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Book Review: Perfect Victim

Posted in Book Reviews, My Family's Grieving Journey, tagged , , on 11 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Perfect Victim by Elizabeth Southall and Megan Norris
This book is a true story about the disappearance and murder of 15 year old Rachel Barber in March 1999 in Victoria, Australia. There are two “stories” running parallel – the story of Rachel’s family’s anguish and grief as told by her mother, Elizabeth Barber (using the pen [...]

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For One More Day

Posted in Book Reviews on 26 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last weekend I was in the library and a book jumped off the shelf and slapped me in the face. The cover of For One More Day by Mitch Albom is as plain as they come. In fact, if the book had been named anything else I think I would have thrown the [...]

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Leaving Early: Youth Suicide

Posted in Book Reviews on 3 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Leaving Early: Youth Suicide – the horror, the heartbreak, the hope by Bronwyn Donaghy is a book about … well, exactly what the title suggests.
It takes the reader and plants her (as in me in this case) in the middle of three families. The words are written by a published writer [...]

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When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Posted in Book Reviews, My Family's Grieving Journey, Things to Touch Your Heart on 11 February 2007 | Leave a Comment »

An impulsive act of a friend saw this book bobbing it’s way over the wide ocean from America to Australia at the end of last year. The byline of this book is “for everyone who has been hurt by life…”
The author, a rabbi by the name of Harold S Kushner, wrote this book because [...]

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