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=='''14 APRIL23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=303091657XOnyi Nwabineli|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Boards must act in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the best interests world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of their stakeholders Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and ensure that they are well-managed influencer deals and financially secure, basically, monetary gain. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted Now Anuri is in death or the collapse of a major company her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- have left interested parties asking what mother to take down the board was doingcontent about her. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to turn a blind eyestart her PhD, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened Most importantly, she is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniadesperately worried about her little sister, who is the South Sea Bubble and even tulip manianew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''28 APRIL30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintB0CYV674G2|title=ElektraSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells t killed the story of three women who live in man. A body at the heavily male dominated world bottom of Ancient Greecea freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. CassandraDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in which coincided with the story birth of the Trojan Warhis daughter Samantha. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the silent women have the most compelling stories words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the most extreme furiespoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1472273915
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1787634906Stuart Douglas|title=No Less Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeDuring location filming for his 1970're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in trouble. Hes sitcom 's in an abandoned house Floggit and heLeggit's being threatened by two young people, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. One is Alegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat The police seem happy to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopleassign it as an accidental death, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingenlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It won't be long before They travel across the police realise that Malcolm was one of country during their own: not many other people are going days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to have death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their backs.lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''5 MAY6 JUNE'''==
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|author= Ann Sei LinKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Rebel SkiesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on Meet Kit. Like most of the Midoripeople in his world, a massive dining hall floating in it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sky sport where soldiers a team of the Empire come to drink warrior, mage and make merry between their conquests. Howeverhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, when a man named Himura arrives and race to tell her that she is a Crafter like himthe exit, someone perhaps bothering with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the Empireway. He asks her to come with him Unfortunately for Kit, to leave the life only thing he's seen of dreary servitude the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that is all she one team has known. Wellbeen retired, soon Kurara won't have any say in the mattereaten, because the Midori and a new trio of questors is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamineeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and she is forced he has taken to flee out into the goading from the token bully of his worldand stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime What chance does this friendless, a skymuscle-free-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigamizone have in actually managing that, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063995901839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1635866847|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousIt's strange, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but things that make you ''immediately'a delight' feel that this is perhaps using the expression in a way book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Ivisited the author'm not familiar withs [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. I have to confess my ignorance com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herehomepage. From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism. |isbn=0861541901}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters eat cakes and readers bothdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she(There's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence recipe in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot herebook, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister shewhich I's allowed contact m avoiding with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and then force people I was told to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantmake a mess of it. And then Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages.. well, what exactly happens is You suspect that smears of butter would not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can bea problem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1800901011
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=='''12 MAY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Sophie CameronMax Boucherat|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After IslaWe meet Lori on the first evening she's older sister Flora diesgot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her family struggle to find a way forwardlonesome. In particular, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter What could possibly go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto wrong? Snuggled in a support group blanket fort, she finds onlinehas one main intention, she thinks they might be able and that is to log on to help. But actuallyVoxminer, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back againworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in robot formLori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this wonstormy night doesn't just be a look-a-likefind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. They use all of Flora's online history, For the server she and interviews with family her bestie and friendsnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean for her safe place in the familygame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at allturn?|isbn=17889539160008666482
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=='''2 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sally Oliver
|title=The Weight of Loss
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.
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=='''21 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Jenny Lecoat|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=''Think Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of it as no-whining dining.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato isoccupation. Then there are all During the different typeswar, not Jean's father was arrested for listening to mention the cultivars - a banned radio and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met soldiers took him away one she didn't lovenight, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for As the ones you find in British finally free the supermarket ''next'' to Channel islands from the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from Nazis, and the ones war is finally over, their hopes rise that have obviously just been grown for profitthey will finally learn what became of him. PersonallyBut will the truth come as a relief, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? She's not at all precious if you get And what other secrets have been kept throughout the taste.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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