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=='''28 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldOnyi Nwabineli|title=Finding BearAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, April had been thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on Bear Islandsocial media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, a lot further north than many people would venturebasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Back homeAnuri is battling alcoholism, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for failing to start herPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and so can easily be ignored when word comes through receiving money from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear them for doing very Bear-y things has been shot and woundedso. Desperate to make sure he's OKMost importantly, she and is desperately worried about her father return to little sister, who is the Arctic and hope that in a world new focus of very white and very dangerous thingsOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – perhaps herself and that her relationship with her father at the friendship can continue.same time?|isbn=00085820170861546873

|isbn=1472263936B0CYV674G2|title=The FigurineSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Victoria HislopDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greeceseemed like an open-and-shut case. She was alone: her motherA man, Greek by birthcovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, had left comes into the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helenapolice station shouting that he hasn's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritaget killed the man. Her trip to A body at the family apartment in upbottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -market Kolonaki would be he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the first birth of several annual visitshis daughter Samantha. She grew to love her grandmother and You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the familywords 'perverse's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis'John Tanner' were made for each other. He was proud of his close connections 's sleep-deprived to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values point of falling asleep at work but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helenahe's red hair and green eyes determined to keep going - inherited from her fatherprobably because he can's Scottish ancestorst get any sleep at home.

=='''5 OCTOBER4 JUNE'''==

|author=Helen CooperStuart Douglas|title=The Taming of Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the CatDress Rehearsal

|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against catMeet Kit. In this caseLike most of the people in his world, principallyit seems, we have Brie he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the mousesport where a team of warrior, up against Gorgonzola the cat – mage and in case you're seeing a connectionhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem race to be the names of cheeses. Anywayexit, Brie is shunned, scorned perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and, if the points they grant you must, mous-tracised, for along the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from Unfortunately for Kit, the cheese for bedding – only thing he displays it as art and makes stories based 's seen of the latest race on the visuals on it. And inn TV equivalent is that story-telling will come in handy one nightteam has been retired, eaten, when he feels all alone and cast outa new trio of questors is needed. ItPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's almost ll enter as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alivea team. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse communityWhat chance does this friendless, though, as all the others had the chance to halfmuscle-free-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story zone have the successful sequel it needs when in actually managing that cheese runs out, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713760101839945184

=='''17 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=V Castro1635866847|title=The Haunting of AlejandraLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorLifestyle|summary=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 a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There'This s a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a part mess of her past that had it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to stop with herfold down the corners of pages. She You suspect that smears of butter would not be the one to confront thisa problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}

At some point during her life, Alejandra lost herself=='''4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4. She feels as if 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she is playing parts for others in her life 's got the house to herself – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought no neighbour to her own desirespop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, her own futurejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her own identitylonesome. Day by day What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing has one main intention, and that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandralog on to Voxminer, there the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a darkness threatening to consume hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her. More own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she is visited by a ghostand her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, a weeping woman and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wake.girl to turn?|isbn=18033656170008666482

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesJenny Lecoat|title=Oscar's LionBeyond Summerland|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, Jean lives on Jersey with Oscar hoping to have his her mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple where they are celebrating the end of times before he has to be ready for schoolthe occupation. But when he enters his parentsDuring the war, Jean' bedroom, all he sees is s father was arrested for listening to a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepishbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and admitting that he won't be hungry her mother waiting for years for another two daysnews of him. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to As the British finally free the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar Channel islands from the other month. And it can shapeshiftNazis, so he can take it to school and it can get the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him out of a problem. And But will the truth come as a relief, or will it's wonderful to have raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax informer who told the Nazis about the rules, and so on. radio? OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=00085967511846976537