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Jun 21, 2020

Camra's Good Beer Guide: 2016
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The Good Beer Guide is fully revised and updated each year and features pubs across the United...

Good Beer Guide: 2015
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The Good Beer Guide is fully revised and updated each year and features pubs across the United...

Walking With The Wind
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In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for Nashville, the epicenter...

David McK (3562 KP) rated The Druids Lair (Warrior #2) in Books
May 29, 2023
If that previous novella was centred around his younger life, then this one is around (roughly) his teenage years, where he is sent to be mentored by the Druids of Briton and initiated into their ways.
As is often the case, Caratacus must also find some way of dealing with the local bully, who is both older and stronger than the new initiates.
As a novella, this also must stand on it's own, as it were, complete with an opening, the main body of the story and then a conclusion within a relatively short number of (digital) pages!

Lean Execution: The Basic Implementation Guide for Maximizing Process Performance
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Many books explain how to construct a value stream map, but few explain the process conditions and...

Louise (64 KP) rated Izombie: Volume 1: Dead to the World in Books
Jul 2, 2018
Gwen appears to be you average everyday person at the start, other than working as a gravedigger she is normal, except she’s not! She is a zombie! but not your stereotypical zombie – she doesn’t walk around groaning, her face and body are not decaying. As long as she eats one brain per month she will not turn full zombie. However eating brains comes at a cost, first of all the brain has to be pretty fresh (hence being a gravedigger), she obviously can’t get caught, they taste bad….oh and she gets stuck with the deceased’s memories for a period of time. The last brain she ate was from a young family man who was killed by a serial killer. Gwen takes it upon herself to investigate why the man was murdered. Also there are a group of female vampires who don’t kill their victims they just feed little and often from men that attend paint balling in the woods. However there is always one that can’t play by the rules and is starting to attract attention from these ancient monster hunters.
There were so many different types of character/monsters in this book, we had zombies (obvs)Ghosts, Vampires and even a WereTerrier which I thought was kind of cute. This is a more of a fluffy zombie book and totally different from the walking dead. I liked all the individual characters but there wasn’t a lot of development and I think this was because there was too much trying to happen in one volume. We had the story of Gwen, it would then jump to the Vampires and then to the hunters, which made the plot line a bit disjointed. Some of the characters….Mainly Dixie was portrayed as being self-centred, all she thinks about is herself and Gwen is unable to rely on her even though she is her best friend. All the females in the book all seemed to have perfect bodies… I wish they just made some females different shapes and sizes. I really liked the art style and colours that were used to set the tone of the book. This was a great introduction to the story and I will be continuing on with the second volume.
Also there is a series on Netflix adaptation that is loosely based on the comic, I might start watching it as my partner has watched it and said it’s alright. Have you watched izombie? whats your thoughts on it?
Overall I rated this 3.75 out of 5 stars

Theories of Professional Learning: A Critical Guide for Teacher Educators
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An essential guide to a number of important theories of professional learning, of particular value...

Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust
Glenn D. Lowry, James Cuno and Philippe de Montebello
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During the economic boom of the 1990s, art museums expanded dramatically in size, scope, and...

The New Nourishing: Delicious Plant-Based Comfort Food to Feed Body and Soul
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Nutrition and natural food expert Leah Vanderveldt puts the joy into plant-based cooking with over...