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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Onyi Nwabineli
|title=Allow 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?
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1787636003B0CYV674G2|title=The Girls of SummerSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Katie BishopDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and Caroline went backpacking around Greece blood - and arrived on carrying a knife, comes into the island. Rachel wasnpolice station shouting that he hasn'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 warykilled the man. It was quite A body at the bottom of a while before freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he made any sort of physical approach 's been stabbed to her and by that time she was obsessed by himdeath. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, looking after which coincided with the birth of his interests on daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the island words 'perverse' and in particular in 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedpoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''1 4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Shalini BolandStuart Douglas|title=The Silent BrideLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Alice During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Seth are Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a match made in heavenreservoir. He is everything she has been searching for; handsomeThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, accomplishedbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in enlists the help of a wife; beautifulfellow actor, successfulJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, confident… uncovering more possible murders and so , seemingly, a link to death during the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setSecond World War. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice But is walked down there really a link between the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled deaths? And will they manage to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea uncover who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=16625070891803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Simon FoxKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=DeadlockDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Late one night Graham Blake Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is late back from his shift on an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the forcesport where a team of warrior, mage and then suddenly rings Archiehealer enter specially prepared, demanding he fetch something from a secret placecentury-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and join him on the runpoints they grant you along the way. They get togetherUnfortunately for Kit, but barely begin to smell the whiff only thing he's seen of Southern trains when the father latest race on the inn TV equivalent is arrestedthat one team has been retired, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightoneaten, toting and a tin his father was determined new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to keep away the goading from the token bully of his colleagues, world and the bearer of stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a whole heap of questionsteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18399444201839945184
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=='''8 13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1635866847|title=Three GracesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= Few styles It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-a slice of-chocolate cake on thehomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -nation novelbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of a recipe in the atmosphere of book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the day book and capture it, crafting an image I was told to make a mess of the country as it stands . Notes in one particular momentthe margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. To say You suspect that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this smears of butter would not be embarrassingly inadequate: shea problem. I ''loved''s practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointbook already. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X
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 =='''6 4 JULY'''==
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|author=Thiago de MoraesMax Boucherat|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding We meet Lori on the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when first evening she's being told that by her onegot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-last-chance-giving headteacherbreaking eleven year old, the world changeson her lonesome. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a power-outblanket fort, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phonesshe has one main intention, and all that powers is to log on to Voxminer, the Internetworld-building, just for our conveniencecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's sake)world. TrixieBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, luckily, realises what has happened – and then she finds something even more spooky. For the ancient Gods have taken the power server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of power from ustampering. And so she begins When malevolent eyes spark up on her epic questphone screen, to gather all and her safe place in the people that can steal it back game has been doctored namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Godswell, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=178845295X0008666482
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=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''==
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|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldJenny Lecoat|title=Finding BearBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been Jean lives on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship Jersey with a polar bear – that she called Bearher mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Back home, things on During the domestic and family front are a bit advancedwar, but not perfect Jean's father was arrested for herlistening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and so can easily be ignored when word comes through her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot Nazis, and woundedthe war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to But will the Arctic and hope that in truth come as a world of very white and very dangerous thingsrelief, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the friendship can continue.occupation?|isbn=00085820171846976537
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