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Canada Newspapers

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-----Reached top "paid news" Apps in Canada! ---- Finally, you will put your finger on the pulse of...

Wachanga, Parenting Guide

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Wachanga is your personal guide for your kid's up-bringing. The App includes lots of tasks for...

Retail Marketing Management: Principles and Practice

Helen Goworek and Peter J. McGoldrick

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'Retail Marketing Management covers all the essential theories needed to understand the complicated...

MaryAnn (14 KP) rated The Mending Of Lillian Cathleen (The Women of Rock Creek #2) in Books

Mar 5, 2019

It’s 1914. American women are demanding the vote. And the first flames of the Great War are

igniting Europe. But a battle of a different sort rages in Oklahoma. The thermometer registers one hundred six degrees, an out-of-the-ordinary occurrence even for the twenty-eighth day of July. But this is no ordinary day. The jury has reached a verdict. Lily fidgets in the old church pew. Her name has clotted into a by-word. Her blood is tainted. Can she right the wrongs? Or will her past forever define her? She eyes the judge. And the courtroom holds its breath.

My thoughts : This is an interesting story of a young woman struggling with her past. Her.
father beat her and now she is afraid for her brother. Lilly heads to Texas where a job awaits her, but God has other plans.

This is a good story. I like the mystery of the sea chest and reading the ancient journal Lilly`s mother left her.

What I saw in this story was a young woman find I ng her way in the world, and finding God. A story of love, and letting go of the past.

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Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated The Quick in Books

Feb 21, 2018

The Quick

Lauren Owen | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

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**I received an ARC of this book at no cost, but was not compensated for this review.**

This book has some elements of the trendy epistolary style of story-telling via documents woven into a traditional, Victorian-style novel. James Norbury is an aspiring poet who finds himself living in London with the friend of a friend. A quiet, shy man, James finds friendship, love, and then tragedy as his life is torn apart by events completely outside of his control. The first part of the book tells us James' story, then we move on to journal entries and tales from other points of view, and slowly piece together what is truly happening in London, and what James has unwittingly become involved in.

I wasn't sure what to expect when I started this book but was quickly drawn into James' London. The book is both surprising and at times terrible, but I couldn't put it down. This is definitely not a story for the feint-of-heart, but a very good read set in an entirely believable world filled with characters you won't soon forget.