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=='''15 MARCH23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Onyi Nwabineli|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue FlandersAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns which seems Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to meet your her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every need. Right now, itstep of Anuri's bitterly cold childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarvesbasically, hats and mittensmonetary gain. They have Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to look stylishregain her confidence and to get her life back, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel bettersuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. If that sounds like a lot Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to askstart her PhD, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and I don't think that there was one of receiving money from them which I couldn't see myself wearingfor doing so. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the history new focus of knitting. ItOphelia's not essential but it's a nice extraonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''17 MARCH30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Vanda SymonB0CYV674G2|title=FacelessSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one misIt seemed like an open-and-stepshut case. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged A man struggling with an overbearing boss, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a weighty mortgageknife, and what comes into the police station shouting that he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for hasn't killed the materials she needsman. And then we have Max, who is also living on A body at the streets and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell bottom of a man, barely able freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to take any care of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he death. DCI John Tanner is now. One nightjust back from his honeymoon, Bradley finds himself half-crazed which coincided with stress the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and anxiety, driving down the street looking 'John Tanner' were made for a prostituteeach other. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from 's sleep-deprived to the person point of falling asleep at work but he thought 's determined to keep going - probably because he was into someone very differentcan't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1914585046
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=='''31 MARCH4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJStuart Douglas|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'The party , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the year turned into the murder mystery edge of the decade.'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an islandreservoir. It was now known The police seem happy to assign it as Island Homean accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs and he enlists the opening weekend was going help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to be something special, even by Home's standardshelp him investigate matters further. SpeedboatsThey travel across the country during their days off filming, helicopters uncovering more possible murders and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked seemingly, a link to death during the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tideSecond World War. Home's CEO, Ned Groom, But is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for there really a link between the weekend. deaths? Those And will they manage to uncover who have not been invited have not stopped ringing...is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''7 APRIL6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Justyn EdwardsKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Great Fox IllusionDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a contest with a difference. No singingteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, no dancingcentury-old, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workmazes, and who can attempt race to win The Great Foxthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's magical legacy - seen of the latest race on the secrets to all inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of his tricks! Flick questors is determined to winneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but not because she wants he has taken to own the tricksgoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. She is interested What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in just ''one'' trickactually managing that, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able and how could he possibly hope to bring her missing father home.succeed?|isbn=15295019461839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1635866847|title=WishedThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=When It's strange, the things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, book for a week of half-termyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', theyI visited the author're not looking forward to its [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is com/ website] and there's a picture of a special brand slice of biscuitchocolate cake on the homepage. They I don't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything eat cakes and everywheredesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. But things soon change when they find (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some tiny old birthday candles, difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and manage I was told to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come truea mess of it. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for Notes in the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jason Rohan|title=Smargins are sanctioned.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access Denied|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Arun and Sam have had little You get to do with Donna, a girl at their school. But things immediately change at fold down the start corners of this extended sprint pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a novel, when she insists Arunproblem. I 's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Well, itloved's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpectedthis book already. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386
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=='''28 APRIL4 JULY'''==
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|author=Jennifer SaintMax Boucherat|title=Elektra|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story The Last Life of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787634906|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in trouble. Hemeet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in , babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. One is Alegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. What could possibly go wrong? It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm Snuggled in a new coat to keep him warm (blanket fort, she often does this for homeless peoplehas one main intention, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going is to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed log on their backs.}}=='''5 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midorito Voxminer, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Howeverworld-building, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her critter-collecting game that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude tiny inkling that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara wonthis stormy night doesn't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamifind herself entirely on her own, and then she is forced to flee out into the worldfinds something even more spooky. She joins Himura aboard For the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world enter shows signs of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Early comments tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousher phone screen, a delight. I will agree with and her safe place in the first game has been doctored tremendous well, where is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have girl to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism. turn?|isbn=08615419010008666482
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=='''2 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sally Oliver
|title=The Weight of Loss
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.
|isbn= 086154112X
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=='''21 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Jenny Lecoat|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=''Think Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of it as no-whining dining.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato isoccupation. Then there are all During the different typeswar, not Jean's father was arrested for listening to mention the cultivars - a banned radio and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met soldiers took him away one she didn't lovenight, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for As the ones you find in British finally free the supermarket ''next'' to Channel islands from the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from Nazis, and the ones war is finally over, their hopes rise that have obviously just been grown for profitthey will finally learn what became of him. PersonallyBut will the truth come as a relief, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? She's not at all precious if you get And what other secrets have been kept throughout the taste.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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