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Αs I read it, I could not leave its pages. Lovely's Island is a very exciting story, which portrays very sentimentally charged charachters. The one-of-a-kind plot reaches a climax with dexterity.It a successful novel for all ages. Very modern, romantic and embellished with advanced vocabul... See full review

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I read "The Little Prince", 1943 by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry so young, I only recalled the famous cover. I know it is an everlasting classic and expected to enjoy re-learning it. I'm mystified by how engrossed I became from the first sentence. It is positive, rife with bright emotion but all at o... See full review

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A pure novel in terms of narration, dialogue and graphic description. I honestly enjoyed this "real-life" vacation in the Aegean. I felt like I was yachting the blue seas, and enjoying the Greek food, and all of Greece's wonders along with the charachters of the story. Romance, suspense, joy an... See full review

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Lá por casa foi uma excelente surpresa. A autora revela ser alguém com muita experiência ou maternal ou profissional, pois os diálogos e as ilustrações estão muito bem feitos! É claramente uma autora a seguir e anseio mesmo por uma continuação da coleção. Parabéns Filipa Marcelino e Carmo! See full review

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After seeing a splendid review of How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You I knew I had to read the book and luckily I was able to score a copy of it through my library. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect but it certainly wasn't what I got. I thought I would be in for a comic ... See full review

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Tzifopoulos' book is an exceptional study of Cretan entaphic lamellae. Indeed, this is an interdisciplinary approach of the past via the lenses of the modern scientific research. His "paradise earning" work extends in a wide spectrum; epigraphy, literature, archaeology and anthropology are uniq... See full review

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Achieving balance is concise and to the point. It contains many ideas and concepts relating to balance and these are presented in an accessible way. By the time I had finished the book I felt different to when I had started it, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why! (But it was a positive ... See full review

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Battle for the President's Elephants is an easy read even if the hard facts that linger after reading are not so easy on the soul. A worthy followup to The Elephants and I and absolutely worth a read. I laughed and shed a tear with Sharon Pincott and I was also left wondering how some people in Z... See full review

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The tight prose expected from Fitzgerald and a story mirroring his own life and marriage. Observant readers will realise their broken romance is something Gatsby sees as divine, machinations of society and status and failures of self keeping them apart both then and now. If you like your books to... See full review

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I have read a few books around this subject and what sets this one apart is that it is really useful. It has condensed the content to a manageable amount that everyone can understand, relate to their circumstances and move on in a positive direction. A self help book's key objective should ... See full review

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