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'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].'''{{newreview|author=Steven Camden|title=Tape|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This treasure of a book is an affectionate tribute to the world of the mixed tape and the human desire to find a fairy tale. It encapsulates universal themes of love, hope and fate while adding a soupcon of magic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007511205</amazonuk>}}

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|author=Richard Scarry

|summary=There’s an enormous disembodied eye staring at me. At 30cm it’s as big as a dinner plate and it’s in my living room. Which is no bad thing because if I met it in the sea then I’d really be in trouble. Fortunately the eye is contained on page four of the intriguing and really rather splendid, book 'Actual Size'.

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~~|author=Jonathan Lethem~~

~~|title=Dissident Gardens~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=General Fiction~~

|summary=Rose Zimmer, a feisty American communist radical, takes on many good and great causes. These include everything from feminism and racism to the changing course of Stalinism in the American C.P. but most of all; her biggest causes are the people around her. The effects upon them are diverse and devastating. She often propels them to success but at the same time they feel battered and must escape according to their own needs. Her affections are real but invasive. Rose keeps a shrine to Abraham Lincoln. Rose’s self-assertion within the perimeters of the German-designed 20th Century New York suburb of Queens, a multi-cultural suburb and a planned housing development similar to Hampstead Garden City provide the setting for Jonathan Lethem’s Tour de Force.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563428</amazonuk>~~

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