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Although I've been intrigued for a long time, I kept avoiding Capote, confident that I'd dislike his writing as much as I dislike what I'd known were his usual themes: socialites, jet set shenanigans, and the sort of debauchery appealing to bored-out-of-their-minds nouveaux riches. And Answered Prayers is precisely one such book.
If youโre a fan of TV shows like Midsomer Murders, youโll love this book series by Faith Martin. Itโs mostly because of the cold, grey and uninviting January weather that Iโve only wanted to stay in latelyโa book in one hand, a nice cup of tea in the other. And this winter Iโve been very …
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Arin Murphy-Hiscock is a Canadian author who has written a number of books on contemporary witchcraft. What initially drew me to this title in particular, I am not ashamed to admit, was its beautiful cover โ I am a sucker for nice book designs, and this one immediately got my attention. But, of course, there …
Manโs belief in survival of life after death is one of the oldest expressions of religiosity, firmly embedded in the very foundations of organised religion. Right from the prehistoric times humans have been keenly interested in what happens to the soul after the demise of the physical body, as evidenced by the earliest funerary rites. …
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