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===[[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) Bunny by Nicola MonaghanPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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It was more than a little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of You might have seen Bunny on the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of Nottinghambeach where he lived. Then Like many beaches it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before shefull of sand and Bunny didn'd even t like sand, not least because it got settled in - between his toes and managed to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery''scratched''. What he really liked was juicy green grass. They'd been there for some time, but who - exactly - were the man and All the woman, wrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years rabbits lived on the Murder Squadtop of the cliff, ending up as where Bunny could see a DCI she knows what's going to happen next, but she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to getlot of tasty-looking grass. But the cliff was very high. [[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) Bunny by Nicola MonaghanPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[Some Places More Than Others Why We Quilt by Renee WatsonThomas Knauer]]===
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I'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. [[Why We Quilt by Thomas Knauer|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]] <!-- Graves Nicci French -->
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===[[Lakes of Mars The Lying Room by Merritt GravesNicci French]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionCrime|Science FictionCrime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. Aaron Sheridan doesnShe crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can't want wait to live anymore. His entire family is dead by his own handget husband Fletcher and children Mabel, killed in Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a shuttle crashtext telling her to come to the flat. Unable He has a few hours to deal with the guiltspare and can't wait to see her. Only, he signs up for the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment when she gets to the Rim Warflat she finds Saul Stevenson, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command schoolher boss and lover, Corinth Station.dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[Lakes of Mars The Lying Room by Merritt GravesNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
===[[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...''
Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room she has all a girl could ask for in the way of toys, books, games and dollies. 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 she likes to be alone, but Madeleine's not alone on all the trips she takes. We'll find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her room, but instead of doing that she went to the moon. [[Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
''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 Ann Patchett -->
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When we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they're both living at The phrase about never trusting Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. It's a book by its cover strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and the closest Danny seems to come to him is something I put when he goes out with him on a par with comments about MarmiteSaturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway betweenElna Conroy is loving, and likewise but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the old adage is halfway truechildren are told that she will not be returning. From the cover of In other circumstances this I had a child-friendly fantasymight have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, what but their primary relationship is with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water planteach other. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this bookIt's world predated our standardised literacya bond which only death will break. 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 The Dutch House by Maxwell N AndrewsAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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Berlin, 1989It was one of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a nest. Miriam is in the middle of Mrs Spider was busily spinning a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able web to cross at liberty for the first time in decadescatch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. She is And Mr Bear sat comfortably in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel ita chair, fishing for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dyinglunch. 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. What could be better? One bombshell outside, And then, and two inside... [[The Rabbit Girls Very Rude Toytoise by Anna ElloryPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[A Winter Book Recipe for Making a Snowman by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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Tove JanssonWho knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and there's worldwide fame lasts on no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and the Moomin bookstwo children are absolutely meticulous though: they're going to get everything right, written in even down to doing some mining to get the 1940s and later becoming television characters of coal for the simplicityeyes, naivety and sheer searching through the bits 'goodnessn bobs jar for buttons for the snowman' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbiess coat and picking out the perfect piece of headgear. Simple drawings There's quite a choice available, simple storiesbut the family decide on the bobble hat, simple goodnesspresumably to keep the snowman warm. What is often forgotten outside The moth-eaten pair of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had mittens simply won't do and a feeling for the natural world pair with purple and the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might bepink stripes are chosen. [[A Winter Book Recipe for Making a Snowman by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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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 ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads The Diary of America.Ann Frank''but then realised that her own family' Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of austeritys stories were equally fascinating. Others are called ForestersA hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, for they live but only five thousand survived and work Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in treesa country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. When Most people believed that the small area occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, Germans might reach the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out before city were convinced that they get manfully cleared out. Our hero, Elwynwould soon be pushed back, has just left that the trees for Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the Hillsway that it did, to live with but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an uncle atrocity on a vast scale, but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. [[War and learn their ways – heLove: A family's just testament of age to decide things for himselfanguish, endurance and he has decided to see how the other half lives... [[The Collective devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Lindsey WhitlockMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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[[image:3starThis is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's not a sickness you've heard of. Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in the town away from the real world. Though it's about a real place, the people in it are fictional. It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionSnowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick|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 capitalists and communists from meeting in the middle? [[The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost|Full Review]] <!-- Ann Cleeves Moyer -->
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===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]===
===[[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFantasy|CrimeFantasy]], [[:Category:LGBT Historical Fiction|LGBT Historical Fiction]]
When we first meet DI Matthew Venn he's at Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his father's funerallove Marian, although 'at' rather overstates the proximity. He sees everyone - his mother and the preacher included from retreating to a distance monastery – although no- but one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he doesn't go ithad built. He wouldnMarion't be welcome. Those attending are part of s life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the Barum Brethren curse surrounding them and the teenage Matthew was thrown out when he told the congregation how wrong they were in to save their beliefslives. It coincided Setting off with him leaving university a soldier, a Fey Lord and joining the police force. The announcement a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of Matthew's marriage to Jonathan Church was in betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the local paper and whilst he doesn't know if his father saw it, he can't imagine that it will have gone down well. throne…[[The Long Call (Two Rivers) Brightfall by Ann CleevesJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It The Nightjar by Susie DayDeborah Hewitt]]===
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When Max’s dad ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds himself in a spot of hot waterbox on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, he disappears for a few daysfast. From that very moment, leaving Max in charge of his three younger sistersher life is flooded with magic, Thelmaloss, Louise expectation and Ripleyparticularly, betrayal. Max has no problem with stepping up to fill his dad’s shoes and be the man in chargeAs everything around her shifts, but when his dad still doesn’t come home, he starts to panic that interfering grown ups will realise all that the children are home-aloneshe knows, and all that they will step in and separate the family. So Max takes his sisters to Walesshe thinks she knows, to hide out in a friend’s cottagemust change. It won’t be for long, surelyWho can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? Because his dad wouldn’t miss ChristmasMore importantly, would hecan she even trust herself? [[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It The Nightjar by Susie DayDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[Sunlight 24 American Royals by Merritt GravesKatharine McGee]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science General Fiction|Science General Fiction]] If Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the game wasn’t fair before, it’s definitely not fair nowcrown. Or so thinks Dorian WatersToday, part of the ever-expanding portion House of humanity who can’t afford Washington still sit on the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revisionthrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. And because he can’t afford Revision, he can’t get into college, he can’t get a job. And when he sees Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the brilliant United States and mesmerizing Lena for the first time, he knows he doesn’t have a chance with for her, either. And so, Dorian robs a house with his best friend, 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 choices, which in turn impact their future Revision––on and on in a downward spiral of self-destruction..reign is imminent. [[Sunlight 24 American Royals by Merritt GravesKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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[[image:3It 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 cellar before she'd even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery.5star They'd been there for some time, but who - exactly - were the man and the woman, wrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years on the Murder Squad, ending up as a DCI she knows what's going to happen next, but she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to get.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeDead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan|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 Renee Watson -->
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===[[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition Some Places More Than Others by Kalpesh AsharRenee Watson]]===
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''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background, who have risen in a company, the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how the company is doing. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on to give an excellent overview of the types of accounting systems which will be encountered and the terms used. We then look in detail at the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of cash flows. 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 what's there you will be missing vital clues as to whether or not the company is thriving. [[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition by Kalpesh Ashar|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]] <!-- Tamaki and Pugh Graves -->
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===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass Lakes of Mars by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughMerritt 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:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead 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 is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. 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 by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|Full Review]] <!-- Tove Jansson Ryan -->
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===[[The Summer Book by Tove Jansson]]===
===[[Coming of Age by Danny Ryan]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Literary Fiction:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] ''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...''
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]]
''This a memoir from someone you have never heard of - but will feel like you have.'' [[Coming of Age by Danny Ryan|Full Review]]  <!-- Lynda La Plante Maxwell N Andrews -->
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Jane Tennison had worked hard to get The phrase about never trusting a place book by its cover is something I put on the Flying Squad and she felt that she was there on merita par with comments about Marmite. The Squad wondered who sheYou'd slept with re supposed to get the place love it or hate it and bets were being taken as to who sheI'd sleep with in m halfway between, and likewise the first weekold adage is halfway true. What none From the cover of them this I had a child- Jane included - knew was friendly fantasy, what with that name and that she was there as attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an experiment, in the hope that a female presence would have a calming effectattractive water plant. The job had been advertised and Jane That was the only female who applied who ticked all built on by the boxesinitial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. She doesn't tick all the boxes for the head of the SquadBut why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, DCI Murphy. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experienceboth human and animal, and the appropriate set of genitals - more and more flashbacks, and heno proof that this was what I's determined that Jane will fail. d bought in for? [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Lynda La PlanteMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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Trudy Heaton Berlin, 1989. Miriam is going homein the middle of a city freshly united, to a house where her roots burrow back through with the centuries Wall newly broken down and people able to a mother cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she hasnhas not left her father't spoken to for sixteen yearss apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. HomeOne standard bed-bath, her refugehowever, Ponden Hallis very different, where when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she can heal herself does not recognise – and try to come to terms with she sees for the traumatic loss of her husbandfirst time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. She needs to build bridges with her mother One bombshell outside, then, and convince her grieving son that his father is deadtwo inside... Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window Rabbit Girls by Rowan ColemanAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are The Dead A Winter Book by Mike ShackleTove Jansson]]===
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Mike Shackle has Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for 1940s and later becoming television characters of the novel is simplicity, naivety and sheer 'No More Heroesgoodness' and that is what makes this story so differentwould later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight backSimple drawings, and to find vengeancesimple stories, in a world that has been utterly torn apartsimple goodness. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one What is important, anyone can die and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a much larger plot serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that is rich and complex she had a feeling for the natural world and keeps the reader glued to simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the storyworld might be. [[We Are The Dead A Winter Book by Mike ShackleTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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I'm capable 'Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in the USA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisationAmerica. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at the expenses times of austerity. Others are called Foresters, for they live and see what looks as though it could be trimmed back work in future yearstrees. My problem was that When the small area the accounts didn't really give me any help Foresters live in making decisionsis placed under compulsory purchase, which was why I turned the residents are given a pitiful amount to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management seriesclear out before they get manfully cleared out. Cost accounting provides Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the information required by authorities external Hills, to the company ''live with an uncle andlearn their ways – he'' s just of age to those within it who need to make decisionsdecide things for himself, so don't worry that you're going and he has decided to have to draw up two sets of accounts! see how the other half lives... [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know The Collective by Vibrant PublishersLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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DCI Domenic Jejeune Germany is no longer with Lindy Hey, split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the estrangement being of his makingNazis, not hersbut much isn't. He hasn't explained to Some of her that he is doing this - and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks that this stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will keep her safe from his nemesissoon have to be on the other front, Ray Hayesagainst the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Lauren Salter has been promoted Finding out that the war to sergeant and now has her first murder case. It looks as though therethe east isn't working, due to Hitler's an obvious suspecttactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, but Salter isn't so certainsome people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. Sgt Danny Maik The only way to shore things up, and repair the splits, is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Heyto kill Hitler, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the man to rescue his brotherdo it. He's aristocratic enough, Damianhe knows enough people in industry, who has gone missing in one society and other circles of Canadapower, so once he's largest national parkssucceeded 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? [[A Dance of Cranes The Man Who Killed Hitler by Steve BurrowsAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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