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===[[Bunny by Peter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
===[[Coming of Age by Danny Ryan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyFor Sharing|AutobiographyFor Sharing]]  ''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 Consistently unpublished for all that time, he remains a shining example of hope over experience...'' 
You might have seen Bunny on the beach where he lived. Like many beaches it was full of sand and Bunny didn't like sand, not least because it got between his toes and 'This 'scratched''. What he really liked was juicy green grass. All the other rabbits lived on the top of the cliff, where Bunny could see a memoir from someone you have never heard lot of tasty- but will feel like you havelooking grass. But the cliff was very high.'' [[Coming of Age Bunny by Danny RyanPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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The phrase I've often wondered about never trusting the story that patchwork quilting began as a book by its cover is something I put on a par with comments about Marmiteway for women (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to waste. YouThis undoubtedly 're supposed to love it or hate 'did'' happen but when you think about it and I'm halfway between, you need an awful lot of material to make a quilt and likewise the old adage is halfway truetime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. From Like Thomas Knauer I've come to the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with conclusion that name it began as an art and has largely continued down that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, same road with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture fluctuations in this book's world predated our standardised literacypopularity over the years. 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 Why We Quilt by Maxwell N AndrewsThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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Berlin, 1989When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. Miriam is in She crept into the middle of a city freshly unitedhouse after midnight, with carefully putting her clothes into the Wall newly broken down washing machine and she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and people able children Mabel, Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to cross at liberty for the first time in decadesflat. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she He has not left a few hours to spare and can't wait to see her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very differentOnly, when he gasps she gets to the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and flat she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, thenfinds Saul Stevenson, her boss and two inside. And inside her fatherlover, Henryk, what is going dead on, as he has a first person narrative alternating with her story? the floor. What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman The hammer that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Rabbit Girls Lying Room by Anna ElloryNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[A Winter Book Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room she has all a girl could ask for in the 1940s and later becoming television characters way of the simplicitytoys, books, naivety games and sheer 'goodnessdollies. She' s a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and everything in her room can be used to take her on adventures. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawingsshe likes to be alone, simple stories, simple goodnessbut Madeleine's not alone on all the trips she takes. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is We'll find out that yesterday she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and told to tidy her room, but instead of doing 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 to the world might bemoon. [[A Winter Book Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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''Illinois TerritoryWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, Collective Homesteads of America.they'' Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large re both living at The Dutch House with their property is at times parents and under the gaze of the portraits of austeritythe former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. Others are called Foresters, for they live It's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and work in trees. When the small area closest Danny seems to come to him is when he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the Foresters live in family owns. Elna Conroy is placed under compulsory purchaseloving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the residents children are given a pitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared outtold that she will not be returning. Our heroIn other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live but their primary relationship is with an uncle and learn their ways – heeach other. It's just of age to decide things for himself, and he has decided to see how the other half lives..a bond which only death will break. [[The Collective Dutch House by Lindsey WhitlockAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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Germany is split. Some It was one of her is those blissful days in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn'tforest. Some of her is stuck Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have make a cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see itbuild a nest. Finding out that the war Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web 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 Berlincatch juicy flies. The only way to shore things Mrs Squirrel was piling up, and repair the splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the man to do itacorns. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people And Mr Bear sat comfortably in industry, society and other circles of powera chair, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europefishing for lunch. But will he still What could be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middlebetter? And then... [[The Man Who Killed Hitler Very Rude Toytoise by Andre PronovostPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[Recipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
===[[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:LGBT FictionFor Sharing|LGBT FictionFor Sharing]]
When we first meet DI Matthew Venn heWho knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and there's at his fatherno cooking involved! Mum, Dad and the two children are absolutely meticulous though: they's funeralre going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the coal for the eyes, although searching through the bits 'atn bobs jar for buttons for the snowman' rather overstates s coat and picking out the proximityperfect piece of headgear. He sees everyone - his mother and the preacher included from There's quite a distance - choice available, but he doesn't go it. He wouldn't be welcome. Those attending are part of the Barum Brethren and family decide on the teenage Matthew was thrown out when he told the congregation how wrong they were in their beliefs. It coincided with him leaving university and joining bobble hat, presumably to keep the police forcesnowman warm. The announcement moth-eaten pair of Matthewmittens simply won's marriage to Jonathan Church was in the local paper t do and a pair with purple and whilst he doesn't know if his father saw it, he can't imagine that it will have gone down wellpink stripes are chosen. [[The Long Call (Two Rivers) Recipe for Making a Snowman by Ann CleevesPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[Max Kowalski DidnWar and Love: A family't Mean It s testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Susie DayMelanie Martin]]===
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When Max’s dad finds himself Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in a spot of hot water, he disappears for a few daysoccupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, leaving Max particularly in charge ''The Diary of his three younger sisters, Thelma, Louise and RipleyAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. Max has no problem with stepping up to fill his dad’s shoes A hundred and be seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the man in chargewar years, but when his dad still doesn’t come home, he starts only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to panic German occupation. Most people believed that interfering grown ups will realise the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the children are home-aloneGermans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, and that they will step the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in and separate the family. So Max takes his sisters to Walesway that it did, to hide out in a friend’s cottagebut initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It won’t be for long's an atrocity on a vast scale, surely? Because his dad wouldn’t miss Christmas, would he? but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. [[Max Kowalski DidnWar and Love: A family't Mean It s testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Susie DayMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[Sunlight 24 Snowflake, AZ by Merritt GravesMarcus Sedgwick]]=== [[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science Literary Fiction|Science Literary Fiction]] If the game wasn’t fair beforeThis is a deep, it’s definitely not fair nowinteresting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, part The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in the ever-expanding portion curiously named town of humanity who can’t afford the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as RevisionSnowflake, Arizona. And because he can’t afford RevisionThese people are sick, he can’t get into college, he can’t get but it's not a jobsickness you've heard of. And when he sees the brilliant Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and mesmerizing Lena for the first timefabrics, pesticides, he knows he doesn’t have a chance with herstatic electricity, eitherand radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in the town away from the real world. And so, Dorian robs Though it's about a house with his best friendreal place, Ethan. Then they do the people in it againare fictional. They’re able It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to keep at 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 and on in a downward spiral of self-destruction..decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Sunlight 24 Snowflake, AZ by Merritt GravesMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]===
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[[image:3Robin 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.5starMarion'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 to save their lives.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[:Category:CrimeBrightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|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 Hewitt -->
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===[[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition The Nightjar by Kalpesh AsharDeborah Hewitt]]===
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''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know The Nightjar''gives people without is an accounting background, who have risen unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a companybox on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how the company her life is doing. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessaryflooded with magic, loss, then moves on to give an excellent overview of the types of accounting systems which will be encountered expectation and the terms usedparticularly, betrayal. We then look in detail at the balance sheetAs everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, the income statement and the statement of cash flowsmust change. If you understand these three sections on a set of accounts they Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who 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 thriving. she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition The Nightjar by Kalpesh AsharDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around Two and a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitudehalf centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each timeGeneral George Washington was offered the crown. But here she is new in townToday, and the town is Gotham CityHouse of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Expecting a year-long furlough from Beatrice's whole life with has been building up to her mother, she finds her gran dead ruling the United States and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood time for her reign is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her lifeimminent. 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 American Royals by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from It was more than a little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of Nottingham. Then it was a shock when she found two bodies in the Moomintrolls cellar before she is most famous for outside 'd even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her native Scandinaviafoot in the course of making the discovery. Book yourself an afternoon this Summer They'd been there for some time, but who - exactly - were the man and take yourself and The Summer Book somewhere quietthe woman, preferably within sight and sound of wrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years on the seaMurder Squad, ending up as a DCI she knows what's going to happen next, settle back and prepare but she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to be transportedget. [[The Summer Book Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Tove JanssonNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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Jane Tennison had worked hard to get a place on the Flying Squad Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she felt that she was there on merit. The Squad wondered who she'd slept with wants nothing more for it than a trip to get the place and bets were being taken as New York to who shemeet her father'd sleep with in s side of the first weekfamily. What none of them But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Jane included Amara doesn't know why - knew was that she was there as an experiment, in and both her parents are resistant to the hope that a female presence would have a calming effectidea. The job had been advertised But Amara is nothing if not persistent and Jane was the only female who applied who ticked all a school family history project provides her with the boxesperfect wedge. She doesn't tick all the boxes for the head of the SquadEventually, DCI Murphyher parents give in and off she goes... He wanted someone with at least ten years' experience, and the appropriate set of genitals - a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and he's determined that Jane will failGrandpa Earl back together again. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Some Places More Than Others by Lynda La PlanteRenee Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window Lakes of Mars by Rowan ColemanMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in a shuttle crash. Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up for the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment to the Rim War, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station... [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]] <!-- Shackle Ryan -->
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===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]===
===[[Coming of Age by Danny Ryan]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyAutobiography|FantasyAutobiography]] ''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...'' 
Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' 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 survive, to fight back, and to find vengeance, in This a world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many do, memoir from someone you have never heard of - but, will feel 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 storyyou have. '' [[We Are The Dead Coming of Age by Mike ShackleDanny Ryan|Full Review]]
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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 capable of drawing up a profit halfway between, and loss account (income statement in likewise the old adage is halfway true. From the USA) and cover of this I had a balance sheet child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and I do so that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for my own business and for another organisationan attractive water plant. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look at That was only built on by the expenses and see what looks initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as though it could be trimmed back if texts of scripture in future yearsthis book's world predated our standardised literacy. My problem But why was that the accounts didn't really give me any help I two chapters in making decisionsand just finding more and more characters, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting both human and Management''animal, part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management series. Cost accounting provides the information required by authorities external to the company ''more and'' to those within it who need to make decisionsmore flashbacks, so don't worry and no proof that youthis was what I're going to have to draw up two sets of accounts! d bought in for? [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Vibrant PublishersMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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DCI Domenic Jejeune Berlin, 1989. Miriam is no longer with Lindy Hey, in the estrangement being middle of his makinga city freshly united, not herswith the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. He hasn't explained to her that he She is doing this - and leaving in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant and now she has not left her first murder case. It looks as though therefather's an obvious suspectapartment in weeks, but Salter isn't so certainnursing him as he lies dying. Sgt Danny Maik One standard bed-bath, however, is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Heyvery different, whilst Jejeune embarks on when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever a treacherous journey to rescue tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his brotherwatch. One bombshell outside, Damianthen, who has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parksand two inside... [[A Dance of Cranes The Rabbit Girls by Steve BurrowsAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey A Winter Book by Joyce Carol OatesTove Jansson]]===
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Bobby is an angryTove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby written in a bus station lockerthe 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and then being thrown from one foster home sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or detention centre to anotherteletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, never far from violence or abusesimple goodness. Eager to succeed 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 musician, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream feeling for the natural world and the simple life that not only informed those child- like trolls 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 went far beyond any fantasy of how the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''world might be. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey A Winter Book by Joyce Carol OatesTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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Rayne lives in the small''Illinois Territory, hidden village Collective Homesteads of Penderin where she is a somewhat unwilling apprentice to her mother, the spell breatherAmerica. Not everyone can spell breathe'' Some people live in sunken houses, you have buried into hillsides to born with a magic spark and Rayne wishes she hadn't been born with onedisguise how large their property is at times of austerity. She's a terrible spell breather Others are called Foresters, her attempts are always followed by disaster for they live and she positively hates Mam's spell book with it's sharp teeth that suck your bloodwork in trees. When a stranger finds their village one daythe small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, Mam must set off on the residents are given a journey pitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared out. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the great library, leaving Rayne in trees for the village as their chief spell breatherHills, but to live with an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her motheruncle and learn their ways – he's book just of age to decide things for himself, and turning everyone in he has decided to monsterssee how the other half lives.. She must face her fear travel across the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book to save their village. [[The Last Spell Breather Collective by Julie PikeLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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Cosmo's family Germany is split. Some of her is in crisisfavour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Mom and Dad argue all Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the timecontinent to put things right as they see it. Emmaline doesn Finding out that the war to the east isn't quite understand it because sheworking, due to Hitler's too little but she feels ittactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. And Max The only way to shore things up, and repair the splits, who is biggerto kill Hitler, does understand it and luckily the Baron Nicholas is terrified by the man to do it. Long ago He's aristocratic enough, when Max was just a babyhe knows enough people in industry, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever society and other circles of power, so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything once he's got..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? [[I, Cosmo The Man Who Killed Hitler by Carlie SorosiakAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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