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The cover for Brain Freeze by Tom Fletcher. This is a World Book Day book. The cover depicts a short haired girl floating midair holding a clock and an ice cream cone. Various ice creams and ice pops are floating around her. In the back is a blue ice cream van. This illustration is made by Shane Devries

Twenty-seventh book of the year!
Brain Freeze by Tom Fletcher
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#Aircraft of the week: Sopwith Camel
Image credit: National Air and Space Museum

The cover for The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. It has a teared of note paper with a letter on it in orange handwritten text. There are two photos of a boy attached to the paper with a paperclip. Over all the text is the title and author name written.

Twenty-sixth book of the year!
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
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A Boeing 747 - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flying in the sky

#Aircraft of the week: Boeing 747 - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
Image credit: NASA

A black and white image of a biplane flying boat. It is on a body of water. One person is visible from the cockpit. This plane has three big propellers. Image credit: Library of Congress https://loc.gov

Aircraft of the week: Short S.8 Calcutta
Image credit: Library of Congress loc.gov

A russian Tupolev Tu-144 over a runway. it is a supersonic aircraft with a drooped node. on its nose are two wings that look like ears. image credit: wikimedia.org

#Aircraft of the week: Tupolev Tu-144
Image credit: wikimedia.org

The cover for the Dutch book Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt. It is the movie edition of the book and has a photo of Carice van Houten playing Minoes. She is drenched and looking sad while holding the bones of a fish. At the top is the author name and the title of the book.

Twenty-fifth book of the year!
Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt
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The cover for the Dutch book Achtste-groepers Huilen Niet (Eight graders do not cry) by Jacques Vriens. Is is a blue book with the title and author name in white and dark blue respectively. Two silhouettes of a girl and a boy are playing with a football.

Twenty-fourth book of the year!
Achtste-Groepers Huilen Niet by Jacques Vriens
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The cover for That's Not My Name by Megan Lally. There is a dark green forest with a shed that has yellow illuminated lights in the background. The title is in bold written font in the middle of the cover in red. The subtitle "She thought she had her life back. She was wrong." Is at the top and the name of the author is at the bottom.

Twenty-third book of the year!
That's Not My Name by Megan Lally
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A photo of the Concorde flying above a landing strip. It is a sleak super sonic tailless aircraft with a narrow fuselage. It demonstrated its Droop Snoot, where its cock pit lowers down for better visibility. this is a British Airways plane that has its landing gear out. Image credit: Kurt Kolb on JetPhotos.com

#Aircraft of the week: Concorde
Image credit: Kurt Kolb on JetPhotos.com

The cover for the book Castle In The Air by Diana Wynne Jones. It depicts an illustration of two figures flying on a magical carpet in a cloudy sky looking in the distance at an Arabic looking castle that is floating in air. A genie is coming ot of a lamp that is on the carpet. The main colours of this cover are yellowish orange to dark purple. There are stars and swirls of wind falling and flowing about. The name Diana Wynne Jones is written on the top. At the bottom in big decorative text is the title Castle In The Air.

Twenty-second book of the year!
Castle In The Air by Diana Wynne Jones
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Image of two Airbus A330-743L. Also known as the Airbus Beluga XL. These are massive cargo planes with and enlarged cargo space. the plane flying has been decorated to look like an Beluga, with at the place of the cockpit a smile and at the end a winking eye. the plane on the ground has an open eye. They look very cute Image credit: Simon Reichert on JetPhotos.com

#Aircraft of the week: Airbus A330-743L
Image credit: Simon Reichert on JetPhotos.com

a photo of the Lockheed Model 10 Electra. an small aircraft with two propellers. Image credit: Sand Diego Air & Space Museum

#Aircraft of the week: Lockheed Model 10 Electra
Image credit: Sand Diego Air & Space Museum

A photo of a Supermarine Spitfire flying in the air. It is a small sized one propeller plane. it has a silver livery with a single red streak and a blue and red circle in it on its body and wings. Image credit: Steven Hadlow on JetPhotos.com

#Aircraft of the week: Supermarine Spitfire
Image credit: Steven Hadlow on JetPhotos.com

A picture of the cover for The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis. It depicts the cover for the Netflix original series by the same name. It shows Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, a young woman with short redish brown hair and striking makeup wearing a simple black dress with white collar, sitting behind a chessboard with her chin resting on her upright hands. She is looking intensely into the camera. On the chessboard stands wooden chess pieces and several bottles of alcohol and a bottle of green pills. The title of the book is in the middle in simple serif font. The author's name sits st the bottom. This is the Vintage Contemporaries paperback edition.

Twenty-first book of the year!
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
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The cover for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. A dark blue cover with a blue Mockingjay in flight in front of a white circle. The title The Hunger Games: Mockingjay is in white, under that is the author's name, Suzanne Collins, in blue. This is the Schooltastic paperback edition.

Twentieth book of the year!
The Hunger Games Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
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a photo of an airplane in the air. the plane is a very wide and thin. it has four small propellers and a narrow but long fuselage. Image credit: Fred Merz from Solar Impulse

#Aircraft of the week: Solar Impulse
Image credit: Fred Merz from Solar Impulse

The cover for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. A dark blue cover with a red Mockingjay in flight in its beak in front of a white circle. The title The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is in white, under that is the author's name, Suzanne Collins, in red. This is the Scholastic Press paperback edition.

Nineteenth book of the year!
The Hunger Games Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
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The cover for The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. A dark blue cover with a yellow Mockingjay holding an arrow in its beak in front of a white circle. The title The Hunger Games is in white, under that is the author's name, Suzanne Collins, in yellow. This is the Schooltastic paperback edition.

Eighteenth book of the year!
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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The cover for As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson. It is a black cover that has four roughly placed pieces of silver duct tape with broken glass, some having blood on them, all over it. The title "As Good As Dead" is written in a handwritten font. Each word on one of the pieces of duct tape. The author name Holly Jackson is at the bottom in blue. This is the Electric Monkey Paperback edition.

Seventeenth book of the year!
As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson
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A black and white photo of the Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo. it is a very large flying boat with three triple wings. it is floating on Lake Maggiore. image credit: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Archives on airandspace.si.edu

#Aircraft of the week: Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo
Image credit: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Archives on airandspace.si.edu

The cover for the book Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson. It has red background with the title "Good Girl, Bad Blood" in big black and white hand written font in the middle. At the bottom sits the Author name Holly Jackson. There is a white wire of ear buds curling on the cover. There are black fingerprints scattered here and there. This is the Electric Monkey paperback edition.

Sixteenth book of the year!
Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
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The cover for the book A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. It has white graph paper background with the title "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" in big black hand written font in the middle. At the top is the tagline "A closed case. An A-grade student who won't let it go..." At the bottom sits the Author name Holly Jackson. All on the cover covering parts of texts are red string going from all sizes to the next. Coloured pins are scattered here and there. This is the Electric Monkey paperback edition.

Fifteenth book of the year!
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
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A black and white image of the airplane Wright Flyer. it is flying over the ground by a few decimeters. A man is standing to the side looking at the flying plane. This was the very first motorized aircraft that actually got of the ground. That was on the 17th of December in 1903. It was build by the brothers Wright who made the flight near the village Kitty Hawk which is in North Carolina. Kitty Hawk is a nickname for this plane. The plane was made with wood, wires, and cloth coverings. The first flight it made it stayed in the air for 12 seconds and made a distance of more than 36 meters, later that day it flew 260 meters in 59 seconds, with an average speed of 16km/h. It is the start of a new area of Aviation history. Image credit: Encyclopædia Britannica at britannica.com

#Aircraft of the week: Wright Flyer
Image credit: Encyclopædia Britannica at britannica.com

The book Heartless by Marissa Meyer. It is a black book with red thorns and rose vines decorating the cover. In the middle sits the title in an stylized font where the letter T is in the form of a sword with a red crown on top. The author name sits under it. This is the Hardcover Feiwel & Friends edition

Fourteenth book of the year!
Heartless by Marissa Meyer
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A black and white image of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker. a large bomber plane. It has a long narrow body with a massive wingspan of 70 meters. On the wings are 6 backwards facing props. The logo of the US Air Force National Star Insignia is visible on the back side of the body, a star in a circle with two rectangles attached on either side. At the front sits the registration number BM-004 in large bold black text. The cockpit is round with a sort of glass dome at the top to give pilots and other crew members a wide view of their surroundings. The plane is flying above clouds. Image credit: AirHistory.net Photo Archive

#Aircraft of the week: Convair B-36 Peacemaker
Image credit: AirHistory.net Photo Archive

The cover of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. At the top in large red text sits the title of the book. The word "Silent" is a bit blurry. In the middle of the cover is a photo of an open door with in the room behind it stands a simple chair. At the left side reads the text "Only she knows what happened." in red. At the right side reads the text "Only I can make her speak." in black. At the bottom sits the author's name. There are multiple text of praises from different people and media outlets spread on the cover.

Thirteenth book of the year!
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
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The cover for The Tales Of Beedle The Bard by J.K. Rowling. It is a blue cover with in the upper middle the title, in the middle a simple illustration of a tree stump and at the bottom the text "With additional notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore" all three in gold. The spine and two corners at the right side of the book are dark brown made to look like the book is bound. At the same height as the aforementioned text there is a red wax seal illustration with the text Property of Hogwarts Library in the middle.

Twelfth book of the year!
The Tales Of Beedle The Bard With additional notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore by J.K. Rowling
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The cover for Quidditch Through The Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp, a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling. It is a red cover with in the upper middle the title, in the middle a simple illustration of a Golden Snitch (a small ball with feathered wings) and at the bottom the author name all three in gold. The spine and two corners at the right side of the book are dark brown made to look like the book is bound. At the same height as the author name there is a red wax seal illustration with the text Property of Hogwarts Library in the middle.

Eleventh book of the year!
Quidditch Through The Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp (J.K. Rowling)
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The cover of the book Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. It is a mostly green cover with in the background a large snake crawling over a destroyed section of Hogwarts with its mouth open in a hiss in different shades of green. In very big white text on the right side sits the author's name, J.K. Rowling, and at the bottom left the title, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows partly in orange and white text. The spine is orange with the title and author's name in green. This is the Bloomsbury paperback version.

Tenth book of the year!
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
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