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  • The Nanny Goat's Kid by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
    ...ave given birth to the kid but she still saw him as her child and when the sisters said that he should leave the herd she decided to go with him. ...ble when things go wrong. When push came to shove Nanny Goat's kid and her sisters' kids all realised what was important to them – and the differences simpl
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  • The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner
    |title=The Sisters of the Winter Wood |sort= Sisters of the Winter Wood
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  • Eden Moore – Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
    ...most constant companions since early childhood have been the ghostly three sisters who seem to mean her no harm, but their warnings are too cryptic to be unde ...approaches. This is a clever method to increase the blood pressure. The sisters announce that danger is nigh and the reader then realises, but, being feist
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  • Me and My Sisters by Sinead Moriarty
    |title=Me and My Sisters Louise, Sophie and Julie. Three women. Three sisters. One a successful business woman. One a successful trophy wife. One a succe
    5 KB (974 words) - 11:47, 25 February 2018
  • The Dark Blood (The Long War) by AJ Smith
    |title=The Dark Blood (The Long War) |sort=Dark Blood (The Long War)
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  • I Made a Mistake by Jane Corry
    ...be disappointed: we particularly liked [[Blood Sisters by Jane Corry|Blood Sisters]] and [[The Lies We Tell by Jane Corry|The Lies We Tell]].
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  • Blood Sisters by Jane Corry
    |title=Blood Sisters Two sisters and one of their friends set off for school. None of them make it. It sound
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  • A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland
    ...as taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change. ...om the well. The ancient source of healing has been re- consecrated to the Sisters of the Order of St John who have enclosed the sacred well within their chap
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  • The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz
    ...t this is a story told by Calamity Leek, a child living together with her 'sisters', taken care of by 'aunty' and occasionally visited by 'mother'. Calamity ...are familiar, such as the term 'aunty' it is soon clear that aunty isn't a blood relation, and that things are not quite normal for the nieces living with h
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  • The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
    ...ungest daughters: their elder sister died some time ago. The two remaining sisters get on reasonably well provided that they remain on opposite coasts of Amer ...'s friend from California sums it up when she says "families are toxic and blood is bloody".
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  • The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
    ...at she's been wanting and training for her whole life… but so too have her sisters. And only the best will be selected. ...han she ever imagined. As the dangers of Court intensify, Camellia and her sisters will begin to doubt everything they've been told and question who they can
    5 KB (865 words) - 13:49, 11 August 2020
  • Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
    ...ery continent. But the Nephilim grow weak, their blood contaminated by the blood of their human ancestors. ...the best place for her. She is happy, content with the simple ways of the sisters of the perpetual adoration until a stranger named Verlaine shows up asking
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  • The Red Prince (The Long War) by AJ Smith
    ...rst two books…….The surviving sinister, deadly Sisters (formerly the Seven Sisters) are slowly gaining global power and tortuous control. It's not over for o ...The Black Guard]] and [[The Dark Blood (The Long War) by AJ Smith|The Dark Blood]] before you start on this Book 3 as you'll miss so much joining the journe
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  • Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger
    ...ight persons were kept in the dark, so to speak, but any vampire worth his blood should know a preternatural's touch.'' And sentences of that ilk. I was i ...in the best possible taste - and it works. Full moons, copious amounts of blood etc are all thrown into the mix.
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  • Blood Born by Kathryn Fox
    |title= Blood Born ...walk free and only hours later there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other
    5 KB (782 words) - 14:32, 6 March 2018
  • Chaos Queen - Dark Immolation (Chaos Queen 2) by Christopher B Husberg
    ...Daemons. He sees it as a positive but there's a high price to be paid in blood for everyone else. Our remaining adventurers return to Jane and Cinzia's h
    4 KB (730 words) - 09:45, 19 February 2018
  • A Durable Fire by Barbara and Stephanie Keating
    The authors are sisters. They grew up in Kenya, but one now lives in France and the other in Irelan ''A Durable Fire'' is the sequel to ''Blood Sisters''. It's not necessary to have read the earlier book to enjoy this one. I wa
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  • Oliver Fibbs 2: The Giant Boy-Munching Bugs by Steve Hartley
    ...family. His mother is a brain surgeon, his father a famous architect, his sisters are the stars of the National Ballet Academy and his little brother is a ge ...ather, who is suffering from a rare tropical disease caused by the bite of blood sucking insect. Finally Oliver has something exciting to talk about in scho
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  • The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
    |summary=The story of the women in one family tied by blood and tied by the unchanging inequality of the sexes through more than a cent Kabul 2007: Rahima and her sisters are followed home from school one day by a boy on his bike. He taunts them
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  • The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
    ...fusing nor has an unsatisfying ending. This is a heart-warming tale of two sisters and the man who makes all the difference to them both. Stella and Nina are sisters who are joined by much more than blood and childhood. Stella doesn't remember a time there wasn't Nina. And Nina d
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  • One Blood by Graeme Kent
    |title=One Blood ...ter Conchita has assumed reluctant control of a mission with three elderly sisters living there who are rather set in their ways, to say the least. Then a bod
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  • Broken Angels by Graham Masterton
    ...[The Heavens Rise by Christopher Rice]]. We also have a review of [[Blood Sisters by Graham Masterton]].
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  • Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
    |title=Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses ...andra herself, sadly proved their undoing. Then we are introduced to four sisters from an earlier generation, the daughters of the Grand Duke and Duchess of
    8 KB (1,266 words) - 07:32, 21 September 2020
  • The Nine Day Queen by Ella March Chase
    ...d, for history knows her as Lady Jane Grey; a name that will be written in blood. ...ey Sisters'' which seems a better title as it's narrated by the three Grey sisters and half of it is set after Jane's execution. (It starts with her beheadin
    5 KB (787 words) - 08:59, 22 March 2018
  • The Second Duchess by Elizabeth Loupas
    ...cters are given depth and complexity, particularly Alfonso’s two unmarried sisters, who are malicious and scheming. I also liked the way that Barbara and Alfo For more crime, mystery and intrigue in renaissance Italy, try [[A Name in Blood by Matt Rees]]. We also have a review of Loupas's [[The Red Lily Crown by E
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  • A Nye of Pheasants by Steve Burrows
    ...ting is what's keeping the business afloat. The bad relations between the sisters didn't just revolve around the value of the protein from the pheasants as c
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  • Singing to the Dead by Caro Ramsay
    ...ack to remind myself which mother belonged to which boy. A pair of warring sisters also had me confused for the first few chapters in which they appear. On t ...ottish crime fiction seek out Grace Monroe's [[Blood Lines by Grace Monroe|Blood Lines]] which will appeal to armchair detectives.
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  • The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams
    ...g. She remembers what it was like in the womb, the pumping of her mother's blood, the different tones of her father's voice telling her stories, and the cla If this book appeals then you might like to try [[On Black Sisters' Street by Chika Unigwe]] or [[Shadow of a Thief by Celine Ibe]].
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  • The Heart Specialist by Claire Holden Rothman
    ...the genes. If that's the case it's skipped younger sister Laure. The two sisters are very different. Laure is a gentle and pretty girl but her health is ra
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  • Tides of War by Stella Tillyard
    ...lst the women become firm friends and show that, even in the 19th century, sisters were indeed doing it for themselves. Where Kitty is concerned, she sets ou ...re interesting than I can!) and the initial experiments that would lead to blood group discovery, each fact embroidered into the fabric of the story so it's
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  • All Their Minds In Tandem by David Sanger
    The three sisters that Emerson stays with are each different providing us with different view ...the backstories and current revelations we travel through gritty, violent, blood, sadness, smiles and searing beauty. Indeed this is a very subtle sci-fi t
    4 KB (623 words) - 12:26, 19 September 2020
  • Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)
    ...covered boy emerges from the cut Ellie made, asking where his brothers and sisters are. It also evokes quite a bit of gothic horror, with all of the gothic ar
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  • In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
    ...is generally less than grateful for the fact. The relationship between the sisters is skillfully drawn and there was never a point when I thought that it was ...vers, the living proof that some men have a brain and a penis but lack the blood supply to run both at the same time. The character is just a little too sup
    4 KB (785 words) - 11:04, 28 August 2020
  • Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
    ...that can treat the subject matter – which would probably make a feminist's blood boil – with a light-hearted honesty and truthfulness. It's all about the ...ers. Once again this is underscored by the only very mildly naïve pair of sisters, and is only reinforced by the level of humour throughout. Just as this is
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  • Widowland by C J Carey
    ...know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a d .... Until they grudgingly got mentioned I thought we'd never see the Mitford sisters here, lest it trigger their heirs' lawyers, and we're told how the press wo
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  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee
    ...how easy it was to thrust thrusting young fighters into things, and spread blood and gore all over proceedings. Call me biased, though, but I think it suff Not only that, but all the confusions are intact. The copious Bennet sisters look too similar, the houses and balls just run into each other, and I for
    5 KB (799 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2020
  • Man Booker Prize 2011
    |title=The Sisters Brothers |title=Half-Blood Blues
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  • The Black Guard (The Long War) by AJ Smith
    ...this is merely a portent of greater troubles ahead. One of the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying the Red Knights so if there is a secret agenda it's no ...st-timers, we recommend [[The Grim Company by Luke Scull]] or [[Promise of Blood (Powder Mage Trilogy) by Brian McClellan]].
    4 KB (763 words) - 11:06, 23 September 2020
  • The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner
    ...entirely from human bones, a man with the hand of skeleton, and the 'Seven Sisters Macabre', automatons pieced together from the corpses of a murderer's most ...goes to the opposite extreme of portraying all the peasantry as ignorant, blood-thirsty and greedy. Doubtless many of them were, but certainly not all. I t
    5 KB (887 words) - 15:40, 25 February 2018
  • Blood Sisters by Graham Masterton
    |title=Blood Sisters
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  • Alone In The Classroom by Elizabeth Hay
    .... she had an empty kettle in each hand and was alone, despite having three sisters.'' .... I think maybe it's just that they don't necessarily show clearly in the blood line, especially when they transpose genders. I'm much more like my father
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  • Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2016
    ...orrors she cannot share, and struggles to adjust to London life. But Gus's sisters can only see the enemy that their brother has brought under their roof, and |title=Sons of the Blood
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  • Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley
    ...ntion was to write a short life of the man, his relations with his mother, sisters, wife, and naturally his mistresses. Once granted unrestricted access to hi ...oholic who had gone mad, attempted to murder his wife, and died of a burst blood vessel while struggling with keepers who were trying to restrain him. A few
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  • Newest History Reviews
    ...s. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and ..., knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.
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  • Newest Crime Reviews
    |summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn ...hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as
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