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=='''3 MARCH23 MAY'''==
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|author=Marcus SedgwickOnyi Nwabineli|title=WrathAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet FitzAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, a young Scottish lad full where she posted every step of frustration at himselfAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Lockdown Now Anuri is only just over, in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and he should be free to do what he wantsget her life back, suing her step-mother to go where he wants and with whom he wantstake down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks failing to his best friendstart her PhD, Cassieundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. They were half of a desultory school band Most importantly, 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 is desperately worried about her eco-warrior parents saying little sister, who is the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind focus of music sheOphelia's dreaming of? Is online empire. Can she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the truthsame time? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=18009008990861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1529151600B0CYV674G2|title=Give Unto OthersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Donna LeonDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses 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 Venice has changedhe hasn't killed the man. The ''pandemia'' stripped A body at the city bottom of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopen. Therefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end been stabbed to greeddeath. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the money which is coming their way? Whilst birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when determined to keep going - probably because he was a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunettican's advicet get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Stuart Douglas|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerDuring location filming for his 1970's Syndromesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. He can be rudeThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, difficult and awkward with peoplehe enlists the help of a fellow actor, although it's never intentionalJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It's just that he thinks differently They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and social niceties simply don't occur , seemingly, a link to himdeath during the Second World War. There's But is there really a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has link between the best conviction rate with cases, ever. deaths? His partner And will they manage to uncover who is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviour.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''15 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=0760373531|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue Flanders|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every need. Right now, it's bitterly cold Kieran Larwood and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittens. They have to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better. If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extra.}}=='''7 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Justyn EdwardsJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Great Fox IllusionDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a contest with a difference. No singingteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, no dancingcentury-old, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workmazes, and who can attempt race to win The Great Foxthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's magical legacy - seen of the latest race on the secrets to all inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of his tricks! Flick questors is determined to winneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but not because she wants he has taken to own the tricksgoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. She is interested What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in just ''one'' trickactually managing that, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able and how could he possibly hope to bring her missing father home.succeed?|isbn=15295019461839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1635866847|title=WishedThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=When It's strange, the things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, book for a week of half-termyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', theyI visited the author're not looking forward to its [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is com/ website] and there's a picture of a special brand slice of biscuitchocolate cake on the homepage. They I don't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything eat cakes and everywheredesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. But things soon change when they find (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some tiny old birthday candles, difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and manage I was told to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come truea mess of it. How will things change for a second time when they realise Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that, having used up three smears of them, these should really butter would not be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202X}}=='''28 APRILa problem. I ''loved'=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Elektra|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan Warthis book already. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915
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=='''5 MAY4 JULY'''==
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|author= Ann Sei LinMax Boucherat|title= Rebel SkiesThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant We meet Lori on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in first evening she's got the sky where soldiers of the Empire come house to herself – no neighbour to drink and make merry between their conquests. Howeverpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, when a man named Himura arrives to tell on her that she is lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a Crafter like himblanket fort, 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 himhas one main intention, to leave the life of dreary servitude and that is all she has known. Wellto log on to Voxminer, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matterworld-building, because the Midori critter-collecting game that is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a shikigamitiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she is forced and her bestie and nobody else should be able to flee out into the worldenter shows signs of tampering. She joins Himura aboard When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the Orihimegame has been doctored – well, where is a sky-ship whose express purpose is girl to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…turn?|isbn=14063995900008666482
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|author=Natalia Garcia FreireJenny Lecoat|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Early comments Jean lives on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using end of the expression in a way I'm not familiar withoccupation. I have During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to confess my ignorance a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereBritish finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. From But will the little I have read (in translationtruth come as a relief, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the fantastical – radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the mystical realism. occupation?|isbn=08615419011846976537
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