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Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living....

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Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France,...

China and the Middle East: From Silk Road to Arab Spring
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China and the Middle East uniquely explores China's growing presence in the Middle East, and both...
Digital World War: Islamists, Extremists, and the Fight for Cyber Supremacy
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Heart Religion: Evangelical Piety in England & Ireland, 1690-1850
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TheBookMother (105 KP) rated Big Little Lies in Books
Jun 25, 2019
I may have watched the TV series before this book and didn't know it was actually a book before Nicole Kidman and Reece Witherspoon brought the rights.
I loved the TV show and the book certainly didn't disappoint.
It was quite relevent for me too ATM as my son is about to start reception class and I can certainly imagine all the different school politics that go on!
This book was hard to put down and whilst on holiday of managed to read it in a couple of days.
It delivered everything I want in a book and more.
(This bear in mind with me knowing what does actually happen as I had seen the series already). To read this for the first time without seeing the show I can imagine locking myself away and calling in sick to work to keep reading.
I loved the pace, tone and voice of the book and how it switched between each character and how they thought and felt.
As a mother I identified with all of the main characters at one point of another as their lives all intersect around a fatal event which occurs at a fundraising Trivia Night.
You know this from the outset, and I really enjoyed the comments from all the secondary characters throughout the chapters too.
They really did help set the scene and tension in the build up to the big event.
I loved this author so much I've already brought and started reading another one of her books and will likely be buying them all!

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The Ethics of Ambiguity
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In her second major essay, renowned French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir illustrates the ethics of...
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award-winning...
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One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
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A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After...
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