A Spot of Bother: A Novel by Mark Haddon [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
From the fabulous author of the marvelous A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes an entertainingly dysfunctional family tale starring newly retired George Hall who is convinced he’s dying of cancer (that “spot...
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As her husband recovered from cancer treatments, Grace Lin wrote Robert’s Snow, the delightful adventures of a tiny mouse, to celebrate their good fortune. But just months later, Lin and her husband – also...
An informative, non-threatening story for both children and parents about a little girl who finds out she has asthma and learns to thrive with it.
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