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 =='''22 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|author=Arvin AhmadiTom Percival|title=How It All Blew UpThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers| summary=18-year-old Amir Will's life is American Iraniandifficult, in a Muslim, and gaymultitude of ways. He struggles with is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his identitydad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, unable to face telling and his parents who dad can't work because he really is, so when another student lost his job at his school starts blackmailing himthe college, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and runs away..had an accident.to Italy! So begins a journey for AmirThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and his familyWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, where they all discover more about himhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and who clings to the moments of joy when he really isdrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, and who he really wants to bedark tunnel.|isbn=14714099291398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Antoine LaurainOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Readers RoomAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|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 Anuri spent her childhood on display 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 smashworld, and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' thanks to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own waystep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, sponsorships and influencer deals and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urgingbasically, 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 emailmonetary gain. What Now Anuri is going to befall Violaine, in her memory, her staff – twenties and how much she is any of it due slowly trying to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974}} =='''1 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=The Time Traveller and the Tiger|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, regain her confidence and makes the best of whatever happens to get her. So when life back, suing her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free step-mother to take care of down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, they have failing to arrange for start her to go PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and stay with her Great Uncle receiving money from them for a weekdoing so. Poor ElsieMost importantly, forgotten againshe is desperately worried about her little sister, just decides to make who is the best new focus of thingsOphelia's online empire. On investigating the house Can she finds that save her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boysister, 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, perhaps herself and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, 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 to stop him from killing relationship with her father at the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long same time ago.?|isbn=17885417070861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=BetrayalLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post During location filming for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she canhis 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit't believe she deserves, and leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the children who are ignorant dead body of just how she spent all her empathy for them a woman on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task edge of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profilereservoir. You'll certainly meet a homeless trampThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulabut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and, knowing her he enlists the help of olda fellow actor, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. You'll meet They travel across the ministerial bodyguard country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and driver , seemingly, a link to death during the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptSecond World War. But as for the first ministerial case, of is there really a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with link between the woman have been wiped…deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=19131934031803368209
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=='''15 OCTOBER6 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= The Once and Future WitchesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= FantasyConfident Readers|summary=''There's no such thing as witchesMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, but there used and race to be.'' In 1893the exit, after perhaps bothering with the treasure or the purges big bad and the burningspoints they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, witching the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been reduced retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to little more than weak charms the goading from the token bully of his world and simple spellsstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. If women want to hold power What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in their handsactually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''29 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''== 
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|authorisbn=Caroline Scott1635866847|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical FictionLifestyle|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a nameIt's strange, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this isthe book for you. Eventually, they determine this isn Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''t willful obstinance, he doesnI visited the author't answer because he doesns [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there't knows a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. He remembers being on the road for a long time I don't eat cakes and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, desserts - but other than that – everything I wanted that came before has gonecake viscerally. They need (There's a name for recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the forms book and so they call him Adam and, because he I was found in the Galilee Chapel, told to make a mess of it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man Notes in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got therethe margins are sanctioned.|isbn=1471192172}}=='''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums- You get to-fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be meet at a prenatal classproblem. It I 's NCT 'loved'style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first babythis book already. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990
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=='''4 FEBRUARY 2021JULY'''== 
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|author=Helen FisherMax Boucherat|title=Space HopperThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Faye lost her mum when We meet Lori on the first evening she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that 's got worsethe house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So whenbabysitter poorly, unexpectedlymother at work, she discovers a time travel conduit (via just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old space hopper box , on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her muma blanket fort, she revels in the chance to create some memories has one main intention, and get that is to know the woman who meant so much log on to her. The time travellingVoxminer, howeverthe world-building, critter-collecting game that is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that her husband wonthis stormy night doesn't believe what's happening find herself entirely on her own, and so lies to him insteadthen she finds something even more spooky. The lies grow more tangled, For the server she and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her bestie and nobody else should be able to return one last time to the pastenter shows signs of tampering. Should she try to see When malevolent eyes spark up on her mum one last time before phone screen, and her mum's deathsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, or will it change her own future forever where is a girl to attempt itturn?|isbn=14711886630008666482
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