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|authorisbn= Stephen Baxterwilliamabbey|title= World Engines: DestroyerThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire North|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionParanormal|summary= Hundreds When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of years a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the futuregrieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, on a stagnating and almost empty Earthhe slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, a space shuttle pilot from as the early days shadow of the 21st century is awoken from dead boy begins to follow him across the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accidentworld. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he comes finds himself unable to terms with this new worldresist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he begins to realise also learns that their history does not match what he remembers - the dark shadow is deadly – and that only he may be able seeks to stop kill the coming catastrophe destined to destroy one he loves the planet. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her own, and a plan...|isbn=1473223172most…
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|isbn=14063893311643785036|title=In the Key of CodeThe Wondrous Apothecary|author=Aimee LucidoMary E Martin
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across AmericaThose who have known Alexander Wainwright, to follow her fatherthe landscape artist famous for his Turner prize winning ''The Hay Wagon''s dreams of a big break in his music career. She leaves behind her friends , and her school in WisconsinRinaldo, renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk and moves to Californiacheese, if not sworn enemies. If you've watched the relationship, knowing only what she as has heard in songs. Her struggle to settle into her new lifeour narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, make friends and feel happy drawing and confident again, is agonisingly told repulsing each other in a way we can all relate toequal measure. There are many new opportunities and setbacks, taking Wainwright was at the reader on a rollercoaster socially acceptable end of emotionsthe artistic continuum, but with Rinaldo it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language was all too obvious that she begins to feel she might have there was but a chance fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisance. As time has worn on, he's frequently been brought to feel like she truly belongsthe attention of the police. On this latest occasion we see him charged with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''.
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|isbnauthor=1529402255Mary H.K. Choi|title=A Body in the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxPermanent Record|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeTeens|summary= Evie Bowes Pablo, a college drop-out, is very conscious of the scars on her faceworking at a New York bodega. They were acquired when she was rescued from a car He's massively in the River Ouse by Inspector Halloran. She’d been suspected of the murder of her boyfrienddebt, Owenhe's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, he's surprised to discover that the process of clearing her name she girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed as unlikely as it may seem, they start a taste for detectionrelationship. Kitt developed a taste for Inspector Halloran TooWith one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone, and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, but they’re taking it slowly's an interesting clash as they come together. WellThis isn't just a love story though, sort of slowlyand actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smart.|isbn=0349003459
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|authorisbn= Alexandra Christo1609809319|title= Into the Crooked PlaceLong-Haired Cat-Boy Cub|author=Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|rating= 45|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= In One day a world thriving boy is in the zoo with black magichis father, four young crooks embark when the man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a quest cab and taken home first, though, no – he's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told to take down their criminal leader after they discover just stick around on his own and enjoy himself. Well, it's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the plot behind his dangerous lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks of a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new magicexhibit.|isbn=1250318378 And it's then the drama begins…
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|authorisbn=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark Gill1785785516|title=Madness Between Light and DarkFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin|rating=3.54|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary=Manners maketh man, they say. It's 1912certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some of which are ages old and at New Hope Sanatorium, Christine Agnes Tupper is fast growing upother which have evolved over time. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of her hunchback Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, shethey have nothing to do with class or financial status: they's nevertheless grown up re about getting the basics right before we try to an intelligent girl deal with a good heartmore difficult matters. Her encounters Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with the inhabitants of the asylum swiftly take her on a fascinatingfamily and friends, thrilling but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and sometimes terrifying journey of self discovery, allowing Agnes to prove that, even with a twisted spine, her heart is in act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the right place!|isbn=1641110708way.
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|isbn=190874572X0008324859|title=Letters from ToveFowl Twins|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)Eoin Colfer
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|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Back at Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the beginning baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of the century I went on holiday Fowl family to Nepalcontend with. I met Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a wonderful Finnish woman troll and we became sort of friends. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or without even trying manage to make two deadly enemies: a later one that Paula told me I really had nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to read Tove Janssonother people), and an unusual interrogator-nun. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Bookboys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and that I eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of'' translations of even killed (though not for long), all with the rest help of Jansson's work and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on themone trainee fairy.
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|isbn=17847427831472255798|title=The Benefit of Hindsight Bad Fire (Simon SerraillerBob Skinner)|author=Susan HillQuintin Jardine|rating=4.5
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|summary=A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky and - all things considered - his Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life is as good as it could be. He's back at work after being accused of shoplifting from a long break to recuperate from the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his lifelocal supermarket. When heIt's not at work healways been assumed that she couldn's spending his time in t live with the cathedral roof drawing shame. People were surprised that she committed suicide just before the medieval angels which are being restoredcourt case when she had been adamant that she would fight to clear her name. ThereShe said that she's talk d been set up because she was hot on the trail of an exhibition of his drawingscorruption in the council. Lafferton seems to be quite settled Her ex-husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as far well as crime is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelter. Itretired Police Constable Bob Skinner's the usual story of a broken-down cardaughter, and a phone asked that she look into clearing Brown's name: it's something which won't make a call. The man are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions he feels that the couple are simply there he has to plan a robbery. It's a serious error of judgement do in the course memory of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubthis son who was murdered recently.
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|isbn=140638853XB07X6GLQ3Q|title=Somebody Give This Heart a PenSee Them Run|author=Sophia ThakurMarion Todd|rating=54|genre=AnthologiesCrime|summary=Sophia ThakurD I Clare Mackay is still relatively new to St Andrew's: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station in Glasgow. She's debut anthology is left quite a lot behind including a collection of poems relationship that are all unique, whether in relation wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to their style, length or themesupport her when the chips were down. The collection is split into four sectionsShe also left a nasty situation, titled 'grow'of her own making but not her fault,and St Andrew'wait','breaks is a fresh start. Not long into the job she's faced with a hit and run death and there'grow agains little doubt that it wasn', guiding you through a process which is one of t accidental - the foundations that card with the anthology is built onnumber five suggests murder. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, Andy Robb was married to African proverbsSandra. This provides You could say that they had an open marriage but there seemed to be a nice introduction to lot of the section before you are immersed into 'open' and very little of the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into.'marriage' left - on both sides, but would she want him dead?
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|isbn=19109894601786540991|title=Flember: The Secret BookImpossible Boy|author=Jamie SmartBen Brooks|rating=4.5
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|summary=A mysterious island''Oleg and Emma entered their den to find a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually sat. A strange and mystical power called FlemberSlowly, the front door opened. Smoke billowed out. A And out stepped a boy-inventor called Dev, who uncovers dressed in a long forgotten secretcoat with an even longer scarf, wound around his neck. '' ''"My name's Sebastian Cole," the boy said, "But you already know that."'' And a giantindeed they do. Ever since the summer, when their friend Sarah's mother had moved her away, red robot bear?! The sleepy village of Eden is about Oleg and Emma have been unable to descend into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save his brand find a new best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventureto take her place.
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|isbn=02413552221447281357|title=FrostheartSalvation Lost|author=Jamie LittlerPeter F Hamilton|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Way out in In the furthest part of the known worldtwenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a tiny stronghold exists all comparative utopia. Yet life on its ownEarth is about to change, cut off from forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the rest of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Seaworst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. ThereThe supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, a little boy called Ash waits for in order to carry us to their god at the return end of his parentsthe universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, singing a forbidden lullaby vast warships converge above to remind him of themgather this cargo... and doing his best Some factions push for humanity to avoid his veryflee, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobuto live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But life is about others refuse to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ashbreak before the storm. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powersAs disaster looms, he's whisked aboard animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the Frostheart, face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his helpfuture this generation will never see. But can they help him find his family?
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|isbn=19131010371471186393|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures Photographer of Bronte Mettlestonethe Lost|author=Jaclyn MoriartyCaroline Scott|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=Bronte doesn't miss her parents, and she's not particularly sad when she learns May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of their terrible fate at the hands photograph. It is a picture of piratesher husband, Francis. And why should she be? After all Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was a babyyoung widow can believe. They swanned off to have adventures She hangs on the word 'missing', and never once came back to check if their only child was healthy and happydisbelieving the word killed.
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|isbn=14012800481783784350|title=BatmanThis Golden Fleece: Nightwalker: The Graphic NovelA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris WildgooseEsther Rutter|rating=45|genre=TeensHistory|summary=The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people – bystanders, paparazzi, she'd never met and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteenpreparing spreadsheets. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deedsThe job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concernedBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and gets given telling the most unlikely stretch story of community service instead – cleaning in wool's history and how it had made and changed the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylumlandscape. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free range child on the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any tenfarm'' -figure bank account contents they canand learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and murder the ownerher mother's friend. Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?This was in her blood.
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|isbn=B07W4MNBSG1401286208|title=Be Careful Who You MarryBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Lizzy MumfreyMeg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It was coming up Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to Halloween try and follow in 1987 his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a group cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a case of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing her voice finding her, as when they were fiftyshe gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancientYou could almost call it a weapon, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''or a power. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living But in order for her to call herself a farmhouse and having superhero, there has to be a couple whole path of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. The place steps for her to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just take – one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.of which will be into her past…
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1789017977|title=In The Absence of MiraclesRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
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|genre=ThrillersHistory|summary=John DochertyRonnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's mother has birthdate: he claimed to have been taken into born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a nursing home following a massive stroke. It is thought unlikely that she will ever be able to live independently againfew years off his age. Faced with having to sell For a while the family home was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in order the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to pay for her nursing care, Docherty starts the clear outa very different lifestyle. In the attic One thing he finds a childhood picture of himself, holding a toddler – a toddler he knows nothing aboutdid inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He also finds a blood-stained shoejoined the army at eighteen in 1942.|isbn=191237479X
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|isbn=06928535451542015421|title=The Things We DoRoyal Baths Murder|author=Kay PfaltzJ R Ellis|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage of suspects: he was a prison psychologist at deeply unpleasant man. In fact the state penitentiary and she knows only surprising thing was that her next patient is not going there wasn't more of a queue waiting to be easydo the dirty deed. 'Jane Doe' has been convicted What was a bit of a headline maker was that Penrose was a crime writer and that he was strangled in the murder midst of two men - one a police officerHarrogate's crime writing festival. She pleaded guilty He went for a swim at the Royal Baths and since then has been silent: even her identity is in doubtnever returned, his body being found by the receptionist. She DCI Jim Oldroyd was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrested, but it's been proved to be falsethe man tasked with investigating the crime. There seem to It would not be no family or friends who are missing her. Eleanorthe only death, and it was only because of the quick actions of his sergeant, Andy Carter, that Oldroyd's task is to get Jane talking, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two menwas not one of them.
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|author=Patti SmithDaniel Kraus|title=Year of the MonkeyBlood Sugar
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|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=On This is a difficult read. And not because of the coast dark subject matter – that'll come later – but because of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year way in which it's told. This might put a lot of readers off, and to be honest it'd be hard to blame them. Kraus tells the monkey - one packed story in a distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; an erratic dialect with mischief, sorrowheavy and frequent slang. The immediate effect is disorientating and distracting, and unexpected momentsit takes some time to feel natural. In It's a strangerstruggle to acclimatise to Jody's wordsvoice, ''Anything is possible: after allto get acquainted with his mannerisms, it's the year of but the monkeystory wouldn''. As Smith wanders t be the coast of Santa Cruz in solitudesame without it, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and aging are faced head onsomehow it works. It shouldn't, as but it the shifting political waters in Americadoes. |isbn=15266147581789091934
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|author=Margaret AtwoodDon Behrend|title=The TestamentsCopernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting Questions
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|genre=Dystopian FictionTrivia|summary= FinallyHello! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The HandmaidWould this review be okay if I simply said ''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. FIN's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]?! Because I did. And you will. |isbn=1789016770}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1925820025|title=Once, I don't want was Loved|author=Belinda Landsberry|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tock, the toy rabbit, is in a box of toys going to tell you too much about the plot because itcharity shop. He realises that he's a novel not wanted any more, but muses that is entirely plot drivenit wasn't always this way. Suffice it to say that ''The TestamentsOnce'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a vanhe says, not knowing what will happen next''I was loved''. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with And he tells us of all the expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada children who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into have loved him over the store owned by her parentsyears...|isbn=1784742325
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|author=Anne BodenKarina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)|title=The Money RevolutionIt Would Be Night in Caracas|rating=4|genre= Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction |summary= Money is changing. ''It might not be Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the ways you thinkeveryday horrors of modern day Venezuela. We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon's mother and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different chronicles Adelaida's coming to the 1, 2, 5 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital terms with payments, which seems her new solitude in this world and her attempts to suit most people apart from charity collectors escape it. Danger stalks the shadows and the homeless on the street, but although this book has in a society where the subtitle that includes the word ‘’digital’’establishment is crumbling, it’s not really about this either. Instead it’s about the ‘’management’’ of your finances, and how who can you turn to take control.? |isbn=17896606100062936867
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|isbn=147117316X0349423067|title=Guilty Not GuiltyThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Felix FrancisFrances Brody
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|genre=ThrillersCrime (Historical)|summary=The Honourable William Herbert Millgate Gordon-Russell (Bill Russell From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to those Covent Garden. In early March 1929 one of the porters who knew him well) was acting as unloading the boxes discovered the body of a volunteer steward at Warwick Racecourse when he was told of the violent death man, stripped naked and with no means of his much-loved wifeidentification. It would get worse though: Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the successful insurance actuary would be accused services of killing Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and hounded by connections in Yorkshire would give them the medialead they needed. Then he would lose his job Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and his home. His best friends would turn against him, as they came could not come to believe him guilty of terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. Yet there He was no really compelling evidence that he was guiltyreluctant to give her all the information which the police held.
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|isbnauthor=1908745819Stephen Baxter|title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen JamieWorld Engines: Destroyer|rating=54|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain bookHundreds of years in the future, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their worda stagnating and almost empty Earth, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so, unless it turns out that we didn't like a space shuttle pilot from the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case I was told why. The blurb speaks early days of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a bad description of where I amdevastating accident. Add As he comes to that my love of the natural terms with this new world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical he begins to realise that are about style their history does not form, match what he remembers - and substance most that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of allher own, about connectionand a plan. Of course this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|isbn=1473223172
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