The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia
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Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his...
Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir
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'One of the most memorable, heart-stopping autobiographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY WINNER OF...
Rebel Mechanics: All Is Fair in Love and Revolution
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It's 1888, and seventeen-year-old Verity Newton lands a job in New York as a governess to a wealthy...
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If You Can't Trust the Living
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In an effort to escape unwarranted and adverse media attention, Robin Tyler rents a house in Cushlow...
Once Around (1990)
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Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter lead an all-star cast in this critically acclaimed tale of life,...
My goodness, I forgot to review the rest of these!
Anyway, I liked the book. I loved reading about Clawdeen.
Like the other books before it, this takes place after Frights Camera Action (Brownie points)
The Wolf Family having a reunion which puts a lot of pressure on Clawdeen who's trying to balance family with her friends and hobbies. She admits in an entry early on that her family doesn't quite understand her commitment to her hobby & her friends and boy, oh boy did I feel that.
I literally have zero complaints about this book.
I do, however, wish these were longer. The story itself is 110 pages long. The rest of the pages are blank journal pages you can write in and a preview of Draculaura's diary but I understand why these are so short so it's okay.
Overall, I loved reading about Clawdeen and her life!
Ghosts
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Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and...
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ClareR (6253 KP) rated Cursed Daughters in Books
May 13, 2026
Not an easy legacy to live with, made worse by the fact that Eniiyi buys in to the family curse, despite the fact that in every other way she’s a modern woman.
This all sounds very serious with curses and deaths, but it’s actually witty and looks at the line between family expectations and free will. I did wonder if these women were trapped by their own superstitions, turning the “curse” into a self-fulfilling prophecy. They believed it would happen, and so it did.
And that 30 year old dog - I’d love to know THAT secret!
ClareR (6253 KP) rated Small Worlds in Books
Sep 20, 2023
As a young black man, Stephen feels safety in his small worlds: music, family and friends. And then there is outside those worlds where Stephen feels less safe: places in London where there is brutality or unrest, and University, which is where he really doesn’t want to be, as it’s so far from his friends and family - and his world.
Stephen needs these constants in his life, and when it’s taken away, he’s lost.
Stephen goes to Ghana to see the people and places of his parents youth, and it’s here that he finds some connection with those he loves. When he goes home, he’s able to come to terms with those people he has lost and rebuild relationships.
This was a really moving novel that made me really think about the challenges of culture, family, race and policing in London (in particular).
Recommended.
Have You Seen Him
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What if everything you believed about yourself was totally wrong? For David Byrdsong, life is a...
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