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===[[A Winter Book Bunny by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts You might have seen Bunny on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s beach where he lived. Like many beaches it was full of sand and later becoming television characters of the simplicityBunny didn't like sand, naivety not least because it got between his toes and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodnessscratched''. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she he really liked was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for juicy green grass. All the other rabbits lived on the natural world and top of the simple life that not only informed those childcliff, where Bunny could see a lot of tasty-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how looking grass. But the world might becliff was very high. [[A Winter Book Bunny by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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I''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads ve often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of Americamaterial which would otherwise go to waste. This undoubtedly '' Itdid''s certainly happen but when you think about it, you need an unusual place. Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides awful lot of material to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity, among other reasons. Others are called Foresters, for they live make a quilt and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as children, but farming in amongst them and living between them toothe time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this is less of an unusual place than at first sight. When the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, the residents are given a pitiful amount Like Thomas Knauer I've come to clear out, before they get manfully cleared out. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live with conclusion that it began as an uncle and learn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himself, art and he has decided to see how largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the other half lives..years. [[The Collective Why We Quilt by Lindsey WhitlockThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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[[image:3starWhen 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. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Lying Room by Nicci French|Historical FictionFull Review]]
Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much 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 put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things up, and repair the splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost|Full Review]] <!-- Ann Cleeves Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts -->
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===[[Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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When we first meet DI Matthew Venn he's at his father's funeralMadeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room she has all a girl could ask for in the way of toys, books, although 'at' rather overstates the proximity. He sees everyone - his mother games and the preacher included from a distance - but he doesn't go itdollies. He wouldnShe't be welcome. Those attending are part of the Barum Brethren s a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and the teenage Matthew was thrown out when he told the congregation how wrong they were everything in their beliefsher room can be used to take her on adventures. It coincided with him leaving university and joining She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, but Madeleine's not alone on all the police forcetrips she takes. The announcement of MatthewWe's marriage ll find out that yesterday she was told to Jonathan Church was in the local paper and whilst he doesn't know if his father saw ittidy her room, he can't imagine but instead of doing that it will have gone down wellshe went to the moon. [[The Long Call (Two Rivers) Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Ann CleevesPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It The Dutch House by Susie DayAnn Patchett]]===
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When Max’s dad finds himself in a spot of hot water, he disappears for a few days, leaving Max in charge of we first meet Danny and his three younger sisterselder sister, ThelmaMaeve Conroy, Louise they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and Ripleyunder the gaze of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. Max has no problem It's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and the closest Danny seems to come to him is when he goes out with stepping up to fill his dad’s shoes and be him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the man in chargefamily owns. Elna Conroy is loving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when his dad still doesn’t come home, he starts to panic that interfering grown ups will realise that the children are home-alone, and told that they she will step in and separate the familynot be returning. So Max takes his sisters to WalesIn other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, to hide out in a friend’s cottagebut their primary relationship is with each other. It won’t be for long, surely? Because his dad wouldn’t miss Christmas, would he? 's a bond which only death will break. [[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It The Dutch House by Susie DayAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[Sunlight 24 The Very Rude Toytoise by Merritt GravesPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science FictionFor Sharing|Science FictionFor Sharing]] If the game wasn’t fair before, it’s definitely not fair now. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, part It was one of those blissful days in the ever-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revisionforest. And Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because he can’t afford Revision, he can’t get into college, he can’t get she wanted to make a jobcake. And when he sees the brilliant and mesmerizing Lena for the first time, he knows he doesn’t have Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a chance with her, eithernest. And so, Dorian robs Mrs Spider was busily spinning a house with his best friend, Ethanweb to catch juicy flies. Then they do it again. They’re able to keep at it until they have enough money saved Mrs Squirrel was piling up for their first Revisionacorns. Their initial choices And Mr Bear sat comfortably in self-enhancement start impacting their future choicesa chair, which in turn impact their future Revision––on and on in a downward spiral of self-destructionfishing for lunch. What could be better? And then... [[Sunlight 24 The Very Rude Toytoise by Merritt GravesPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[Recipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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[[imageWho knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and there's no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and the two children are absolutely meticulous though:3they're going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the coal for the eyes, searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's coat and picking out the perfect piece of headgear. There's quite a choice available, but the family decide on the bobble hat, presumably to keep the snowman warm.5star The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosen.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeRecipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|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 Melanie Martin -->
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===[[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To KnowWar and Love: 4th Edition A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Kalpesh AsharMelanie Martin]]===
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Melanie 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'Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know 'but then realised that her own family'gives people without an accounting backgrounds stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, who have risen but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a company, the knowledge country with liberal values who were resistant to understand German occupation. Most people believed that the accounts which show how occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the company is doing. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on to give an excellent overview of Germans might reach the types of accounting systems which will city were convinced that they would soon be encountered and pushed back, that the terms used. We then look Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in detail at the balance sheetway that it did, but initial protests melted away as the income statement and the statement of cash flowsorganisers became more circumspect. If you understand these three sections It's an atrocity on a set vast scale, but made up of tens of accounts they will tell you a story. You will understand the company (or indeed any other business) but if you don't understand what's there you will be missing vital clues as to whether or not the company is thrivingthousands of individual tragedies. [[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To KnowWar and Love: 4th Edition A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Kalpesh AsharMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass Snowflake, AZ by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughMarcus Sedgwick]]===
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Harleen Quinzel This is new a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in townquite some time. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if sheThe novel's been around story follows a long time, for she always has young man named Ash in the process of joining a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out community of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new sick people in the curiously named townof Snowflake, and the town is Gotham CityArizona. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her motherThese people are sick, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with it's not a bunch sickness you've heard of drag queens. She also finds school is a dragInstead, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped they're environmentally ill – affected by a large household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and uncaring corporation radiation – but she also finds two characters that will have and their only ''cure'' is to stay in the town away from the real world. Though it's about a big impact on her lifereal place, the people in it are fictional. One It really is a civil-minded lass called Ivyplace apart, quite literally cut off from the other someone she only meets at night outside world – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass Snowflake, AZ by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Summer Book Brightfall by Tove JanssonJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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Tove JanssonRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's short novel about Summer life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is several worlds away from tasked by Father Tuck to break the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside her native Scandinaviacurse surrounding them and to save their lives. Book yourself an afternoon this SummerSetting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and take yourself and The Summer Book somewhere quieta sullen Robin Hood, preferably within sight and sound she becomes tangled in a maze of the seabetrayals, complicated relationships, settle back and prepare to be transported. a vicious struggle for the throne…[[The Summer Book Brightfall by Tove JanssonJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Nightjar by Lynda La PlanteDeborah Hewitt]]===
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Jane Tennison had worked hard to get ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a place box on the Flying Squad her doorstep one morning and she felt her life begins to unravel, fast. From that she was there on merit. The Squad wondered who she'd slept very moment, her life is flooded with to get the place magic, loss, expectation and bets were being taken as to who she'd sleep with in the first weekparticularly, betrayal. What none of them - Jane included - knew was As everything around her shifts, all that she was there as an experimentknows, in the hope all 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 doesn't tick all the boxes for the head of the Squadshe thinks she knows, DCI Murphymust change. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experienceWho can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, and the appropriate set of genitals - and he's determined that Jane will fail. can she even trust herself? [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Nightjar by Lynda La PlanteDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window American Royals by Rowan ColemanKatharine McGee]]===
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Trudy Heaton is going homeTwo and a half centuries ago, to a house where her roots burrow back through America won the centuries Revolutionary War and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen yearsGeneral George Washington was offered the crown. HomeToday, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss House of her husbandWashington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. She needs Beatrice's whole life has been building up to build bridges with her mother ruling the United States and convince the time for her grieving son that his father reign is deadimminent. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window American Royals by Rowan ColemanKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are The Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Mike ShackleNicola Monaghan]]===
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Mike Shackle has written It was more than a really interesting little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love (and unusual story the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for Narrow Marsh area of Nottingham. Then it was a shock when she found two bodies in the novel is 'No More Heroescellar before she' d even got settled in - and that is what makes this story so differentmanaged to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. There are villains galore They'd been there for some time, but no specific heroes; rather who - exactly - were the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, man and to find vengeancethe woman, wrapped in a world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang each other's arms? Having spent ten years on any one characterthe Murder Squad, no one is important, anyone can die and many doending up as a DCI she knows what's going to happen next, 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 she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to the storyget. [[We Are The Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Mike ShackleNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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IAmara'm capable of drawing s twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a profit and loss account (income statement in trip to New York to meet her father's side of the USA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisationfamily. The accounts give me But her father hasn't spoken to Amara'broadlys grandfather for many years - Amara doesn'' what I need: I t know whether we're making a profit or a loss why - and I can look at both her parents are resistant to the expenses idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future yearsa school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. My problem was that the accounts didn't really Eventually, her parents give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management seriesoff she goes... Cost accounting provides the information required by authorities external with a secret mission from her mother: to the company ''bring her father 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! Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Some Places More Than Others by Vibrant PublishersRenee Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Dance Lakes of Cranes Mars by Steve BurrowsMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:ThrillersScience Fiction|ThrillersScience Fiction]] DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy Hey, the estrangement being of his making, not hers. He hasnAaron Sheridan doesn't explained want to her that he live anymore. His entire family is doing this - and leaving for dead by his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep her safe from his nemesisown hand, Ray Hayeskilled in a shuttle crash. Lauren Salter has been promoted Unable to sergeant and now has her first murder case. It looks as though there's an obvious suspectdeal with the guilt, but Salter isn't so certain. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Hey, whilst Jejeune embarks on he signs up for the Fleet expecting a treacherous journey fatal deployment to rescue his brotherthe Rim War, Damianbut instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, who has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parksCorinth Station... [[A Dance Lakes of Cranes Mars by Steve BurrowsMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates]]===
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Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to another, never far from violence or abuse. Eager to succeed as a musician, 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 of extreme violence. Unpublished for 40 years, this edition of ''The Triumph of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates: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]]  <!-- Pike Maxwell N Andrews -->
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Rayne lives in the small, hidden village of Penderin where she The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a somewhat unwilling apprentice to her mother, the spell breatherpar with comments about Marmite. Not everyone can spell breathe, you have You're supposed to born with a magic spark love it or hate it and Rayne wishes she hadnI't been born with onem halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. She's From the cover of this I had a terrible spell breatherchild-friendly fantasy, her attempts are always followed by disaster what with that name and she positively hates Mam's spell book with it's sharp teeth that suck your bloodattractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. When a stranger finds their village one day, Mam must set off That was only built on a journey to by the great libraryinitial fictionalised quotes, leaving Rayne in the village as with their chief spell breathernon-standard spelling, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her motheras if texts of scripture in this book's book 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 turning everyone no proof that this was what I'd bought in to monsters. She must face her fear travel across the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book to save their village. for? [[The Last Spell Breather Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Julie PikeMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[I, Cosmo The Rabbit Girls by Carlie SorosiakAnna Ellory]]===
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Cosmo's family Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in crisis. Mom the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and Dad argue all people able to cross at liberty for the first timein decades. Emmaline doesn't quite understand She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it because , for shehas not left her father's too little but she feels itapartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. And Max One standard bed-bath, however, who is biggervery different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does understand it not recognise – and is terrified by itshe sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. Long ago One bombshell outside, when Max was just a babythen, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything he's gottwo inside... [[I, Cosmo The Rabbit Girls by Carlie SorosiakAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[A Winter Book by Tove Jansson]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. HeTove Jansson's always busy worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in his workshop, creating crazy potionsthe 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and he always has a smile on his face. Madelinesheer 's dad thinks hegoodness's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's oldthat would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry What is just great. Particularly on often forgotten outside of her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with native Finland is that she was a selection of potions and allows her to choose one serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a gift. And he always says 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 same thing..world might be. [[Don't Drink the Pink A Winter Book by B C R FeganTove 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:FantasyThe Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|FantasyFull Review]]
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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]]
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===[[The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost]]===
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Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, a charity investigating the cases Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of prisoners who can convince them that they've been wrongly convicted Hitler and theythe Nazis, but much isn're just moving on to their next caset. She's somewhat surprised when Clive, Some of her is stuck to the head of east fighting the charitySoviets, announces that she'll but some will soon have someone shadowing herto be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. AvrilFinding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's in her mid twenties tactical ineptitude and rather gauche as well as prone inability to putting her foot heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in itBerlin. One of The only way to shore things up, and repair the reasons they're now going splits, is to look at kill Hitler, and luckily the case of Carrie Kamara Baron Nicholas is that shethe man to do it. He's female aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and Innocence have never yet taken up the case other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a woman: such impressions matterGerman presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the capitalists and communists from meeting in the middle? [[Clear My Name The Man Who Killed Hitler by Paula DalyAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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