Archive for August, 2009

Off Our Rockers & Into Trouble

Monday August 10th, 2009 in Reviews

 Off Our Rockers and Into Trouble: The Raging Grannies 
by Alison Acker
Edition: Paperback
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    ‘Off’ Moved, Entertained & Enlightened Me!, Aug 7 2004
Off Our Rockers is the best kind of personal non-fiction. In many ways it qualifies as Chick Lit (the viewpoints are female and outrageous [...]

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The Bookseller’s Friend

Saturday August 8th, 2009 in Publications

 
by Rose DeShaw
Oxford Universityeducated Dr. John Henry Ursell died on July 30 in the early morning, according to a hurried phone call we got that night. He was probably about 75 and was a professor emeritus of mathematics at Queen’s University. He was a member of the Irish, British and American mathematical societies, along with [...]

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