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=='''16 FEBRUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529125960Sylvie Cathrall|title=Unnatural History|author=Jonathan KellermanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Donny Klement was There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a photographercompelling premise. Well, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PA, Mel Gornick, And this is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished a series one of photographs called ''The Wishers''. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollars.|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}=='''23 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This story Will's life is another excellent adventure from the author difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawkwrong shoes''. Ravenwood is an old house, in he has the North of England, where Bea wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Raffy doesn't have been living enough money for even the most basic of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothings like food, and Raffy is there with his mumdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and they are living together as a familyhad an accident. They have grown up swimming in Throw into that mix the covefact that his mum and dad are separated, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving Will's life seems bleak in every inch direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the placehope. But now He is good at art, and clings to the house moments of joy when he is under threatdrawing, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell that feel like a light at the property to end of a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to livelong, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downdark tunnel.|isbn=05713487851398527122
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=='''2 MARCH23 MAY'''==
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|author=Alice M RossOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Nowhere ThiefAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Anuri 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's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to 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 new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?
|isbn=0861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton
|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=At last there is new stock in Meet Kit. Like most of the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run people in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen his world, it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found outseems, because she has he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the ability to leave this worldsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours race to enter other worldsthe exit, where perhaps bothering with the treasure or the sea levels are rising dramatically big bad and the buildings are generally empty points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of humans the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and ripe for plundera new trio of questors is needed. With eviction imminentPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, can Elsbeth nab anything he has taken to actually generate custom at the shop? goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Well yesWhat chance does this friendless, is the answermuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18399437691839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=15295047751635866847|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)Lavender Companion|author=Amy Sparkes Jessica Dunham and Katie HickeyTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to It's strange, the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldnthings that make you ''immediately't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in feel that this is the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay book for it as cash was tight at homeyou. GraduallyBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', David learned to stand up, use I visited the bus for support, author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and walk behind itthere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged I don't eat cakes and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so desserts - but I wanted that her grandchildren could play with itcake viscerally.}}{{Frontpage|author=Merryn Glover|title=The Hidden Fires|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= It is always about (There's a recipe in the book, not the writer, but there are times when the authorwhich I's hinterland is also the background to m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and so I was told to make a mess of it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up Notes in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlandmargins are sanctioned. I can think of no-one better a combination You get to give us a re-appraisal fold down the corners of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Parkpages. Merryn walks, You suspect that smears of butter would not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spiritbe a problem. I think the two would have gotten along famously''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1846975751
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=='''9 MARCH'''==
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|isbn=0760378134
|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening
|author=Pamela Farley
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?
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=='''16 MARCH'''==
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|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}=='''30 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Julia BartzMax Boucherat|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part Last Life of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for BoysLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers herself no neighbour to pop in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining babysitter poorly, mother at the leash only a singlework, just an avidly rule-sex school can formbreaking eleven year old, the talk in class and out often turns to sexon her lonesome. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationshipblanket fort, a secret she has one, for several months nowmain intention, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks is to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going log on to investigate Voxminer, the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholic. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyworld-yearbuilding, critter-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is collecting game that this is a dying manhit in Lori's wishworld. The situation changes when But first Lori has a post-mortem establishes tiny inkling that Henry Pekkarithis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedand then she finds something even more spooky. Is there a connection between For the two deaths?}}=='''13 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of themtampering. I would get When malevolent eyes spark up on board that shipher phone screen, I vowed. I would take my and her safe place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my namegame has been doctored – well, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta where is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance girl to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.turn?|isbn=14722921540008666482
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