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=='''7 25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Justyn EdwardsSylvie Cathrall|title=The Great Fox IllusionA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is There are few greater joys than a contest with book which lives up to a differencecompelling premise. No singing, no dancing, And this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all one of his tricks! Flick is determined to win, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She is interested in just ''one'' trick, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father homethem.|isbn=15295019460356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|author=Lissa EvansTom Percival|title=WishedThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When Will's life is difficult, in a 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 most basic of things contrive to force Ed like food, and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with dad can't work because he lost his job at the neighbourhood spinsterish old womancollege, Miss Filey, for was working a week of halfcash-in-termhand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, theyand Will're not looking forward to its life seems bleak in every direction. For one thingAnd yet, she thinks Wi-Fi is he still has a special brand tiny amount of biscuithope. They don't particularly take He is good at art, and clings to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhere. But things soon change moments of joy when they find some tiny old birthday candleshe is drawing, and manage to work out that these candles, for as feel like a light at the end of a long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come truedark tunnel. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202X1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Jason RohanOnyi Nwabineli|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Arun and Sam have had little Anuri spent her childhood on display to do with Donnathe world, a girl at their school. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint of a novelthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, when where she insists Arunposted every step of Anuri's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and that they should bunk off school to find out why, basically, monetary gain. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes Now Anuri is formed – Sam in her twenties and she is really not Donna's idea of companyslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, but he suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is the computer buffbattling alcoholism, Donna seems failing to know all the criminal ins start her PhD, undergoing therapy and outs secretly abusing people online and survival skillsreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, and Arun? Wellshe is desperately worried about her little sister, itwho is the new focus of Ophelia's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't trueonline empire. Can she save her sister, and that his perhaps herself and her relationship with her father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpected. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep at the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much moresame time?|isbn=18399433860861546873
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=='''14 APRIL6 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=1529337968|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's July 1948 Kieran Larwood and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning Joe Todd- on the day that the NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.}}=='''28 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer SaintStanton|title=ElektraDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Meet Kit. Like most of the story people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of three women who live in Dungeon Running – the heavily male dominated world sport where a team of Ancient Greece. Cassandrawarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, Clytemnestraand race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and Elektra are all bit players in the story points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the Trojan Warlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the silent women have goading from the most compelling stories token bully of his world and the most extreme furiesstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14722739151839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=17876349061635866847|title=No Less the DevilThe Lavender Companion|author=Stuart MacBrideJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=WeIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately''re in Oldcastle and Malcolm feel that this is in troublethe book for you. HeBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's in an abandoned house [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and hethere's being threatened by two young peoplea picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. One is Alegra (weI don'll soon learn t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugocake viscerally. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but sheThere'd put s a tracking device recipe in it so that she the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Hugo could find out where he I was sleepingtold to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. It won't be long before You get to fold down the police realise corners of pages. You suspect that Malcolm was one smears of their own: butter would not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsbe a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''5 MAY'''==
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|author= Ann Sei Lin
|title= Rebel Skies
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…
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|author=Natalia Garcia Freire
|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism.
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=='''2 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sally Oliver
|title=The Weight of Loss
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.
|isbn= 086154112X
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=='''21 JUNE4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Max Boucherat|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''Think of it as s got the house to herself – noneighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-whining diningbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome.'' We know it's What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that so many people get confused just goes is to log on to show how versatile Voxminer, the tomato world-building, critter-collecting game that isa hit in Lori's world. Then there are all the different typesBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, not to mention and then she finds something even more spooky. For the cultivars - server she and her bestie and you begin nobody else should be able to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't loveenter shows signs of tampering. I'd argue with When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her there - I have no affection for the ones you find safe place in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just game has been grown for profit. Personallydoctored – well, I'd prefer where is a tin of tomatoes girl to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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