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===[[A Perfect Explanation Photographer of the Lost by Eleanor AnstrutherCaroline Scott]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Historical Fiction|Literary Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary Fiction]]
Enid Campbell was May 1921. Edie receives a woman who, on photograph through the face of post. There is no letter or note with it, had everything. Leading There is nothing written on the life back of an aristocrat – full the photograph. It is a picture of inherited wealth and splendourher husband, glamourous locales and high expectationsFrancis. Only Enid's life Francis has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosedmissing for four years. Technically, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her childrenhe has been "missing, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – believed killed" but that is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the true story of her own grandmotherword 'missing', Eleanor Anstruther has found disbelieving the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debutword killed. [[A Perfect Explanation Photographer of the Lost by Eleanor AnstrutherCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Wild West outside the walls of a theme parkNazis, but much isn't. Our agent 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 how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at . Finding out that the war to the indignity of white man against Native east isn'Indiant working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, who spends days some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo huntBerlin. The only way to shore things up, and who hates repair the way man – and womansplits, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USAto kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocideman to do it. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside downaristocratic enough, he knows enough people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravityindustry, society and whereother circles of power, who knows, things so once he's succeeded he might actually be betterable to keep a German presence in Europe. But that equator is a long way away – will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[Equator The Man Who Killed Hitler by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Andre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets Just Another Girl on the Road by Alison WeirS Kensington]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a raw deal by history, group of all the wives of Henry VIII German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she is got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the one who is known for being rejectedgroup off. Anne Boleyn It was 1944 and Farr and Katheryn Howard Valentine were part of the sexy onesJedburgh unit, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a sonEDMOND, Katherine of Aragon clung lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on to her crown father's merchant ship and Katharine Parr clung Katrinka had once had a crush on to Nye. When he offered her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us a job with a different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life and took ithis unit, she accepted. [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets Just Another Girl on the Road by Alison WeirS Kensington|Full Review]]
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In an alternate 1952Berlin, Soviet Troops control British Streets1989. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain Miriam is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from in the Eastmiddle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and Americans from people able to cross at liberty for the westfirst time in decades. Dividing She is in the nation between themmiddle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, London soon finds itself split for she has not left her father's apartment in twoweeks, a wall running through it like a scarnursing him as he lies dying. When Jane Cawson One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''s husband is arrested Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the murder of first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his former wifewatch. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, Jane what is determined to clear his name. In doing sogoing on, Jane follows as he has a trail of corruption that leads first-person narrative alternating with her right story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[Liberation Square The Rabbit Girls by Gareth RubinAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Flight Home by A L Hlad]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]===
[[image:4starSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a people on the edge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Long Flight Home by A L Hlad|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Clark Moyer -->
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===[[In The Full Light of the Sun Brightfall by Clare ClarkJaime Lee Moyer]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionFantasy|Literary FictionFantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
In 1930Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's Berlinlife since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, three people obsessed Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmelinesoldier, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, Fey Lord and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealersullen Robin Hood, live she becomes tangled in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise maze of Hitler and the Nazisbetrayals, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticitycomplicated relationships, vanity and self-delusion. a vicious struggle for the throne…[[In The Full Light of the Sun Brightfall by Clare ClarkJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence A Perfect Explanation by Philip KazanEleanor Anstruther]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Deep in Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the Tuscan countryside face of fifteenth century Italyit, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and homehad everything. Alone in Leading the forest, she meets a band life of an aristocrat – full of soldiers whoinherited wealth and splendour, believing her to be a boy train glamourous locales and develop her high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate those close to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable againher. Along the wayAfter losing custody of her children, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey Enid sells her son to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family historyher sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, Celavini must revisit or an act of desperation? Exploring the past he shares with Onoriatrue story of her own grandmother, in the hope that they can lay Eleanor Anstruther has found the ghosts of their shared history to restperfect subject for an explosive, before it's too late..moving and beautifully well-written debut. [[The Phoenix of Florence A Perfect Explanation by Philip KazanEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation Equator by Luce d'Eramo Antonin Varenne and Anne Milano Appel Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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For those It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of you a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who have read books bristles at the indignity of life white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the Nazi camps way man – and woman, of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next stepturn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. It begins, after all But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raidgold rushes, pioneer spirits and youracial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book'd not blame her one minutes version of Utopia, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by namely the Germans. In MunichEquator, where everything is upside down, she stumbles people walk on help their heads with rocks in their pockets to get her keep them on the ground to what seems to be a camp for noncounter the anti-native civilians to look for workgravity, or companyand where, or transport elsewherewho knows, either official or otherwisethings might actually be better. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and by then eyebrows are being raised. it… [[Deviation Equator by Luce d'Eramo Antonin Varenne and Anne Milano Appel Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count Six Tudor Queens: Anna of 9 Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Erle Stanley GardnerAlison Weir]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
''The Count Poor, frumpy Anne of 9'' Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the wives of Henry VIII she is a hardboiled detective story written in the 1950sone who is known for being rejected. It revolves around Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the detective duo dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine of Donald Lam Aragon clung on to her crown and Bertha Cool as they attempt Katharine Parr clung on to solve the theft her life but poor frumpy Anne of priceless Bornean artefactsCleaves just rolled over and moved along. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an impossible murderindependent life and took it. [[The Count Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of 9 Secrets by Erle Stanley GardnerAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden Liberation Square by Mary ChamberlainGareth Rubin]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Literary Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical General Fiction|Historical General Fiction]]
When Barbara Hummel arrivesIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, determined Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to identify be rescued by Russian soldiers from the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessionsEast, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pastsAmericans from the west. Revisiting their time on Dividing the Channel Islands during World War IInation between them, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and JoeLondon soon finds itself split in two, a Catholic Priest, remembers wall running through it like a time when he hid something very differentscar. In this story When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of lovehis former wife, loss and betrayalJane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, it remains Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to be seen whether a speck the highest levels of light can diffuse the darkest shadows state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of war… the murderous secret police… [[The Hidden Liberation Square by Mary ChamberlainGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters]]===
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At the beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing[[image:4star. In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, because of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Abbs Clark -->
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===[[Frieda In The Full Light of the Sun by Annabel AbbsClare Clark]]===
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Married to English Professor Ernest WeekleyIn 1930's Berlin, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married lifethree people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Visiting family Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in Munichthe politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, she becomes captivated and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the ideas subsequent rise of revolution Hitler and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. LawrenceNazis, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, changing the course discovery of both their livesthe art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course of literature foreverself-delusion. [[Frieda In The Full Light of the Sun by Annabel AbbsClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[House The Phoenix of Glass Florence by Susan FletcherPhilip Kazan]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At Deep in the beginning Tuscan countryside of the twentieth fifteenth-century it meant Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that Clara was confined to destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, living life through she meets a window band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the tales her motherdetermined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, Charlotteshe meets ex-soldier Celavini, brought homewhose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the sounds past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape can lay the house after her motherghosts of their shared history to rest before it's death - of a tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardenstoo late.. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[House The Phoenix of Glass Florence by Susan FletcherPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery of Spies Deviation by Manda ScottLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate For those of you who have read books of life in the horrific murder Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a strikingly beautiful elderly ladybombing raid, sheand you's puzzled – whilst d not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the identity of the woman has been erasedGermans. In Munich, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to the resistance were executed in World War Twolook for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. Solving But then the mystery will lead Inès deep next chapter sees her going back into the history of this woman – and back camp next to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperateDachau once more, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there by then eyebrows are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… being raised. [[A Treachery of Spies Deviation by Manda ScottLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration The Count of 9 by Robert LockErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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''MurmurationThe Count of 9'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Murmuration by Robert Lock|Full Review]] <!-- Winthrop -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Winthrop_Mercy.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147367249X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147367249X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits hardboiled detective story written in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays1950s. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for It revolves around the rape detective duo of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man Donald Lam and a white woman was never going Bertha Cool as they attempt to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]] <!-- Maitland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472235878.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472235878/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from solve the darker side theft of human naturepriceless Bornean artefacts. The land is unhappyHowever, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that their case quickly turns into something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change. [[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland|Full Review]] <!-- Syson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Syson_Peacock.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785761862/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; textdarker -align: left;"|===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit itimpossible murder. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472234782.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472234782/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=== [[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Audrey, a complex mix Count of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Story Keeper 9 by Anna MazzolaErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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