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There's More to Life than Death by Anne Forrest

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  Behind the death of a person, a building or a place, life goes on. Here is a strong sense of many places: rural North Wales, a quarry, the woods, a Welsh Woollen Mill storeroom, the banks of the Atchafalaya River, a claustrophobic swampland shack, the Texas panhandle and more.     And there are people. Quinn maybe protects two brothers, from their dead Mam’s sexual secrets. Febby plans her escape. Mostyn has to please his publisher and Mary Mc Allister still nurses the Infant Jesus years after her own baby died. Anne Forrest paints colourful word pictures of these people and places in There’s More to Life than Death.    RRP  £8.50  Buy from Amazon (including Kindle)     Note, this is an affiliate link and a small portion of what you pay, at no extra cost to you,   may go to Bridge House Publishing.   Buy from Barnes and Noble (US)  Buy from us  (1 -4 books)       Buy from us (5+ books)        "An intriguing title for this collection of wel

Sigrid is Unique by Lotta Lundh and Nils Melander

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  Sigrid is unique. Mom always  says that she is not like everyone else. Sigrid cannot help but wonder what it is that makes h er unique. Is it the fact that she likes to play on her own?  Because she can get really, really mad? or is it her detailed drawings?  Or the fact that she likes it quiet? Come  along, join Sigrid  when she explores what it really is that makes her unique.  RRP  £6.50  Buy from Amazon  Note, this is an affiliate link and a small portion of what you pay, at no extra cost to you,   may go to Bridge House Publishing.     Buy from Barnes and Nobel (US)   Buy from us (1-4 books)      Buy from us (5 books)     A hugely positive book that brilliantly combines subtle humour alongside the everyday realities of living with Autism. The illustrations, which are brilliant btw, bring Sigrid to further life in a way that helps us to relate with her daily struggles coping in a world where neither she nor it fully understands the other. A must r