Health and Other Unassailable Values: Reconfigurations of Health, Evidence and Ethics
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Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
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A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who...
Weekend Pilots: Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America
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Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing
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Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately...
100 Dutch-Language Poems: From the Medieval Period to the Present Day
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100 Dutch-Language Poems offers a wonderful new resource to poetry lovers around the world. It...
Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism
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ClareR (5674 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!!
Are We Not Men?: Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets
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Are We Not Men? offers an innovative approach to gender and embodiment in the Hebrew Bible,...
Justice Provocateur: Jane Tennison and Policing in Prime Suspect
Gray Cavender and Nancy C. Jurik
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Justice Provocateur focuses on Prime Suspect, a popular British television film series starring...
Widows in European Economy and Society, 1600-1920
Beatrice Moring and Richard Wall
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"A terrific piece of work". JANE HUMPHRIES, Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls...