This book was a "Kindle First" book I got off my Prime membership. The story is set in 1920s Singapore, where Agnes the main character, lives in a crumbling old palace with what is left of het family. They are what is left of Singapore royalty and the palace has been in the family for several g...
This had a lot of the elements that classic coming of age stories have. It just lacked depth in some areas such as character development, which in my opinion, isn't always a bad thing. In this case, it made the story that much more enjoyable not having to get caught up in overwhelming details. Th...
What an interesting trip into who owns stem cells and can they be used by someone else in a family who so requests. Can an aunt who is in the last stage of cancer legally get to use stem cells of her cousin's child. Can the cousin deny her the use because the stem cells are his private property...
Ok, I got the author mixed up with Elizabeth Berg and it's not until I reached the end with the photo I realized my mistake. Not a bad story and I liked the minor characters better than the main ones! The plot takes off on the premise "he went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back", ...
This is the story of a normal boy and his dad......a T-Rex. T-Rex dad is very busy and always seems to be working. The boy want his dad to come to field day. At first he feels the day is ruined when a gang of misfits interrupts their game and in come t-rex dad to save the day. T-Rex dad umps ...
In fact Ari Wiesenthal, the defendant, kept his hands literally over his ears or cupped over his eyes all during the first meetings. Flannery raised his bushy eyebrows at the judge as if to say, “This is what we’ve got,” but the judge persisted. Whatever the law might dictate, there was no logica...