Rebecca Simons is a full-time investments administrator who spends her free time buried in a pile of books. She also enjoys creative writing. If she doesn't have a book in her hand, she is probably writing reviews on her blog, which can be found at www.reviewsfeed.net
The Swan Keeper is an historical, coming of age novel set in Northwest Montana’s Mission Valley in the late 1920s. Lillian Connelly loves trumpeter swans and vows to protect them from a hunter who is killing them and leaving their carcasses for the wolves and coyotes to ravage. On her eleventh birthday Lilly’s family visits
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A Conversation with a Cat is a great introduction to the lives of Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony, especially for those without the opportunity to learn about these remarkably powerful historical figures. Goodreads Stephen Spotte’s imaginative novel recounts the tales of a scroungy former alley cat named Jinx, whose memories aren’t just his own
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Goodreads Who would want to murder the world’s most famous philosopher? Turns out: nearly everyone. In 1649, Descartes was invited by the Queen of Sweden to become her Court Philosopher. Though he was the world’s leading philosopher, his life had by this point fallen apart. He was 53, penniless, living in exile in Amsterdam, alone.
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One hundred years on – the times have changed, as have our struggles… and nothing reminds us of that more than Copper Sky. Writing as somebody who has had the stability and privilege of 1st world background, this has naturally had some influence over the way in which I have interpreted the book. Some people
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