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=='''6 JULY23 MAY'''==
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|author=Jamie LittlerOnyi Nwabineli|title=ArkspireAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Two sistersAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Juniper where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apartbasically, are growing to be chalk and cheesemonetary gain. Juniper Now Anuri is an eager hunter in her twenties and trader in illicit magicshe is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, including relics from prior major wars left out in suing her step-mother to take down the Badlandscontent about her. Elodie Anuri is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspirebattling alcoholism, perhaps even failing to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district hasstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and one of the five major victors in said earlier warreceiving money from them for doing so. Being trained in Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status new focus of the whole familyOphelia's online empire. But in finding something oddly magicalCan she save her sister, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of and perhaps herself and her relationship with her own – for good, or for very, very bad…father at the same time?|isbn=02415861430861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Thiago de MoraesB0CYV674G2|title=Old Gods New TricksSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet TrixieIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Forever getting into scrapesA man, larks covered in mud and blood - and adventures involving flooding carrying a knife, comes into the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when shepolice station shouting that he hasn's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, t killed the world changesman. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – A body at the bottom of a powerfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -outhe's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, even which coincided with the birth of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolhis daughter Samantha. You would think he's in d be grateful for an easy answer but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, words 'perverse' and all that powers the Internet, just 'John Tanner' were made for our convenienceeach other. He's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – sleep-deprived to the ancient Gods have taken the power point of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, falling asleep at work but he's determined to gather all the people that keep going - probably because he can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters't get any sleep at home.|isbn=178845295X
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=='''18 JULY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Dean KoontzStuart Douglas|title=After Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Deathat the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Michael MaceDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Head leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in woman on the edge of a bio-hazard accidentreservoir. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuaryThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, covered in plasticbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he has enlists the help of a sense that something veryfellow actor, very bad has happened John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and only him – as he sits up and looks around at , seemingly, a link to death during the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleaguesSecond World War. As he recovers his senses, he realises that But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=16625004671803368209}} =='''3 AUGUST6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Judith EagleKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Stolen SongbirdDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingMeet Kit. Her other motherLike most of the people in his world, Ronnieit seems, he is having to go up North to take care an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gamwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesmagical mazes, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment race to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's housethe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toothe way. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryUnfortunately for Kit, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mumthe only thing he's old suitcaseseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peoplenew trio of questors is needed. Is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the painting somehow linked to goading from the gang? And what has happened to Carotoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's mother? ll enter as a team. Is she somehow involved What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the mystery tooactually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713631481839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1635866847|title=Nowhere IslandThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveIt's strange, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system things that constantly puts him in futureless places make you ''immediately'' feel that are not homes – and find a home this is the book for himselfyou. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous carBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and lets it ride him to his futurethere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that someone lives with his brother cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorwaybook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to provide for their safety and seclusionfold down the corners of pages. Them, and You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyproblem. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if I ''loved'' this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080book already.
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 =='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, April had been on Bear Islandher lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, a lot further north than many people would ventureshe has one main intention, and finding that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a polar bear – tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she called Bearfinds something even more spooky. Back home, things on For the domestic server she and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, bestie and so can easily nobody else should be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left onable to enter shows signs of tampering. For a bear doing very Bear-y things When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been shot and woundeddoctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Desperate to make sure heDuring the war, Jean's OKfather was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, she leaving Jean and her father return to mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Arctic Nazis, and hope the war is finally over, their hopes rise that in they will finally learn what became of him. But will the 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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