Booking Mama in culture
Kid Konnection: Gilt
Every Saturday, I host a feature called Kid Konnection -- a regular weekend feature about anything related to children's books. This week, I'm going to review a new historical fiction young adult... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Guest Review: Capitol Murder
Summary: Private investigator Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller have overcome more than a few daunting challenges and powerful enemies to seejustice done. Against tremendous odds, they... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Review: The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
Summary: This shocking expose goes behind the headlines to uncover the true story of Clark Rockefeller, wealthy scion of a great American family, who kidnapped his own daughter and vanished. The... Continue reading »
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Geraldine Brooks Luncheon & Giveaway
Geraldine Brooks at Friends Author Luncheon I can't believe it's taken me this long to write about this event! A few days ago (actually almost two weeks now!), I had the opportunity to attend the... Continue reading »
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Review: The Boy Next Door
Summary: To: You (you) From: Human Resources (human.resources@thenyjournal.com) Subject: This Book Dear Reader, This is an automated message from the Human Resources Division of the New York Journal,... Continue reading »
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Review: The Diva Digs Up the Dirt
Summary: Trouble in spades… Determined not to be a garden-variety diva, Sophie Winston’s neighbor, Natasha, cultivates a plan to shine on television—using Sophie’s backyard. As the cast and... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Review: Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook
Summary: Home cooking comes to gorgeous full-color life with the Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook! It’s loaded with instructional photos, easy-to-follow recipes and insightful tips from our... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Kid Konnection: Wonder
Every Saturday, I host a feature called Kid Konnection -- a regular weekend feature about anything related to children's books. This week, I'm going to feature one of my favorite books of 2012!... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Guest Review: The Floor of Heaven
Summary: It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures – gun-toting wanderers, trappers,... Continue reading »
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May 2012 Book Club Meeting
Summary: Jane Levitsky is a bright light in the field of nineteenth-century Russian literature, making her name as an expert on the novels of Grigory Karkov and the diaries of his wife, the... Continue reading »
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Review: An Uncommon Education
Summary: A young woman tries to save three people she loves in this elegant and remarkably insightful coming-of-age debut. Afraid of losing her parents at a young age—her father with his weak... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Review: I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag
Summary: When Jennifer Gilbert was just a year out of college, a twenty-two-year-old fresh-faced young woman looking forward to a bright future, someone tried to cut her life short in the most... Continue reading »
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Review: Sacrilege
Summary: A gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century England and centered on the highly secretive cult of Saint Thomas Becket, the twelfth-century archbishop murdered in Canterbury... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Look What I Got!
On Friday, I was lucky enough to see my sister at Council of Friends of Lancaster County Public Libraries Author Luncheon featuring Geraldine Brooks. (More on that later this week, but I'll give you... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Kid Konnection: Picture Book Assortment
Every Saturday, I host a feature called Kid Konnection -- a regular weekend feature about anything related to children's books. This week, I'm going to feature some cute picture books. Summary:... Continue reading »
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Guest Review: Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Summary: What happens when an adventure travel expert-who's never actually done anything adventurous-tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? July 24, 1911, was a day for the... Continue reading »
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Review: Calico Joe
Summary: A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball… Whatever happened to Calico Joe? It began quietly enough with a... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Review: Girl Unmoored
Summary: Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. It’s 1985 and her mom has passed away, her evil stepmother is pregnant, and her best friend has traded her in for a newer model. Fortunately, she’s... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Review: These Days are Ours
Summary: Six months after September 11th, New Yorkers are instructed to get on with their lives despite the terror advisories, streets filled with 9/11 merchandise, and mail that may contain Anthrax.... Continue reading »
Booking Mama in culture
Review: Guilt by Degrees
Summary: Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight--someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions. It began when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the... Continue reading »
