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 =='''9 JUNE23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=152941363XOnyi Nwabineli|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=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 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 content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?
|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=B0CYV674G2
|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)
|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 he hasn''Nobody knows what t killed the truth is any moreman.'' Bruno Courrèges is A body at the police chief for St Denis and much bottom of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jeana freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -Jaques Jalipeau (known as he'JJ')s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the head birth of detectives his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the départment of the Dordogne. Theywords 're not just policemen - theyperverse're both deeply committed to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been John Tanner' were made for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the careach other. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didnHe't belong s sleep-deprived to the owner point of the car. A golf bag would be a good place falling asleep at work but he's determined to hide a sniperkeep going - probably because he can's weapont get any sleep at home. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Stuart Douglas|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itDuring location filming for his 1970's Wednesday 14 November 2018 sitcom 'Floggit and sheLeggit's not left her home for 1,214 daysleading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. She'd ''like'' The police seem happy to: in factassign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to catch her train. Then, she can'thelp him investigate matters further. She simply can't force herself to leave They travel across the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friendcountry during their days off filming, Sadieuncovering more possible murders and, who visits regularly with her two childrenseemingly, James and Matildaa link to death during the Second World War. Sadie's But is there really a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. link between the deaths? In fact it was Sadie And will they manage to uncover who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports is responsible before more people with problems such as Meredith's.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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 =='''21 6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Tomato LoveDungeon Runners: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardHero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=''Think Meet Kit. Like most 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 in his world, it seems, he is. Then there are all an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the different typessport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, not and race to mention the cultivars - exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't lovealong the way. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection Unfortunately for Kit, the ones you find in the supermarket only thing he''next'' to s seen of the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from latest race on the ones inn TV equivalent is that have obviously just one team has been grown for profitretired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. PersonallyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Ihe has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'd prefer ll enter as a tin of tomatoes to those team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- zone have in actually managing that, and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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 =='''23 13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)1635866847|title=Tasting SunlightThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and for people to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around her, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live alone. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room to sleep in, and the space to just be. As they work together on the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendship.
|isbn=1914585143
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1398508632
|title=The Wilderness Cure
|author=Mo Wilde
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It had been on 's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the cards book for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild foodyou. Before I started reading ''The end of NovemberLavender Companion'', particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not I visited the best time to start, in author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a world where slice of chocolate cake on the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit homepage. I don't eat cakes and a pandemicdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Wilde had (There's a few advantages: recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the area around her book and I was told to make a known habitat with a variety mess of terrainsit. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. She had electricity which allowed her You get to run a fridge, freezer and dehydratorfold down the corners of pages. She had You suspect that smears of butter would not be a car - and fuelproblem. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to I ''liveloved'' wild just to live off its producethis book already.
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=='''18 AUGUST4 JULY'''==
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|author= Kit De WaalMax Boucherat|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put itWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, “They f*** you upmother at work, your mum and dad/ They may not mean tojust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing to log on to Voxminer, the author’s formative years as world-building, critter-collecting game that is a teenager living hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a lower class area of Birmingham. Her father is from Sttiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Kitts in For the Caribbean server she and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by bestie and marrying a black mannobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to When malevolent eyes spark up on her racephone screen, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with caresafe place in the game has been doctored – well, love, and the kind of anger only where is a child can express girl to their parents.turn?|isbn=14722848360008666482
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|author=David LagercrantzJenny Lecoat|title=Dark MusicBeyond Summerland|rating=34|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=How far from Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at end of the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthoccupation. For one, During the main focus of the narrative, Micaelawar, is no John Watson MD. SheJean's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match father was found stoned arrested for listening to death shortly after the matcha banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and just outside the stadiumher mother waiting for years for news of him. Beppe, As the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to British finally free the ref during Channel islands from the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anythingNazis, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything war is finally over, their superior comes up with, the kind who think hopes rise that they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see will finally learn what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks became of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shambleshim. But taken off will the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192}} =='''6 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alison Hughes|title=Fly|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This is truth come as a very impressive readrelief, as or will it does a lot of raise further questions around what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with. else happened during the war? Its focus is courtesy Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the first person narration from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on him. radio? First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses it.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=15253058321846976537
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