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=='''13 APRIL9 MAY'''==
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|author=Emily TeshTom Percival|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'While Earththe wrong shoes's children live, he has the enemy shall fear uswrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesnFollowing t have enough money for even the destruction most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Earthcollege, amongst was working a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised cash-in-hand job on Gaea Station – a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the home of the last scraps of humanity – fact that his mum and trained relentlessly to avenge her people dad are separated, and the world that should have been hersWill's life seems bleak in every direction. All her life And yet, she he still has been conditioned a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to fall in linethe moments of joy when he is drawing, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveresfeel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=03565218341398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008551278Onyi Nwabineli|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from Anuri spent her childhood on display to the bottom of Fyrishworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where sheposted every step of Anuri'd been doing her trainings childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until Now Anuri is in her twenties and she discovered athletics is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- and it now looks as though she could be heading for mother to take down the national squadcontent about her. That's quite an achievement for someone with Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her background: you seePhD, Affo came to Scotland undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelvethem for doing so. She was rescued when Most importantly, she was carrying a kilo is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of drugs and three years later sheOphelia's happy with her foster familyonline empire. There's just one cloud on her horizon: Can she save her little sister, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to 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=Jennifer SaintKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Dungeon Runners: Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta 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 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.|isbn=1472292154}}=='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lauren Bravo|title=PrelovedTrial
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary= Gwen Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is pressing her middlean avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-aged bosom old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on a big number the inn TV equivalent is that starts with one team has been retired, eaten, and a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortynew trio of questors is needed. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a mid-life crisisteam. Catharsis is key What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and Gwen has decided now is the time how could he possibly hope to take back her life'succeed?|isbn=13985106291839945184
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=='''11 MAY13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1635866847|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers Lifestyle|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableIt's strange, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', she flukes her way into a public argument with I visited the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying heauthor's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write[https://www. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusationpinelavenderfarm. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for com/ website] and there's a picture of a wintry month away from it allslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people I don't eat cakes and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes desserts - but I wanted that the landladycake viscerally. (There's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived a recipe in the same small town for almost her whole lifebook, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live which I'm avoiding with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, book and the worry that there I was told to make a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth mess of what happened all that time agoit. After 'seeing' Lucy Notes in the high street, just as she was margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets corners of memories coming back to herpages. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day lifeYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. Will she uncover the truth about LucyI ''loved''s disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250this book already.
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|author=Lex Croucher
|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?
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|author=Madelaine Lucas
|title=Thirst for Salt
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity''
Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}=='''25 MAY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Laura NoakesMax Boucherat|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rathermother at work, just Cos to an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her friendslonesome. The practice What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in the home a blanket fort, she lives in has one main intention, and that is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond log on to in Voxminer, the ledgerworld-building, and theycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upons world. But Cosima bears the tag as first Lori has a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmatetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and unique in having no known family in the outside worldthen she finds something even more spooky. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from For the kitchen one afternoon, server she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want and her bestie and nobody else should be able to adopt all the girls for his Instituteenter shows signs of tampering. But whyWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to her safe place in the past she game has so little link withbeen doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=00085790590008666482
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