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=='''21 MARCH30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Sunny SinghB0CYV674G2|title=Hotel ArcadiaSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in It seemed like an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist groupopen-and-shut case. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is SamA man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a wartime photographer and Abhiknife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the hotel managerman. As Abhi continues A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to try to care remotely for death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the residents who are still alive in the hotel, birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to 'd be cowed by events, grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and keeps on venturing out 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of her room to try to capture whatfalling asleep at work but he's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries determined to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terroristsgoing - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=086154742X
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=='''25 APRIL4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sylvie CathrallStuart Douglas|title=A Letter Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Luminous DeepSecond World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}=='''6 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= There are I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few greater joys than series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a book which lives hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a compelling premiseteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. And this Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of themhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn= 03565227761839945184
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|author=Tom PercivalJenny Valentine|title=The Wrong ShoesUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Will's life Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is difficult, a once in a multitude of wayslifetime connection. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad canThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't work and doesnget each other't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job s contact details at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accidenttime. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum But then chance brings them back together, and dad they are separatedinseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yettragic, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at artand now they must work through their grief, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a longtheir friendship, dark tunneltogether.|isbn=13985271221471196585
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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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