It's About Time
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Stanley Moss dedicates these poems 'to departed friends: human, canine, arboreal, avian', setting...
Did You Ever Have a Family
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This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's...
Woman Much Missed
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'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a...
ClareR (5726 KP) rated Boys Don’t Cry in Books
May 18, 2021
Joe at 17, is the brother left to deal with the death of his 12 year old brother. His father manages to get himself in to trouble, and in to prison. His mother can’t cope. And Joe is struggling too. He is in an environment where it is all too easy for him to take the wrong path and end up like his father. Involved with the wrong people and in prison.
We see flashbacks to Finn as he is diagnosed with Leukaemia and how he copes with the treatment. He is such a happy, generous boy, who worries more about everyone else than about himself.
I don’t want to give much away, but Fiona Scarlett has created two boys who are wonderful human beings, despite the hand that has been dealt to them.
I adored this book. It still gives me a lump in my throat when I’m writing about it, never mind speaking to people about it - I’ll point them in this direction, I think.
It’s like the meme that says “This book has destroyed me and broken my heart. You MUST read it”
So yeah, just read it.
Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World
Itzhak Beery and Alberto Villoldo
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Shamanic healing is making an astonishing comeback all over the modern technology-driven and...
Soul Bytes: Volume 1: To Truly be
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Soul Bytes: Vol. 1 - To Truly Be is a self-help book for people who don't have time to read...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Pretty Dead (Elise Sandburg #3) in Books
Aug 2, 2021
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Pretty Dead ( Elise Sandburg book 3)
By Anne Frasier
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A serial killer stalks the streets of Savannah...
Homicide detective Elise Sandburg and her partner, profiler David Gould, are all too familiar with the terrible costs of chasing evil. Despite their wounded psyches, the detectives delve into the deranged killer’s twisted mind, determined to unravel the clues in the taunts he leaves behind.
A city gripped by fear...
When his daughter becomes the killer’s next victim, a grief-stricken mayor comes down hard on the police, demanding that they catch the psychopath—now. Feeling the pressure, department officials enlist the aid of both Elise’s estranged father and an FBI profiler who has unresolved business with David.
A cunning and elusive madman...
In a heart-pounding race to stop the next homicide, the detectives uncover their own role in the madman’s deadly game. Will they outsmart the killer before another horrific murder takes place in their beautiful city? Or have Elise and David finally met their match?
I thought it was fab! I love this duo and Anne’s writing style. I did have the murderer pegged from the beginning but even so it was such an entertaining read. Can’t believe there are only 4 books in this series so only 1 more to go.
That Dragon, Cancer
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An immersive, narrative experience that retells Joel Green’s 4-year fight against cancer through...
ClareR (5726 KP) rated Below the Big Blue Sky in Books
Jul 30, 2020 (Updated Jul 30, 2020)
This is the story of how Rabbits family and best friend cope after her death. It’s the story about their grief, their loss and how they go about getting on with their lives in the aftermath.
I can’t even tell you how often this book made me cry, but I can say that I laughed in equal measure. The author has created these highly likeable, realistic characters, and it’s so easy to empathise with them.
I just loved it. I was an absolute mess whilst reading it (thank god for reading during the summer holidays!), but I loved it. Oh, and when I grow up, I want to be just like Molly Hayes. That woman is the mistress of the one liner and rules in the art of foul language. As my son would say: #goals.
I would highly recommend this book.
Thank you to The Pigeonhole for serialising this, and to Anna McPartlin for joining in!
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often...
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