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The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel

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The Complete Alice, including both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass...

The Teleportation Accident

Ned Beauman

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE...

Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen

Sheila Johnson Kindred

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In 1807 genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother,...

Lindsay (1727 KP) rated The Gold Digger (True Colors #9) in Books

Nov 23, 2020

The Gold Digger (True Colors #9)

Liz Tolsma | 2020 | Crime, Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

9.0

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This book is about two sisters though one seems to be doing something quite fishy. That fishiness seems to come out when a brother comes to town looking for his missing brother. We have Belle Gunness who seems to cry a lot or seem to be mean.

Why does the town seem to pick on a guy named Ray? Ingrid seems a bit naive about what her sister is doing but she loving her sister and children. Is her sister Belle a murder or looking for easy money? The town seems to think nothing of it when men go missing or think they just leave suddenly.

We do see that Ingrid and Nils seem to connect after meeting each other. They seem to take their time getting to know each other and courting. The plot of this story is deep and detailed. The story is done well. It just seems like found out who the killer is quite quickly. It just seems that Nils had to convince Ingrid and the town sheriff or the real killer and not the one they keep pulling in to question.

There are some surprises when it is all revealed and solved. Though there is still a twist at the end as well. There seem to be a mystery and lots of crimes. This is good in the sense that it tells some history of American crime and historical fiction and crime. It is a true crime. I rate this 4.5 Moons (stars).

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Sarah (7799 KP) rated You Will Be Safe Here in Books

Jul 10, 2019

You Will Be Safe Here

Damian Barr | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry

9.5

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Moving and thought provoking

I can’t lie, history isn’t a strong subject of mine so I knew very little about the South African concentration camps and these New Dawn Type camps when i first started this book. So for me, the events detailed and unfolding in this book are a disturbing revelation. It might be fiction, but it’s based on historical true events so I know it’s not far from the truth. It’s shocking and immensely moving, reading about the plight of a number of characters from 1901 to the present date. At first I didn’t understand why this started off in 1901 and worked it’s way through different characters to the almost present day, but it all makes sense and intertwines in a way as the book goes on and it’s a great way to tell a story. This is wonderfully written, bringing out a number of reactions and the emotions in the reader as it goes on and I felt a mixture of sheer anger and frustration and sadness reading this. The characters are all well developed, with their own flaws and traits that make them both intriguing and sometimes frustrating (but in a good way) to read. My only criticism would be that the ending seemed a little rushed in comparison to the rest of the book, and I wouldn’t have minded a slightly longer book at the benefit of a less rushed ending.

This isn’t a book I would have ordinarily thought of reading, but I’m glad I did and would highly recommend reading it!