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|author=Betty Lussier
|title=Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Betty Lussier was born in Alberta, Canada. At the height of the depression her father bought a Maryland farm at a bank foreclosure sale, they crossed the border to the States and settled down to the hard life of raising dairy cattle and the crops needed to feed them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1591144493</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenn Ashworth
|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that the Jackson family was unimaginative. Jack Jackson, the head of the household was generally known as Pa, even before he had any children to call him by that name. His wife, Jacqueline, was known as Ma. You could put all this down to accident but naming their first child Jackie (after a comic which Ma had enjoyed in her youth) and their second child Jacques might confirm your fears. It was a few years before they acquired a pet, but the cat was to be called Jackson and the Dutch Hamster Sjaak. Guess what their house was called? Yup – it was Jacksonville.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955431433</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kim Newman
|title=Anno Dracula
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=The story begins in London. It is 1888 and Queen Victoria is on the throne. She has recently remarried, taking as her husband the infamous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula's influence is all around London as more and more of its citizens turn willingly to vampirism, whilst others resist its temptations. A distinct sense of social and political unrest is in the air as factions speak out against the race of vampires, somehow spurred on by the serial killer at large. Known at first as the Silver Knife, but later as Jack the Ripper, this killer targets young vampire women in Whitechapel, prostitutes who have recently turned to vampirism, known as new-borns.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857680838</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander Baron
|title=There's No Home
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's the year 1943 and Sicily has been invaded (along with other parts of Europe). The menfolk have gone (will they return?) and the women, children and old people left behind are a sorry sight. Impoverished, ragged and with barely enough food to eat. A British company of soldiers rolls into town ... and everything changes. The men are foot-sore, exhausted and dirty. They are also glassy-eyed with the horrors of war. And as if that were not enough, the Sicilian sun beats down on them mercilessly. But there's some good news - they're here to rest and recuperate for a while.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956308600</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Frey
|title=The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The Rabbis say that all the signs are there from the birth of Ben Zion Avrohom that he is the Messiah. That's a lot of anyone to cope with and, like Jesus, there's much of Ben's early life that is untold here. When he is involved in an horrific accident on a building site that he miraculously survives, albeit with terrible scaring, the prophecies appear to be true. He develops a form of epilepsy during which he appears to speak to God. He is fluent in ancient languages despite never learning them, knows all the Holy books by heart and yet distains all forms of religion, instead spreading his message of love to all who meet him in modern day New York.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848543174</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adele Geras and Shelagh McNicholas
|title=My Ballet Dream
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Tutu Tilly really loves ballet. She's been learning for about a year now, and her ballet school is about to put on its end of year show. She is both excited and nervous. But, of course, disaster strikes...the wrong costumes are sent and the tutus and shoes aren't pink...they're blue!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309815</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Raj Kumar
|title=Sharaf
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=With its subtitle "Forbidden love in the kingdom of faith and honour", I expected something entirely different from ''Sharaf'' to what it delivered. For the second time in as many weeks I had misjudged a book by, if not its cover exactly, certainly by its setting and its blurb.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905802331</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Mathie
|title=Bride Price
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary='Bride Price' has proved an even more absorbing book than I anticipated from its Amazon write-up. I read it in a single sitting; the issues it raised overwhelming my thoughts for the next couple of days. In terms of its overall flavour, quality and impact value, I'd bracket it with the classic 'Walkabout' by James Vance Marshall.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906852081</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicole Snitselaar and Coralie Saudo
|title=Little Grey Donkey
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Little Grey Donkey lives on a small island in the middle of the big blue sea. As he is the only inhabitant on the island things could possibly get quite lonely for him. They do not, however, because he has a friend called Serafina, a small girl who rows across the ocean every day in order to play with him. One day though, the little girl does not come and visit and little Grey Donkey is sad. He waits all that day, and many more days to come, but she does not appear. Eventually he is so worried about his friend that he decides to go and find her even if that means going on a tricky journey. The path is narrow and terribly steep; he is scared of going in a boat and he is worried that the rusty brown lift might fall or get stuck. However, each time that he feels afraid, he thinks of Serafina and that spurs him on until eventually he finds her and realises that she has been ill. She is so pleased to see him and that makes everything that he has been through worth while.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849562458</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Benjamin Mandelkern
|title=Escape from the Nazis: The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland
|rating=3.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Do we all have it in us? Would you as a Pole in 1940s Poland, who like as not had been 'educated' in the horrendous evil of Jews by your church - would you ignore Nazi death threats and countless opportunities for the wrong thing to be said, for the truth to be let out, for betrayal - would you help a Jewish life survive?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1550280554</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Watson
|title=Eleven
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The book's title has been well thought out. Xavier Ireland, the main character has the number ''Eleven'' if you take his initials as Roman numbers (XI) and there are eleven individuals who are involved in this chain reaction of events. When I read the blurb on the back cover, what caught my eye above all else was the line 'whether the choices we don't make affect us just as powerfully as those we do.' And of course, when we take no action about something in our lives, it's a form of action in effect.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983136X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Perry
|title=Betrayal at Lisson Grove
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=After recently reading Perry's [[Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry|Acceptable Loss]] and thoroughly enjoying it, I was looking forward to reading this book and hoping it would be as good as read. The novel opens with Pitt, Special Branch, in the midst of frenzied action trying to catch a suspect. Suspected of murder, it's imperative that he's caught. They weave between crowds, duck through alleys, but their best efforts are simply not good enough. The man is not caught. He's free to strike again. This all makes for a good, old-fashioned chase as Pitt makes up his mind to board a ferry for France, believing that's where the suspect could be heading. Pitt is extremely thorough and meticulous in all matters of policing but this may very well bode ill later on in the story. We learn of deep unrest in parts of the world: Europe and Ireland in particular. And Perry is good at giving her readers a little palatable history here and there, to keep us all in the loop.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075537682X</amazonuk>
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