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For me, a useful book suggestion thread needs a lot of information to figure out why this book is being suggested.

So this is the format I am asking that you post in;

Title (if a series how much of the series)

1 Why might others not read this book?

2 What impressed you about this book?

3 What warnings do you have for others about the book?

I'll give my example here.

The Hunger Games  (All three.)

1 This was a teen book that is/was WILDLY popular -- like Twilight level popular -- either of those facts may turn you off, [but I figure that I like Potter 1,3, and 6 and can tolerate 2, so I don't give up on popular sci-fi/fantasy]

2 I thought I might like The Hunger Games, but I was shocked at how much I liked the main character who was flawed enough to be human, but human enough for me to accept the flaws. 
The plot was believable -- even the world was believable as an alternate future. 
The characters go through tough times -- much of it is psychological, though significant parts are physical danger [only 1/3 of the first book is actually during the dangerous "hunger games"].  The combination of those two elements of the psychological and physical danger intertwining kept me up (when I reeeeealy should have gone to bed) for the middle and last book.
There was a lot of philosophical depth to the series also.

Warning; You may need to make sure you have tissues. 
The second book starts slowly -- more or less it talks about what I felt to be the blindingly obvious political implications of the first book with a drip or drab of extra information.  Though for what's more or less a recap it does well. 
The third book starts a bit melodramatically, but given the first two books -- it's legit.
you really should make sure you have tissues. 

Hey, voices in my head, please stop giving me suggestions of silly things to do and trying to convince me that the world isn't as it really is.

Yesterday I heard some statistics on how many women are abused by their partners.  It's calculated at 1 in three will have been abused in their lifetime and in college 1 in 5 will be.
nearly 4 women are killed by intimate partners every day (I think these statistics are only for the U.S.A. but the problem is more or less worldwide).

But there is hope.  There is a site that one can use to assess if one is in danger -- it's free, so the only reason that I'm telling you about this is that I fundamentally believe that the aforementioned statistics are inexcusable.  It's not a few people falling through the cracks.

If you are a woman in a relationship consider using the site.

If you know women who may get into a relationship NOT EVEN ONE THAT YOU SUSPECT THAT IT'S ABUSIVE, it seems to me that it's a good idea to inform them about this site.
 http://www.joinonelove.org/resources-help

If every woman has knowledge of and access to this site, I am confident that many women will be saved from murder and millions (perhaps billions [since I fear that many of those who are abused this way are abused multiple times]) of cases of abuse can be prevented.

How do they work

it say's I've spent 0.12% (0.0012 parts per hundred) in the board that it has the most % wise.
and even assuming that it's 12% the numbers add up to like 50%

Are we going to get them?

After all if a tree is that big then an elephant should be a couple of tiles big at least.

Why not make a burrow for the vampire near the enterance of the fort so he can fight stuff, and only put beds of useless migrants in that burrow?
That keeps them from slowing down, yet makes them useful.

A shop which makes stuffed heads for the walls or stuffed animals for a museum

it would require a corpse
hair/feathers
thread
and gem (optional)

Any corpse will do.
Mutilated corpses could be x, X, or XX

if you lock the women up without any food, then that may make them miserable enough to miscarry.

Has anybody tried to induce miscarrage?