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===[[Lakes of Mars Bunny by Merritt GravesPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionFor Sharing|Science FictionFor Sharing]] Aaron Sheridan doesn’t want to live anymoreYou might have seen Bunny on the beach where he lived. His entire family had just died in a shuttle crash Like many beaches it was full of sand and he’d been the one flying Bunny didn't like sand, not least because itgot between his toes and ''scratched''. Unable to deal with What he really liked was juicy green grass. All the guilt, he signs up for other rabbits lived on the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment to top of the Rim Warcliff, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Stationwhere Bunny could see a lot of tasty-looking grass. But the cliff was very high.. [[Lakes of Mars Bunny by Merritt GravesPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[Why We Quilt by Thomas Knauer]]===
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[[image:4starI'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 material which would otherwise go to waste. This undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you think about it, you need an awful lot of material to make a quilt and the time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Like Thomas Knauer I've come to the conclusion that it began as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the years.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyWhy We Quilt by Thomas Knauer|AutobiographyFull Review]]
''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 Consistently unpublished for all that time, he remains a shining example of hope over experience...''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]]  <!-- Maxwell N Andrews Nicci French -->
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The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something I put on a par with comments about Marmiteto hide. YouShe crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can're supposed t wait to love it or hate it get husband Fletcher and I'm halfway betweenchildren Mabel, Connor and likewise Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the old adage is halfway trueflat. From the cover of this I had He has a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name few hours to spare and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plantcan't wait to see her. That was only built on by Only, when she gets to the initial fictionalised quotesflat she finds Saul Stevenson, with their non-standard spellingher boss and lover, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacydead on the floor. 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 The hammer that this was what I'd bought in for? s been used on his brain is at his side. [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds The Lying Room by Maxwell N AndrewsNicci French|Full Review]]
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Berlin, 1989. Miriam Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room she has all a girl could ask for in the middle way of a city freshly unitedtoys, books, with the Wall newly broken down games and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decadesdollies. She is 's a very lucky girl in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for another way too: she has not left imagination and everything in her room can be used to take her fatheron adventures. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, but Madeleine's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dyingnot alone on all the trips she takes. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'We' ll find out that yesterday she does not recognise – and was told to tidy her room, but instead of doing that she sees for went to the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside..moon. [[The Rabbit Girls Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Anna ElloryPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[A Winter Book The Dutch House by Tove JanssonAnn Patchett]]===
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Tove JanssonWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they's worldwide fame lasts on re both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the Moomin books, written in gaze of the 1940s and later becoming television characters portraits of the simplicity, naivety former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. It's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbiesthe closest Danny seems to come to him is when he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. Simple drawings Elna Conroy is loving, simple stories, simple goodness. What is but absent increasingly often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for until the natural world and point comes when the simple life children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each other. It's a bond which only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might bedeath will break. [[A Winter Book The Dutch House by Tove JanssonAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads It was one of Americathose blissful days in the forest.'' Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to disguise how large their property is at times of austeritymake a cake. Others are called Foresters, for they live and work in treesMrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a nest. When the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, the residents are given Mrs Spider was busily spinning a pitiful amount web to clear out before they get manfully cleared outcatch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. Our heroAnd Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chair, Elwyn, has just left the trees fishing 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 liveslunch. What could be better? And then... [[The Collective Very Rude Toytoise by Lindsey WhitlockPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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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:3starthey'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. 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:Historical FictionRecipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|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 Melanie Martin -->
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===[[War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Melanie Martin]]===
===[[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeHistory|CrimeHistory]], [[:Category:LGBT FictionBiography|LGBT FictionBiography]]
When we first meet DI Matthew Venn heMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in 's at his father's funeral, although The Diary of Ann Frank''atbut then realised that her own family' rather overstates the proximitys stories were equally fascinating. He sees everyone - his mother A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the preacher included from a distance - city during the war years, but he doesn't go it. He wouldn't only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be welcomeallowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Those attending are part of Most people believed that the Barum Brethren and occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the teenage Matthew was thrown out when he told Germans might reach the congregation how wrong city were convinced that they were would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in their beliefsthe way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It coincided with him leaving university and joining the police force. The announcement of Matthew's marriage to Jonathan Church was in the local paper and whilst he doesn't know if his father saw itan atrocity on a vast scale, he can't imagine that it will have gone down wellbut made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. [[The Long Call (Two Rivers) War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Ann CleevesMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It Snowflake, AZ by Susie DayMarcus Sedgwick]]===
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When Max’s dad finds himself This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a spot young man named Ash in the process of hot water, he disappears for joining a few days, leaving Max community of sick people in charge the curiously named town of his three younger sistersSnowflake, ThelmaArizona. These people are sick, Louise and Ripleybut it's not a sickness you've heard of. Max has no problem with stepping up to fill his dad’s shoes Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and be the man in chargefabrics, but when his dad still doesn’t come homepesticides, he starts to panic that interfering grown ups will realise that the children are home-alonestatic electricity, and that they will step radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in and separate the familytown away from the real world. So Max takes his sisters to WalesThough it's about a real place, to hide out the people in a friend’s cottageit are fictional. It won’t be for longreally is a place apart, surely? Because his dad wouldn’t miss Christmas, would he? quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It Snowflake, AZ by Susie DayMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Sunlight 24 Brightfall by Merritt GravesJaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Science Historical Fiction]] If the game wasn’t fair beforeRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, it’s definitely not fair nowand retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Or so thinks Dorian WatersMarion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, part of Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the ever-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford the nano-implant curse surrounding them and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revisionto save their lives. And because he can’t afford Revision, he can’t get into collegeSetting off with a soldier, he can’t get a job. And when he sees the brilliant Fey Lord and mesmerizing Lena for the first time, he knows he doesn’t have a chance with hersullen Robin Hood, either. And so, Dorian robs she becomes tangled in a house with his best friendmaze of betrayals, Ethan. Then they do it again. They’re able 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 choicescomplicated relationships, which in turn impact their future Revision––on and on in a downward spiral of self-destruction... vicious struggle for the throne…[[Sunlight 24 Brightfall by Merritt GravesJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]===
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[[image:3''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal.5starAs everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[:Category:CrimeThe Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt|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 McGee -->
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===[[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition American Royals by Kalpesh AsharKatharine McGee]]===
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''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background, who have risen in Two and a companyhalf centuries ago, America won the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the company is doingcrown. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessaryToday, then moves on to give an excellent overview of the types House of accounting systems which will be encountered and Washington still sit on the terms used. We then look thrown with Princess Beatrice next in detail at the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of cash flowsline. If you understand these three sections on a set of accounts they will tell you a story. You will understand the company (or indeed any other business) but if you don't understand whatBeatrice's there you will be missing vital clues as whole life has been building up to whether or not her ruling the United States and the company time for her reign is thrivingimminent. [[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition American Royals by Kalpesh AsharKatharine McGee|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 It was more than a long time, for she always has little bit of a very fresh attitude, surprise to Dr Sian Love (and seems to look out 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 those large eyes at everything anew each timeNottingham. But here Then it was a shock when she is new found two bodies in town, and the town is Gotham City. Expecting a yearcellar before she'd even got settled in -long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but managed to stay with break a bunch bone in her foot in the course of drag queensmaking the discovery. She also finds school is a dragThey'd been there for some time, she also finds but who - exactly - were the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large man and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact the woman, wrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years on her life. One is the Murder Squad, ending up as a civil-minded lass called IvyDCI she knows what's going to happen next, the other someone but she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind 's not prepared for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… quite how personal it's all going to get. [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside her native Scandinavia. 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 be transported. [[The Summer Book by Tove Jansson|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]] <!-- Lynda La Plante Graves -->
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===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Lakes of Mars by Lynda La PlanteMerritt 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:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Jane Tennison had worked hard to get a place on the Flying Squad and she felt that she was there on merit. The Squad wondered who she'd slept with to get the place and bets were being taken as to who she'd sleep with in the first week. What none of them - Jane included - knew was that she was there as an experiment, in the hope that a female presence would have a calming effect. The job had been advertised and Jane was the only female who applied who ticked all the boxes. She doesn't tick all the boxes for the head of the Squad, DCI Murphy. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experience, and the appropriate set of genitals - and he's determined that Jane will fail. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) by Lynda La Plante|Full Review]] <!-- Coleman Ryan -->
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===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]===
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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[[image:4star. 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? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman: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]]  <!-- Shackle Maxwell N Andrews -->
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Mike Shackle has written The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a really interesting par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and unusual story in I''We Are The Dead''; m halfway between, and likewise the tag line for old adage is halfway true. From the novel is 'No More Heroes' cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that is what makes this story so differentattractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather That was only built on by the story is scattered initial fictionalised quotes, with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, and to find vengeancenon-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in a this book's world that has been utterly torn apartpredated our standardised literacy. The plot does not hang on any one character But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, no one is importantboth human and animal, anyone can die and many domore and more flashbacks, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part of a much larger plot and no proof that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued to the story. this was what I'd bought in for? [[We Are The Dead Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Mike ShackleMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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I'm capable Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in city freshly united, with the USA) Wall newly broken down and a balance sheet and I do so people able to cross at liberty for my own business and for another organisationthe first time in decades. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look at She is in the expenses and see what looks as though middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it could be trimmed back , for she has not left her father's apartment in future yearsweeks, nursing him as he lies dying. My problem was that One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned to name ''Cost Accounting and ManagementFrieda'', part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning that she does not recognise – and Management seriesshe sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. Cost accounting provides the information required by authorities external to the company ''One bombshell outside, then, 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! inside... [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know The Rabbit Girls by Vibrant PublishersAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[A Dance of Cranes Winter Book by Steve BurrowsTove Jansson]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy HeyTove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the estrangement being 1940s and later becoming television characters of his makingthe simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, not herssimple goodness. He hasn't explained to What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that he is doing this - and leaving she was a serious writer…that she wrote for his native Canada - because he thinks adults as well as children…and that this will keep her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant she had a feeling for the natural world and now has her first murder case. It looks as though there's an obvious suspect, the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but Salter isn't so certain. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Hey, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey to rescue his brother, Damian, who has gone missing in one went far beyond any fantasy of Canada's largest national parkshow the world might be. [[A Dance of Cranes Winter Book by Steve BurrowsTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Collective by Joyce Carol OatesLindsey Whitlock]]===
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Bobby is an angry''Illinois Territory, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby Collective Homesteads of America.'' Some people live in a bus station lockersunken houses, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre buried into hillsides to anotherdisguise how large their property is at times of austerity. Others are called Foresters, never far from violence or abusefor they live and work in trees. Eager to succeed as When the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, the residents are given a musician, he arrives in Hollywood pitiful amount to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violenceout before they get manfully cleared out. Unpublished Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for 40 yearsthe Hills, this edition of ''The Triumph of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined to live with a connected novella an uncle and learn their ways – he''Loves just of age to decide things for himself, Careless Love''and he has decided to see how the other half lives... [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Collective by Joyce Carol OatesLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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[[image:4.5star3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction]]
Rayne lives Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the smallNazis, hidden village but much isn't. Some of Penderin where she her is a somewhat unwilling apprentice stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to her motherbe on the other front, against the spell breatherAmericans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Not everyone can spell breathe, you have Finding out that the war to born with a magic spark and Rayne wishes she hadnthe east isn't been born with one. Sheworking, due to Hitler's a terrible spell breathertactical 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, her attempts are always followed by disaster and she positively hates Mam's spell book with luckily the Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. He's sharp teeth that suck your blood. When a stranger finds their village one dayaristocratic enough, Mam must set off on a journey to the great libraryhe knows enough people in industry, leaving Rayne in the village as their chief spell breathersociety and other circles of power, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her motherso once he's book and turning everyone succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to monsters. She must face her fear travel across keep the monster-ridden country to find Mam capitalists and restore communists from meeting in the book to save their village. middle? [[The Last Spell Breather Man Who Killed Hitler by Julie PikeAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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