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 =='''22 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Arvin AhmadiOnyi Nwabineli|title=How It All Blew UpAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction| summary=18Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-year-old Amir is American Iranianmother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, a Muslimbasically, and gaymonetary gain. He struggles with his identityNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, unable suing her step-mother to face telling his parents who he really take down the content about her. Anuri isbattling alcoholism, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himfailing to start her PhD, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and runs away..receiving money from them for doing so.to Italy! So begins a journey for AmirMost importantly, and his family, where they all discover more she is desperately worried about himher little sister, and who he really isthe new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and who he really wants to be.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=14714099290861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Antoine LaurainB0CYV674G2|title=The Readers RoomSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|genreauthor=General FictionDavid Blake
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|genre=Crime|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had a great success, It seemed like an open-and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts-shut case. The three people who work A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the Readerspolice station shouting that he hasn' Room to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus t killed the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up man. A body at the road – all agreed the book would be bottom of a huge smash, and so it has proven. But there are several 'howeversfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he' s been stabbed to thatdeath. As in, however – Violaine herself DCI John Tanner is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round just back from a coma. And, however – despite all urginghis honeymoon, which coincided with the author birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the book has never once words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made themselves known for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statementpoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going -come-threat in their last emailprobably because he can't get any sleep at home. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974
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 =='''1 OCTOBER4 JUNE'''== 
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|author=Tania UnsworthStuart Douglas|title=The Time Traveller Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the TigerDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgotten. She is quiet, During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and compliantLeggit', and makes leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the best dead body of whatever happens to her. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care a woman on the edge of her, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a weekreservoir. Poor ElsieThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, forgotten again, just decides to make but something about the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boywhole thing bothers Lowe, and he has an enormous tiger rug on enlists the floor help of one of the roomsa fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. When Elsie asks him about They travel across the rug he seems unhappycountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and he says he has , seemingly, a link to keep it because he was the one who shot death during the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever didSecond World War. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to But is there really a link between the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try deaths? And will they manage to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time ago.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17885417071803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir Kieran Larwood and Quentin Bates (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=BetrayalDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Meet UrsulaKit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the standsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-in ministerold, magical mazes, drafted in from outside the leading party and race to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deservesexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in points they grant you along the foreign aid charity sectorway. You'll meet her ministryUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's cleanerseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, who bizarrely has fallen into the task eaten, and a new trio of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profilequestors is needed. You'll certainly meet a homeless trampPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, who he has taken one look at a newspaper image to the goading from the token bully of Ursula, his world and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside her. Youstumbled into declaring he'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptenter as a team. But as for the first ministerial caseWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=19131934031839945184
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=='''15 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=03565124791635866847|authortitle= Alix E HarrowThe Lavender Companion|titleauthor= The Once Jessica Dunham and Future WitchesTerry Barlin Vesci|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'There's no such thing as witches, but there used to befeel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'' In 1893, after I visited the purges author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the burnings, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms homepage. I don't eat cakes and simple spellsdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. If women want to hold power (There's a recipe in their handsthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to have their voices heard, make a mess of it is now through women. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved''s suffragethis book already.
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=='''29 OCTOBER'''==
=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Caroline ScottMax Boucherat|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Durham Cathedral, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. He refuses to give What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a nameblanket fort, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he she has one main intention, and that is. Eventuallyto log on to Voxminer, they determine this isn't willful obstinancethe world-building, he doesncritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori't answer because he s world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't knowfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. He remembers being on For the road for a long time server she and being frightened, her bestie and some nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gonetampering. They need a name for the forms When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and so they call him Adam and, because he was found her safe place in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he isgame has been doctored – well, where he is or how he got there.a girl to turn?|isbn=14711921720008666482
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=='''12 NOVEMBER'''==
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|author= Claire McGowanJenny Lecoat|title=The PushBeyond Summerland|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''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 baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990}} =='''4 FEBRUARY 2021'''== {{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5
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|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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