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=='''18 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=0571379559Sylvie Cathrall|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona WilliamsA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is There are few greater joys than a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for book which lives up to a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detectioncompelling premise. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki And this is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the caseof them. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''31 JANUARY9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0811771741Tom Percival|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her OwnWrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eli Will's life is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with himdifficult, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runsmultitude of ways. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there He is a generation missing in bullied because he has 'the family. A few short years agowrong shoes', Elihe has the wrong shoes because his dad can's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants t work and doesn't have to navigate enough money for even the world in the company most basic of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from granthings like food, Eli knows and his only hope is to dare to enter what dad can't work because he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic lost his job at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly coldcollege, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled was working a cash-in-hand job on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decadebuilding site and had an accident. The return has come about because he's had a letter from Throw into that mix the fact that his ex-wifemum and dad are separated, saying that sheand Will's ill and hasn't long to livelife seems bleak in every direction. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abductedAnd yet, stripped to his underwear and sent to he still has a watery grave in the boot tiny amount of a stolen Ford Sierrahope. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray He is supposed to be a humblegood at art, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able clings to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next the moments of the two. But joy when he's a bad magician's catis drawing, so his favourite bun has been turned into that feel like a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and light at the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world end of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking landlong, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…dark tunnel.|isbn=00085612491398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Dean KoontzOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery Allow Me to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked Anuri spent her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning childhood on display to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already loveworld, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in matchher step-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and theremother Ophelia's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbourincreasingly popular presence on social media, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}=='''8 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye where she posted every step of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic JejeuneAnuri's close friend childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and former colleague, Danny Maikbasically, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Truemanmonetary gain. Maik was involved Now Anuri is in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - her twenties and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came she is slowly trying to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}=='''15 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals regain her confidence and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footstepsget her life back, particularly when he considered the strain that being onsuing her step-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took mother to take down the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for himcontent about her. Before longAnuri is battling alcoholism, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted failing to be a professional footballer.}}=='''29 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deepstart her PhD, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote undergoing therapy and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks secretly abusing people online and plundering the wrecksreceiving money from them for doing so. Mira Most importantly, like her mother before she is desperately worried about herlittle sister, who is one the new focus of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the islandOphelia's leader and Mira's fatheronline empire. Desperate to Can she save him from deathher sister, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and perhaps herself and her relationship with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.same time?|isbn=00086647300861546873
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=='''14 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Christopher EdgeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Black Hole Cinema ClubDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lucas and Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinemaworld, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a place that has the nickname team of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fanswarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, they're looking forward and race to lots of exciting filmsthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and many, many snacks! the points they grant you along the way. HoweverUnfortunately for Kit, as the movie startsonly thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, they very quickly realise that something about this eaten, and a new film format trio of questors is needed. Possibly very differentunfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and they are swept up stumbled into an adventure they couldndeclaring he't even imaginell enter as a team. But as they lurch from one film genre to the nextWhat chance does this friendless, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinemamuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to their real livessucceed?|isbn=18399427381839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold 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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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=0008666482
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