book reviews
Synopsis: A college student’s murder shines light on community secrets left in the dark in the seventh Widow’s Island novella by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh. All communities have their secrets…but on Widow’s Island, there’s a skeleton in every closet, as Deputy Tessa Black knows all too well. When Tessa stumbles upon …
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Is it possible to be best friends with a member of your family? Do you think it is easier to be friends with somebody who is similar to you in character or is your opposite? # Sunday Morning for Kids is a variation on the meme started by Rae Longest at Powerful Women Readers. I have …
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This is a variation on the meme started by Rae Longest at Powerful Women Readers. Thank you to Carla from Carla loves to read for wonderful posts encouraging people to share old and new favourite children’s books. The book I read today is the second story about a little girl called Miyuki. She is a lively …
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Winter lives in a post-apocalyptic world with only two seasons: dry and rainy. Even her name sounds like something mythical. Some time ago, the world was almost destroyed by human careless activities. Winter keeps watching mountains that separate her country Nacadia from the Forgotten Lands full of toxic waste. Winter’s mother died in childbirth and …
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A sweet and dreamy book about a little girl who is looking up into the sky and thinking about all the beautiful things she can see: – a plane in the sky, fluffy clouds, butterflies, a shooting star, a kite stuck in a tree, tiny flower seeds flying away… and she wonders what she could …
If somebody gave you £30,000 and a year to spend this money on reinventing yourself, where would you go and what would you do? Holly grew up with a loving example of her grandparents’ marriage. When she inherits 30,000 from her grandfather, she wants to spend it on a wedding with her boyfriend of two …
Continue reading “#Book Review #The Year of Starting Over by Karen King”
‘Wish’ by Chris Saunders is an adorable heart-warming story of a selfless little rabbit who gets three wishes but does not know what to wish for. He asks his friends Mouse, Fox and Bear what they would with for hoping their advice would help him decide. Mouse would love to be able to fly, Fox …
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