All the Beloved Ghosts
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An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and...
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Psychology of Technology: 2017
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This unique treatise expands on the philosophy of technology to argue for a psychology of technology...
Sustainably Improving Health Care: Creatively Linking Care Outcomes, System Performance and Professional Development
Paul B. Batalden and Tina Foster
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Culture, Context and Quality in Health Sciences Research, Education, Leadership and Patient Care...
The Adventures of Augie March
Christopher Hitchens and Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, The Adventures of Augie March includes an introduction by...
The Blue Horse
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Recently bereaved, George Newhouse, is an art historian and newly appointed curator at the National...
ClareR (5686 KP) rated Q: The Novel in Books
Jul 11, 2021
As a parent and a teacher, I found this novel really disturbing. The author has taken where we are now in our education system, and ramped it up to its most exaggerated end point. And it still didn’t seem completely over the top.
In Q’s reality, children are divided up in to their academic ability and put into one of three tiered schools - Silver, Green or Yellow. It’s a relatively new system, and for teacher Elena Fairchild, it’s a dream to teach in a top tier school, where the children are all motivated and high achieving. But when Elena’s youngest daughter is demoted from a Green to a Yellow school, Elena’s loyalty to the education system starts to disintegrate. And when her husband, who works in a senior position in the education department, refuses to save his daughter from being sent hundreds of miles away to a Yellow State boarding school, Elena decides to act.
Ooh, how I loved this. Yes, it’s uncomfortable reading. Yes, it has Eugenics written large all over it (And Elena’s grandmother even warns her and tells her about her youth under the Nazi regime). And yes, it’s uncomfortably close to reality.
But it was a gripping read with a satisfying end. I would recommend it!
Jordan Binkerd (567 KP) rated Excalibur (1981) in Movies
Sep 4, 2019
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated More Than Music (Chasing The Dreams #1) in Books
Aug 13, 2020
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More than music ( chasing the dream book 1)
By Elizabeth Briggs
They can't resist each other, but their secret romance might tear their band apart....
Music major Maddie Taylor secretly dreams of a louder life, but geeky girls like her don't get to be rock stars. That is, until tattooed singer Jared Cross catches her playing guitar and invites her to join his band on The Sound, a reality TV show competition.
Once on the show, Maddie discovers there's more to Jared than his flirty smile and bad boy reputation. With each performance their attraction becomes impossible to ignore, but when the show pressures them to stay single, they're forced to keep their relationship secret.
As the competition heats up, Jared will do whatever it takes for his band to win, and Maddie must decide if following her dream is worth losing her heart.
Ok this is not something I would have picked up myself but the author was recommended to me by a friend It was a different series that was recommended but I always like to start from the first series. So I gave it a shot and I got a pleasant surprise! It was a sweet heart warming story of friendship l, love and the cost of a reality show. It’s characters were likeable and the story easy to follow. I will definitely carrying on with the series. Just goes to show you may not normally read a certain book but they are all worth a try!
Larchfield
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It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of...
Fiction