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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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|isbn=0008441618B0CYV674G2|title=Other ParentsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Sarah StovellDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnhe hasn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of killed the townman. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and A body at the funds which they raised were bottom of a considerable benefit freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the schoolbirth of his daughter Samantha. There was one difficulty, though - they were You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'devastatingly shockableand 'John Tanner', with two members, in particular, causing problems were made for the headeach other. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoHe's restrictions on sleep-deprived to the toys children could bring in on Toy Day point of falling asleep at work but that was just a warmhe's determined to keep going -up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesStuart Douglas|title=The Hunt for Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the NightingaleDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and whilst weLeggit're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsleading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support The police seem happy to himassign it as an accidental death, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging himbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and writing he enlists the help of a book with himfellow actor, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared John Le Breton to help him calm downinvestigate matters further. His parents seem completely caught up in They travel across the country during their businessdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she wouldseemingly, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak a link to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're sayingdeath during the Second World War. Nothing seems to be right, and But is there really a link between the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if deaths? And will they can find the nightingale and listen manage to its song, as they do together every Spring.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=13985108901803368209
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=='''25 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, Kieran Larwood and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mindJoe Todd-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885}} =='''3 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher EdgeStanton|title=Escape RoomDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34
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|summary=I've seen junior variants Meet Kit. Like most of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the process by which sport where a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and have race to solve problems in order to get their the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way out. What I Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is s seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with of the regular second person narrative replaced by latest race on the first. Hereinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, Ami and four other tweenagersa new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, all new he has taken to each other the goading from the token bully of his world and booked stumbled into the game without any of their friends, are declaring he'll enter as a team – starting out at the game's main offices. What chance does this friendless, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a worldmuscle-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the rampedfree-up threat levelszone have in actually managing that, change much in the world of literatureand how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17880079641839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1635866847|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet LokiIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The trickster god has got into trouble againLavender Companion'', so I visited the other gods have decided author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form picture of a middleslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -school kid here on Earthbut I wanted that cake viscerally. He (There's guarded by a giant and a god recipe in disguise as his parentsthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Thor has come along as well, I was told to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother make a mess of it. Notes in the twomargins are sanctioned. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and You get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write fold down the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul corners of his lies, and judge his progresspages. But Loki is the kind You suspect that smears of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to butter would not be a walk in the parkproblem...right?|isbn=1406399752}}{{Frontpage|author=Annabel Abbs|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 I ''loved'' this 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 foreveralready.|isbn=1398502227
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=='''3 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Marcus SedgwickMax Boucherat|title=WrathThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet FitzWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, a young Scottish lad full of frustration mother at himself. Lockdown is only work, just overan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and he should be free to do what he wants, to on her lonesome. What could possibly go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot wrong? Snuggled in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school bandblanket fort, 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 has one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world -building, critter-collecting game that is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music shehit in Lori's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie world. But first Lori has gone missing he cana tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'tfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=18009008990008666482
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|author=Jennifer SaintJenny Lecoat|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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