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===[[American Royals Bunny by Katharine McGeePeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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Two You might have seen Bunny on the beach where he lived. Like many beaches it was full of sand and a half centuries agoBunny didn't like sand, America won the Revolutionary War not least because it got between his toes and General George Washington ''scratched''. What he really liked was offered juicy green grass. All the crown. Today, other rabbits lived on the House top of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in linecliff, where Bunny could see a lot of tasty-looking grass. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling But the United States and the time for her reign is imminentcliff was very high. [[American Royals Bunny by Katharine McGeePeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) Why We Quilt by Nicola MonaghanThomas Knauer]]===
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It was more than I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love way for women (and the rest of the relativesmyth would have it that it was always women) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area to make an extra blanket out of Nottinghammaterial which would otherwise go to waste. Then This undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you think about it was , you need an awful lot of material to make a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she'd even got settled in - quilt and managed to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discoverytime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. TheyLike Thomas Knauer I'd been there for some time, but who - exactly - were ve come to the man conclusion that it began as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over 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. [[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) Why We Quilt by Nicola MonaghanThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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AmaraWhen we meet Neve Connolly it's twelfth birthday is coming up and pretty obvious that she wants nothing more for it than a trip has something to New York to meet hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her father's side of clothes into the family. But her father hasnwashing machine and she can't spoken wait to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and both Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her parents are resistant to come to the ideaflat. But Amara is nothing if not persistent He has a few hours to spare and a school family history project provides can't wait to see her with the perfect wedge. Eventually Only, her parents give in and off when she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: gets to bring the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her father boss and Grandpa Earl back together againlover, dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[Some Places More Than Others The Lying Room by Renee WatsonNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[Lakes of Mars Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Merritt GravesPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionFor Sharing|Science FictionFor Sharing]] Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His entire family Madeleine is dead by his own handa very lucky girl: in her room she has all a girl could ask for in the way of toys, books, killed games and dollies. She's a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and everything in a shuttle crashher room can be used to take her on adventures. Unable She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to deal with the guiltbe alone, he signs up for but Madeleine's not alone on all the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment trips she takes. We'll find out that yesterday she was told to the Rim Wartidy her room, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station..of doing that she went to the moon. [[Lakes of Mars Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Merritt GravesPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dutch House by Ann Patchett]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Coming of Age by Danny Ryan:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]===
[[image:4starWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category It's a strange family dynamic:Autobiography|Autobiography]]  ''He began writing novels Cyril Conroy is distant and poetry at the age of twelve, but it was closest Danny seems to come to take him is when he goes out with him on a further forty-eight years to realise Saturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. Elna Conroy is loving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that he wasn’t very good at eithershe will not be returning. Consistently unpublished for all that time In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, he remains a shining example of hope over experience..but their primary relationship is with each other. It''  ''This s a memoir from someone you have never heard of - but bond which only death will feel like you havebreak.'' [[Coming of Age The Dutch House by Danny RyanAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on It was one of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a par with comments about Marmitecake. You're supposed Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway truebuild a nest. From the cover of this I had Mrs Spider was busily spinning a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plantweb to catch juicy flies. That Mrs Squirrel was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacypiling up acorns. But why was I two chapters And Mr Bear sat comfortably in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacksa chair, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in fishing forlunch. What could be better? And then... [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds The Very Rude Toytoise by Maxwell N AndrewsPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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Berlin, 1989. Who knew it? Miriam is in the middle of You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a city freshly unitedsnowman - and there's no cooking involved! Mum, with Dad and the Wall newly broken two children are absolutely meticulous though: they're going to get everything right, even down and people able to cross at liberty doing some mining to get the coal for the first time in decades. She is in eyes, searching through the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for she has not left her fatherthe snowman's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dyingcoat and picking out the perfect piece of headgear. One standard bed-bathThere's quite a choice available, howeverbut the family decide on the bobble hat, is very different, when he gasps presumably to keep the name ''Friedasnowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won'' that she does not recognise – t do and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, pair with purple and two inside..pink stripes are chosen. [[The Rabbit Girls Recipe for Making a Snowman by Anna ElloryPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[War and Love: A Winter Book family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Tove JanssonMelanie Martin]]===
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Tove JanssonMelanie 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'' but then realised that her own family's worldwide fame lasts on stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the Moomin bookswar years, written but 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 German occupation. Most people believed that the 1940s and later becoming television characters of occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' city were convinced that they would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawingssoon be pushed back, simple stories, simple goodness. 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 feeling for the natural world and Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the simple life way that not only informed those child-like trolls it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale, but went far beyond any fantasy made up of how the world might betens of thousands of individual tragedies. [[War and Love: A Winter Book family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Tove JanssonMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel'Illinois Territorys story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Collective Homesteads of AmericaArizona.These people are sick, but it's not a sickness you' Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times ve heard of austerity. Others are called ForestersInstead, for they live 're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and work radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in trees. When the small area town away from the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchasereal world. Though it's about a real place, the residents people in it are given fictional. It really is a pitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared out. Our hero, Elwynplace apart, has just left quite literally cut off from the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways outside world – he's just of age people are even required to decide things for himself, and he has decided to see how the other half lives..decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[The Collective Snowflake, AZ by Lindsey WhitlockMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Germany Robin Hood is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler gone – denouncing both his former life and the Nazishis love Marian, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck and retreating to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see itabandon all that he had built. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to HitlerMarion's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advicelife since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, some people reckon Stalin Marion is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way tasked by Father Tuck to shore things up, break the curse surrounding them and repair the splits, is to kill Hitlersave their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. He's aristocratic enougha sullen Robin Hood, he knows enough people she becomes tangled in industrya maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, 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 vicious struggle for the middle? throne…[[The Man Who Killed Hitler Brightfall by Andre PronovostJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]===
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[[image:4star''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. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[:Category:LGBT FictionThe Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt|LGBT FictionFull Review]]
When we first meet DI Matthew Venn he's at his father's funeral, although 'at' rather overstates the proximity. He sees everyone - his mother and the preacher included from a distance - but he doesn't go it. He wouldn't be welcome. Those attending are part of the Barum Brethren and 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 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 it, he can't imagine that it will have gone down well. [[The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves|Full Review]] <!-- Day McGee -->
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===[[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It American Royals by Susie DayKatharine McGee]]===
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When Max’s dad finds himself in Two and a spot of hot waterhalf centuries ago, he disappears for a few daysAmerica won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, leaving Max the House of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in charge of his three younger sisters, Thelma, Louise and Ripleyline. Max Beatrice's whole life has no problem with stepping been building up to fill his dad’s shoes and be her ruling the man in charge, but when his dad still doesn’t come home, he starts to panic that interfering grown ups will realise that the children are home-alone, United States and that they will step in and separate the family. So Max takes his sisters to Wales, to hide out in a friend’s cottagetime for her reign is imminent. It won’t be for long, surely? Because his dad wouldn’t miss Christmas, would he? [[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It American Royals by Susie DayKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[Sunlight 24 Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Merritt GravesNicola Monaghan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science FictionCrime|Science FictionCrime]] If It was more than a little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the game wasn’t fair before, it’s definitely not fair now. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, part rest of the everrelatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home -expanding portion a former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of humanity who can’t afford Nottingham. Then it was a shock when she found two bodies in the nanocellar before she'd even got settled in -implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revisionmanaged to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. And because he can’t afford Revision They'd been there for some time, he can’t get into college, he can’t get a job. And when he sees but who - exactly - were the brilliant man and mesmerizing Lena for the first timewoman, he knows he doesn’t have a chance with herwrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years on the Murder Squad, either. And so, Dorian robs ending up as a house with his best friendDCI she knows what's going to happen next, Ethan. Then they do but she's not prepared for quite how personal it again. They’re able 's all going 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..get. [[Sunlight 24 Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Merritt GravesNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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===[[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson]]===
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When council officer Chris Buckley Amara's twelfth birthday is approached by an old man who coming up and she wants his help in healing nothing more for it than a decades' old family rift he's reluctant trip to get involved, but then Chris is reluctant New York 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 hemeet her father's just lost both his parents within three months side of each otherthe family. HeBut her father hasn't spoken to Amara's currently existing in the family home grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and wondering when he's going both her parents are resistant to be made redundant from his job with the councilidea. The short answer to that one But Amara is 'soon'. Chris does his best to deter the old man, but it's nothing if not before he's left persistent and a lot of papers school family history project provides her with his neighbourthe perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... Then the old man is murdered with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and the police come calling on ChrisGrandpa Earl back together again. [[Drowned Lives Some Places More Than Others by Stephen BoothRenee Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition Lakes of Mars by Kalpesh AsharMerritt 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:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] ''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]] <!-- Tamaki and Pugh Ryan -->
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===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh]]===
===[[Coming of Age by Danny Ryan]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic NovelsAutobiography|Graphic NovelsAutobiography]]
Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always''He began writing novels and poetry at the age of twelve, but it was to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around take him a long further forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for all that time, for she always has he remains a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out shining example of those large eyes at everything anew each timehope over experience.. But here she is new in town, and the town is Gotham City. Expecting ''  ''This a year-long furlough memoir from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch someone you have never heard 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 feel like you 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 Coming of Age by Mariko Tamaki and Steve PughDanny Ryan|Full Review]]
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Tove Jansson's short novel The phrase about Summer never trusting a book by its cover is several worlds away from something I put on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise the Moomintrolls she old adage is most famous halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for outside her native Scandinaviaan attractive water plant. Book yourself an afternoon That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this Summerbook's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and take yourself animal, and The Summer Book somewhere quiet, preferably within sight more and sound of the seamore flashbacks, settle back and prepare to be transported. no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[The Summer Book Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Tove JanssonMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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Jane Tennison had worked hard to get a place on the Flying Squad and she felt that she was there on meritBerlin, 1989. The Squad wondered who she'd slept Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with to get the place Wall newly broken down and bets were being taken as people able to who she'd sleep with in cross at liberty for the first weektime in decades. What none She is in the middle of them - Jane included - knew was that such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she was there has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as an experimenthe lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, in is very different, when he gasps the hope name ''Frieda'' that a female presence would have a calming effect. The job had been advertised she does not recognise – and Jane was she sees for the only female who applied who ticked all the boxesfirst time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. She doesn't tick all the boxes for the head of the SquadOne bombshell outside, DCI Murphy. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experiencethen, and the appropriate set of genitals - and he's determined that Jane will failtwo inside... [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Rabbit Girls by Lynda La PlanteAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window A Winter Book by Rowan ColemanTove Jansson]]===
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Trudy Heaton is going homeTove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, to a house where her roots burrow back through written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the centuries simplicity, naivety and to a mother she hasnsheer 'goodness't spoken to for sixteen yearsthat would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Home, her refugeSimple drawings, Ponden Hallsimple stories, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that his father is dead. Where better than she had a feeling for the house full of light natural world and shadow, the simple life that nurtured her throughout her childhood? not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be. [[The Girl at the Window A Winter Book by Rowan ColemanTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The DeadIllinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.''; the tag line 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 the novel is 'No More Heroes' they live and that is what makes this story so differentwork in trees. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather When the small area the story Foresters live in is scattered with characters doing their own small part to surviveplaced under compulsory purchase, the residents are given a pitiful amount to fight backclear out before they get manfully cleared out. Our hero, and to find vengeanceElwyn, in a world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang on any one characterjust left the trees for the Hills, no one is important, anyone can die to live with an uncle and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves learn their own part ways – he's just of a much larger plot that is rich age to decide things for himself, and complex and keeps the reader glued he has decided to see how the storyother half lives... [[We Are The Dead Collective by Mike ShackleLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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I'm capable Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of drawing up a profit Hitler and loss account (income statement in the USA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisationNazis, but much isn't. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look at 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 expenses and continent to put things right as they see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future years. My problem was Finding out that the accounts didnwar to the east isn't really give me any help in making decisionsworking, which was why I turned due to Hitler''Cost Accounting s tactical ineptitude and Management''inability to heed advice, part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management seriessome people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. Cost accounting provides The only way to shore things up, and repair the information required by authorities external splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the company 'man to do it. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and'' to those within it who need to make decisionsother circles of power, so dononce he't worry that you're going s succeeded he might be able to have keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to draw up two sets of accounts! keep the capitalists and communists from meeting in the middle? [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know The Man Who Killed Hitler by Vibrant PublishersAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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