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'''Winner'''
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|author=John Green
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|title=The Fault in Our Stars
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|rating=5
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|genre=Teens
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|summary= Having been diagnosed at age 12 with stage 4 thyroid cancer, Hazel was prepared to die. Then at age 14, a miracle treatment shrunk the tumours in her lungs...for the time being. Hazel could live for years, or she could die at any time, but her days are spent tethered to an oxygen tank and under constant surveillance and treatment to keep the cancer at bay. Hazel is now 16. With her life in a constant holding pattern, Hazel meets Augustus Waters at a cancer support group. Augustus is gorgeous, sharp-witted, in remission and completely attracted to Hazel. As their relationship blossoms and grows, Hazel finds she has to re-examine her attitude about life and death, illness and wellness and love. Their brief journey together leaves a lasting legacy behind that will change everything.
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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141345659</amazonuk>
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'''Other Books We Read'''
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|author=Rachel Joyce
 
|author=Rachel Joyce
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|author=Gillian Flynn
 
|author=Gillian Flynn
 
|title=Gone Girl
 
|title=Gone Girl
|rating=Unreviewed
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|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
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|genre=Thrillers
|summary= W&N
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There’s a distressing moment in any long-term relationship where you realise that, in practice, happily ever after looks a lot like an eternity of small, snarling arguments about who forgot to buy food, who should take out the rubbish and who is responsible for that mouldering pile of clothes in the corner of the bedroom. Domestic bliss is often more like very polite guerrilla warfare between two people who love each other so much that they want to spend the rest of their lives fighting about it. You and your partner are absolutely in each other’s pockets – but no matter how close you are, there’s always one last barrier you can’t break down. You aren’t them, and they aren’t you, and so you can never truly know what’s really going on inside that well-known head.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>
 
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|author=Julia Gregson
 
|author=Julia Gregson
 
|title=Jasmine Nights
 
|title=Jasmine Nights
|rating=unreviewed
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|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
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|genre=GeneralFiction
|summary= Orion
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|summary=The temptingly titled Jasmine Nights starts promisingly. Saba, a talented singer whose gift to the war is entertaining the troops, comes from an unhappy family background, and one that has little patience for the opportunities for women brought about by war. Dom, a fighter pilot who has sustained injuries, is feeling displaced - the war has changed his world forever. 
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409103048</amazonuk>
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409103048</amazonuk>
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{{topten
 
|author=John Green
 
|title=The Fault in Our Stars
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Teens
 
|summary= Having been diagnosed at age 12 with stage 4 thyroid cancer, Hazel was prepared to die. Then at age 14, a miracle treatment shrunk the tumours in her lungs...for the time being. Hazel could live for years, or she could die at any time, but her days are spent tethered to an oxygen tank and under constant surveillance and treatment to keep the cancer at bay. Hazel is now 16. With her life in a constant holding pattern, Hazel meets Augustus Waters at a cancer support group. Augustus is gorgeous, sharp-witted, in remission and completely attracted to Hazel. As their relationship blossoms and grows, Hazel finds she has to re-examine her attitude about life and death, illness and wellness and love. Their brief journey together leaves a lasting legacy behind that will change everything.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141345659</amazonuk>
 
 
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Revision as of 11:07, 21 March 2013