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 =='''7 APRIL23 MAY'''== 
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|author= Grady HendrixOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide Allow Me to Slaying VampiresIntroduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary= Women, by and large, have always been Anuri spent her childhood on display to the subjugated sex. Throughout historyworld, they have been confined thanks to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrixher step-mother Ophelia's new novel ''The Southern Book Clubincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their duechildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. It Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is an ode slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the strong selfless housewifecontent about her. Hendrix illustrates this by having Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who moves into their quiet cul de sacis the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=16836914310861546873
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 =='''14 APRIL30 MAY'''== 
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|authorisbn= M R CareyB0CYV674G2|title= The Book of KoliSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= ''The Book of Koli'' is the first It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a post-apocalyptic trilogyknife, titled comes into the police station shouting that he hasn''The Rampart Trilogy'', by Mt killed the man.R. Carey. The novel is set in A body at the bottom of a world where nature has turned against humans. Trees move as fast as animals freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to crush their prey and then soak up their blooddeath. Humans have eked out a small existence in isolated villagesDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. They are primitive except You would think he'd be grateful for their reverence of an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'old techJohn Tanner'were made for each other. This is technology from He's sleep-deprived to the old world that seems point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to only work for certain chosen peoplekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. However, Koli, a young woodsmith, uncovers a secret about this technology that will upend his life and take him on a perilous journey.|isbn=0316477532
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Danny DorlingStuart Douglas|title=SlowdownLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= We are living in During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a time woman on the edge of rapid changea reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, and we're worried but something about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normalwhole thing bothers Lowe, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with he enlists the current state help of what we're doing in the worlda fellow actor, we have much John Le Breton to be worried abouthelp him investigate matters further. HoweverThey travel across the country during their days off filming, over the next three-hundred-uncovering more possible murders and-some pages, if you can follow the argumentsseemingly, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about a link to death during the wrong thingsSecond World War. Mostly. But is there really a link between the deaths? Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think And will they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things manage to uncover who is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=03002434051803368209
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 =='''15 APRIL6 JUNE'''== 
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|isbnauthor=1781129312Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with herMeet Kit. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - Like most of the people in his world, it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. Mum seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a seamstress 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 she makes the sort of clothes that points they grant you see on red carpets or at important weddingsalong the way. SheUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's not seen of the designer - they're latest race on the people who make inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a lot new trio of money from the clothesquestors is needed. Mum is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the person who actually ''makes'' goading from the garments token bully of his world and shestumbled into declaring he's really talentedll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, but when people talk about the dress or the suitmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Akala1635866847|title=The Dark LadyLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately''For a street kid from feel that this is the Devilbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''s Gap, LondonI visited the author's most notorious slum, life is short [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and tough. For Henry, there's a boy thief with brown skin inherited from picture of a mother who abandoned him, life is tougher stillslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. She seems to represent (There's a pastrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and possibly I was told to make a future...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways mess of getting byit. Sometimes they pickpockets. Sometimes they rob Notes in the houses of the richmargins are sanctioned. It's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk You get to fold down the terrible punishments corners of Elizabethan England if they are caughtpages. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too, and for Henry, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays You suspect that smears of William Shakespearebutter would not be a problem. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels I ''loved'' this book already. |isbn= 1444943693
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=='''7 MAY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Patrick NessMax Boucherat|title=BurnThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''On a cold Sunday evening s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in early 1957 , babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- the very daybreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in facta blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that Dwight David Eisenhower took is to log on to Voxminer, the oath of office for the second time as President of the United States of America world-building, critter- Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father collecting game that is a hit in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm.''ItLori's 1950s America but not as we know itworld. In But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this alternate USstormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, there is still a Cold War with the Russians, still a concomitant arms raceand then she finds something even more spooky. And For the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed-race Sarah server she and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs oftampering. As is When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the deeply unpleasant town deputygame has been doctored – well, Kelby. But one thing where is ''very'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour girl to human in return for gold - they are dragons, after all.Poor Frankie! turn?|isbn= 14063755000008666482
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|author= Angela WoolfeJenny Lecoat|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpBeyond Summerland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth time, Roxy Humperdinck is sent to live Jean lives on Jersey with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolis, the capital city of the Kingdom of Illustria. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soup, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jones, she soon finds out why. Turns out, fairy tales mother where they are real, and celebrating the Ministry’s official job is to safeguard all knowledge end of them and monitor the living fairy talesoccupation. And, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign of terror, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of During the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!|isbn=1406391379}}=='''14 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Alison Weir|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother died''war, thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time in young KatherynJean's life, trying father was arrested for listening to find a home, both figuratively banned radio and literallysoldiers took him away one night, where she can grow leaving Jean and grieveher mother waiting for years for news of him. Unfortunately As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she the war is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value to anyone, but she is beautiful and surelyfinally over, their hopes rise that they will count for something in the end, won't it?|isbn=1472227778}}{{Frontpage|author= Hana Tooke|title= The Unadoptables|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter finally learn what became of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeekhim. Twelve years later, Milou, But will the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that wintertruth come as a relief, struggles to work out or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the identity of her parents from war? Who was the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on informer who told the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. She, along with Nazis about the radio? And what other four, patiently wait for Milou's parents to come back and take her home. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they secrets have to escape. And so begins been kept throughout the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…occupation?|isbn=02414174651846976537
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|author= Abi Elphinstone
|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)
|rating= 4
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that she connects with her world-building through her characters. In an interview with [Books For Keeps], she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing to her and to the reader." Just as the darkness of a mine is cut through by a spear of light so too do quarrelsome Fox and Fibber get their first glimpse of the phantasmagorical glow-in-the-dark realm of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth of a Dragon on the Here and There Express. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parents, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek.
|isbn= 1471173682
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=='''21 MAY'''==
 
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|author= Maryse Condé
|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= We live in a post-world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post-truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.
|isbn=1642860697
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=='''16 JUNE'''==
 
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|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
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=='''18 JUNE'''==
 
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|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 and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.
|isbn=1911648160
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=='''9 JULY'''==
 
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|author= Helly Acton
|title= The Shelf
|rating= 4
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she'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 a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?
|isbn=1838770879
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=='''20 AUGUST'''==
 
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|author=Jacqueline Wilson
|title=Love Frankie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back.
 
Poor Frankie!
|isbn= 0857535897
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