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Frank Made Lunch

Shawn Seward

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Blood lust builds in Frank’s heart. His stomach begs for human flesh. On the days leading up to...

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Doing Wright (Teach Me #1)

Raven Dark

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Nineteen year old Jacy is a college girl with a wild and wicked streak. She's always had a penchant...

Three Cheers for Me (The Bandy Papers, #1)

Donald Jack

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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It is 1916. Bartholomew Bandy, fourth-year medical student, decides that it is time to join the War....

No Place to Hide

J. S. Monroe

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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You might be paranoid, but that doesn't mean they're not watching you. Adam lives a...

ClareR (6241 KP) rated The Shock of the Light in Books

Jun 16, 2026

The Shock of the Light

Lori Inglis Hall | 2026 | Fiction & Poetry

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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Tessa and The are twins, born in the 1920s, and inseparable until university. Theo goes to Cambridge, Tessa to the Sorbonne. Something terrible happens to Tessa in France, widening the gap between the twins.

When WW2 breaks out, Theo joins the RAF, and a bored, unfulfilled Tessa joins Special Operations and goes to France.

Theo returns, Tessa does not.

Many years later, a PhD student researching the women in Special Operations, gets in contact with Theo about his sister, and together they uncover a shocking secret.

I loved this book. It was so well researched, exciting and emotionally devastating. I was left bereft at the end. The sacrifices people made during this time, even when society made it unacceptable, and women like Tessa did it anyway, were profound.

I couldn’t recommend this more if I tried!

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Mark Halpern (153 KP) rated The Blind Side (2009) in Movies

Jan 7, 2018

The Blind Side (2009)

2009 | Comedy, Drama, Sport

8.1

(48 Ratings)

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From rags to the Gridiron

The true story of of NFL professional player Michael Oher. It is the story about him how he was forgotten about and was being pushed through they system until the mother of a family feels for him and takes him in. The family teaches him about being part of the family and shows him he is important. They also stride to help him because of his raw size and talent joing the high school football team. Though his grades are a problem they all help him teachers included to strive and become a better student. The story is also the tale of how he made it into college and into the nfl and getting not only his high school degree but, his college degree. With out the help of the Tuohy family he might have ended up no where in life and had no future.

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JT (287 KP) rated Spy Game (2001) in Movies

Mar 10, 2020

Spy Game (2001)

2001 | Action, Drama, Mystery

6.5

(4 Ratings)

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As Tony Scott films go this one’s a pretty decent effort. Redford is slick and sophisticated as a retiring CIA agent and Pitt is equally effective as his eager to learn student.

The tight script and shooting make for an entertaining mix of explosions and plot twists. Robert Redford plays Nathan Muir a soon to be retired CIA operative who has spent the past few years training his protege Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt).

When a routine extraction in China goes wrong Bishop is captured behind enemy lines and it is up to Muir to get through all the political red tape to help pull him out.

The film is tense even in the boardroom scenes, and we get a real sense of the relationship between Bishop and Muir with good use of flashbacks. This is first rate and another winning film from the late Tony Scott.