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=='''14 25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529337968Sylvie Cathrall|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS compelling premise. And this 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 one 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.|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=303091657XTom Percival|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Boards must act Will's life is difficult, in the best interests a multitude of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureways. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have resulted in death or enough money for even the collapse most basic of a major company - have left interested parties asking what things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the board college, was doing. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn working a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse cash-in- ignorance or criminalityhand job on a building site and had an accident. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniadad are separated, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip maniaWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very little.}}=='''28 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story And yet, he still has a tiny amount of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greecehope. Cassandra, Clytemnestra He is good at art, and Elektra are all bit players in clings to the story moments of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us joy when he is drawing, that often feel like a light at the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furiesend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=14722739151398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1787634906Onyi Nwabineli|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=WeAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri're s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in Oldcastle her twenties and Malcolm she is in troubleslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. He's in an abandoned house Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and he's being threatened by two young secretly abusing peopleonline and receiving money from them for doing so. One Most importantly, she is Alegra (we'll soon learn that shedesperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugoonline empire. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (Can she often does this for homeless peoplesave her sister, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''5 MAY6 JUNE'''==
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|author= Ann Sei LinKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Rebel SkiesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on Meet Kit. Like most of the Midoripeople in his world, a massive dining hall floating in it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sky sport where soldiers a team of the Empire come to drink warrior, mage and make merry between their conquests. Howeverhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, when a man named Himura arrives and race to tell her that she is a Crafter like himthe exit, someone perhaps bothering with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the Empireway. He asks her to come with him Unfortunately for Kit, to leave the life only thing he's seen of dreary servitude the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that is all she one team has known. Wellbeen retired, soon Kurara won't have any say in the mattereaten, because the Midori and a new trio of questors is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamineeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and she is forced he has taken to flee out into the goading from the token bully of his worldand stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime What chance does this friendless, a skymuscle-free-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigamizone have in actually managing that, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063995901839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1635866847|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousIt's strange, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but things that make you ''immediately'a delight' feel that this is perhaps using the expression in a way book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Ivisited the author'm not familiar withs [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. I have to confess my ignorance com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herehomepage. 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. |isbn=0861541901}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters eat cakes and readers bothdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she(There's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence recipe in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot herebook, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister shewhich I's allowed contact m avoiding with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and then force people I was told to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantmake a mess of it. And then Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages.. well, what exactly happens is You suspect that smears of butter would not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can bea problem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1800901011
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=='''12 MAY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Sophie CameronMax Boucherat|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After IslaWe meet Lori on the first evening she's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle got the house to find a way forward. In particular, Isla's mum who can’t seem herself – no neighbour to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds onlinepop in, she thinks they might be able to help. But actuallybabysitter poorly, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back againmother at work, in robot form. But this won't just be a lookan avidly rule-a-like. They use all of Flora's online historybreaking eleven year old, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possibleon her lonesome. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back What could possibly go wrong? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916}} =='''2 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister Snuggled in a blanket fort, she awakes to find strangehas one main intention, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GPthat is to log on to Voxminer, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her griefworld-building, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange critter-collecting game that is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Mariannehit in Lori's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at world. But first Lori has a terrible price: tiny inkling that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}  ==this stormy night doesn'''21 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635864674|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stewst find herself entirely on her own, and More|author=Joy Howard|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=''Think of it as no-whining diningthen she finds something even more spooky.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but For the fact that so many people get confused just goes server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to show how versatile the tomato isenter shows signs of tampering. Then there are all the different typesWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, not to mention the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue with 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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