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=='''28 25 APRIL'''==
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|isbn=1405940980|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve Chase|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artist. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisters.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787634906Sylvie Cathrall|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBride|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in trouble. He's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young people. One is Alegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, 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 the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going A Letter to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.}}=='''5 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel ThomasLuminous Deep
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|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary='Germs' seems to have become There are few greater joys than a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant book which has the potential lives up to make you illa compelling premise. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world And this is one of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|author= Ann Sei LinTom Percival|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…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|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 delightWill' s life is perhaps using the expression difficult, in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance multitude of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereways. From He is bullied because he has 'the little I have read (in translation, I donwrong shoes'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, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'heroinet work and doesn' t have enough money for even the most basic of this piece is extremely hard for some people to things likefood, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, characters was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and readers bothhad an accident. Kicked out of multiple homes Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and schoolsdad are separated, sheand Will's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, Annie, and he still has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need tiny amount of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps thinkhope. He is good at art, and clings to the creation moments of one such item joy when he is part of the plot heredrawing, as Charlene is that feel like a wonder knitter, and is making something full light at the end of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detectivelong, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..dark tunnel.|isbn=18009010111398527122
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 =='''12 23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1398507504Onyi Nwabineli|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for Anuri spent her childhood on display to the last sixteen years heworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's been searching for evidence to prove that heincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's rightchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. When a frozen body was found Now Anuri is in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back her twenties and she is slowly trying to a cold case from 2002. There didn't immediately seem regain her confidence and to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the case his father was investigating before he diedcontent about her. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens Anuri is going battling alcoholism, failing to be brought out into start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the opennew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Perhaps Tyler is going to get Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the answers he needssame time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Caryl Lewis Kieran Larwood and George ErmosJoe Todd-Stanton|title=SeedDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Marty has two parental figures Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his lifeworld, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotmenthealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and manages race to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing big bad and hasn't left the building in years she has still managed to fill it to points they grant you along the brim with junkway. What Marty Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looksseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyand a new trio of questors is needed. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and as he celebrates his birthday with has taken to the gift goading from the token bully of his grandfather of world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a solitary plant seedteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15290776641839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1635866847|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=After IslaIt's older sister Flora diesstrange, her family struggle to find a way forwardthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. In particular Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', IslaI visited the author's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go[https://www.pinelavenderfarm. When Isla passes her mumcom/ website] and there's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able to help. But actually, it turns out they are part picture of a slice of an experimental company who offer chocolate cake on the family the chance to have Flora back again, in robot formhomepage. But this won I don't just be a look-aeat cakes and desserts -likebut I wanted that cake viscerally. They use all of Flora (There's online historya recipe in the book, and interviews which I'm avoiding with family some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possibleI was told to make a mess of it. But what will it really mean for Notes in the family, margins are sanctioned. You get to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''17 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0711266204
|title=The Secret Life of Birds
|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?
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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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