Archive for November, 2006

Coming-of-age tale

November 28, 2006
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Coming-of-age tale

Shipping Out: A Merchant Sailor’s Tale, by Gerry Evans (Sarah Bennett Books, RRP $29.99): Gerry Evans fell in love with the sea growing up in the Welsh seaside town of Aberystwyth and at the age of 16, he joined the British merchant navy. Evans was a boy when he shipped out but along the way matured...

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Same again but I suppose it works

November 25, 2006
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Same again but I suppose it works

No Place Like Home, by Mary Higgins Clark (HarperCollins, $21.99): Author Mary Higgins Clark has added yet another bestseller to her seemingly endless list with this story about, once again, a secret from the past that doesn’t want to stay in the past. A little girl wakes in the night to hear her mother struggling...

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