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 =='''2 JUNE25 APRIL'''=={{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, 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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|isbnauthor=1800901232Sylvie Cathrall|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyScience Fiction|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be There are few greater joys than a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going book which lives up to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorycompelling premise. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|author=Fiona LongmuirTom Percival|title=Looking for EmilyThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesnWill't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, s life is just about to make herself known, and in a big way. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objectsdifficult, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum multitude of Emily'ways. Sam He is completely unaware of this bullied because he has 'museum', too, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue...|isbn=1839942754}} =='''9 JUNE''wrong shoes'=={{Frontpage|isbn=152941363X|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Nobody knows what he has the truth is any more.wrong shoes because his dad can'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis t work and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as doesn'JJ'), the head of detectives t have enough money for even the départment of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery basic of an old, stolen Peugeotthings like food, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnhis dad can't normally have worried them so much had it not been for work because he lost his job at the strange bulletcollege, with Russian letters stamped was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the basefact that his mum and dad are separated, which they found and Will's life seems bleak in the carevery direction. OhAnd yet, and there was he still has a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner tiny amount of the carhope. A golf bag would be a He is good place at art, and clings to hide the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a sniper's weapon. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were light at the detectives being pushed in end of a certain direction?long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Onyi Nwabineli|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and increasingly popular presence on social media, where sheposted every step of Anuri's not left her home childhood for 1sponsorships and influencer deals and,214 daysbasically, monetary gain. She'd ''like'' to: Now Anuri is in fact, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on her twenties and she's even considered which shoes is slowly trying to wear if she's going regain her confidence and to catch get her train. Thenlife back, she can't. She simply can't force herself suing her step-mother to leave take down the safety of content about her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friendAnuri is battling alcoholism, Sadie, who visits regularly with failing to start her two childrenPhD, James undergoing therapy and Matildasecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. SadieMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common senseonline empire. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith Can she save her catsister, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in perhaps herself and her relationship with her spare father at the same time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Will BrookerKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one Kit. Like most of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brookerpeople in his world, it seems, one he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the thousands sport where a team of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each otherwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, as wellmagical mazes, and shows how 2021 drew race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the two closer big bad and closer togetherthe points they grant you along the way. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seemsUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at race on the author events I get to attend)inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, but pulled Brookereaten, and a professor new trio of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that questors is Jewell's diverse outputneeded. Brooker decides Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he'd like nothing more than has taken to follow her through a year in the published authorgoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's life, working to make ll enter as a success of the latest title, and struggling with the next in lineteam. JewellWhat chance does this friendless, due diligence appropriately donemuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, agrees. And this is the result.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15291360241839945184
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 =='''21 13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=16358646741635866847|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreThe Lavender Companion|author=Joy HowardJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you 'Think of it as no-whining dining.'immediatelyWe know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact feel that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato this is. Then there are all the different types, not to mention the cultivars - and book for you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. Before Istarted reading 'd argue with her there - I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket 'The Lavender Companion'next'' to , I visited the ones labelled author'grown for flavours [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' to distinguish them from s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the ones homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that have obviously just been grown for profitcake viscerally. Personally(There's a recipe in the book, which I'd prefer m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a tin mess of tomatoes it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to those - and Howard makes good use fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of thesebutter would not be a problem. SheI 's not at all precious if you get the taste'loved'' this book already.
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=='''23 JUNE4 JULY'''==
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Max Boucherat|title=Tasting SunlightThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spaceWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, and for people to stop questioning hermother at work, tiptoeing around herjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live alonelonesome. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room to sleep inone main intention, and the space that is to just be. As they work together log on to Voxminer, the farmworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a closeness develops between them, becoming hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a beautiful, powerful friendship.|isbn=1914585143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changeown, Brexit and a pandemicthen she finds something even more spooky. Wilde had a few advantages: For the area around server she and her was a known habitat with a variety bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of terrainstampering. She had electricity which allowed When malevolent eyes spark up on her to run a fridgephone screen, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantlyher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, she had shelter: this was not where is a plan girl to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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