Kaitlyn, by Kevin Lewis (Penguin, $25): As six-year-old Kaitlyn’s family is torn apart and her life changed forever when she witnesses her alcoholic father almost kill her little brother Christopher. The toddler survives the attack and after being taken into care…
Month: June 2006
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Undead and Unemployed
Betsy Taylor has a shoe fetish, a fetish she retains even after dying and rising as the new Queen of the Vampires. However, being undead royalty doesn’t mean you can dodge paying your credit card bills so Betsy lands a…
Finding the funds
Where’s the Money? by Craig Rust (Enterprise Publications, $24.95): Want to be smarter with the money in your business? Accountant Craig Rust will show you how to find the money in your business, how to manage it and — best of…
Inspirational author rises above awful childhood
Ugly, by Constance Briscoe (Hachette Livre, $36.99): Told she was ugly and subjected to unimaginable abuses at the hands of her mother, Constance Briscoe survived an awful childhood to become a practising barrister and one of the first black women…