expecting a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But fatal deployment to the group went its separate waysRim War, as adolescent groups dobut instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, and her influence fadedCorinth Station...[[The Years Lakes of Fading Magic Mars by Kenelm AverillMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Clear My Name by Paula Daly]]===
 
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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]]
 
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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 This a computer for about thirty years, running most memoir from someone you have never heard of my life ''and'' a website on line, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I - but will feel 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 deskyou have. 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 Coming of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide Age by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Danny Ryan|Full Review]]
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When Sergeant Farr 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 Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years I'm halfway between, and likewise the old and fleeing from adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a farmhouse child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and a group that attractive artwork of German deserters who had raped heran attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. Despite being outnumbered she That was giving just about only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the group offif texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. It But why was 1944 I two chapters in and just finding more and Farr more characters, both human and Valentine were part of the Jedburgh unitanimal, EDMONDand more and more flashbacks, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - heand no proof that this was what I'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. bought in for? [[Just Another Girl on Lighthouse of the Road Netherworlds by S KensingtonMaxwell 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's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' 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]]
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 Tove Jansson -->
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===[[Something to Tell You A Winter Book by David EdwardsTove Jansson]]===
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Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was SamTove Jansson's boss at CERNworldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, but this never seemed to affect written in the way that 1940s and later becoming television characters of the families got on. Bert's wife, Nataliasimplicity, was Russian naivety and seriously richsheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a private boarding schoolSimple drawings, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two childrensimple stories, Liam and Hannahsimple goodness. Sam's wife, Briony, was head What is often forgotten outside of product research at Nestlé. Life her native Finland is that she was good a serious writer…that she wrote for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted adults as well as children…and that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth she had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem feeling for Sam the natural world and Bert to drag the head simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lilyhow the world might be. [[Something to Tell You A Winter Book by David EdwardsTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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[[image:4star''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...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AnthologiesThe Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|AnthologiesFull Review]]
''You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino'' begins with ''A Modern Love Story'': ''You’re the froth on my soy cappuccino''<br!-- Andre Pronovost -->''You’re the spread on my paleo toast''<br>|-| style=''You’re the nose of my GMwidth: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-free Pinotalign: center;''<br>|''You’re organic, my love[[image:099944235X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. You’re the most!''<br>uk/dp/099944235X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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]]
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===[[The Man Who Killed Hitler by 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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