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 =='''16 JUNE9 MAY'''== 

|author= Ashley PostonTom Percival|title= Bookish and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}}{{Frontpage|author= Joan He|title= Descendant of the CraneThe Wrong Shoes

|genre= FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Will''Heroes cannot be forged without villains''Princess Hesina s life is difficult, in a multitude of the kingdom of Yan ways. He is bullied because he has never wanted 'the throne. Instead of craving powerwrong shoes', she he has always considered the crown her inescapable duty wrong shoes because his dad can't work and shrank away from doesn't have enough money for even the responsibilities most basic of being Queen. To herthings like food, it has always been a distant, faraway future. Until that is, it isnand his dad can't. When her beloved father suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to work because he lost his job at the official report, Hesina knows all is not as it seemscollege, her father didn't die. He was murderedworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident.Determined to seek Throw into that mix the truth fact that his mum and dad are separated, and discover her fatherWill's killerlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, Princess Hesina will stop he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at nothing art, and clings to find justice, even committing treason. Under the cover moments of darknessjoy when he is drawing, her feet lead her to that feel like a soothsayer to learn what happened that day and who killed light at the Kingend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17890940461398527122

|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered HopesAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary=I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the second half of their teens has other prioritiesworld, you know. I certainly didnthanks to her step-mother Ophelia't know s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the weeks of protests Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre influencer deals and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protestbasically, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either sidemonetary gain. This book Now Anuri is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back in 1989.|isbn=1684056993}} =='''18 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at suing her step-mother to take down the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeriacontent about her. The title Anuri is ''Ogadinma Orbattling alcoholism, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with failing to start her in every scene PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and it receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her narrative voice that leads the storylittle sister, although Olisakwe writes in who is the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation new focus of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her fatherOphelia's home and sent to Lagos where online empire. Can she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence save her sister, and indignities perhaps herself and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19116481600861546873

=='''25 4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=0008214700Stuart Douglas|title=Cut to Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)|author=Roz WatkinsDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=DI Meg Dalton During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the case edge of a missing teenagerreservoir. Violet Armstrong is well-known The police seem happy to assign it as a vlogger - championing an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the cause help of meat-eatinga fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. She barbeques meat wearing only They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a bikini and has attracted link to death during the attention of animal rights activistsSecond World War. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton But is corrupt and not running there really a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got link between the job because she's a woman) because she's a vegetarian. deaths? As if the case wasn't enough, Meg's father And will they manage to uncover who is coming to stay with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years and Jai's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children and that she wants responsible before more, but he doesn't.people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1780899858|title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woods. Her four-yearKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-old brother, Teddy, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with her. But in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before her. He hadn't and no one has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial to the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the police.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0859115X5Stanton|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage on Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the outskirts sport where a team of St Andrews warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with her English Bull Terrier, Benjythe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. She's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's in Provincetownseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, Cape Codand a new trio of questors is needed. He wishes that she was therePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but Clare's struggling he has taken to think the goading from the token bully of what his world and stumbled into declaring he ''actually'' is to her nowll enter as a team. Is he her boyfriend? Her exWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-boyfriend? She can't work it out zone have in actually managing that, and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't either. Work's about how could he possibly hope to get very busy and she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her first. They're off somewhere top secret.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina1635866847|title=The Phone Box at the End of the World|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= In the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.'' It is a real place, a necessary place, and I am pleased to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to her story, that the place is not a tourist destination, it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need it.|isbn=178658039X}} =='''1 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author=Angela Mack|title=I Am Unworthy|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Isabel is determined to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the hurt, the fear, and the person she became. Josh is determined to keep going, even through the rage, the pain, and using his fists to solve any problem or situation. But he has secrets that threaten to tear him and his brothers apart. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collide, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H}} =='''9 JULY'''== {{FrontpageLavender Companion|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (Jessica Dunham and the wait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}}{{Frontpage|author=Kat Ellis|title=Harrow LakeTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaIt's strange, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsthe book for you. But when she is found by her father Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's assistant [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, there's a picture of a trail slice of blood, and her father dying in his study. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, chocolate cake on the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famoushomepage. But something about this place isn I don't righteat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a darkness inside recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the people here. Secrets about her mother book and dark tales I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lolamargins are sanctioned. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully You get to light and she begins to think fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that these stories may smears of butter would not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakea problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0241397049

=='''6 AUGUST4 JULY'''== 

|author=Non PrattMax Boucherat|title=Every Little Piece The Last Life of My Heart|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943}} =='''20 AUGUST'''== {{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love FrankieLori Mills

|summary=Set in England in We meet Lori on the aftermath of World War One, this is first evening she's got the story of two childrenhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Lotti and Benbabysitter poorly, who have lost everyone they lovemother at work, but don't want to let go of their lastjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, tiny glimpses of hopeon her lonesome. Ben What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is living on a narrowboat to log on to Voxminer, the canalworld-building, lying to the police about his brothercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of himworld. Lotti, meanwhile, But first Lori has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house tiny inkling that belongs to this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her but that her terrible Aunt own, and Uncle currently have guardianship forthen she finds something even more spooky. The day Lotti meets Ben (For the day server she steals a dog!) is the beginning and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of a deep, and powerful friendshiptampering. It sees them become each other's familyWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and undertake a perilous trip to France, her safe place in the boatgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.turn?|isbn=05713487690008666482