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=='''18 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Red is My HeartAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and white influencer deals and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasbasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she isslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, black undergoing therapy and white secretly abusing people online and redreceiving money from them for doing so. Yes Most importantly, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceshe is desperately worried about her little sister, and I think itwho is the new focus of Ophelia's possible to say not one page lacks online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the influence of some striking visual ideas.same time?|isbn=19135471830861546873
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=='''20 JANUARY30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Gunnar StaalesenB0CYV674G2|title=Bitter FlowersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in rehab mud and is now returning to work. Howeverblood - and carrying a knife, comes into the quiet job police station shouting that hehasn's supposedly taken on caretaking someonet killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing womanbeen stabbed to death. Varg finds himself not only investigating theseDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, but also looking into an old, cold case which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an eight year old girl who disappeared one night easy answer but the words 'perverse' and was never found'John Tanner' were made for each other. Somehow, these disparate cases appear He's sleep-deprived to be linked, the point of falling asleep at work but what is the link, and how he's determined to keep going - probably because he can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Stuart Douglas|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the new head dead body of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part woman on the edge of the towna reservoir. The school had police seem happy to assign it as an active Parent Teacher Association accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the funds which they raised were help of a considerable benefit fellow actor, John Le Breton to the schoolhelp him investigate matters further. There was one difficultyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''uncovering more possible murders and, with two membersseemingly, in particular, causing problems for a link to death during the headSecond World War. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for uncover who is responsible before more people lose their real gripe: LGBTQ education.lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jasper Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a little boy who has some strugglesteam of warrior, mage and whilst we're never told why exactlyhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksrace to the exit, and has difficulty dealing perhaps bothering with change the treasure or the big bad and big emotionsthe points they grant you along the way. His big sister, Rosie Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficultretired, encouraging himeaten, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downnew trio of questors is needed. His parents seem completely caught up in their business Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away taken to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phonell enter as a team. His parents won't speak to him or when they do What chance does this friendless, he doesn't understand or take muscle-free-zone have in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightactually managing that, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if how could he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen possibly hope to its song, as they do together every Spring.succeed?|isbn=13985108901839945184
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=='''25 JANUARY13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1635866847|title=QuicksilverThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeIt's not had strange, the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for hethings that make you ''immediately's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when feel that this is the book starts he IS now for you. Before I started reading ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mindThe Lavender Companion'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a supernatural urge – has demanded picture of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out slice of his bank and prepare for going chocolate cake on the lamhomepage. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up I don't eat cakes and suggest hedesserts - 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 interest to themit. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. Helped You get to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances fold down the corners of him acting without being in control, the discovery pages. You suspect that he is smears of butter would not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and be a whole lot more besidesproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1542019885
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=='''3 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Christopher EdgeMax Boucherat|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world Last Life of literature?|isbn=1788007964}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so We meet Lori on the other gods have decided therefirst evening she's only one thing for it got the house to herself – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both no neighbour to pop in exile and in the physical form of a middle, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-school kid here breaking eleven year old, on Earthher lonesome. He's guarded by a giant and What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a god in disguise as his parentsblanket fort, and Thor she has come along as wellone main intention, and that is to log on to be Voxminer, the more suaveworld-building, more popular and more successful brother of the twocritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Loki But first Lori has a month to redeem his reputationtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and get his moral compass pointing then she finds something even more spooky. For the right way again, or server she and her bestie and nobody else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is should be able to cry foul enter shows signs of his liestampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and judge his progress. But Loki is her safe place in the kind of god who insists he can do anythinggame has been doctored – well, so surviving a bit more virtuously for where is a month is going girl to be a walk in the park...rightturn?|isbn=14063997520008666482
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|author=Annabel AbbsJenny Lecoat|title=The Language of Food|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227}} =='''3 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}} =='''28 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=ElektraBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the story end of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greeceoccupation. Cassandra During the war, ClytemnestraJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and Elektra are all bit players in the story her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often British finally free the silent women have Channel islands from the most compelling stories Nazis, and the most extreme furieswar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=19130978541846976537
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