Smart Baby Rattle: Infant & Toddler Learning Games
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Smart Baby Rattle is an amazing kids app developed for babies and toddlers. This user-friendly app...
Solar Monitor
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At a glance you acquire the current solar and geomagnetic activity. High resolution images of the...
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One of the most UNIQUE and most CONVENIENT recipes handbooks helps you to discover CUISINE of more...
Shy Girl vs Popular Boy (Forever Love #3)
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A second-place sister. A first-rate jock. Can the light of love shine through the darkest pain? ...
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A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
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Real Life™ blows. Just ask Raymond Ash. As a student, he and his friend Simon thought their...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Adventures of Winnie #1 in Books
Oct 31, 2021
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The Adventures of Winnie ( The Adventures of Winnie book 1)
By Kelly A Walker
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Who knew the six animals I thought I was seeing in my dreams were real?
A bear, rabbit, pig, donkey, owl and tiger land in my backyard…No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. It’s real and it’s my life. Besides the shock over seeing my animal friends I thought I had dreamed up suddenly appear, I have two bigger problems. One: they are no longer animals, well most of them aren’t. Two: they’ve brought trouble to my doorstep.
When the animals *ahem* I mean guys I've been dreaming about show up unexpectedly, I learn about a whole other world I knew nothing about. My parents have been keeping secrets from me and now that the truth is out, it's up to me to help the six guys from Hundred Acre Woods discover their own past.
Well hell I won’t see Winnie the Pooh the same again! This has to be the strangest book I’ve read this year and yet some how I ended up act enjoying it. There were a few cringe moments but I found it an interesting turn on a favourite classic. Definitely need to read the next book.
The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force #15)
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For eons, the city of Troy—whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer’s Iliad—was believed to...
Rebuilding Year (Reconstruction #2)
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Publisher Description Can two very different men fake a relationship for the sake of a...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2440 KP) rated Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch #20) in Books
May 29, 2025
Bosch having two cases he is juggling has become a staple of the series, and there’s usually one I care about more than the others. This time, I found the modern story just okay. It was too straightforward and felt written to bring in real life topics for 2017. The old case, however, was compelling, and when that was the focus, I had a hard time putting the book down. We see some Lincoln Lawyer characters and a few faces from Bosch’s past, which is great, and all the characters were engaging. As usual, these books incorporate a little more of the real world into the stories, but as long as you know going in, you will be fine. Overall, I did enjoy book twenty in this long running series.
Hazel (1853 KP) rated Nirvana (Nirvana #1) in Books
Dec 7, 2018
Imagine a world without any bees. That is the world that J. R. Stewart conjures up in this new dystopian series, <i>Nirvana</i>. Twenty years from now, the bees have become extinct. There are no more trees, flowers, fruits or vegetables; and more animals have become extinct as a result. Young adult, Larissa, is living in a world that seems unimaginable, but not only is she dealing with this new way of life, she is also grieving the loss of her husband, Andrew.
Andrew was a scientist, an occupation that earned himself and Larissa a place in the Barracks where he could continue with his important research. They both believed they were lucky to receive this opportunity, but then Andrew went out on a mission and never came back. No matter how hard people try to convince her, Larissa cannot accept that her husband is dead, especially as she has seen him in <i>Nirvana</i> – a virtual reality world. As she struggles to piece together what is real and what is not, secrets are being uncovered that blur the lines between reality and the cybernetic domain.
<i>Nirvana </i>is an interesting concept. Firstly, the issue with the extinction of the bees is a very real concern for scientists at the moment. If bees were to die out there would be no pollination of the vital plants that humans use daily. Humanity would be faced with a future not unlike Larissa’s. Secondly, with the advance in computer technology, virtual reality has become a popular phenomenon in contemporary society, and with more expansion it is likely that something similar to Nirvana will be produced.
As a story, however, nothing exciting really happened. There was no major build up to the ending. Characters were suspected of hiding the truth from the very beginning and therefore it was no surprise when certain facts came to light later in the novel. <i>Nirvana</i> is also a very short first installment of the series, which does not give the story much chance to develop at an adequate pace, thus it is difficult to get our heads around the virtual reality concept that Stewart writes about.
Despite these misgivings there is the chance that the following novels in this series will become more thrilling as the truth begins to unravel about Andrew’s disappearance or death.