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 =='''4 AUGUST23 MAY'''==
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|author=Judith EagleOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Accidental StowawayAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Patch is a little girl who has been passed from one relation to another, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go to. Her father died when she was very young, and her mother ran away. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges for her to go to a school in Liverpool, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamship. During a chase with him (when she is both trying to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboat, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!
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|isbn=1846976146
|title=The Bone Road
|author=N E Solomons
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Heather Bishop, the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnon. She even took their bikes so they could have a few days' break in the region. It was a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel room. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herself.
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=='''15 AUGUST'''==
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM
|title=The Calculations of Rational Men
|author=Daniel Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's the 10th increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph MarrAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Just Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to put what happens in contextregain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindscontent about her. The world has barely had a chance Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to breathe outstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. But for Joe MarrMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, it's not who is the missile crisis that's at the front new focus of his mind. HeOphelia's been convicted of murderonline empire. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, MervynCan she save her sister, and learning to be wary of perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the McArthur brothers.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''18 AUGUST30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn= Kit De WaalB0CYV674G2|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating= 43.5|genre= AutobiographyCrime|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum It seemed like an open-and dad/ They may not mean to-shut case. A man, but they do” Without Warning covered in mud and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the bonds police station shouting that bind familyhe hasn't killed the man. This book is a memoir focussing on A body at the author’s formative years as bottom of a teenager living in a lower class area of Birminghamfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Her father DCI John Tanner is just back from Sthis honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. Kitts in You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Caribbean words 'perverse' and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family 'John Tanner' were made for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black maneach other. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due He's sleep-deprived to her race, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, and the kind point of anger only a child falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can express to their parents't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1472284836
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=David LagercrantzStuart Douglas|title=Dark MusicLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=How far from During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart dead body of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as woman on their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus edge of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDa reservoir. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm The police, put on a murder squad seem happy to assign it as she knows the prime suspect of oldan accidental death, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after but something about the matchwhole thing bothers Lowe, and just outside he enlists the stadium. Beppehelp of a fellow actor, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic John Le Breton to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationhelp him investigate matters further. When some disreputable coppers (They travel across the kind who dismiss anything country during their superior comes up withdays off filming, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe uncovering more possible murders and how she might dress – that kind) are told , seemingly, a link to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and death during the investigation is a shamblesSecond World War. But taken off is there really a link between 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. deaths? Until, that may be, she manages And will they manage to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15294131921803368209
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 =='''1 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Holly WebbKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Story of GreenriverDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Silken and SedgeMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, for all their differencesit seems, have a lot in common. Silken he is a girl whose father is the Master Builder an avid fan of what might be Dungeon Running – the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is also sport where a kind team of runt figurewarrior, mage and as a result is patronisedhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and given race to the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and shoring the dam uppoints they grant you along the way. She also stands out Unfortunately for Kit, the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge sing, but only thing he too, as the son 's seen of the lady of latest race on the holtinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, has pressure on him to be eaten, and a bit less feckless and more attentive to classnew trio of questors is needed. HePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping he has taken to the otters safe goading from the wolf token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Spring.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15101096251839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt1635866847|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Hazel. For It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the last nine of her eleven years she has been stuck as a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantbook for you. She Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''d arrived at , I visited the place at the same time as Pete, author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and theythere're inseparably good friends now, until s a picture of a chance for them both to escape, slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and enter the outside world, does not go to plandesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There had always been the idea of 's a life idyllic recipe in the nearby forests, Goblyn Woodbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a tribe mess of Wild Children, but none of that comes it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to pass, as Hazel finds herself in fold down the care corners of a professor at the Natural History Museumpages. But life with him is You suspect that smears of butter would not anything like what she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – and to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light and the shade, and the deathly dark.a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1398503835
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 =='''6 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Alison HughesMax Boucherat|title=FlyThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is a very impressive read, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus is courtesy of We meet Lori on the first-person narration from Flyevening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsymother at work, a downjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a cleanerblanket fort, a carer while at schoolshe has one main intention, and a bundle of assumptions people lay that is to log on him. First they assume to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that with is a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide hehit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isntiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't his real namefind herself entirely on her own, but everybody just uses itand 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=15253058320008666482
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=='''21 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Jenny Lecoat|title=The Book of Hope Beyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=Politics and Society General Fiction|summary= The done thing is to read a book all Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the way through before you sit down to review itoccupation. I’m making an exception here During the war, because I don’t want Jean's father was arrested for listening to lose any a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the experience war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of reading this amazing bookhim. But will the truth come as a relief, I want to capture or will it as it hits me. raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=024147857X1846976537
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