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 =='''13 9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=B084VNRRD6Tom Percival|title=Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It looked very Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like a suicidefood, and to begin withhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, that was how both DI Kim Stone working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and Keats, the pathologist called ithad an accident. It was only later Throw into that mix the fact that Stone his mum and her team realised that when Samantha Brown cut her throatdad are separated, hers was not the only hand holding the knife. It was murder. Sammyand Will's parentslife seems bleak in every direction. Myles and Kate were And yet, he still has a little bit reluctant to say what their daughter had been doing recentlytiny amount of hope. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was about He is good at art, and clings to accuse her husband the moments of saying joy when he is drawing, that Sammy was readyfeel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?|isbn=1398527122
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 =='''14 23 MAY'''== 
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|author= Abi ElphinstoneOnyi Nwabineli|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that she connects with Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world-building through her characters. In an interview with [Books For Keeps], she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing thanks to her and to the reader." Just as the darkness of a mine is cut through by a spear of light so too do quarrelsome Fox and Fibber get their first glimpse of the phantasmagorical glowstep-in-the-dark realm of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth of a Dragon mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on the Here and There Express. Running from the opprobrium social media, where she posted every step of their demanding and selfish parents, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek.|isbn= 1471173682}} ==Anuri'''21 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title= The Wondrous s childhood for sponsorships and Tragic Life of Ivan influencer deals and Ivana|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post-world: post-colonialism, post-modernismbasically, post-truthmonetary gain. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- Now Anuri is in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous twenties and Tragic Life of Ivan she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and Ivana''to get her life back, Condé writes with fervour suing her step-mother to take down the content about the scars left by colonialism on the countries her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupestart her PhD, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense undergoing therapy and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up secretly abusing people online and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive receiving money from them apart with tragic consequences.|isbn=1642860697}} =='''24 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=B083Z3ZZ61|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)|author=Liz Mistry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in the UK with his daughter Maria for a whiledoing so. He came expecting to work as a gardener and Maria was to be a nanny. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-year-old girl.}}=='''26 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1787477681|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A BrunoMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was a couple who is the new focus of days after old DriantOphelia's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sononline empire. Gaston's father had sold the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarch. Before he even got to go there he died, apparently of a heart attackCan she save her sister, and the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy perhaps herself and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left her relationship with just her father at the contents of the farmhouse. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinherited.}}=='''28 MAY'''=={{Frontpagesame time?|isbn=0008273790|title=Remain Silent|author=Susie Steiner|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Matis and Dimitri, Matis is in a bad way, vomiting and obviously traumatised. When he's able to speak he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas is dead''. Lukas was in his late teens and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuania. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have a decent life ''and'' send money home to their families. Sadly, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. It's modern slavery, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workers.0861546873
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=='''29 MAY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B07S6DBCFTStuart Douglas|title=Little Girls Tell Tales|author=Rachel BennettLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and DallinDuring location filming for his 1970's cottage. Beth sitcom 'Floggit and DallinLeggit', both twelve-years-old, got ahead leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of ten-year-old Rosalie and it wasn't long before she realised that she was losta reservoir. Trying to find her way back The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the main path she found help of a skeletonfellow actor, but when she finally got John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the road she could never find her way back country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the bog when she'd seen the bodySecond World War. Most people didn't believe her, putting But is there really a link between the story down deaths? And will they manage to her vivid imagination.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''2 6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=PronkoKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=There were three young women, girls really if you wanted to be pedantic about their agesMeet Kit. Sukayana was Thai and she'd come to Japan in the belief that she'd be able to pick up the documentation to get to the States. Celeste was just fourteen and when we meet her she's already dead of a heart attack caused by an overdose Like most of amphetamines. Then there's Ratana, who's the de facto leader of the grouppeople in his world, but she's disappeared too with the group's passportsit seems, leaving Sukayana in he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the midst of sport where a scene team of carnage at the Jack warrior, mage and Jill Studios. The dead bodies are definitely not props though.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0727889230|title=The Redhealer enter specially prepared, Red Snow|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to the ice show with his wife, Geraldine and daughtercentury-old, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet Burger. He died within minutesmagical mazes, but his murder seemed motiveless and there were no clues. He was a genuine man and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead end. There were two deaths race to investigate in the north of Scotland: it wasn't thought wise to involve exit, perhaps bothering with the local murder team as someone on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in treasure or the case. Christmas - and a lot of snow were rapidly approaching.}} =='''16 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish big bad and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after points they grant you along the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high schoolway. Things keep piling up Unfortunately for RosieKit, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her motherthe only thing he's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover seen of the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty latest race on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance inn TV equivalent is a jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. Howeverthat one team has been retired, as the two are forced to get to know each othereaten, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}} =='''18 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The a new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache trio of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title questors is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''needed. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, although Olisakwe writes in he has taken to the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights goading from the isolation token bully of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home his world and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends stumbled into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}} ==declaring he'''9 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in ll enter as a relationship with Jamieteam. You can't really call it a partnership What chance does this friendless, because things tend to get done on his termsmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is and how could he ''finally'' going possibly hope to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth itsucceed?|isbn=18387708791839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Kat Ellis1635866847|title=Harrow LakeThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaIt's strange, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsthe book for you. But when she is found by her father Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's assistant [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, there's a picture of a trail slice of blood, and her father dying in his study. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, chocolate cake on the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famoushomepage. But something about this place isn I don't righteat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a darkness inside recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the people here. Secrets about her mother book and dark tales I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lolamargins are sanctioned. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully You get to light and she begins to think fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that these stories may smears of butter would not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakea problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0241397049
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=='''20 AUGUST4 JULY'''== 
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|author=Jacqueline WilsonMax Boucherat|title=Love FrankieThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to leave her for another womanpop in, babysitter poorly, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedmother at work, andjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, above all when Sally and on her mates are bullying you at schoollonesome. Oh What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and when Samthat is to log on to Voxminer, your best friend since foreverthe world-building, suddenly starts sending out signs critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that he might fancy you - and you donthis stormy night doesn't fancy him backfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spookyPoor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 }}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= The Doors For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Eden|rating= 4tampering.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in every sense of the word. "Epic" game has been doctored – well, where is a word that's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name it's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain.girl to turn?|isbn=15098658880008666482
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