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|author=Jennifer SaintOnyi Nwabineli|title=ElektraAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia'Elektras increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greececontent about her. Cassandra Anuri is battling alcoholism, Clytemnestrafailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and Elektra are all bit players in receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the story new focus of the Trojan WarOphelia's online empire. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the most extreme furies.same time?|isbn=14722739150861546873

|isbn=1787634906B0CYV674G2|title=No Less the DevilSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Stuart MacBrideDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=We're in Oldcastle It seemed like an open-and Malcolm is in trouble-shut case. He's A man, covered in an abandoned house mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's being threatened by two young peoplebeen stabbed to death. One DCI John Tanner is Alegra (wejust back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner'll soon learn that shewere made for each other. He's Allegra Deansleep-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat deprived to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) the point of falling asleep at work but shehe'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where s determined to keep going - probably because he was sleeping. It woncan't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsget any sleep at home.

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|isbnauthor=0192779230Stuart Douglas|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel ThomasLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'GermsFloggit and Leggit' seems to have become , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has woman on the potential to make you illedge of a reservoir. In The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the first book in what looks to be a very promising new serieswhole thing bothers Lowe, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided he enlists the help of a clear and accessible introduction fellow actor, John Le Breton to the world of germshelp him investigate matters further. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and what they thought caused them and how , seemingly, a link to death during the thinking has developed over timeSecond World War. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives But is there really a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of link between the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|author= Ann Sei LinKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Rebel SkiesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on Meet Kit. Like most of the Midoripeople in his world, a massive dining hall floating in it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sky sport where soldiers a team of the Empire come to drink warrior, mage and make merry between their conquests. Howeverhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, when a man named Himura arrives and race to tell her that she is a Crafter like himthe exit, someone perhaps bothering with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the Empireway. He asks her to come with him Unfortunately for Kit, to leave the life only thing he's seen of dreary servitude the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that is all she one team has known. Wellbeen retired, soon Kurara won't have any say in the mattereaten, because the Midori and a new trio of questors is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamineeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and she is forced he has taken to flee out into the goading from the token bully of his worldand stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime What chance does this friendless, a skymuscle-free-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigamizone have in actually managing that, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063995901839945184

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1635866847|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousIt's strange, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but things that make you ''immediately'a delight' feel that this is perhaps using the expression in a way book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Ivisited the author'm not familiar withs [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. I have to confess my ignorance com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herehomepage. 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters eat cakes and readers bothdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she(There's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence recipe in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot herebook, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister shewhich I's allowed contact m avoiding with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and then force people I was told to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantmake a mess of it. And then Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages.. well, what exactly happens is You suspect that smears of butter would not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can bea problem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1800901011

=='''12 MAY4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos|title=Seed|rating=5 stars|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotment, and manages to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasn't left the building in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim with junk. What Marty's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seed.|isbn=1529077664}}

|author=Sophie CameronMax Boucherat|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=After IslaWe meet Lori on the first evening she's older sister Flora diesgot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her family struggle to find a way forwardlonesome. In particular, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter What could possibly go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto wrong? Snuggled in a support group blanket fort, she finds onlinehas one main intention, she thinks they might be able and that is to log on to help. But actuallyVoxminer, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back againworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in robot formLori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this wonstormy night doesn't just be a look-a-likefind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. They use all of Flora's online history, For the server she and interviews with family her bestie and friendsnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean for her safe place in the familygame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at allturn?|isbn=17889539160008666482

|isbnauthor=1635864674Jenny Lecoat|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardBeyond Summerland

|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