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|title=By Night The Mountain Burns
|author=Juan Tomas Avila Laurel
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sometimes a novel will startle because it tackles a topic totally unknown to us or tells us of lives previously un-imagined. This is the case with By Night the Mountain Burns. However, what is most remarkable about Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel’s novel is how easy it is to slip into the story of a child growing up on an isolated island in Equatorial Guinea. We are not reading about mysterious 'others'. We’re reading about people like ourselves, who live in a different place which has its own constraints – namely poverty and isolation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276401</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Art of Noir
|summary=ABC books could stand for A Boring Concept, but you might want to wait until you find out what the D is before making a decision. In this case D stands for Dinosaurs and there is nothing boring about them. There is also nothing boring about pop-ups. The two together may just join up to make something pretty special. Use this book to learn your basic alphabet and gain the some pretty intellectual knowledge on dinosaurs; from Allosaurus to Zapalasaurus.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348643</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Judy Chicurel
|title=If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Katie and her friends in Elephant Beach, Long Island are going to make the most of summer 1972. High school is behind them, there's booze to be drunk and weed to be smoked. There's also a lot to contend with. This is a working class community, ignored and disenfranchised by those with the money and influence to help. Also the Vietnam War rages on, producing local heroes like Luke and Mitch. For some of the young people the future is a blank canvas, for others their future is foreseen or foreshortened. As for Katie's hopes and dreams, they all revolve around the hope of a date with Luke.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472221656</amazonuk>
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