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ISomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone've said s past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this before has a wealth of information and is using it to evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but there the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are some books dying so that you seek outthese dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themcertainly - shouldn't be on the case, like, right now! but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it''Atomic Habits'' s having on her for long enough, she can sort it out... is in the last category. Or can she? [[Atomic Habits Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by James ClearAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death Out of the Dark by Tony KentGregg Hurwitz]]===
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The death of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made the news: his crucifixion dominated it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Met1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained up, mission ready. And yet untested.'' He's Major Incident Team was in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all the person whose job is was to find his killer. She never thought impeccable training that it would be easy: the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in the course of his work for over half a centuryyouth belies. It seems unreasonable to suggest that the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her a ray of hope, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All that's needed Evan Smoak is to find out what connects the two casesOrphan X. [[Marked for Death Out of the Dark by Tony KentGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Watching You by Ruth HoganLisa Jewell]]===
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Tilda returns to BrightonA teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, to tidy away a woman is convinced she knows a man in the remains of village and that he is following her mother's life . Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her deathnew neighbour. Whilst thereThe man's wife, meanwhile, she returns to engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfitshouse. A place where people can be themselvesOh, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhereteenage boy? He's her son. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonderthe girl he's spying on. With Plus, the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins man she thinks is out to pick apart get her is the tricky woman's husband (and uncertain relationship she had with is also the new headteacher at her sometimes cruel and distant motherdaughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this book. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Watching You by Ruth HoganLisa Jewell|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan Cooch -->
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===[[Lark Fish Seeking Bicycle by Anthony McGowanKate Cooch]]===
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IThis novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority'll warn you firsts borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]]
This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger. [[Lark by Anthony McGowan|Full Review]] <!-- Lucy Foley James Atkinson -->
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===[[The Hunting Party Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Lucy FoleyJames Atkinson]]===
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To begin with we don't know James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a great dealworkout instructor and he looks the part. We know that thereHe's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a body and before too long we know that Doug, the gamekeepermember of 9 Parachute Regiment, doesn't think it was an accidentRoyal Engineers. You get the feeling that Doug knows about these things. Three days earlier there had He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that one, the seating is going to be awkwardother side. Someone is going to be left on their ownThere was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. The highland lodge is stunning though, but these people who don't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult As a child he was slow to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really meansdevelop. In this case it This means that it's an hourhe 's drive to the 'understands'road'what it' s like and thathe knows how his clients feel: it's when much more helpful than the weather's good. But this new year, the weather definitely ''isn't'' good. This is serious snowtwenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[The Hunting Party Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Lucy FoleyJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the Bullies new anti-aging treatments by Richard RutherfordAdrian Cull]]===
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In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to enjoy themselves. They flew kites live forever and went sledging if there that so far, it was snow aroundworking out OK. Tim Time has passed though and Maryalthough I's m a great-grandfather started deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventiesfew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just It was time to look for Tim a new approach and Mary but for other children who gather in as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the playgroundbook I needed. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sisterLive Forever Manual: Science, whoethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at seemed like the stage where he knows how answer to deal with bulliesmy problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Tadcaster Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the Bullies new anti-aging treatments by Richard RutherfordAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why The City In The Middle Of The Night by Elaine Robertson NorthCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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When we first meet Dani sheJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn's about t exactly pleasant to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refusebegin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. She's Alex Cambridge's agent The other half is pure darkness and the indications are that he's about ice, where a creature can freeze to make the big time. He's good lookingdeath in seconds, charismatic and appealing - well, he's an actor so that's part of totally uninhabitable. In the spec - but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship middle is hedged by a statement brief twilight that he's got no intention of leaving his wife and three childrenis barely survivable. SoLife is a knife-edge, what's in it for Dani? Nostray too close to one side you die, there's no need to answer thatclose to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Dani understands Life for the situation all too well inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and tells him so. arduous, will anything ever change? [[I Can't Tell You Why The City In The Middle Of The Night by Elaine Robertson NorthCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David Laws]]===
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[[image:5starAt the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit'. Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the word. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's safe to return, when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Exit Day:Category:Confident ReadersBrexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David Laws|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Bridie, or Little Bird as she prefers to be known, is a crofter's daughter living on the remote Scottish island of Tornish. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with the disability of a wasted arm and leg and often misses her mother, who died some time ago. Despite this, Little Bird has a warm and loving father, sisters to watch over her, a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she is a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch of her windswept, savagely beautiful island. [[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie|Full Review]] <!-- Jason Boggs Chamberlain -->
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Hidden by Jason F BoggsMary Chamberlain]]===
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Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discoveryWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after determined to identify the events of ''The Devilmysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's Dragon''possessions, Nelson is Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on an expedition to uncover the mystery of the sungatesChannel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhileshe concealed her Jewish identity, the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existenceJoe, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billisa Catholic Priest, finds remembers a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glorytime when he hid something very different. As Nelson In this story of love, loss and his friends race against the clock in order betrayal, it remains to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing be seen whether a power beyond imagination… speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Dragon's Harvest Hidden by Jason F BoggsMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley]]===
===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensAutobiography|TeensAutobiography]], [[:Category:HorrorLifestyle|HorrorLifestyle]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on!
Charlie is It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a school triplifestyle book, skiing in but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the Austrian mountainsbest results. He The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see's not having much fun. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A miserable home life has given Charlie levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a bad attitude reputation busker, finally got into medical school and heis now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's not a popular kid. Charlie tends an awful lot more to go off by himself - not always what goes on in a safe thing to do if Major Trauma Centre than you're staying in ll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of the ski guidesHartley's life, Hanna. Hanna herself doesnbut it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between themimpossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's autobiography. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) Painting Snails by Gabriel Dylan Stephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook by Felicity Cloake]]===
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It's a novel concept for a cookery book: these When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found to do a particular job - abducted in the job middle of delivering the best mealnight, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the ''Completely Perfect'' meal Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the titleLondon above ground knows nothing about. Think of it as the equivalent of a comparison site for when you want Here, children work together to renew the car insurance and then taking the best elements out of each recipe battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to make perfectionfight. There's nothing cutting edge here: it's Ollie would have been the sort hundredth victim of food which we've Maddy Sikes had he not been eating for decades and probably will be for decades to comerescued. There's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' and providing that you don't have a vegetarian or a vegan at table, it's a meal which is unlikely And Maddy intends to do other than go down welldestroy the city. [[Completely PerfectThe Haven: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook Book 1 by Felicity CloakeSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush"[[image:4star. They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn'Does t seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to find a place to liveher missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does he face stereotypesshe know too much? Has Britain moved forwardIs she even still alive?'' [[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|Full Review]]
Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of cricket and football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson|Full Review]]  <!-- Dean Douglas Lindsay -->
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This is A man walked into a story about the pastpolice station in Estonia. A specific past, certainly, in the form He told a tale of pre-war Budapesthaving been held prisoner, but also used as a story about how that past can impact on the present donor for organ harvesting and the futuresperm donation. In X-rays and medical examination bear out this bookpart of his story, but this man, or the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness a heartman he says he is - John Baden -rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survivedied twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to longby his parents -gone times, feelings and experiences which mark then the here and nowbody was buried. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, staining and warping but that brings some baggage with it into anothertoo. Westphall cannot, will not, subtler miseryget on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Katalin Street Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Magda SzaboDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Winter A Pinch of the Witch Magic by Katherine ArdenMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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''The Winter A Pinch of the WitchMagic'' is follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the conclusion isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the story following Vasyaneighbouring inescapable prison, Vasilisa Petronovafor their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she negotiates can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her way towards her destiny through from seeing everything that the world of medieval males and the Catholic Church's perception of witchcrafthas to offer. The story picks up directly from the action But in the second novelsetting out to do just that, [[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden|The Girl in the Tower]]she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, and as well as a reader too much is lost if you haven't read this at the very least. My advice would be to read all three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters and lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a wonderful balance set of magic wooden nesting dolls and action. This final novel, however, is an absolute triumphantique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[The Winter A Pinch of the Witch Magic by Katherine ArdenMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Paper Avalanche Never Tell by Lisa WilliamsonGardner]]===
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Ro Snow spends her time at school trying to pass under the radar. She doesnEvie Carter't want anyone to notice her, because then they might start asking questions, or they might want to be friends, s husband was shot dead in his own home and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over to was found with the gun in her househands. You seeWas this a domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen years ago, Robut there's mum is no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a hoardertragic accident' everyone said, and their whole house, with as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each other. D D had no worries at the exception of Ro's bedroomtime, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is an ever-growing mound of rubbish and paper, and Ro lives in fear of social services finding out and taking her Evie about to get away. with murder again? [[Paper Avalanche Never Tell by Lisa WilliamsonGardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
===[[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionConfident Readers|Historical FictionConfident Readers]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black peopleAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. But it contained more than you Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't thinkher mum even ''had'' a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. You may have heard of Francis Barber Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his willthen doesn't come back. ''The Boy in She heads out to investigate and discovers a Turban'' tells strange, secret world called the story of a fictional black characterMidnight Hour, James, in Georgian which seems to be London. Jamesduring Victorian times, then Quaccoeand is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, is brought so her life can go back to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. normal? [[The Boy in a Turban Midnight Hour by Joseph HucknallBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Lightning Chase Me Home Gallowstree Lane by Amber Lee DoddKate London]]===
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Named after two famous female explorersSpencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, Amelia Hester McLeod loves begging him not to listen let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to stories save Spence. Just one of exciting adventuresthose things you might, think. Tragic, but when it comes teenage boys seem to being brave herself she finds it very difficult. She lives be getting stabbed on a small Scottish island with her dad and her grandad, and spends her the streets of London all the time daydreaming about where her adventurous mother might be off exploring. When her mum had lived His friend Ryan was with them, she had home-schooled Amelia, and her dad and grandad tried to continue that for a whileSpence when he was stabbed. But now her dad has decided itIt was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic's time for Amelia to go to school on instruction, sobbing as he held the mainlandphone. Amelia is afraid - afraid of having But Ryan wasn't prepared to make new friends, afraid accept that it was just one of being picked on because of her problems with reading, and afraid of what's happening to her since she went and made a wish on a mysterious rock in the sea… those things. He wanted revenge. [[Lightning Chase Me Home Gallowstree Lane by Amber Lee DoddKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Glenis WilsonEce Temelkuran]]===
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Of course it A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't champion jackey Harry Radcliffe's fault, but certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't stop him feeling guiltyknow what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. His attempts to solve the murder of prostitute Alice Goode had left his estranged wife, Annabel and her partner, Sir Jeffrey We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it was Harry who had urged them to get away as quickly as possible for the sake 's a flawed system I can't think of themselves and their unborn child. It would be quite a while before he woke in hospital to find that Jeffrey and Annabel had been involved in a serious car accident. It looked better one, particularly as though Jeffrey would be in a wheelchair for life and Annabel had lost the baby. On top of that there was horsebox driver John Dunston'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's apparent suicideteeth. [[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Glenis WilsonEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Lonely People A Danger to Herself and Others by David OwenAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Kat and Wesley are both loners, looking for places to fit in. Kat finds this with online communities, where she feels like she can be her true self - a feminist, an activist, someone who isn't scared to speak out. Wesley's desire They needed someone to feel a sense of belonging sees him fall in with an altogether nastier crowdblame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Bullies, trolls, extremistsTheir daughter was my best friend. When he pulls Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the final trigger on a violent, targeted online bullying campaign, Kat is forced to delete circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her entire online presence. Bereft of everything that represented her identityShe has dined in fancy restaurants, Kat's physical self starts to fade as well. As explored the entire world slowly forgets that Kat ever existed, only Wesley seems to remember most sophisticated corners of the girl whom he erased. Wesley is faced with globe and lived a choice: get sucked further into a sinister alt-right movement or help Kat to stop themlife of luxury. [[All the Lonely People A Danger to Herself and Others by David OwenAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier When You Read This by Stuart RobertsMary Adkins]]===
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My birth certificate might suggest a higher figureSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, but I know that I'm only 42. I learned a long during which time ago that I could retain that feeling by keeping my life in balanceIris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. This meant eating sensiblySmith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, getting quality sleep and having regular exercise which I enjoyed. There but his attention was an added bonus too: I was juggling four chronic conditions and living this way meant that I could keep three of them on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the background. Then a silly mis-step meant that branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the hip problem flared uppressures got too much for him. The only way I could get more than an hour or two asleep He was to take pain relief devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the duodenal ulcer started to complainage of thirty three. Because I He was masking symptoms I didn't dare to exercise - surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the black dog of depression prowled along behind meblog published as a book. [[Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier When You Read This by Stuart RobertsMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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