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Fantasies of the Library
Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin
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Fantasies of the Library lets readers experience the library anew. The book imagines, and enacts,...
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The Vanishing Season
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Winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition, Joanna...
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Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600
Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater
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War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial...
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A Field Guide to Reality
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'An extraordinary, wise, funny, adventurous and hallucinogenic book that combines fiction with...
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Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World
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As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing...
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars
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A mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her...
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Gone for Good
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Gone For Good is the first in a new mystery series from award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen,...
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ClareR (5603 KP) rated All My Mothers in Books
Feb 8, 2022
Eva Martinez-Green has two pivotal , life changing moments when she starts school: meeting Bridget Blume, and her teacher reading a book called ‘The Rainbow Rained Us’. Bridget becomes a lifelong friend, Bridget’s mother helps Eva to learn just what a mother can be like: loving and interested in her, unlike Eva’s own mother who has some serious mental health issues. In fact, Mrs Blume steps in to a mothering role for Eva, when Eva moves in due to her own mother having a prolonged stay in a clinic. Mrs Blume is Eva’s benchmark for being a mother for the rest of her life. For that short time she shows Eva affection, treats her like one of her own. Mrs Blume, along with her childhood book, leads Eva to realise that her mother isn’t her birth mother. And so begins the quest to find her.
Eva’s life in London helps the reader to learn about the characters, and when she starts to study in Cordoba, the real task of finding her birth mother begins.
I don’t want to give anything away, because I want you to read it!! It’s beautiful. I pretty much sobbed through the last couple of chapters, so have your tissues handy. But DO read it!!
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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe
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'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often...