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===[[The Long Call (Two Rivers) Bunny by Ann CleevesPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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When we first meet DI Matthew Venn You might have seen Bunny on the beach where helived. Like many beaches it was full of sand and Bunny didn's at t like sand, not least because it got between his fathertoes and 's funeral, although 'atscratched'' rather overstates the proximity. He sees everyone - his mother and the preacher included from a distance - but What he doesn't go itreally liked was juicy green grass. He wouldn't be welcome. Those attending are part of All the Barum Brethren and other rabbits lived on the teenage Matthew was thrown out when he told top of the congregation how wrong they were in their beliefscliff, where Bunny could see a lot of tasty-looking grass. It coincided with him leaving university and joining But the police force. The announcement of Matthew's marriage to Jonathan Church cliff was in the local paper and whilst he doesn't know if his father saw it, he can't imagine that it will have gone down wellvery high. [[The Long Call (Two Rivers) Bunny by Ann CleevesPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It Why We Quilt by Susie DayThomas Knauer]]===
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When Max’s dad finds himself in I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a spot of hot water, he disappears way for a few days, leaving Max in charge of his three younger sisters, Thelma, Louise women (and Ripley. Max has no problem with stepping up to fill his dad’s shoes and be the man in charge, but when his dad still doesn’t come home, he starts to panic myth would have it that interfering grown ups will realise that the children are home-alone, and that they will step in and separate the family. So Max takes his sisters it was always women) to Wales, make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to hide out in a friend’s cottagewaste. It won’t be for long, surely? Because his dad wouldn’t miss Christmas, would he? [[Max Kowalski DidnThis undoubtedly ''did''t Mean It by Susie Day|Full Review]] <!--Merritt Graves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1949272028.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1949272028/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] If the game wasn’t fair beforehappen but when you think about it, it’s definitely not fair now. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, part you need an awful lot of the ever-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revision. And because he can’t afford Revision, he can’t get into college, he can’t get material to make a job. And when he sees the brilliant quilt and mesmerizing Lena for the first time, he knows he doesn’t could have a chance with her, eitherbeen better spent if all that was required was bedding. And so, Dorian robs a house with his best friend, Ethan. Then they do it again. They’re able Like Thomas Knauer I've come to keep at the conclusion that it until they have enough money saved up for their first Revision. Their initial choices in self-enhancement start impacting their future choices, which in turn impact their future Revision––on began as an art and on has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in a downward spiral of self-destruction..popularity over the years. [[Sunlight 24 Why We Quilt by Merritt GravesThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lying Room by Nicci French]]===
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[[image:3When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, 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 can't wait to see her. Only, when she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, dead on the floor.5star The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeThe Lying Room by Nicci French|CrimeFull Review]]
When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an old man who wants his help in healing a decades' old family rift he's reluctant to get involved, but then Chris is reluctant to get involved in anything but a pint in the pub these days. It could just be the way that he is, or the fact that he's just lost both his parents within three months of each other. He'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'. Chris does his best to deter the old man, but it's not before he's left a lot of papers with his neighbour. Then the old man is murdered and the police come calling on Chris. [[Drowned Lives by Stephen Booth|Full Review]] <!-- Kalpesh Ashar Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts -->
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===[[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Kalpesh AsharPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background, who have risen Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room she has all a companygirl could ask for in the way of toys, the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how the company is doing. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessarybooks, then moves on to give an excellent overview of the types of accounting systems which will be encountered games and the terms useddollies. We then look She's a very lucky girl in detail at the balance sheet, the income statement another way too: she has imagination and the statement of cash flows. If you understand these three sections everything in her room can be used to take her on a set of accounts they will tell you a storyadventures. You will understand the company (or indeed any other business) She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, but if you donMadeleine't understand whats not alone on all the trips she takes. We's there you will be missing vital clues as ll find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her room, but instead of doing that she went to whether or not the company is thrivingmoon. [[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Kalpesh AsharPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass The Dutch House by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughAnn Patchett]]===
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Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She alwaysWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, to meMaeve Conroy, seems new in town, even if shethey's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, re both living at The Dutch House with their parents and seems to look out under the gaze of the portraits of those large eyes at everything anew each timethe former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. But here she It's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is new in town, distant and the town closest Danny seems to come to him is Gotham City. Expecting when he goes out with him on a year-long furlough Saturday collecting rents from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queensproperties the family owns. She also finds school Elna Conroy is a dragloving, she also finds but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but children are told that she also finds two characters that will not be returning. In other circumstances this might have a big impact on her lifeaffected Maeve and Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each other. One is It's a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she bond which only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… death will break. [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass The Dutch House by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Summer Book Very Rude Toytoise by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]===
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Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from It was one of those blissful days in the Moomintrolls forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she is most famous wanted to make a cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a nest. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web to catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chair, fishing for outside her native Scandinavialunch. Book yourself an afternoon this Summer, and take yourself and The Summer Book somewhere quiet, preferably within sight and sound of the sea, settle back and prepare to What could be transportedbetter? And then... [[The Summer Book Very Rude Toytoise by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Recipe for Making a Snowman by Lynda La PlantePeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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Jane Tennison had worked hard Who knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to get make a place on the Flying Squad snowman - and she felt that she was there on merit. 's no cooking involved! The Squad wondered who sheMum, Dad and the two children are absolutely meticulous though: they'd slept with re going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the place and bets were being taken as to who she'd sleep with in coal for the first week. What none of them - Jane included - knew was that she was there as an experimenteyes, in searching through the hope that a female presence would have a calming effect. The job had been advertised bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's coat and Jane was picking out the only female who applied who ticked all the boxesperfect piece of headgear. She doesnThere't tick all s quite a choice available, but the boxes for family decide on the head of bobble hat, presumably to keep the Squad, DCI Murphysnowman warm. He wanted someone with at least ten yearsThe moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won' experience, t do and the appropriate set of genitals - a pair with purple and he's determined that Jane will failpink stripes are chosen. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Recipe for Making a Snowman by Lynda La PlantePeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Rowan ColemanMelanie Martin]]===
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Trudy Heaton is going homeMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, to a house where particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her roots burrow back through own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the centuries war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a mother she hasn't spoken country with liberal values who were resistant to for sixteen yearsGerman occupation. HomeMost 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, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to come to terms with escalate in the traumatic loss of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son way that his father is deadit did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. Where better than the house full It's an atrocity on a vast scale, but made up of tens of thousands of light individual tragedies. [[War and shadowLove: A family's testament of anguish, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Rowan ColemanMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are The Dead Snowflake, AZ by Mike ShackleMarcus Sedgwick]]===
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Mike Shackle has written This is a really deep, interesting and unusual story read unlike any book I've read in ''We Are quite some time. The Deadnovel''; s story follows a young man named Ash in the tag line for process of joining a community of sick people in the novel is curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's not a sickness you'No More Heroesve heard of. Instead, they' re environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survivefabrics, pesticides, to fight backstatic electricity, and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to find vengeance, stay in a the town away from the real world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang on any one characterThough it's about a real place, no one the people in it are fictional. It really is importanta place apart, 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 quite literally cut off from the reader glued outside world – people are even required to the storydecontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[We Are The Dead Snowflake, AZ by Mike ShackleMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Brightfall by Vibrant PublishersJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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I'm capable of drawing up a profit Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and loss account (income statement in the USA) his love Marian, and retreating to a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisationmonastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. The accounts give me Marion''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look at s life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the expenses curse surrounding them and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future yearsto save their lives. My problem was that the accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisionsSetting off with a soldier, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting a Fey Lord and Management''a sullen Robin Hood, part she becomes tangled in a maze of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning betrayals, complicated relationships, and Management series. Cost accounting provides a vicious struggle for 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! throne…[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Brightfall by Vibrant PublishersJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[A Dance of Cranes The Nightjar by Steve BurrowsDeborah Hewitt]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune ''The Nightjar'' is no longer with Lindy Hey, the estrangement being of his making, not hersan unusual and exciting story. He hasn't explained to Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her that he is doing this - doorstep one morning and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks her life begins to unravel, fast. From that this will keep very moment, her safe from his nemesislife is flooded with magic, loss, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant expectation and now has her first murder case. It looks as though there's an obvious suspectparticularly, but Salter isn't so certainbetrayal. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy HeyAs everything around her shifts, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey to rescue his brotherall that she knows, Damianall that she thinks she knows, who has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parksmust change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[A Dance of Cranes The Nightjar by Steve BurrowsDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey American Royals by Joyce Carol OatesKatharine McGee]]===
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Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, Two and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to another, never far from violence or abuse. Eager to succeed as a musicianhalf centuries ago, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions America won the Revolutionary War and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violenceGeneral George Washington was offered the crown. Unpublished for 40 yearsToday, this edition of ''The Triumph the House of Washington still sit on the Spider Monkey'' comes combined thrown with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love'Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey American Royals by Joyce Carol OatesKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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Rayne lives in the small, hidden village It was more than a little bit of Penderin where she is a somewhat unwilling apprentice surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her mother, his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in the spell breatherNarrow Marsh area of Nottingham. Not everyone can spell breathe, you have to born with Then it was a magic spark and Rayne wishes shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she hadn't been born with oned even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. She They's a terrible spell breatherd been there for some time, her attempts are always followed by disaster but who - exactly - were the man and she positively hates Mam's spell book with itthe woman, wrapped in each other's sharp teeth that suck your blood. When a stranger finds their village one day, Mam must set off arms? Having spent ten years on a journey to the great libraryMurder Squad, leaving Rayne in the village ending up as their chief spell breathera DCI she knows what's going to happen next, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her mothershe's not prepared for quite how personal it's book and turning everyone in all going to monsters. She must face her fear travel across the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book to save their villageget. [[The Last Spell Breather Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Julie PikeNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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===[[I, Cosmo Some Places More Than Others by Carlie SorosiakRenee Watson]]===
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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]]
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]] <!-- Fegan Graves -->
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 ===[[Don't Drink the Pink Lakes of Mars by B C R FeganMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingScience Fiction|For SharingScience Fiction]]
Madeline Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His entire family is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy in dead by his workshopown hand, creating crazy potions, and he always has killed in a smile on his faceshuttle crash. Madeline's dad thinks Unable to deal with the guilt, he's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks signs up for the same but gives him a pass because he's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with Fleet expecting a selection of potions and allows her fatal deployment to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thingRim War, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station... [[Don't Drink the Pink Lakes of Mars by B C R FeganMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[The Years Coming of Fading Magic Age by Kenelm AverillDanny Ryan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]
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''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 ''This a memoir from someone you have never heard of Eastfield- but will feel like you have. 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 Coming of Fading Magic Age by Kenelm AverillDanny Ryan|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[[image:3star. She's somewhat surprised when Clivejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], 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:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
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]]
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===[[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step Winter Book by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Tove Jansson]]===
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I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the traditional housesMoomin books, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have written in 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 1940s and later becoming television characters of the answer is inevitably that they wouldnsimplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness't know where to start. I can empathise with thatwould later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Despite having used a computer for about thirty yearsSimple drawings, running most of my life ''and'' a website on linesimple stories, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something newsimple goodness. I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the first time. That What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she 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: serious writer…that she's simply someone who has done this many times and wrote for adults as well as children…and that she's giving us had a feeling for the benefit of her experience natural world and without the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any added chitchatfantasy of how the world might be. [[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step Winter Book by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Tove Jansson|Full Review]]
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When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a group ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of German deserters who had raped herAmerica. '' Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the group offSome people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity. It was 1944 Others are called Foresters, for they live and Farr and Valentine were part of work in trees. When the small area the Jedburgh unitForesters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nyethe residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared out. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – he'd worked on her father's merchant ship just of age to decide things for himself, and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nyehe has decided to see how the other half lives.. When he offered her a job with his unit, she accepted. [[Just Another Girl on the Road The Collective by S KensingtonLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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Rose Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her brother Rudder is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sectto be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the Pilgrimseast isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, along with their mothersome people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying The only way to keep shore things up, and repair the rent paid on their tiny flatsplits, is to kill Hitler, Rose and Rudder are trying luckily the Baron Nicholas is the man to navigate the worldly worlddo it. It He's not easy when everything is new aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and the rigid rules youother circles of power, so once he've always lived by are suddenly missings succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the capitalists and communists from meeting in the middle? [[Rose, Interrupted The Man Who Killed Hitler by Patrice LawrenceAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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