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Tim Hopgood, Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown
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'I'm singing in the rain, Just singing in the rain. What a glorious feeling. I'm happy again!' Based...
The Smartest Giant in Town
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
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George wished he wasn't the scruffiest giant in town. So when he sees a new shop selling giant-sized...
Corpus-Based Study of Nominalization in Translations of Chinese Literary Prose: Three Versions of Dream of the Red Chamber
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This corpus-based study investigates the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese...
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Sarah Hendrickx and Judith Gould
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The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of a person with an...
The Jesus I Never Knew
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Voted Book of the Year Philip Yancey’s bestselling book The Jesus I Never Knew peeled away popular...
Fury of the Seventh Son (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles #13)
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The thirteenth—and final—book in the internationally best-selling fantasy adventure series that...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2324 KP) rated I Lost My Tooth! in Books
Nov 6, 2018
Fans of Mo Willems won't be surprised at the first two thirds of this book. It may introduce us to a new set of characters, but the storytelling, humor, and fun are classic Mo, including the easy to read dialogue driven action. I was trying hard not to laugh in public as I finished it up. The rest of the book consists of some fun jokes and a couple of sections that tell us about teeth and quiz us on some animal teeth. It's actually quite interesting, and presented in a fun way, so kids will enjoy learning about it as well. They might even get interested in learning more on their own, which is a good thing. I didn't love it as much as I've loved some of his other picture books. I think my issue is, this isn't an Elephant and Piggie book. I certainly can't find another reason not to like this book, and I think kids will have so much fun they won't care.
Eleanor (1463 KP) rated The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper in Books
Feb 26, 2020 (Updated Apr 18, 2021)
This book gives us a window into the lives of women in the 19th Century that is fascinating.
I listened to audiobook read by Louise Brealey and I think mainly because it was an audiobook (and people had like a million children each!!!) it got a bit name heavy at points as well as other details being hard to take in. This though reflects on what is clearly a very thoroughly researched book. It's conclusion that not all the victims were necessarily prostitutes I think was slightly off the mark in that it doesn't matter even if they were there was more than that to sum up their lives.
There is always more to the victims of horrendous acts than we often look at while we are busy giving in-depth looks into the lives of killers. This book does a great job of refocusing the True Crime narrative.