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=='''28 APRIL9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1405940980Tom Percival|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve Chase|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artist. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisters.}}=='''5 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsWrong Shoes
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousWill's life is difficult, in a delightmultitude of ways. I will agree with the first – tremendous He is no understatement – but bullied because he has 'a delightthe wrong shoes' is perhaps using , he has the expression in a way Iwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'm not familiar with. I t have to confess my ignorance enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Spanishcollege, was working a cash-in-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herehand job on a building site and had an accident. From Throw into that mix the little I have read (fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in translationevery direction. And yet, I don't read Spanish) there does seem he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to be the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a tendency towards light at the fantastical – the mystical realismend of a long, dark tunnel. |isbn=08615419011398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Patrice LawrenceOnyi Nwabineli|title=NeedleAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Brave. CharleneAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, the thanks to her step-mother Ophelia'heroines increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri' of this piece is extremely hard s childhood for some people to likesponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, characters and readers bothmonetary gain. Kicked out of multiple homes Now Anuri is in her twenties and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutoris slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, Annie, and has taken up residence in suing her step-mother to take down the content about her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket Anuri is battling alcoholism, you might perhaps thinkfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the creation of one such item is part of the plot herereceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, as Charlene she is a wonder knitterdesperately worried about her little sister, and who is making something full the new focus of love for her younger sister – a younger sister sheOphelia's allowed contact with no moreonline empire. We see Charlene prove Can she save her belligerence with a store detectivesister, and then force people to give perhaps herself and her relationship with her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...father at the same time?|isbn=18009010110861546873
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 =='''12 MAY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1398507504Stuart Douglas|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that During location filming for his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years he1970's been searching for evidence to prove that hesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's right. When a frozen , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was of a link back to woman on the edge of a cold case from 2002reservoir. There didn't immediately The police seem happy to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's assign it as an accidental death , but Adam Tyler senses something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the case his father was investigating before he diedSecond World War. Above all But is there's really a growing sense that link between the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going deaths? And will they manage to be brought out into the open. Perhaps Tyler uncover who is going to get the answers he needsresponsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Caryl Lewis Kieran Larwood and George ErmosJoe Todd-Stanton|title=SeedDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Marty has two parental figures Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his lifeworld, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotmenthealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and manages race to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing big bad and hasn't left the building in years she has still managed to fill it to points they grant you along the brim with junkway. What Marty Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looksseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyand a new trio of questors is needed. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and as he celebrates his birthday with has taken to the gift goading from the token bully of his grandfather of world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a solitary plant seedteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15290776641839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1635866847|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=After IslaIt's older sister Flora diesstrange, her family struggle to find a way forwardthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. In particular Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', IslaI visited the author's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go[https://www.pinelavenderfarm. When Isla passes her mumcom/ website] and there's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able to help. But actually, it turns out they are part picture of a slice of an experimental company who offer chocolate cake on the family the chance to have Flora back again, in robot formhomepage. But this won I don't just be a look-aeat cakes and desserts -likebut I wanted that cake viscerally. They use all of Flora (There's online historya recipe in the book, and interviews which I'm avoiding with family some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possibleI was told to make a mess of it. But what will it really mean for Notes in the family, margins are sanctioned. You get to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916fold 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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=='''17 MAY4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0711266204Max Boucherat|title=The Secret Last Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch We meet Lori on the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Ifirst evening she've established which species feed from s got the ground, which house to herself – no neighbour to pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a childbabysitter poorly, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?}} =='''26 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|title=Little Drummer|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesmother at work, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like just an overdose, it unravels into a faravidly rule-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichbreaking eleven year old, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of the investigationher lonesome. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in increasingly difficulta blanket fort, frustrating circumstancesshe has one main intention, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure and that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going to log on.|isbn=1914585127}} =='''2 JUNE'''=={{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 strangeVoxminer, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GPworld-building, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as critter-collecting game that is a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre hit in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As MarianneLori's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at world. But first Lori has a terrible price: tiny inkling that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}  ==this stormy night doesn'''21 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635864674|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stewst find herself entirely on her own, and More|author=Joy Howard|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=''Think of it as no-whining diningthen she finds something even more spooky.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but For the fact that so many people get confused just goes server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to show how versatile the tomato isenter shows signs of tampering. Then there are all the different typesWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, not to mention the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for the ones you find safe place in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just game has been grown for profit. Personallydoctored – well, I'd prefer where is a tin of tomatoes girl to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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