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The Pantomime Prince
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When Teddy agrees to pretend to be his famous sister and take her role in a Christmas panto, he...
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Murder on Devil’s Pond
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A quaint Vermont inn offers idyllic peace–until a body is found on the property–in this charming...
Booksnthreads (19 KP) rated Full Cicada Moon in Books
Jun 4, 2018
This particular book addresses issues of racism as well as tackling issues involved with being bi-racial in America, something that hits particularly close to home for me as I’m raising bi-racial children. While the story is set in 1969, I think so many of Mimi’s experiences still resonate today–everything from being followed around a store by a suspicious salesperson to being a wallflower at your first middle school dance.
Of course, the other aspect that I’ve fallen in love with in Marilyn Hilton’s writing is her ability to capture images so beautifully in her poetry. This section, towards the end of the novel, is particularly touching:
I used to think the people of Vermont
were like the snow–
crusty,
chilly,
and slow to thaw
But now I think
they’re what’s underneath.
Like the crocus bulbs making flowers all winter
in the dark earth–
invisible until they push through the snow–
and like the cicadas growing
underground for years–
until they burst from the ground–
the people of Vermont
do their hardest thinking
and their richest feeling
deep inside,
so no one can see.
My City Highrise Garden
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Big city highrises are chockfull of penthouses and terraces that garden innocents hope to turn into...
The Wanderers: The West Country Trilogy
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Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in pre-First World War Devon...
The Genus Sorbus: Mountain Ash and Other Rowans
Hugh McAllister, Brian Mathew and Josephine Hague
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Of the many tree and shrub genera, no other offers the range of features that Rowans do - suitable...
The Urban Wildlife Gardener: How to Attract Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and More
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'The Urban Wildlife Gardener' is packed with planting ideas and simple gardening techniques to...
Girly Wallpapers & Backgrounds for Cute Girls
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Thousands of exclusive HD Girly Wallpapers just for you! Cute girly background images can make your...
Garden Techniques and Garden Plants: Essential Gardening Skills and Tasks, and a Guide to 3000 Plants, with More Than 1900 Photographs and Illustrations
Andrew Mikolajski and Jonathan Edwards
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This title offers essential gardening skills and tasks, and a guide to 3000 plants, with more than...