The Elements of Investing: Easy Lessons for Every Investor
Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis
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An updated look at best rules of investing provided by two of the world's greatest financial...
Men, Machines, and Modern Times
Elting E. Morison, Rosalind Williams and Leo Marx
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People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel...
Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence: A Developmental Intergroup Approach
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Discrimination impacts most youth at some point. Almost all children and adolescents belong to at...
A Loeb Classical Library Reader
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This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors includes poetry,...
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner and Michael Gorra
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This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by detailed...
ClareR (6101 KP) rated Her Last Holiday in Books
May 16, 2021
Fran, a 50-something single, teacher, is roped into attending a Wellness retreat by her mother - a retreat run by the same man who ran the one in Gozo where Fran’s sister, Jenna, went missing two years previously. The male counsellor, Tom, has just served two years in prison for the deaths of two other people on the retreat, and his wife wants him to get back to work as soon as possible. This may not have been a wise move.
I liked the flashbacks to Jenna’s retreat - there was as much tension in these parts as in her sister Frans present day parts. Neither past events or the present day make it any easier to guess what might have happened to Jenna, but there’s definitely something fishy going on in both timelines.
There were parts where I felt it best to leave my rational thoughts at the door - but hey, this is fiction. If I wanted real life, I’d read a newspaper (ahem. Or something). Many was the time over the 10 day period of reading this, where I was so frustrated at the end of the stave - I just wanted to read on. It’s definitely a book written for a day long binge read!!
I Heart My Little A-Holes: A Bunch of Holy-Crap Moments No One Ever Told You About Parenting
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Following the success of Go the F**k to Sleep, Confessions of a Scary Mommy, and Ketchup Is a...
Stop Smoking Now: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques
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Have you ever tried to give up smoking? Most smokers have. It is even more difficult to avoid...
Walking in the Rain
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Getting lost and feeling found...'I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till...

