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=='''4 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0760381267Onyi Nwabineli|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''The most important part of a garden is Anuri spent her childhood on display to the one who enjoys it''. I've 'gardenedworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia' in a vagues increasingly popular presence on social media, indefinite sort where she posted every step of way Anuri's childhood for more than half a centurysponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. I know (most of) the basics but Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment back, suing her step-mother to gardeningtake down the content about her. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for both indoors and outdoors doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of varying complexity seemed like the answerOphelia's online empire. SoCan she save her sister, how did it stack upand perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''31 JANUARY30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0811771741B0CYV674G2|title=InstaKnits for BabySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Melissa LeapmanDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blanketsIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Some will be quick knits A man, covered in mud and blood - others are of and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn'long, cosy afternoons in front of t killed the fire' varietyman. The projects are divided by A body at the time theybottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'll take s been stabbed to complete - less than five hoursdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hourswhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. All You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the projects are attractive, modern words 'perverse' and useable'John Tanner' were made for each other. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about He'socials sleep-media-worthy projects' deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but thathe's me being pickydetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''1 FEBRUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sarah MarshStuart Douglas|title=A Sign of Her OwnLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=After During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a bout woman on the edge of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearingreservoir. Suddenly plunged into a world of silenceThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, everything but something about her life changes. Living in a time when the use whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of sign language was seen as something only savages doa fellow actor, Ellen is sent John Le Breton to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signinghelp him investigate matters further. From hereThey travel across the country during their days off filming, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf uncovering more possible murders and using , seemingly, a system called Visible Speechlink to death during the Second World War. At But is there really a link between the same time, Bell deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=10354016141803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Alex Bell Kieran Larwood and Tim McDonaghJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eli Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is a busy lad an avid fan of Dungeon Running – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with himsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and in race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the evening a helper at treasure or the dessert cafe his gran owns big bad and runsthe points they grant you along the way. Eli lives with his lovely granUnfortunately for Kit, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Elionly thing he's parents were both lost to seen of the titular latest raceon the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company new trio of a magical beastquestors is needed. This Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has made the race anathema taken to the pair – but when a bad incident at goading from the eatery leads to token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a confession from granteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, Eli knows his only and how could he possibly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.succeed?|isbn=05713822311839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
|genre=Lifestyle
|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'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 mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=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, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and 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=0008666482
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|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. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to 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 war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, 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 occupation?
|isbn=1846976537
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