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Synopsis: We don’t get visitors. Not out here. We never have. Junior and Hen are a quiet married couple. They live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with surprising news: Junior has been randomly …
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Synopsis Eleven-year-old George Washington Black--or Wash--a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: "The moment she woke up, her nightmare began..." What would you do if you awakened to find a dangerous stranger in your house? In your bed, next to you? Now your home has become your prison, and your body, a battlefield. How would you hold onto your sanity, your self-esteem, your very soul …
⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Cows can love, play games, bond and form strong, life-long friendships. They can sulk, hold grudges, and they have preferences and can be vain. All these characteristics and more have been observed, documented, interpreted and retold by Rosamund Young based on her experiences looking after the family farm's herd on Kite's Nest Farm …
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Ages ago I posted a couple of these UK vs US book cover posts, and I had a flashback to them the other day. I always really enjoyed doing these posts, so I thought I would take a look at some of my TBR books to see how the covers for them differ across the …
The wonderful Jenna @ Bookmark Your Thoughts has tagged me in The Sunshine Blogger Award! I love the variety of questions you get on these posts so they're always fun ones to fill out 😊 Have you ever read a book in another language? If yes, which one? * Nope! I wish I could read …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Click to read my 4 star book review for Little Darlings by Melanie Golding....
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Click to read my 4 star book review for I See You by Clare Mackintosh...
Last Sunday I went to the most magnificent book "shop" of all time and I want to share the beauty of it all with you. It's unlike anything I've (and probably you've) ever experienced and it was A M A Z I N G. What I'm talking about is a well-kept secret, only known to …
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One so many occasions (especially when I'm not enjoying the book I'm currently reading) I think back on all my favourite reads and just wish I could go back read them for the first time again and experience that immense true love book feeling all over again. So that's what I'm going to talk about …
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