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{{newreview
|author=Catrine Clay
|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary='You have to learn to be hard men, to accept sacrifice without ever succumbing'. Such did Hitler say at the Nuremberg Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s. He probably did not have in mind playing in goal at a FA Cup final with a broken neck, such is the lifetime of difference between the two references. But that lifetime, as packed and varied as it was, is in the pages of this ever-interesting and swiftly-devoured book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082884</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Hawkins
|summary=In 1927, the Ford Motor company bought a huge tract of land in Brazil, for the purpose of the company growing its own rubber for use in making its cars. They planted rubber trees and built a factory and houses, and a number of top managers from the company were posted to Fordlandia to run the operation. Huge amounts of money were pumped into Fordlandia, and Ford made great claims for their plans. However, the project was a spectacular failure, and it lasted less than twenty years.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311478</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aifric Campbell
|title=The Loss Adjustor
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Caro's job is to 'adjust' people's losses. Working for a large insurance company, she deals day to day with people grieving for their lost or stolen belongings. Digital cameras with priceless honeymoon photos, laptops with work files and engagement rings. It's Caro's responsibility to assess the case and decide on whether to financially reimburse or not. But Caro knows well that sometimes it's not about the money. Her job requires emotional sensitivity and the sort of manner that invites people to open up to you. Her years of experience have made her an expert in dealing with everyone else's loss. But not her own.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687306</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kresley Cole
|title=Pleasure of a Dark Prince
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Sexy half dressed hunk on cover? Check. Enticing title? Check. Sometimes there's nothing nicer than curling up with a glass of wine (or two!), some cheese and crackers and lovely hunky man – even if he is the main character in a book! I've never read Kresley Cole before but I love fantasy, especially with a romantic element and so I was looking forward to trying a new author.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849830363</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellie Bethel and Alexandra Colombo
|title=Litterbug Doug (A Michael Recycle Adventure)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Litterbug Doug lives on a hill, just outside a beautiful town. His home is an absolute dump, with rubbish strewn everywhere, rats scurrying through the mess, and he won't tidy up his bloomin' bedroom. It's disgusting. Utterly utterly disgusting. His mess spreads and spreads and spreads and spreads. Thankfully, Michael Recycle is on hand to teach Doug the error of his ways.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394151</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Singleton
|title=The Island
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Otto has arrived in Goa a couple of days ahead of Charlotte and Jen, his gap year companions. It's typical of Otto to steal what should be shared thunder. He's a lovely lad, but he's a tad selfish and he does like to be first for everything. Each of the three has a different reason for the trip: Otto wants to get some experience for a hoped-for career in photo-journalism; Charlie wants to volunteer and beef up her environmental credentials; Jen has dreamed of journeying to India for as long as she can remember.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382967</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucy M George and Rachel Swirles
|title=The Elves and the Shoemaker
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The shoemaker grows older and older. Where he once made the finest shoes in town, he's now struggling to make ends meet. With only enough money for the leather for one pair of shoes, he's on his last legs. He leaves the leather on the table, ready to assemble the next morning, but when he comes down, the elves have made the most beautiful shoes ever.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394135</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Martin Bell
|title=A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=I've long thought it strange that of all the ills that have befallen the country over the last few years it was not really the bankers' follies or the swine flu that never really got off the ground but the venality of our MPs which caught the public's attention. Compared to the amounts required to bail out a bank the sums involved were minute, but moats, floating duck houses and flipping houses caught the imagination and our elected representatives became just a little wary of admitting what they did for a living.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311281</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kari-Lynn Winters and Christina Leist
|title=On My Walk
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A little girl is going for a walk with her mummy and her dog. They hear a horse saying clippity-clop and a frog saying frippity-frop. They enjoy all the sights and sounds of the beautiful summer's day, until it starts to rain, drippity-drop, drippity-drop...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580610</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jad Adams
|title=Gandhi: Naked Ambition
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=Until I read this book, Mohandas Karamchand (or Mahatma for short) Gandhi had always been a very shadowy figure. I was familiar with the picture of the loincloth-clad man who fell victim to an assassin's bullet shortly after Indian independence, but knew little more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849162107</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susie Dent
|title=How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie, a National Companion
|rating=4.5
|genre=Trivia
|summary=Meeting a grammersow in a netty is more common than you might think - I'd put my revits on it. Having a neb around these pages I can find many different ways of saying the above, as well - or should that be boco ways. But before this review comes out as complete cag-mag, I'd better say this book is just as you'd expect - an amenable, approachable but intelligent look at regional idiom and slang, in A-Z dictionary form.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211791</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Edric
|title=Salvage
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Some time about a hundred years hence and the predictions have come to pass. The sea levels have risen; the Gulf Stream has shifted its path. Climate change has hit Britain with a vengeance. Global Warming is the misnomer; of course the temperatures are, on balance, warmer. Snow is something most people only hear or read about. The real change, however, is the wet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617623</amazonuk>
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