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Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann
November 6, 2024
Book ReviewsHistorical Fiction

Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann

This fabulous imagining of the lives of erotic novelists/literary celebrities Jacquelin Susann and Jackie Collins is an absolute hill of fun. Gill Paul has captured the drug and party-filled world of ...

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Doña Isidora
November 5, 2024
Book ReviewsClassics

Doña Isidora

Ishi, a young girl who lives in a small village in Peru, grows up wanting for nothing. Her life takes a turn for the worse when she falls in love with Don Amador, a notorious philanderer.

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How Carrot and Cookie Saved Christmas
November 4, 2024
Book ReviewsChildren's

How Carrot and Cookie Saved Christmas

Did you ever think that a carrot and cookie would save Christmas? Carrot and Cookie hear Santa coughing on the roof, and they come to the rescue to help Santa and his reindeer.

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The One Week Writing Workshop: 7 Days to Spark, Boost or Revive Your Novel by Karin Adams
October 31, 2024
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The One Week Writing Workshop: 7 Days to Spark, Boost or Revive Your Novel by Karin Adams

About the book: You've always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps you’ve made a pile of notes—even written several chapters. But as you sit down alone with the blank ...

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An Adventurous Spirit
October 29, 2024
Book ReviewsPoetry

An Adventurous Spirit

I know every serious reader is awash with excitement when they accidentally discover a treasure trove of excellent writing. Travel writing is a broad category and this collection makes the most of it ...

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My Year of Casual Acquaintances (The South Bay)
October 29, 2024
Book ReviewsFiction

My Year of Casual Acquaintances (The South Bay)

My Year of Casual Acquaintances offers contemporary romance lovers a fresh take on the fresh start trope, and delivers a thoroughly entertaining, highly re-readable novel. Middle-aged editor Mar Meyer...

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Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets)
October 25, 2024
Book ReviewsPoetry

Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets)

This slim volume is most definitely an epic. Ambitious in scale and profound in depth, Schiff guides the reader on a dream-like tour through both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the hidden enclaves...

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Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
October 24, 2024
Book ReviewsPoetry

Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

Aimee Nezhukumatathil's latest book Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees is a personal and poetic exploration of food and joy and the intersections we all have with our own history and the meals w...

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How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
July 18, 2024
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How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper

Book Summary: Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions that have shaped the nation’s historic success. A...

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Part 8: Interview with Ellenmorris Tiegerman, Author of Past Lives Denied
June 19, 2024
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Part 8: Interview with Ellenmorris Tiegerman, Author of Past Lives Denied

Professor Caitlyn Morrys, a passionate and vocal educator at a small college, finds herself at the heart of a fierce debate over academic freedom and teacher tenure. The situation takes a deadly turn ...

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