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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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=='''11 JNAUARY30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Alastair HumphreysB0CYV674G2|title=LocalSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Travel Crime|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and cycled all over blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the worldpolice station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. And then written about it. For this book A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he walked and cycled very close 's been stabbed to home and then wrote about itdeath. As he says in DCI John Tanner is just back from his introductionhoneymoon, which coincided with the book is birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an attempt easy answer but the words 'perverse'to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'John Tanner' were made for each other. He' One of s sleep-deprived to the joys point of the book for me was that the biggest thing falling asleep at work but he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrongs determined to keep going - probably because he can', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices aheadt get any sleep at home.|isbn=1785633678
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=='''31 JANUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0811771741Stuart Douglas|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All Death at the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her OwnDress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a childDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when woman on the use edge of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signingreservoir. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day police seem happy to assign it as an apprentice in accidental death, but something about the wondrous library we start by visiting with himwhole thing bothers Lowe, and in he enlists the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is help of a generation missing in the family. A few short years agofellow actor, Eli's parents were both lost John Le Breton to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beasthelp him investigate matters further. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at They travel across the eatery leads to a confession from grancountry during their days off filming, Eli knows his only 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.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray uncovering more possible murders and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly catseemingly, one who is able a link to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of death during the twoSecond World War. But he's is there really a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and link between the catflap deaths? And will they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter manage to uncover who is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=00085612491803368209
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=='''14 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Christopher EdgeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Black Hole Cinema ClubDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lucas and Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinemaworld, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a place that has the nickname team of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fanswarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, they're looking forward and race to lots of exciting filmsthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and many, many snacks! the points they grant you along the way. HoweverUnfortunately for Kit, as the movie startsonly thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, they very quickly realise that something about this eaten, and a new film format trio of questors is needed. Possibly very differentunfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and they are swept up stumbled into an adventure they couldndeclaring he't even imaginell enter as a team. But as they lurch from one film genre to the nextWhat chance does this friendless, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinemamuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to their real livessucceed?|isbn=18399427381839945184
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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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