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When My Mind Wanders It Brings Back Souvenirs by Gordon Kirkland

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When My Mind Wanders It Brings Back Souvenirs by Gordon Kirkland As a collection of hilarious newspaper columns by Canadian journalist, Gordon Kirkland, I expected When my mind wanders it brings back souvenirs to be a perfect pick up, put down kind of book suitable for, say, keeping in the bathroom or close at hand […]

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Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos

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Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos Instant Mom, by Canadian actress, Nia Vardalos, from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is one of those rare, well-written celebrity publications with a real story to tell.

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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon is a short sci-fi classic, written by American, Daniel Keyes, in 1959, with more food for thought than I have ever encountered between so few pages. Charlie Gordon is a mentally-disabled baker’s gofer, with friends in low places, who harbours a huge thirst for knowledge and no […]

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Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

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Facing the increasingly disapproving scrutiny of their families and neighbours from two judgemental communities, both protagonists must re-examine the important things in their lives, and ask themselves: which lines should be crossed and which must not?

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