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=='''25 23 MAY'''==
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|author=Thomas D LeeOnyi Nwabineli|title=Perilous TimesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''Hate is the path s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of least resistanceAnuri'' Set in the near-distant futures childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, in a world on the verge of climate collapsebasically, Britain monetary gain. Now Anuri is in great perilher 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. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to save the day start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and rescue what receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little remains. What no one expected was that one of sister, who is the Knights new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the Round Table would answer the call.same time?|isbn=03565185230861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Laura NoakesB0CYV674G2|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Number OneIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Or ratherA man, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice covered in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, mud and blood - and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiescarrying a knife, uncommon mentalities or suchlike comes into the police station shouting that Victorian society frowns greatly uponhe hasn't killed the man. But Cosima bears A body at the tag as bottom of a surname because nothing else seems freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to be known about where she came death. DCI John Tanner is just back fromhis honeymoon, as which coincided with the first ever inmate, birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and unique in having no known family in the outside world'John Tanner' were made for each other. During a daring escapade He's sleep-deprived to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Alan ParksStuart Douglas|title=To Die in JuneLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the unfortunate, accidental death dead body of a homeless man woman on the streets, suddenly starts edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to feel like something more sinister assign it as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyan accidental death, but all something about the more so because his own father is a down-and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abodewhole thing bothers Lowe, and he has been for yearsenlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. At They travel across the same time as facing these country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murdersand, seemingly, Harry is also dealing with a move link to a different police station, and death during the arrival Second World War. But is there of really a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of link between the boy having existed can be found. deaths? Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry And will they manage to uncover just what who is going onresponsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=18053007841803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1787636003Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie BishopDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandMeet Kit. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she wasLike most of the people in his world, it seems, perhapshe is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, naivemage and healer enter specially prepared, so when thirty-four-yearcentury-old Alistair Wright started , magical mazes, and race to take an interest in herthe exit, she was flattered rather than waryperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. It was quite a while before Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he made any sort 's seen of physical approach to her the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and by that time she was obsessed by hima new trio of questors is needed. Alistair worked Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Henry TaylorKit, looking after he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his interests on the island world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''30 MAY13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1635866847|title=Keep Her SecretThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Matthew and Helena are in IcelandIt's strange, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The alien-landscape Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the lava fields homepage. I don't eat cakes and black beaches is breathdesserts -taking and Helena seems intent on getting but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this momentbook, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the edge of a ravine gives way book and Helena finds herself clinging I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the rockface with just margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the snagged strap corners of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowpages. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself You suspect that smears of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes butter would not be a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewproblem. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about HelenaI ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=166250893X
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1787636003Max Boucherat|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort Last Life of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}=='''1 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=DeadlockLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift We meet Lori on the forcefirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, and then suddenly rings Archiejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, demanding he fetch something from on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a secret placeblanket fort, she has one main intention, and join him that is to log on to Voxminer, the runworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. They get togetherBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but barely begin and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to smell the whiff enter shows signs of Southern trains when the father is arrestedtampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, leaving Archie on and her safe place in the late express to Brightongame has been doctored – well, toting where is a tin his father was determined girl to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.turn?|isbn=18399444200008666482
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=='''8 JUNE'''==
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|author=Amanda CraigJenny Lecoat|title=Three GracesBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the state-end of-the-nation noveloccupation. There During the war, Jean's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and capture itsoldiers took him away one night, crafting an image leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of the country as it stands in one particular momenthim. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with As the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving British finally free the ongoing issues of the day into Channel islands from the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-inNazis, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]the war is finally over, April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – their hopes rise that she called Bearthey will finally learn what became of him. Back home, things on But will the domestic and family front are truth come as a bit advancedrelief, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the islands Bear war? Who was last left on. the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? For a bear doing very Bear-y things has And what other secrets have been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that kept throughout the friendship can continue.occupation?|isbn=00085820171846976537
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