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 =='''16 JUNE23 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|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 Crane|rating=5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Heroes cannot be forged without villains''Princess Hesina of the kingdom of Yan has never wanted the throne. Instead of craving power, she has always considered the crown her inescapable duty and shrank away from the responsibilities of being Queen. To her, it has always been a distant, faraway future. Until that is, it isn't. When her beloved father suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to the official report, Hesina knows all is not as it seems, her father didn't die. He was murdered.Determined to seek the truth and discover her father's killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing to find justice, even committing treason. Under the cover of darkness, her feet lead her to a soothsayer to learn what happened that day and who killed the King.|isbn=1789094046}}

|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 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 the trauma her twenties and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title she is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with slowly trying to regain her in every scene confidence and it is to get her narrative voice that leads the storylife back, although Olisakwe writes in suing her step-mother to take down the third personcontent about her. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She Anuri is exiled from battling alcoholism, failing to start her father's home PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and sent to Lagos where receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise desperately worried about her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}}=='''25 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008214700|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)|author=Roz Watkins|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with the case of a missing teenager. Violet Armstrong little sister, who is well-known as a vlogger - championing the cause of meat-eating. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini and has attracted the attention new focus of animal rights activists. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got the job because she's a woman) because sheOphelia's a vegetarianonline empire. As if the case wasn't enoughCan she save her sister, Meg's father is coming to stay with and perhaps herself and her despite having had little to do relationship with her for fifteen years and Jai's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children and that she wants more, but he doesn't.father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbn=1780899858B0CYV674G2|title=To Tell You the TruthSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Gilly MacmillanDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nineIt seemed like an open-yearsand-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations shut case. A man, covered in Stoke Woods. Her fourmud and blood -year-old brotherand carrying a knife, Teddy, would have woken comes into the house if she hadnpolice station shouting that he hasn't taken him with herkilled the man. But in A body at the early hours bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he would have got home before her. He hadn't d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and no one has seen him since'John Tanner' were made for each other. LucyHe's story was crucial sleep-deprived to the police investigation, point of falling asleep at work 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 policehe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbnauthor=B0859115X5Stuart Douglas|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again sheDuring location filming for his 1970's at Daisy Cottage sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the outskirts edge of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, Benjy. She's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and he's in Provincetown, Cape Codreservoir. He wishes that she was thereThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but Clare's struggling to think of what he ''actually'' is to her now. Is he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? She can't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't either. Work's something about to get very busy the whole thing bothers Lowe, and she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled he enlists the help of a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her firstfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They're travel across the country during their days off somewhere top secret.}}{{Frontpage|author=Laura Imai Messina|title=The Phone Box at the End of the World|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= In the northeast of Japanfilming, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there is an old blackuncovering more possible murders and, telephoneseemingly, disconnected, that carries voices into a link to death during the windSecond World War.'' It But is there really a real place, a necessary place, and I am pleased to see link between the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches deaths? And will they manage to her story, that the place uncover who is not a tourist destination, it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need it.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=178658039X1803368209

 =='''1 JULY6 JUNE'''== 

|author=Angela MackKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=I Am UnworthyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Isabel is determined to start freshMeet Kit. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape Like most of the hurtpeople in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the fearsport where a team of warrior, mage and the person she became. Josh is determined to keep goinghealer enter specially prepared, even through the ragecentury-old, the painmagical mazes, and using his fists race to solve any problem the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or situationthe big bad and the points they grant you along the way. But Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he has secrets that threaten to tear him and his brothers apart. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collideseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H}} =='''9 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amyeaten, she's in and a relationship with Jamienew trio of questors is needed. You can't really call it a partnership Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, because things tend he has taken to get done on the goading from the token bully of his terms, but sheworld and stumbled into declaring he'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 ll enter as a surprise tripteam. Could What chance does this be it? Is friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he ''finally'' going possibly hope to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth itsucceed?|isbn=18387708791839945184

|authorisbn=Kat Ellis1635866847|title=Harrow LakeThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residents. But when she is found by her fatherIt's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail 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 Lakestrange, the small 1920s town in Indiana things that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isnmake you 't right. There's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster immediately'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think feel that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakethis is the book for you.|isbn=0241397049}} == Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'6 AUGUST', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'== {{Frontpage|author=Non Pratt|title=Every Little Piece s a picture 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 slice of chocolate cake on the end of GCSEs just months awayhomepage. But one day, on January 1st, she just I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally... 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 (There's a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterrecipe in the book, she expects it to contain answers of which I'm avoiding with some kind, but is surprised to find difficulty!!) Then I started reading the parcel contains another layer addressed book and I was told to make 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 mess of 'treasure' at it. Notes in the end of it allmargins are sanctioned. With each parcel, a new layer of You get to fold down the story and corners of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light pages. You suspect that threaten to break bonds, both new and oldsmears of butter would not be a problem. Can what I ''loved's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943' this book already.

=='''20 AUGUST4 JULY'''== 

|author=Jacqueline WilsonMax Boucherat|title=Love FrankieThe Last Life of Lori 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

|author= Andrea StewartJenny Lecoat|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Beyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in end of the worldoccupation. Lin is During the emperorwar, Jean's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doors. When her father refuses was arrested for listening to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire banned radio and in secret, she begins to unlock soldiers took him away one door after anothernight, searching leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the mysteries of her past British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the forbidden art war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of bone shard magichim. Yet Lin is playing But will the truth come as a deadly game and her quest for power relief, or will come at great cost. With revolution in it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the air and creeping closer and closer to Nazis about the gates of radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her people.occupation?|isbn=03565149431846976537