The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
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Lives don't get much more quixotic or passionately driven than that of the Nicaraguan revolutionary...
The After School Cookbook: 120 Quick, Easy, Affordable Recipes for Your Hungry Kids from My Daddy Cooks
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Quick, easy, and affordable recipes for your hungry kids from the creator of video blog...
Growing Up Wild: 30 Great Ways to Get Your Kids Outdoors
Alexia Barrable and Duncan Barrable
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Have you ever noticed how much calmer and more engaged your children are when they are outside in...
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Education and Catalogs
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This application is the perfect application to help you to assist your children to improve their...
Building Blocks(By Design, #7)
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It’s often said that in life everything happens all at one. New York’s new First Family is about...
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My Daughter, My Mother
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In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows, they...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2269 KP) rated A Matter of Life and Depths in Books
Nov 7, 2024
I’ve read books with similar initial setups before, and I appreciate that this book didn’t go for the predictable victim. It allowed for some great character growth in Charlotte and some of the other characters. It may not all be realistic, but I did like it overall. Like the first book, we met the suspects all at once, so it took me a while to get them all straight. The mystery was strong, with some good surprises and a couple red herrings on the way to a logical climax. A minor subplot involving a diary that Charlotte was reading from her great-grandmother seemed a bit confusing to me, although I do understand why it was there thematically. On the other hand, there were some delightfully funny moments, and the setting was great. Overall, I enjoyed this murderous cruise very much.
Kristin (149 KP) rated All The Dead Things (Deathling Chronicles #1) in Books
Dec 7, 2018
"Groundhog's Day" meets "Supernatural" in this exciting tale of Death and his minions!
Stan can see monsters. He's been able to do it since he was a toddler, and he saw one kill his father right in front of him. His mom doesn't believe him, of course, and he's been seeing a shrink ever since. That hasn't stopped him from seeing them, though; he's just learned how to ignore them and act "normal" over the years. That is, until this one day where he just snaps after seeing one at the end of the road. He screams at it, and it vanishes; Stan feels like he's accomplished something, after all this time. However, he wakes up the next day to find it's not ACTUALLY the next day; he's stuck in a time loop, and nobody else seems to realize it. How did this happen? And better yet, how does he fix it?
This was such a great story that I read it all in one sitting! I couldn't put it down; I had to know what was going to happen next. It's such an interesting take on the idea of the Grim Reaper, and it had all sorts of wonderful aspects: humor, love, loss, a little horror, members of the kinda-dead, and more. I really hope to read more from this author very soon, and I will be sure to pass along this title to all my friends.
5 stars =)
Parenting is Easy
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Imagine a world where pregnant women are upbeat and glowing, newborns sleep on cue, toddlers love to...
ClareR (5779 KP) rated The Long Long Afternoon in Books
Mar 2, 2021
Ruby Wright arrives to start her afternoons work at Joyce Hanley’s house, and instead finds her young daughter outside and a screaming toddler upstairs in her bedroom. When Ruby goes in to the kitchen, she is confronted with a room awash with blood and signs of a struggle.
When the police arrive, they arrest Ruby for murder. After all, she was the first person there - and she’s black.
Detective Mick Blanke takes on the case. It’s an interesting book, because not only is Mick solving the crime (with some considerable help from Ruby), he’s also showing the social divides in the USA at this time - rich and poor, black and white. He’s clearly not comfortable about the way that white people treat black people in Santa Monica, but he’s still not quite brave enough to call people out on their racism.
This is an engaging, quick read - or perhaps I read it quickly because I didn’t want to put it down. It’s a clever, unpredictable story. In all, it’s a book I’d recommend without hesitation!