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The Magic by Rhonda Byrne

This is Rhonda’s third book in The Secret’s series.  If you have read the previous two books in the the series and liked them, then you will like this book.

For twenty eight days, you follow and add one rule on one small chapter, that will change some of your daily habits to become more grateful and happier. This book is more inter-active rather than just reading. You will need to ask for a twenty eight day loan period from the library.

A MUST READ!

 

Easy Facebook by Michael Miller
If you are like me, someone who has heard about facebook, hops onto a computer, types in ‘facebook’ on google, and voila! I sign myself in with Facebook and the rest seems self-explanatory, or is it?

If you are a beginner or just want to learn the ‘tips’ using facebook and you are a visual learner, love SIMPLE step-by-step instructions with big fonts and pictures,  lots of tips on what-to-do or what-not-to-do on the topics of your concern; this is the book for you.

Note: some of the features in the book is no longer being supported by facebook as it’s 2013 edition.

 
Android Phones for Dummies by Dan Gookin

I have owned a few android phones, to be honest, I don’t like them. I learned to live with them…. then I found this book! Unlike other “…For Dummies” book, this book is in FULL COLOUR! has got lots of tips, well organised into chapters. I like my android a bit better now.

Miracles happen : the transformational healing power of past life memories by Brian L. Weiss, Amy E. Weiss

In his first book “many lives, many masters”, Dr Weiss wrote about during the first hypnosis session given to his patient “kathleen”, she ‘accidentally’ entered into one of her past lives, and cured some of her current life ‘problems’. and many “lives” sessions later. Kathleen’s cured! As a Jewish and scientist, reincarnation was just not in Dr Weiss’ world!

This book is a collection of recounts of some of his patients’ experiences of their past lives! fascinating stories! a must read for soul-searchers!

 

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Read-SHARE-Play Summer Competition is now open

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read share play for blogOur Summer reading and puzzle competition for adults is now open! There are 2 easy ways to enter: write a short book review or solve the ‘Guess the book title’ picture puzzle! Each Tuesday a new puzzle will be launched here on Parra Reads and on display in the Libraries – why not enter now? Click here to learn more.

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This House of Grief

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This house of grief – Helen Garner

About the Book

Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain. On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father’s Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic accident? The court case became Helen Garner‘s obsession. She followed it on its protracted course until the final verdict. In this utterly compelling book, Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. She presents the theatre of the courtroom with its actors and audience, all gathered for the purpose of bearing witness to the truth, players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest for justice. This House of Grief is a heartbreaking and unputdownable book by one of Australia’s most admired writers.

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The Book of Night Women

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the-book-of-night-womenDid you love A brief history of seven killings? Why not read Marlon James’ previous novel, The book of night women, a sweeping, historical novel of Jamaican Slavery.

‘This is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women – a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt – recognize a dark force in her that they treat with both reverence and fear. But as Lilith comes of age and begins to understand her own feelings and identity, she dares to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman. And as rebellions simmer and unspoken jealousies intensify, Lilith’s powers and sense of purpose threaten not just her own destiny, but the destinies of all the slave women in Jamaica.’