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=='''26 NOVEMBERJANUARY'''==

|isbn=18387700461529124417|title=Body LanguageBefore She Disappeared|author=A K TurnerLisa Gardner

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=TwentyFrankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom of the lake. She knew that the twenty-fivetwo-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they waitress wouldn't have to say to left herthree-year-old daughter and run away. It's not something Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now she's inclined moving on again, this time to share with people as sheBoston where there's pretty certain about what their reaction will bea strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. She's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistFrankie, Dr Archie Chuffmiddle-aged and white, wearer of gets a genuine Barbour jacket job and old Harrovian. Heaccommodation at Stoney's very conscious of his position bar and isn't even inclined sets out to ask for investigate the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakecommunity which is just about exclusively black.

 =='''8 DECEMBER28 JANUARY'''==

|author=Lauren MartinRob Keeley|title=The Book of MoodsTreasure in the Tower|rating=54|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= I was in Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a great mood when I first learnt new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of this bookaction, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and because sarcasm doesnalways a good dollop of naughty humour. They't always translate well into writingre all present here, imagine the word in ''greatThe Treasure in the Tower'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part The chance purchase of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on book during a school trip sparks the water at our local sailing club in whole adventure. Who can follow the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during clues best and find the yeartreasure? Jess, her brother Mason and normally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and I was miserable, tech gadgets and it all came willingness to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.cheat?|isbn=15387336251800461321

 =='''7 JANUARY 20211 FEBRUARY'''==

|authorisbn= Deborah O'ConnorB08LKT7HSR|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cage, intimately. It lurks Murder in the corner of her eye. Soon, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650}} =='''15 JANUARY'''=={{FrontpageBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Alex Wheatle|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeHelena Dixon|rating=23.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime (Historical)|summary=We meet Welton Blake at In December 1933 the worst remains of times – only they should be Elowed Underhay were discovered in the best cellar of timesthe Glass Bottle Public House. He should be getting a text from Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the most baemurder of Elowed and his half-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema datebrother, but his phone has packed upDenzil Hammett, hewhose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in classlong search for her mother, who's duffed him up disappeared in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anywayJune 1916 was over. On a bigger scale heNow she's living with his mother and not much income now determined that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage man responsible for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) her murder will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495brought to justice.}} 

==''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'4 FEBRUARY' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn'==t afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}

 =='''28 18 FEBRUARY'''==

|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1471187179|title=The Treasure in the TowerA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary= Rob Keeley April's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the island. But when they get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, and so April is back! Hooray! left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We here start as our hero arrives at Bookbag Towers Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are always happy still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to read the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a new adventure from Rob fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire south- his stories combine fast pace western village of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and lots not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of actiontheir job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, an easy but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to read stylego down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an unerring eye for childrenauthor, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's friendships the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and rivalriesa place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and always his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a good dollop recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of naughty humourhis love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958}} =='''1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. Theyare mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don're t believe him when he tries to explain what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all present herevaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The Treasure singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the Towerfamily stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. The chance purchase Sistersong is a perfect example of a book during modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school trip sparks filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the whole adventureMary Shelley Club. Who can follow A secret society with one aim: pull off the clues best prank in true horror movie style, and find unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the treasure? Jesspranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her brother Mason place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her money . But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=1683692349}} =='''29 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and tech gadgets the Minotaur is interesting and willingness unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to cheat?her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=18004613211472273869