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=='''2 NOVEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1035025299Tom Percival|title=Went The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to Londonthe moments of joy when he is drawing, Took that feel like a light at the Dogend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}=='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Nina StibbeOnyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. Sheher step-mother Ophelia's been at Victoriaincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's smallholding childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to writingget her life back, as there's always something smallholding happening suing her step- as you might expectmother 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. The other side of Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy new focus of Deborah Moggach) Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at a very reasonable rent.the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''3 NOVEMBER@@@4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838954481Stuart Douglas|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereDuring location filming for his 1970's no doubt about that. He was sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the fifteen-year-old holding dead body of a woman on the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawedge of a reservoir. He pulled the trigger The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but due to something about the vagaries of the jury system whole thing bothers Lowe, and he was found not guilty of both enlists the murder and the manslaughter help of the officer. And so lives must go ona fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving They travel across the capital country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and hoping for , seemingly, a quieter life in link to death during the countryside but when a missing teenager Second World War. But is found on her territory she's drawn into there really a wider investigation - and back into link between the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''7 NOVEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Edel RodriguezKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=WormDungeon Runners: A Cuban American OdysseyHero Trial
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|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in CubaMeet Kit. The revolution has happenedLike most of the people in his world, and Castroit seems, first thought he is an avid fan of as Dungeon Running – the sport where a saviour team of the countrywarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, has proven himself a Communistmagical mazes, and not done nearly enough race to create a level playing field for allthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. WellUnfortunately for Kit, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narratorthe only thing he's family weren't in the happiest seen of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier latest race on the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmishinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watchedeaten, and not liked a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for his successful photography businessKit, success being frowned upon. The mother gets he has taken to the couple jobs with goading from the party to ease some token bully of the heathis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, but muscle-free-zone have in this sultry island countryactually managing that, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14746167201839945184
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=='''1 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Sarah Marsh1635866847|title=A Sign of Her OwnThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=After 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 bout picture of scarlet fever as a childslice 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, Ellen Lark loses her hearingwhich 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. Suddenly plunged into You suspect that smears of butter would not be a world problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}} =='''4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of silenceLori 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, everything about on her life changeslonesome. Living What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages doblanket fort, she has one main intention, Ellen and that is sent to a school where she is taught log on to lip readVoxminer, but physically restrained from signingthe world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. From hereBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching finds something even more spooky. For the deaf server she and her bestie and using a system called Visible Speechnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. At the same time, Bell is working When malevolent eyes spark up on other inventions and ideasher phone screen, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a complicated tangle of espionage.girl to turn?|isbn=10354016140008666482
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