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=='''30 NOVEMBER25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=suppl_staflSylvie Cathrall|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on Letter to the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceScience Fiction|summary=So, you've finished writing your There are few greater joys than a book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted which lives up to - and you had a talent for delivering the written wordcompelling premise. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no And this is one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''9 DECEMBERMAY'''==
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|author=Freya MarskeTom Percival|title=A Marvellous LightThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Robin Blyth Will's life is nudged into difficult, in a job in multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the Civil Servicemost basic of things like food, much to and his chagrin. There dad can't work because he meets Edwin Courcey lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and learns had an accident. Throw into that mix the streets of London fact that his mum and dad are threaded with magicseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Desperate to remove And yet, he still has a curse that threatens to swallow himtiny amount of hope. He is good at art, Robin follows Edwin and clings to the countrysidemoments of joy when he is drawing, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover that feel like a sinister plot that threatens light at the lives end of all magicians in the British Islesa long, dark tunnel. |isbn=15290808861398527122
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=='''6 JANUARY 202223 MAY'''==
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the millpondworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. That at least Now Anuri is what Bess in her twenties and she is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her in amongst all the other kidslife back, who have had their entire childhoods sold suing her step-mother to take down the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homecontent about her. Bess knows there Anuri is no time for friendship in a hand-battling alcoholism, failing to-mouthstart her PhD, every man undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for himself kind of existencedoing so. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot Most importantly, and despite everything that life has taught she is desperately worried about her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmlittle sister, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there who is any truth in the existence new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the mermaidsame time?|isbn=180090049X0861546873
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=='''18 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur Kieran Larwood and Jane Aitken (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[Dungeon Runners:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}} =='''20 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Gunnar Staalesen|title=Bitter Flowers|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X}} =='''25 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885}} =='''3 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape RoomHero Trial|rating=34
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|summary=I've seen junior variants Meet Kit. Like most of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the process by which sport where a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and have race to solve problems in order to get their the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way out. What I Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is s seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with of the regular second person narrative replaced by latest race on the first. Hereinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, Ami and four other tweenagersa new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, all new he has taken to each other the goading from the token bully of his world and booked stumbled into the game without any of their friends, are declaring he'll enter as a team – starting out at the game's main offices. What chance does this friendless, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a worldmuscle-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the rampedfree-up threat levelszone have in actually managing that, change much in the world of literatureand how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17880079641839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1635866847|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet LokiIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The trickster god has got into trouble againLavender Companion'', so I visited the other gods have decided author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form picture of a middleslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -school kid here on Earthbut I wanted that cake viscerally. He (There's guarded by a giant and a god recipe in disguise as his parentsthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Thor has come along as well, I was told to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother make a mess of it. Notes in the twomargins are sanctioned. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and You get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write fold down the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul corners of his lies, and judge his progresspages. But Loki is the kind You suspect that smears of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to butter would not be a walk in the parkproblem. I ''loved'' this book already..right?|isbn=1406399752
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=='''3 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Marcus SedgwickMax Boucherat|title=WrathThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet FitzWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, a young Scottish lad full of frustration mother at himself. Lockdown is only work, just overan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and he should be free to do what he wants, to on her lonesome. What could possibly go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot wrong? Snuggled in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school bandblanket fort, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with has one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world -building, critter-collecting game that is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music shehit in Lori's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie world. But first Lori has gone missing he cana tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'tfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=18009008990008666482
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