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How to Abandon Ship: The World War II Classic That Can Save Your Life

Phil Richards, John J. Banigan and Twain Braden

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Based on interviews with the crew and captain of a torpedoed tanker who survived nineteen days in a...

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Get active and get moving with NFL PLAY 60! Take real steps to move in the game, explore your...

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Stay in touch with everything you love about sport. With the Soccerstand app, you are always just...

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Resta in contatto con tutto quello che ami di più dello sport. Con la app Diretta hai a portata di...

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Don’t miss a worldy, wicket, fastest lap or crunching tackle thanks to the knockout Sky Sports...

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Sue (5 KP) rated Carbs and Cadavers (A Supper Club Mystery, #1) in Books

Aug 13, 2018

English Professor James (now the town librarian) moves back to his hometown to take care of his widowed father and is invited to join a Supper Club. The club (later called the flab five) is for members trying to lose weight. As the newly formed group start a low-carb diet and start to form friendships, the town is rocked by the murder of a high school football alumni.

James and the rest of the flab five tried to weed through who could have killed the ex-jock. Was it one of the ladies he has spurned, a boyfriend that didn’t like Brinkley’s attention to his girl, or the sweet young waitress at the town diner?

The book is more than just about a mystery. The author pulls you in and has you falling in love with the likable yet flawed James, the wanna be cop Lucy, Bennett the postman, Lindy the teacher, Gillian the pet groomer, and Jackson (James’s dad) the lovable grump.

This book is a great start to what I know will be a favored series.

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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated The Boy in the Dress in Books

Jul 2, 2019

The Boy in the Dress

David Walliams | 2009 | Children, Young Adult (YA)

9.8

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This is a good well rounded book for young folks

I really enjoyed this book. I was sceptical due to the author already being established and thought perhaps his celebrity status helped him sell book but I'll take my hat of to Walliams. This is an enjoyable little read. The language is simple and I enjoyed how current the book is. The book really demonstrates the difference between black and white and colour (colour being different and standing out from the norm).
Uniform is also a main theme in the book and very obviously gender and social acceptance. Walliams does a good job at showing that sexual preference is not linked to dress and that discrimination is wrong. In this book the child is able to experience how ludicrous gender representation by dress is by dressing the full football team up in ladies clothing, this normalises it.
The intrusive narrator who may be Walliams himself, also gives hints throughout the book about his own desire to cross dress.
Good book.