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 =='''6 AUGUST9 MAY'''== 
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|isbnauthor=178089922XTom Percival|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Will''When you wear s life is difficult, in a hood, you're invisiblemultitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoesSaffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old , he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and beautiful. By her own admission, shedoesn's a bit t have enough money for even the most basic of a boffinthings like food, doing and enjoying mathshis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, physics was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and biology at A levelhad an accident. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and sheWill's now living with her Uncle Aaron life seems bleak in an eighth-floor flatevery direction. Something ''reallyAnd yet, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for he still has a long timetiny amount of hope. Aaron organised psychological help He is good at art, and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled clings to the layers moments of her psychejoy when he is drawing, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really bad'. When feel like a light at the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adriftend of a long, but she retained an interest in Roandark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Non PrattOnyi Nwabineli|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Freya was a beautifulAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular and complex girlpresence on social media, loved by many where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend influencer deals and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1stbasically, she justmonetary gain... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from Now Anuri is in her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from confidence and to get her 5 months afterlife back, she expects it suing her step-mother to contain answers of some kindtake down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, but is surprised failing to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangerstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and then another layer to another person secretly abusing people online and another, each containing an item unique to receiving money from them and Freyafor doing so. Most importantly, connecting 4 strangers through she is desperately worried about her mystery and little sister, who is the promise new focus of Ophelia'treasure' at the end of it alls online empire. With each parcel Can she save her sister, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - perhaps herself 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 leaveher relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=14063669430861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MayStuart Douglas|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runnerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140}}=='''19 AUGUST 2021'''== {{Frontpage|author=Anders de la Motte|title=End of Summer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= In the summer of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missing. He was chasing a rabbit, through the garden, and into Death at the maize field behind. He has not been seen since. In the present day, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden and she is barely hanging on to her job. It's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, he needs to.|isbn=1785768239}}=='''20 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008378363|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneDress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years.
 
Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-old.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1526362759
|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It
|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1542017432
|title=The Nidderdale Murders
|author=J R Ellis
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held woman on the grouse moor near Niddersgilledge of a reservoir. The shooters at police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the owner help of the moor and a retired judgefellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since They travel across the country during their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsleyoff filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripona link to death during the Second World War. Rawnsley had But is there really a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow link between the deaths? And will they manage to pay. Other uncover who is responsible before more people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work for.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=0241433568|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan Kieran Larwood and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love Frankie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you Joe Todd- and you don't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 }}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian TchaikovskyStanton|title= The Doors of EdenDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, in every sense of the word. "Epic" is a word that's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name it's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain.|isbn=1509865888}} =='''27 AUGUST'''== {{Frontpage|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In the end, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.|isbn=0349003556}} =='''3 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1509889515|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzard. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left open. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitation. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstances.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was raped.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471179273|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=Voyage of the Sparrowhawk|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Set Meet Kit. Like most of the people in England in the aftermath of World War Onehis world, it seems, this he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the story sport where a team of two childrenwarrior, Lotti mage and Benhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, who have lost everyone they lovemagical mazes, but don't want and race to let go of their lastthe exit, tiny glimpses of hopeperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canalUnfortunately for Kit, lying to the police about his brotheronly thing he's imminent return from seen of the latest race on the battlefields to take care inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of himquestors is needed. Lotti, meanwhilePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs taken to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) is goading from the beginning token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a deep, and powerful friendshipteam. It sees them become each other's family, and undertake a perilous trip to FranceWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the boatactually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.succeed?|isbn=05713487691839945184
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 =='''8 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''== 
{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1635866847|title=She Lies CloseThe Lavender Companion|ratingauthor=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her since, Jessica Dunham and no arrests have been made. And yet, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young children, she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved in.|isbn=1789094194}} =='''10 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author= Andrea Stewart|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre= FantasyLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you 'I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'immediately'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic feel that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to this is the thronebook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in I visited the worldauthor's [https://wwwLin is the emperorpinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace picture of a slice of secrets chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and closed doorsdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving (There's a dying empire and recipe in secretthe book, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the mysteries of her past book and the forbidden art I was told to make a mess of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great costit. With revolution Notes in the air and creeping closer and closer margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the gates corners of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a catalyst of change and save her peopleproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0356514943
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=='''14 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|author= Tahi Saihate
|title= Astral Season, Beastly Season
|rating= 3.5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place to which we can never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-altering.
|isbn= 1916277101
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=='''17 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)
|title=The Seven Doors
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished.
|isbn=1913193381
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=='''22 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Arvin Ahmadi
|title=How It All Blew Up
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
| summary=18-year-old Amir is American Iranian, a Muslim, and gay. He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to be.
|isbn=1471409929
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{{Frontpage
|author=Antoine Laurain and Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh (translators)
|title=The Readers Room
|genre=General Fiction
|rating=3.5
|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had a great success, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work in the Readers' Room to sift through what is ninety nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last email. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?
|isbn=1910477974
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=='''1 OCTOBER'''==
=='''4 JULY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Tania UnsworthMax Boucherat|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgotten. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the best of whatever happens house to her. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free herself – no neighbour to take care of herpop in, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsiebabysitter poorly, forgotten againmother at work, just decides to make the best of thingsan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in India as a boyblanket fort, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, and he says he she has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years oldmain intention, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try is to stop him from killing the tiger, in order log on to put something right that happened a long time ago.|isbn=1788541707}}{{Frontpage|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)|title=Betrayal|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Meet UrsulaVoxminer, the standworld-in ministerbuilding, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for critter-collecting game that is a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs hit in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministryLori's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profileworld. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who But first Lori has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulatiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and, knowing her of old, decided then she needs saving from the devil posing beside herfinds something even more spooky. You'll meet For the ministerial bodyguard server she and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to accept. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at bestie and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403}}=='''15 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E Harrow|title= The Once and Future Witches|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used to else should be.'' In 1893, after the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced able to little more than weak charms and simple spellsenter shows signs of tampering. If women want to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.}}=='''29 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Caroline Scott|title= When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being malevolent eyes spark up on the road for a long time and being frightenedher phone screen, and some of her safe place in the faces from the road, but other than that game has been doctored everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he iswell, where he is or how he got there.a girl to turn?|isbn=14711921720008666482
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