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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 239 This Charming Man by Marian Keyes Goodreads Blurb: 'Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married'. But for four women in particular, the big news about the charismatic politician is especially momentous... Stylist Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying - because she's his girlfriend, yet she definitely isn't the bride-to-be ...

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 238 Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves Goodreads Blurb: When the Flemings--designer Helena and architect Daniel--move into a remote community in the north of Shetland, they think it's a fresh start for themselves and their children. But their arrival triggers resentment, and Helena begins to receive small drawings of a gallows and a hanged man. Gossip spreads like wildfire. A story of dysfunctional families and fractured relationships, Inspector Jimmy Perez's eighth case will intrigue series fans and Shetland Island newcomers alike.

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Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves Goodreads Blurb: When the Flemings--designer Helena and architect Daniel--move into a remote community in the north of Shetland, they think it's a fresh start for themselves and their children. But their arrival…

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 237 Inside Out: The Junior Novelization by Suzanne Francis Goodreads Blurb: Disney•Pixar’s Inside Out will take you to a place that everyone knows but no one has ever seen: inside the mind of an eleven-year-old! Once there, you'll meet the five Emotions that know Riley best: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust! Also features eight pages of full-color scenes from the movie.

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Inside Out: The Junior Novelization by Suzanne Francis Goodreads Blurb: Disney•Pixar’s Inside Out will take you to a place that everyone knows but no one has ever seen: inside the mind of an eleven-year-old! Once there, you'll meet the five…

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 236 The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory Goodreads Blurb: Three Women Who Share One Fate: The Boleyn Inheritance Anne of Cleves She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king.

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The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory Goodreads Blurb: Three Women Who Share One Fate: The Boleyn Inheritance Anne of Cleves She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three…

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 235 William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back by Ian Doescher Goodreads Blurb: Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back and William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return. Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 234 Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves Goodreads Blurb: In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 233 Coco: A Story about Music, Shoes, and Family by Diana López Goodreads Blurb: Disney*Pixar's Coco is the celebration of a lifetime, where the discovery of a generations-old mystery leads to a most extraordinary and surprising family reunion. (Goodreads Page) Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Goodreads Review: Oh God - and I thought the film could make me sob. A book that perfectly captures the spirit of the film as well as adding a whole new range of fascinating details.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 232 Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch Goodreads Blurb: Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, such that in the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 231 The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove Goodreads Blurb: An old flame of Jayne Cobb's, Temperance McCloud, sends a message to Serenity, begging him for help. She lives on the arid, far-flung world of Tethys, and bandits are trying to overrun her town to gain control of their water supply: the only thing standing between its people and dustbowl ruin. Jayne tries to persuade the Serenity crew to join the fight, but it is only when he offers Vera, his favourite gun, as collateral that Mal realizes he's serious.

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The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove Goodreads Blurb: An old flame of Jayne Cobb's, Temperance McCloud, sends a message to Serenity, begging him for help. She lives on the arid, far-flung world of Tethys, and bandits are trying to overrun…

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 230 Odyssey by Stephen Fry Goodreads Blurb: Read the final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally brestselling Greek Myths series telling the story of the Odyssey—Can a hero find his way home? Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years—battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon—to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 229 Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang Goodreads Blurb: Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark past back in Taiwan, his mother a fierce protector and constant threat. Young Eddie tried his hand at everything mainstream America threw his way, from white Jesus to macaroni and cheese, but finally found his home as leader of a rainbow coalition of lost boys up to no good: skate punks, dealers, hip-hop junkies, and sneaker freaks.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 228 The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker Goodreads Blurb: An Egyptologist, attempting to raise from the dead the mummy of Tera, an ancient Egyptian queen, finds a fabulous gem and is stricken senseless by an unknown force. Amid bloody and eerie scenes, his daughter is possessed by Tera's soul, and her fate depends upon bringing Tera's mummified body to life.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 227 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Goodreads Blurb: As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, his life changes drastically. He has many new owners—some of them cruel and some of them kind. All he needs is someone to love him again.... Whether pulling an elegant carriage or a ramshackle cab, Black Beauty tries to live as best he can.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 226 Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule Goodreads Blurb: It is a golden age. Intrepid hyperspace scouts expand the reach of the Republic to the farthest stars, worlds flourish under the benevolent leadership of the Senate, and peace reigns, enforced by the wisdom and strength of the renowned order of Force users known as the Jedi. With the Jedi at the height of their power, the free citizens of the galaxy are confident in their ability to weather any storm.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 225 Pack Darling: Part Two by Lola Rock Goodreads Blurb: After a disaster of a first heat, I’m ready to swear off alphas and escape to a cabin in the woods. My body has other plans. Now that I’m awakened, I can’t survive another heat alone. Problem is, I hate alphas, hate packs, and really super hate the so-called mates I can’t forgive and can’t forget.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 224 The Raven in the Foregate by Ellis Peters Goodreads Blurb: It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross, also known as the Foregate. The new priest is a man of presence, learning, and discipline, but he lacks humility and the common touch. When he is found drowned in the millpond, suspicion is cast upon a young man who arrived with the priest's train and was sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 223 Pack Darling: Part One by Lola Rock Goodreads Blurb: After surviving childhood at the snooty, stuck-up boarding school for budding omegas, I have everyone convinced I’m a dud. My awakening? Never gonna happen. Heat, mates, and a fairytale pack life? Maybe next reincarnation. All I want is to be left alone. I’m invisible, headed to a blissful solo future until the Wyvern Pack destroys my dream of independence.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 222 When First I Met My King by Harper Fox Goodreads Blurb: Once upon a time, there was a winter that wouldn’t end. And all that’s standing between the people of White Meadows and starvation is a young man called Lance. He’s sixteen years old, and for all his courage and hunting skills, he’s running out of fight. His family has been wiped out in a border raid, and he’s drowning in loneliness.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 221 From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back by Elizabeth Schaefer (Editor) Goodreads Blurb: On May 21, 1980, Star Wars became a true saga with the release of The Empire Strikes Back. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers recreate an iconic scene from The Empire Strikes Back, through the eyes of a supporting character, from heroes and villains to droids and creatures.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 220 Young Man’s Fancy by Richard Matheson Goodreads Blurb: A recently married man misses his dead mother and his childhood so much that he can't seem to live in the here and now, causing untold horror for his new bride. (Goodreads Page) Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review: I went into this thing thinking it was going to be the mother that was the crazy possessive one - boy was I wrong.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 219 Number 12 Looks Just Like You by Charles Beaumont Goodreads Blurb: In a future society where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of nineteen to make them look like everyone else, one young woman desperately tries to hang on to her own identity. (Goodreads Page) Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review: I know her constantly mistaking other women for her mother was supposed to highlight the terror of a world where most everybody looks the same but I couldn’t help feeling like it just made the main character seem like she hadn’t grown up in this world.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 218 Who Am I? By Jerry Sohl Goodreads Blurb: A young businessman wakes up one morning and has a completely different face—but only "he" thinks it's different from before. (Goodreads Page) Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review: My God is this a weird one - even for the twilight zone. Though I have to say I like the twist at the end, it’s nicely foreshadowed in the Doctor’s office.

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Who Am I? By Jerry Sohl Goodreads Blurb: A young businessman wakes up one morning and has a completely different face—but only "he" thinks it's different from before. (Goodreads Page) Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Review: My God is this a weird one -…

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 217 From a Certain Point of View by Elizabeth Schaefer (Editor) Goodreads Blurb: Forty years. Forty stories. On May 25, 1977, the world was introduced to Han, Luke, Leia, a pair of droids, a Wookiee, an old wizard, a villain in black, and a galaxy full of possibilities. Forty years on, Star Wars remains an unparalleled cultural phenomenon, having inspired and influenced generations of fans and creators.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 216 The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory Goodreads Blurb: The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king’s half sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 215 Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds: The Musical Drama by H.G. Wells and Jeff Wayne Goodreads Blurb: An Audible Original Drama One of the world’s most recognisable sci-fi stories, H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds established numerous conventions for the genre, including the threat of an invasive extraterrestrial species, space travel and intergalactic conflict, inspiring directors, gamers, producers and writers alike with its sobering story of struggle and survival.

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Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds: The Musical Drama by H.G. Wells and Jeff Wayne Goodreads Blurb: An Audible Original Drama One of the world’s most recognisable sci-fi stories, H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds established numerous…

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 214 Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn Goodreads Blurb: Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when uttered by Emperor Palpatine. On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root—its existence little more than a glimmer, its consequences as yet unknowable. But it is troubling enough to the Imperial leader to warrant investigation by his most powerful agents: ruthless enforcer Lord Darth Vader and brilliant strategist Grand Admiral Thrawn.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 213 Johnny Alucard by Kim Newman Goodreads Blurb: DRACULA COMES TO NEW YORK: Kim Newman returns to one of the great bestselling vampire tales of the modern era. Considered alongside I Am Legend and Interview with theVampire as one of the stand-out vampire stories of the last century - this brand-new novel is the first in over a decade from the remarkable and influential Anno Dracula series.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 212 Aftermath by Chuck Wendig Goodreads Blurb: As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance—now a fledgling New Republic—presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy’s scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy’s strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill, but he’s taken captive before he can report back to the New Republic leaders.

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Aftermath by Chuck Wendig Goodreads Blurb: As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance—now a fledgling New Republic—presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy’s scattered forces before they…