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Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos

Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos Instant Mom, by Canadian actress, Nia Vardalos, from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is one of those rare, well-written celebrity publications with a real story to tell.

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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon is a short sci-fi classic, written by American, Daniel Keyes, in 1959, with more food for thought than I have ever encountered between so few pages. Charlie Gordon is a mentally-disabled baker’s gofer, with friends in low places, who harbours a huge thirst for knowledge and no […]

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Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Facing the increasingly disapproving scrutiny of their families and neighbours from two judgemental communities, both protagonists must re-examine the important things in their lives, and ask themselves: which lines should be crossed and which must not?

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Mary Poppins & Saving Mr. Banks

Walt Disney personally invested a good deal of time and effort in persuading the highly reluctant Mrs Travers to allow him to make her plainly illustrated book into a major Technicolor film