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Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is an ambitious novel. Genetics, eugenics, gender, race, class and history are the book's themes but Zadie Smith is gifted with the wit and inventiveness to make these weighty ideas seem effortlessly light. The story travels through Jamaica, Turkey, Bangladesh and India but ends up in a scrubby North London borough, home of the book's two unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal. They met in the Second World War, as part of a "Buggered Battalion" and have been best friends ever since. Archie marries beautiful, buck-toothed Clara, who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother, and they have a daughter, Irie. Samad marries stroppy Alsana and they have twin sons: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks. " Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided and entirely familiar; reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. A simple scene, Alsana and Clara chatting about their pregnancies in the park: "A woman has to have the private things-a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's. [+]

parts. "Samad's rant about his sons-"They have both lost their way. Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave-acutely displays "the immigrant fears-dissolution, disappearance" but it also gets to the very heart of Samad. White Teeth is a joy to read. It teems with life and exuberence and has enough cleverness and irreverent seriousness to give it bite. -Eithne Farry.

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Killing Time (Chivers Audio Books)

Authors

Caleb Carr

Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 813
Price: £41.82

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Review Hodder & Stoughton Religious / Run, Baby, Run (Hodder Christian Audiobooks)

Run, Baby, Run (Hodder Christian Audiobooks) (Hodder & Stoughton Religious)

Authors

Nicky Cruz

Publication date: 1994-09-15
Price: £8.99

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Review Renaissance Audio / If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules

If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules (Renaissance Audio)

Authors

Ch erie Carter-Scott

Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1920-01-01
Dewey code: 158.1
Price: £9.08

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If you loved "The Rules for Being Human" attributed to "Anonymous" in the best-seller Chicken Soup for the Soul, you're in luck. The author-corporate trainer Chérie Carter-Scott, PhD-has stepped forward and written a follow-up book: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules. This book, "a basic spiritual primer for what it means to be a human", discusses each of the 10 rules (for example, "There are no mistakes, only lessons" and "Lessons are repeated until learned") and discusses them with kindness, eloquence, and wisdom. For example, rule 1 is: "You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth". Carter-Scott discusses the challenge of making peace with the body we've been given, and the lessons of acceptance (appreciating it as it is), self-esteem (viewing yourself as worthy, despite how your body looks or performs), respect (treating it like a "valuable and irreplaceable object"), and pleasure (indulging in the five senses to "unlock the joy stored within you"). Similarly, each of the rules has four "lessons". You'll read this inspirational book more than once, and mark quotes to tell friends. -Joan Price.

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The Toddlers Bible on Cassette (Chariot Victor Publishing)

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