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=='''9 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1787301036Onyi Nwabineli|title=What July Knew|author=Emily KochAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet July Hooper Anuri spent her childhood on 20 July 1995 shedisplay to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's just ten years old. Sheincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's a carefulchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, meticulous childmonetary gain. The care has been taught by Now Anuri is in her father, Mick Hooper, who twenties and she is not prepared slowly trying to discuss the death of his wiferegain her confidence and to get her life back, July's suing her step-mother, and any hint that to take down the conversation content about her. Anuri is heading that way will lead battling alcoholism, failing to the necessity of a Lessonstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Other infractions Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and heOphelia's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visibleonline empire. July's teacher is concerned Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and brings up the possibility of abuse her relationship with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to father at the school, has he notsame time? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|isbn=0861546873

 =='''16 FEBRUARY30 MAY'''==

|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonB0CYV674G2|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jayden's nose is forever It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a bookknife, which means comes into the police station shouting that he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of hasn't killed the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out thereman. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring A body at the outside world bottom of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a sciencefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jaydenhe's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existedbeen stabbed to death. For many of those mythological creatures are realDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, including which coincided with the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit birth of local footagehis daughter Samantha. The crew of You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to join inkeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483

|author=Vanda SymonStuart Douglas|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the start dead body of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder woman on the edge of an expectant woman in Dunedina reservoir. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the hunt for whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a killer targeting pregnant womenfellow actor, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Finding herself put on desk dutiesThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, which she rails againstseemingly, she just can't let a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the case go and she starts to follow every thread deaths? And will they manage to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=19145855771803368209

=='''23 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Natasha FarrantKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54

|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage Meet Kit. Like most of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood people in his world, it seems, he is an old house, in avid fan of Dungeon Running – the North sport where a team of Englandwarrior, where Bea mage and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complexhealer enter specially prepared, extended family arrangementcentury-old, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leomagical mazes, and Raffy is there race to the exit, perhaps bothering with his mum, the treasure or the big bad and the points they are living together as a familygrant you along the way. They have grown up swimming in the coveUnfortunately for Kit, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all only thing he's seen of the nature around latest race on the house inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and loving every inch a new trio of the placequestors is needed. But now Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure goading from the token bully of his other two brothers to sell the property to world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintainteam. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to liveWhat chance does this friendless, but if they'll even be togethermuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713487851839945184

=='''2 MARCH13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Alice M Ross1635866847|title=The Nowhere ThiefLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=At last there It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and her mother run in there's a picture of a seaside townslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen itI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out(There's a recipe in the book, because she has which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the ability book and I was told to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal make a mess of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and it. Notes in the buildings margins are generally empty of humans and ripe for plundersanctioned. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything You get to actually generate custom at fold down the shop? corners of pages. Well yes, is the answer, but the fact You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|isbnauthor=1529504775Max Boucherat|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Elsie 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 her little brother David loved that is to go log on to Voxminer, the park and watch the red buses drive pastworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldnBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even just standing up was very difficultmore spooky. One day Elsie spotted a bus in For the toy shop window which would help David - server she and was happy to use the coins from her money box bestie and nobody else should be able to pay for it as cash was tight at homeenter shows signs of tampering. Gradually, David learned to stand When malevolent eyes spark up, use the bus for supporton her phone screen, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought her safe place in the bus, now damaged and rustedgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Merryn GloverJenny Lecoat|title=The Hidden Fires|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think of no-one better a combination to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famously.|isbn=1846975751}}=='''9 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?}} =='''16 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleBeyond Summerland

|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around celebrating the question end of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frighteningoccupation.|isbn=191458564X}}=='''30 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in During the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be herwar, agents want to represent her. SheJean's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she father was barely out of childhood. Alex, arrested for listening to a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Rozabanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different mother waiting for years for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one news of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherhim. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, British finally free the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up Channel islands from the ladder headed by 'experienced'Nazis, but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholic. The problem war is finally over, their hopes rise that the case has long passed the statute they will finally learn what became of limitationshim. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was But will the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is truth come as a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkarirelief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. war? Is there a connection between the two deaths?}}=='''13 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It Who was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one informer who longs for adventure. When told the opportunity comes – to join Nazis about the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.occupation?|isbn=14722921541846976537