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=='''7 JANUARY 202123 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1406395404Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statementAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and for some teenagers this will have brought to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about sleep problemsher. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing) and others will worry unnecessarilyso. Most peopleimportantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, from children to adults will have who is the odd bad night but worrying about your lack new focus of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And thereOphelia's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like lazinessonline empire. Being up earlyCan she save her sister, working late has been praised and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=000820831XB0CYV674G2|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Stuart MacBrideDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=At the coastal village of ClachmaraIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, the headland is slowly eroding comes into the sea. Storm Trevor speeds up police station shouting that he hasn't killed the processman. A ship - body at the Oceanbottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -Gold Harvester he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is stuck on just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the house to see whatwords 'perverse's happening. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bones'John Tanner' were made for each other. Gordon SmithHe's home is falling into sleep-deprived to the North Sea and the evidence point of what falling asleep at work but he's been doing for decades is determined to keep going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU probably because he can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruin't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTStuart Douglas|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When Leo Curtis found During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the house in The Circle, dead body of a woman on the edge of a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venicereservoir. Leo wanted The police seem happy to move quickly on assign it as an accidental death, but something about the property as it was on whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the market at such help of a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able fellow actor, John Le Breton to afford ithelp him investigate matters further. Alice agreed - she was tired of They travel across the country during their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to spend most of the week together instead of just death during the weekendsSecond World War. Leo had some work done on But is there really a link between the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= The CaptiveDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Hannah knows Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the cageexit, intimatelyperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. It lurks in Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the corner inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of her eyequestors is needed. Soon Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks has taken to her? What if the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he escapes? 'll enter as a team. What if chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he hurts her? What if she hurts himpossibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18387726501839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=17864959021635866847|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindLavender Companion|author=Isabel HardmanJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says It's strange, the things that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionalsmake you '' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by immediately'keeping going': feel that this is the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasonbook for you. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than Before I did.}}==started reading ''The Lavender Companion'15 JANUARY', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'=={{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|title=The Humiliations s a picture of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst a slice of times – only they should be chocolate cake on the best of timeshomepage. He should be getting a text from the most baeI don't eat cakes and desserts -worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, heI wanted that cake viscerally. (There's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl a recipe in classthe book, whowhich I's duffed him up in response, m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and the wanna-bae seems I was told to actually be with someone else anywaymake a mess of it. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that Notes in the dad has left the picture – yes, things margins are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinnersanctioned. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school You get to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in fold down the wash? corners of pages. This can't You suspect that smears of butter would not be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''21 JANUARY4 JULY'''==
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|author=David F RossMax Boucherat|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Years agoWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Everyone predicted What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onblanket fort, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mothershe has one main intention, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used that is to play for and tries log on to reform them.|isbn= 1913193500}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=WellVoxminer, this looked very much like a book I could love from the getworld-gobuilding, which critter-collecting game that is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of ita hit in Lori's world. I found things to potentially delight me each time – But first Lori has a weird section in the middle tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative formher own, and so onthen she finds something even more spooky. It intrigued with For the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of it mentioned, tootampering. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this reviewWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and can tell that if love was on these pagesher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, it was not actually caused by them. So what happenedwhere is a girl to turn?|isbn=15294026970008666482
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|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost Jean lives on Jersey with her mum when she was very youngmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She During the war, Jean's father was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from arrested for listening to a cold that got worsebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and although they were kind and very good to her she mother waiting for years for news of course missed her mum enormouslyhim. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to As the British finally free the Channel islands from the 70's and her mumNazis, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, war is neither easy nor safefinally over, and Faye fears their hopes rise that her husband won't believe they will finally learn what's happening and so lies to became of him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to But will the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathtruth come as a relief, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itraise 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=14711886631846976537
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