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=='''4 MARCH9 MAY'''==
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Jia Khan Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has alway lived by 'the motto be twice as good as men wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and four times as good as white menhad an accident. This has served her well in her rise through Throw into that mix the criminal justice system fact that his mum and by the time she is called home for her sisterdad are separated, and Will's wedding after fifteen years life seems bleak in self-imposed exileevery direction. And yet, she he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at the top of her game. Returning art, and clings to the city moments of her birthjoy when he is drawing, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for that feel like a light at the future with her sense end of honour and dutya long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17860790971398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, and before we even know his gender or the nature where she posted every step of the person heAnuri's addressing in his second person monologue of a narrationchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurbasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said get her life back, suing her step-mother is buried to take down the following daycontent about her. The mother was a businesswoman Anuri is battling alcoholism, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with failing to start her (night-time PhD, undergoing therapy and business) partner, secretly abusing people online and feelings of abandonment are still strongreceiving money from them for doing so. And so we flit from current (well Most importantly, this came out in the original Italian in 2007she is desperately worried about her little sister, so moderately current) Bucharest, to who is the ladnew focus of Ophelia's childhoodonline empire. Can she save her sister, and see just what he has to tell perhaps herself and her relationship with her as a private farewell address.father at the same time?|isbn=19398109650861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Mary H.K. ChoiStuart Douglas|title=YolkLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatDuring location filming for his 1970's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. Shesitcom 's an all-round messy character; Floggit and thatLeggit's her charm. June, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the other hand, is edge of a complete contrast reservoir. The police seem happy to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smartassign it as an accidental death, thinks she knows it allbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and has he enlists the help of a successful jobfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and , seemingly, a link to death during the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two yearsSecond World War. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne But is there really a link between the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far deaths? And will they'll go manage to save each other's uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives – even if it means swapping identities.?|isbn= 03490036961803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529047315Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two facesMeet Kit. You have to take them bothLike most of the people in his world, it seems, he saidis an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, the good mage and the badhealer enter specially prepared, and never turn your back on either one of them.'' In 1972century-old, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwallmagical mazes, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''and race to the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperexit, perhaps bothering with the weather such that ''treasure or the boat [was] rocking big bad and bobbing like a bath toy over the wavelets'' but points they were unable to get any response from grant you along the Maiden Rockway. It was broken into Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the next dayinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, but there was no sign and a new trio of the menquestors is needed. The table was set Possibly very unfortunately indeed for a meal for two - and Kit, he has taken to the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with goading from the light had not been possible token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as the radio was brokena team. No explanation was ever found for what happened What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to the men.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''11 MARCH13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=15291091161635866847|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's JourneyThe Lavender Companion|author=Hannah JacksonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be immediately'' feel that of a person who this is proudly employed in feeding the nationbook for you. Before I donstarted reading 't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where Lavender Companion''his'' family have farmed for generations. He, I visited the author's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do[https: he knows that he'll be a farmer//www. It's not always the case thoughpinelavenderfarm. Hannah Jackson was born com/ website] and brought up on the Wirral: shethere'd never set foot on s a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had picture of a deep love slice of animalschocolate cake on the homepage. Her original intention was I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that she would become cake viscerally. (There'Dr Jacksons a recipe in the book, whale scientistwhich I' m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and she I was well on her way told to achieving this when her life changed on make a family holiday to mess of it. Notes in the Lake Districtmargins are sanctioned. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked You get to fold down the kudos corners of her original intention, she knew pages. You suspect that she wanted to smears of butter would not be a shepherdproblem. With the determination that youI ''loved''ll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitionthis book already.
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=='''18 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellMax Boucherat|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just thatan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, either, but the whole country, if not worldon her lonesome. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a screen backblanket fort, she has one main intention, and not what they were constantly doing that is to log on them before. Toasters can toastto Voxminer, but TVs cannot do the V part of their jobworld-building, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this critter-collecting game that is going to be a social comedy about people stuck hit in such Lori's world. But first Lori has a Luddite experience against their willtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but noand then she finds something even more spooky. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, server she and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has bestie and nobody else should be able to go down as a road-trip bookenter shows signs of tampering. But not just thatWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, too – for it's where is a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.girl to turn?|isbn=14711968870008666482
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