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

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

|summary=TwentyIt wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirty-fivesix years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-yearfour years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasn't actually married to the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie -old Cassie Raven and she took his name. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentine.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the senior mortuary technician story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and not only does she talk crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' 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 deadfar side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she also hears what was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they have to say were kind and very good to hershe of course missed her mum enormously. ItSo when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's not something and her mum, sherevels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's inclined happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to share with people as shewonder if it's pretty certain about what their reaction will besafe for her to return one last time to the past. SheShould she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's certainly not going death, or will it change her own future forever to share attempt it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of ?|isbn=1471188663}} =='''18 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianleafy provincial suburb. HeThe book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's very conscious expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of his position her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't even inclined what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to ask continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the view secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the anatomical pathology technicians despite friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the fact that they have Communist Party.}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold|title=The Last Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=April's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a lot more experience than 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 only a limited amount an affinity with nature, and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking of time all the fun things they will be able to spend experience together on each bodythe island. That will prove 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 left to be 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 mistakeglimpse 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

=='''8 DECEMBER4 MARCH'''==

|author=Lauren MartinSaima Mir|title=The Book of MoodsKhan

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I was 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 a great mood when I first learnt self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of this bookher birth, to old scars and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writingfresh wounds, imagine Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the word ''great'' being delivered future with an eye roll her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a sighRecord of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, through clenched teethbut one that left me a little conflicted. I had spent We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the best part nature of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club person he's addressing in the rescue ribhis second person monologue of a narration, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. Itwe see him picked up by his mother's a volunteer duty we all do during the yearchauffeur, and normally I'm happy carted off to, but that do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day the weather . The mother was miserable a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and I was miserablesettled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and it all feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book morea private farewell address.|isbn=15387336251939810965

|isbnauthor=0008214468Mary H.K. Choi|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonYolk

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=A workman has Jayne Baek is a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an excavation all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a building sitecomplete contrast to Jayne. ItShe's a typical older sister: she's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain smart, thinks she knows it all, and is has a handsuccessful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, severed above and the wristtwo have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. ItThis is until June finds out she's been there for about twenty-five 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 thirty-five yearssave each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}}

Robin Sandford =='''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- generally known as Robbie - is Prime Ministerwestern village of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. HeSuddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they's married re first to heiress Carol van Koon get a screen back, and not what they have two daughterswere constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, Becca and Bellano computer can show its computations. Sandford's determined You might think this is going to be a better type of politician: he wants ''social comedy about people stuck in such a government that is not just practically goodLuddite experience against their will, but morally goodno.'' One of For the ways hefamily finally remember Stella's planning on going about grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this is has to ban arms sales to dubious regimesgo down as a road-trip book. Henry MorlandBut not just that, a slapstick road-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequertrip comedy. And more than that, wishes that he'd been warned about this: too – for it's easy to see a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that he wouldn't have been in agreementkids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887

=='''7 JANUARY 202123 MARCH'''==

|author= Deborah O'ConnorDean Koontz|title= The CaptiveOther Emily|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the cage, intimatelytwo US coasts. It lurks in 's the corner of her eyewestern coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. Soon David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, it will be occupiedwhen she vanished from a remote road late at night. Then what? What if He's paying for contact with the man he speaks 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 her? pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts himis a man to do?|isbn=18387726501542019958

=='''15 JANUARY1 APRIL'''==

|authorisbn=Alex WheatleB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=2.54|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of timesRemy is feeling miserable. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last nightlet himself down ''again's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response. The school bully Jayden, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living together with his mother sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not much income now stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the dad has left the picture – yes, things other kids are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinneraround. I knowSo, right? But surely this is just a blipwhen Remy reacts, a day it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This canteachers don't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495believe him when he tries to explain what happened.

|author=David F RossRuth Hogan|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyMadame Burova

|summary= Years agoThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubgirl 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. Everyone predicted The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a bright future – revamped holiday camp, but his career just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in professional football never quite worked outthe family stall. Thirteen We also see her on her last day, fifty years onlater, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherin possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, Danny takes over and who delivered the shambolic and once-great team he used secrets about her to play for Imelda, and tries why did it have to reform them.remain a secret all this time?|isbn= 1913193500152937331X

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Lucy Holland|title=Kokoschka's DollSistersong|rating=2.5

|summary=Well, this looked very much like Sistersong is part of a book genre I could love from particularly enjoy, the get-gomodern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, which is why are a cornerstone of childhood and I picked my review copy up 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 flipped pages over several times before actually reading any re-evaluating the role of itwomen. I found things Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to potentially delight me each time – feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a weird section modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in the middle on darker stock paper, . This is a chapter whose number 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 filled to the brim with the richest children in the 20city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia,000sand most of all, letters used she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as narrative forma source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, and so onuntil one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. It intrigued A secret society with one aim: pull off the subterranean voice a man hears best prank in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentionedtrue horror movie style, and unless someone screams, tooyou have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But you've seen as the star rating that comes with pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this reviewschool, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and can tell that if love was on these pagespeople begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it was not actually caused by them's too late. So what happened?|isbn=15294026970755501527

=='''2 FEBRUARY27 APRIL'''==

|author=Anna CareyKristen O'Neal|title=This is Not the Jess ShowLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girlHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, just trying Priya has to come to navigate terms with the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to fact that she may be happening in constant pain for the rest of her small townlife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', with an online support group where she talks to a mystery flu keeping lots bunch of people indoors, other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and a strange metal devicehelp each other out, with while also providing an apple on it, that slips out escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her friendclosest friends—doesn's bagt respond to the chat for a while, but that Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her friends just wonparents' car and drive to Brigid't talk s house to check up on her about. Jess feels like But what she might be hearing voices, doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and her sister (who is very ill) seems for that werewolf to be responding the girl she has been talking to her in strange ways sometimesonline for the past few months. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=16836919701683692349

=='''4 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, 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, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663}}=='''28 FEBRUARY29 APRIL'''==

|author=Rob KeeleyJennifer Saint |title=The Treasure in the TowerAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Confident ReadersWomen's Fiction |summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob This re- his stories combine fast pace and lots telling of the myth of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships Ariadne and rivalries, the Minotaur is interesting and always a good dollop of naughty humourunusual. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure Jennifer Saint presents the story in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a school trip sparks the whole adventuremodern audience. Who can follow Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the clues best and find the treasure? Jessviewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=18004613211472273869