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Author forcefully builds the tension in 'Those People'

Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 14:20 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Those People" (Berkley), by Louise Candlish Oh, those people — those boorish, inconsiderate people who move into a nice quiet neighborhood and have no respect for those who live there or...

Ahmadiyya donates books to Ta’ Paris School

Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 12:42 Last update: about 8 years ago

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta donated 175 children's books to Ta' Paris Middle School Birkirkara. The president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Laiq Ahmed Atif, presented the books to the...

People power

Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 12:37 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

New facilities, improved processes, product innovations and marketplace initiatives are all important, but these alone rarely provide sustained competitive advantage, because other businesses can just...

Il-Friefet and Is-Siġar

Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 12:36 Last update: about 8 years ago

Here are a few things which you never knew about butterflies: they use their antennae to smell things, they are born super famished and there are butterflies in the world as big as a 30cm ruler. Now,...

'Hunger Games' prequel novel coming in 2020

Monday, 8 July 2019, 09:32 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

A decade after seemingly wrapping up "The Hunger Games," Suzanne Collins is bringing readers back to Panem. A prequel, set 64 years before the beginning of her multimillion-selling trilogy, is coming...

A detective pursues justice in 'One Small Sacrifice'

Friday, 5 July 2019, 13:36 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"One Small Sacrifice (a Thriller)" (Thomas & Mercer), by Hilary Davidson. Photojournalist Alex Traynor lost his friend Cori to suicide a year ago. Detective Sheryn Sterling tried very hard to...

Prose is clean and easy to follow in 'Leaving the Witness'

Thursday, 4 July 2019, 14:03 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life" (Viking), by Amber Scorah As an adolescent Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah knocked on plenty of doors and assigned each house a two-...

'Dark Site' is sinister and disturbing

Wednesday, 3 July 2019, 09:11 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Dark Site" (Minotaur Books), by Patrick Lee What at first appears to be a random attack on a man and a woman ends up being far more sinister and disturbing in Patrick Lee's latest thriller,...

Danger, beauty, suspense in 'The River's' wilderness

Tuesday, 2 July 2019, 14:07 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"The River," by Peter Heller (Alfred A. Knopf) This novel about two Dartmouth College students on a canoe trip gone badly awry is partly an ode to the Northern wilderness, partly a survival...

'Chasing the Moon' takes a look at the history of rocketry

Monday, 1 July 2019, 09:21 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age" (Ballantine Books), by Robert Stone and Alan Andres This companion book to the upcoming PBS...

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