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=='''7 APRIL23 MAY'''==
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|author=Justyn EdwardsOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Great Fox Illusion|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest with a difference. No singing, no dancing, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick is determined Allow Me to win, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She is interested in just ''one'' trick, 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 to bring her missing father home.|isbn=1529501946}}{{Frontpage|author=Lissa Evans|title=WishedIntroduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=When things contrive Anuri spent her childhood on display to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanworld, Miss Fileythanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a week of half-termsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, they're not looking forward to itmonetary gain. For one thing, Now Anuri is in her twenties and she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuit. They don't particularly take slowly trying to regain her confidence and to Willard eitherget her life back, the new kid next door, who seems suing her step-mother to ebulliently take over everything and everywheredown the content about her. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesAnuri is battling alcoholism, and manage failing to work out that these candlesstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come truedoing so. How will things change for a second time when they realise thatMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, having used up three who is the new focus of themOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, these should really be used for and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the wishes of someone two generations older than themsame time?|isbn=178845202X0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Jason RohanB0CYV674G2|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Arun It seemed like an open-and Sam have had little to do with Donna-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a girl at their schoolknife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. But things immediately change A body at the start of this extended sprint bottom of a novel, when she insists Arunfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's house has become been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the attention birth of plain-clothes coppers his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and that they should bunk off school to find out why'John Tanner' were made for each other. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not DonnaHe's idea sleep-deprived to the point of company, falling asleep at work but he is the computer buff, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Well, it's his lot determined to find out that all keep going - probably because he based his family life on isncan't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpectedget any sleep at home. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386
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=='''14 APRIL4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529337968Stuart Douglas|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's July 1948 sitcom 'Floggit and Helen Crowther is due to start work as Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a qualified medical almoner the following morning - woman on the day that the NHS is bornedge of a reservoir. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthhim investigate matters further. The hardest part of They travel across the job will be country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to persuade people that death during the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for themSecond World War. Some of But is there really a link between the problems deaths? And will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''28 APRIL6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Jennifer SaintKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=ElektraDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Meet Kit. Like most of the story people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of three women who live in Dungeon Running – the heavily male dominated world sport where a team of Ancient Greece. Cassandrawarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, Clytemnestraand race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and Elektra are all bit players in the story points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the Trojan Warlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the silent women have goading from the most compelling stories token bully of his world and the most extreme furiesstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14722739151839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=17876349061635866847|title=No Less the DevilThe Lavender Companion|author=Stuart MacBrideJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=WeIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately''re in Oldcastle and Malcolm feel that this is in troublethe book for you. HeBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's in an abandoned house [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and hethere's being threatened by two young peoplea picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. One is Alegra (weI don'll soon learn t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugocake viscerally. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but sheThere'd put s a tracking device recipe in it so that she the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Hugo could find out where he I was sleepingtold to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. It won't be long before You get to fold down the police realise corners of pages. You suspect that Malcolm was one smears of their own: butter would not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsbe a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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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 Us|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism. |isbn=0861541901}} =='''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 strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}  =='''21 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635864674|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardBeyond Summerland
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|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=''Think Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of it as no-whining dining.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato isoccupation. Then there are all During the different typeswar, not Jean's father was arrested for listening to mention the cultivars - a banned radio and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met soldiers took him away one she didn't lovenight, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for As the ones you find in British finally free the supermarket ''next'' to Channel islands from the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from Nazis, and the ones war is finally over, their hopes rise that have obviously just been grown for profitthey will finally learn what became of him. PersonallyBut will the truth come as a relief, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? She's not at all precious if you get And what other secrets have been kept throughout the taste.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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