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Roadside Crosses (Kathryn Dance #2)

Jeffery Deaver

8.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Roadside crosses are appearing along the highways of the Monterey Peninsula, not as memorials to...

The Very Very Very Long Dog

Julia Patton

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Bartelby is a very long and lovable dachshund who lives in a bookstore. He has a lovely set of...

children's children's fiction animal dog funny picture book

Gone Before (Rory Naysmith Mysteries #2)

Terry Korth Fischer

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Small-town detective, Rory Naysmith, thought he’d seen it all, but a young woman’s brutal murder...

Mystery

Safety Management Systems in Aviation

Carl D. Halford, John J. Goglia and Alan J. Stolzer

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Although aviation is among the safest modes of transportation in the world today, accidents still...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Towed in a Hole (1932) in Movies

Feb 18, 2019 (Updated Feb 19, 2019)

Towed in a Hole (1932)

1932 | Comedy

9.0

(1 Ratings)

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A thoughtful depiction of the travails of the struggling entrepreneur. Stan and Ollie have the bright idea of buying their own boat to make their fish-selling business more profitable; buying the boat from a junkyard and renovating it themselves are possibly less bright.

The usual mixture of ritualistic tit-for-tat squabbling, spectacular catastrophes which anyone but the boys themselves can see coming, and Ollie doing those looks to camera after he's the victim of one of Stan's mistakes. The big man is definitely more sinned against than sinning in this one, as Stan manages to drop the anchor through the bottom of the boat and nearly saws his own head off; Ollie resorts to literally tying him up to avoid further accidents. No real plot worth mentioning, but joyous stuff regardless.

Kudos

Fruit Bat (42 KP) rated A Grim Almanac of Norfolk in Books

Mar 1, 2018

Written in almanac form 'A Grim Almanac of Norfolk 'covers over 300 hundred years of Norfolk history. There is a story for everyday of the year and is accompanied by many black and white illustrations. Naming just a few you can find tales of bizarre accidents, smuggling, body snatching ,murder and much more. Because of the style of writing it is easy to dip in and out of with no need to read from front to back. The book is well presented and must have taken the author many hours of research to complete the book , I am enjoying reading the book and those with an interest in social history will find it interesting , however some people may find it repetitive as the book has a running theme.