Reviewed by Angela Marie ‘Joy shook her head. ” Do you think I wanted this? Do you think anyone wakes up and says, I think I’ll get an abortion this morning? This is the last stop. This is the place you go when you run through all the scenarios…But that doesn’t mean I won’t think

Reviewed by Wendy Lipke Miki stepped into the bed of ashes and debris…Her mind skidded in and out of her body, remembering a different ruin and comparing it with this one…. In less than two years, she had completed a circle – twice now, finishing up with nothing except the clothes she is standing in.

Reviewed by Rod McLary The 1944 film Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer introduced the term ‘gaslighting’ to the world. In the film, Ingrid Bergman plays a woman whose husband [Charles Boyer] is attempting to convince her that she is going insane by creating various inexplicable events such as the gas lights dimming for

Reviewed by Norrie Sanders Chris O’Brien AO was a surgeon and Director of the Sydney Cancer Centre at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He won public fame for his empathic bedside manner in the television medical reality series RPA. Many people thought that if they had cancer, Chris would be the doctor of choice. Part way

  Reviewed by Ian Lipke This book addresses three main questions: Why was the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) created in the first place? Why did the Final Act take the shape that it did? How did it influence the Cold War? Reports are that the conference was a huge undertaking that

Reviewed by Angela Marie Two more Suzie K Diaries and two readers (who reviewed Files 1 & 2) very excited to learn that the new Suzie K books have arrived. Would they please read them and share their thoughts? Would they ever! Our avid readers are Olive, now six and a half, and Harper counting down the

Reviewed by Ian Lipke To take on a project like this says much about the bravery of Mark Williams. His study of Ireland’s Immortals identifies him as a very knowledgeable and creative scholar who is up for a challenge. He describes his book as “the story of a nation’s fantasy, and of the crossing places

Reviewed by Ian Lipke In the second half of the first millennium in the medieval Middle East, the Christian population held a decided majority in terms of population numbers and continued to do so into the era of the Crusades. Yet Christian communities broke apart over theological disagreements. Tannous set out to find what it