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 =='''20 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1473692407Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's someone who childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is there for the person who in her twenties and she is dying, slowly trying to make their passage regain her confidence and to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and get her life back, suing her step-mother to support their carerstake down the content about her. It's a rewardingAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, caring occupation undergoing therapy and Dawn puts her heart secretly abusing people online and soul into it but this wasn't always her lifereceiving money from them for doing so. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an EgyptologistMost importantly, she was working with is desperately worried about her supervisorlittle sister, Professor Ian Dumphries, on who is the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Then Can she was Dawn McDowell: that was save her maiden namesister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the name she published under.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''29 OCTOBER30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0349423083B0CYV674G2|title=Death and the Brewery Queen Swanton Morley (Kate Shackleton MysteriesJohn Tanner)|author=Frances BrodyDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives covered in Woodhouse mud and her housekeeperblood - and carrying a knife, Mrs Sugdencomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. SheA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamstabbed to death. Something DCI John Tanner is going wrong just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his business and daughter Samantha. You would think he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what grateful for an easy answer but the continental brewers were doing words 'perverse' and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit 'John Tanner'toowere made for each other. He'' much or is going s sleep-deprived to bring back a German bride the point of falling asleep at work but he'd like the business s determined to be shipkeep going -shape before his nephew returnsprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838773169Stuart Douglas|title=Her Majesty Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's early 2016 sitcom 'Floggit and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the Easter Courtedge of a reservoir. She's having a dine The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and sleep at he enlists the request help of Prince Charlesa fellow actor, who's attempting John Le Breton to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectshelp him investigate matters further. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to They travel across the evening country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and one of the performers brought in , seemingly, a link to play death during the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesSecond World War. The immediate reaction But is that one of there really a link between the guests deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roads.before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Caroline ScottKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=When I Come Home AgainDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested Meet Kit. Like most of the people in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a namehis world, it seems, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventuallyan avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't knowgrant you along the way. He remembers being on the road Unfortunately for a long time and being frightenedKit, and some the only thing he's seen of the faces from latest race on the road, but other than that – everything inn TV equivalent is that came before one team has gonebeen retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. They need a name Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the forms token bully of his world and so they call him Adam and, because stumbled into declaring he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee'll enter as a team. A fanciful name for a tired young man What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he isactually managing that, where he is or and how could he got there.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14711921721839945184
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 =='''1 NOVEMBER13 JUNE'''== 
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1635866847|title= The Last Resort Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersLifestyle|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the mysterious Timeo Technology companybook for you. Before I started reading ''The group includes a games designerLavender Companion'', social media influencer, gossip columnist I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and hedge fund managerthere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that makes their attendance necessarycake viscerally. All except Amelia whose presence is (There's a mystery. We follow recipe in the group as they explore the islandbook, and each otherwhich I's histories m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As Notes in the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets margins are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagesanctioned. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle You get to uncover fold down the reason for her attendance and protect the rest corners of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents pages. You suspect that befall themsmears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. |isbn=1542020018
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=='''5 NOVEMBER'''==
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ
|title=The Long Dark Road
|author=P R Black
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stopped.
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=='''12 NOVEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|author= Claire McGowanMax Boucherat|title=The PushLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Six mums-to-be We meet at a prenatal class. ItLori on the first evening she's NCT ''style'', but not got the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have house to wait a little herself – no neighbour to see whypop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. This being London What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, such a class attracts a wide variety of peopleshe has one main intention, from all sorts of backgroundsand that is to log on to Voxminer, but for most of the ladies the thing they have world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in common is itLori's their first babyworld. Probably after the But first one, you donLori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't have time for classesfind herself entirely on her own, or think you've got child-rearing down patand then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15420199900008666482
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|author=Roxanne BouchardJenny Lecoat|title=The Coral BrideBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living in a man's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigation. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.
|isbn=1913193322
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=='''4 FEBRUARY 2021'''==
 
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|author=Helen Fisher
|title=Space Hopper
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost Jean lives on Jersey with her mum when she was very youngmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She During the war, Jean's father was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from arrested for listening to a cold that got worsebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and although they were kind and very good to her she mother waiting for years for news of course missed her mum enormouslyhim. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to As the British finally free the Channel islands from the 70's and her mumNazis, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, war is neither easy nor safefinally over, and Faye fears their hopes rise that her husband won't believe they will finally learn what's happening and so lies to became of him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to But will the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathtruth come as a relief, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itraise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=14711886631846976537
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=='''28 FEBRUARY'''==
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=The Treasure in the Tower
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?
|isbn=1800461321
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