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The Foundling by Georgette Heyer Copyright 2009 - Originally published in 1948 Sourcebooks - Fiction/Historical 439 pages Almost every time I read a book by Georgette Heyer, I find myself saying, "Ooooh, this is my new favorite!" and it's happened, again. The Foundling tells the ...
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Here it is, finally! The recipe you've all been waiting for!! Pork chop image found here . Baked Pork Chops with Apples and Cinnamon from How to Lower your Cholesterol with French Gourmet Food by Chef Alain Braux In France, cooking pork ...
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Nicci French
How to Lower your Cholesterol with French Gourmet Food: A Practical Guide by Chef Alain Braux Copyright 2009 Alain Braux International Publishing, LLC 266 pages Link to Amazon that doesn't benefit me but which you need because this is a 5-star book First the review, then the ...
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Nicci French
I know I owe you guys a pork chop recipe and I swear I'm going to get to it, but between a head cold, a long night without sleep, helping Kiddo with a project I'd very much like to label "stupid and kindergartenish" (the assignment, not the end product) and National Novel Writing Month (see ...
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I'll bet you thought I'd forgotten I had a drawing, today, right? Well, um, I did but fortunately I remembered just in time to draw a name before toddling off to bed and the winner is: Bellezza Cool, someone I know! I'll be in touch, Bellezza. Congratulations!
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It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called ...
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The Church of Facebook: How the Hyperconnected are Redefining Community by Jesse Rice Copyright 2009 David C. Cook - Nonfiction/Psychology/Religion 231 pages, including references I don't know if I can do justice to this book, which I loved so much I plan to reread it and share ...
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Anne Rice
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$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change our Lives for the Better by Christopher Steiner Copyright 2009 Grand Central Publishing - NF/Energy/Business 288 pages I finished $20 Per Gallon last week or the week before (eeks) and have managed to ...
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Christopher Buckley
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld Copyright 2005 Simon Pulse - YA/Sci-Fi/Dystopian 370 pages I readand reviewed Uglies ( Pretties is the second. It's not giving anything away to say that in Pretties , Tally (the heroine of Uglies ) has gone through the surgery to make her beautiful ...
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Scott Adams
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix Copyright 1998 Simon & Schuster Young Readers - Dystopian Fiction 153 pages Luke lives in a world in which third children are forbidden and has thus been forced to spend his entire life hiding. Until the woods next to his family farm ...
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Margaret Atwood
The Blue Umbrella by Mike Mason Copyright 2009 David C. Cook - Fiction/ 425 pages Includes an interview with the author and a glossary This will be another quickie review. It's currently 3:48 AM and I can't sleep because the next-door neighbor left her driveway spotlight on and ...
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The winners of Life After Genius by M. Ann Jacoby are: Sarah bison61 Marjorie walkerd Rebecca Graham I've just emailed you. If you don't receive an email, please send your mailing address to the email address in my sidebar----> Congratulations!
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Sarah Waters
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix Copyright 2008 Aladdin Paperbacks - YA/Sci-fi/Time Travel 314 pages This will just be a quickie review because I'm pressed for time. Found was my first Margaret Peterson Haddix book. It begins with a prologue that describes the mysterious ...
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Margaret Atwood
Nano update, first. The best-laid plans of mice and men have done a little ganging aft agley in the blog-hopping territory because I am still having a grand old time with National Novel Writing Month. Technically, I'm writing slowly and I'm still behind on my word count at a mere 13,288 words; ...
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I'm sitting in my office, which looks a little more like the inside of a tornado than an office but we won't go there, yet. There's a squirrel climbing down the oak tree outside my window and another one sneaking up behind him. The cat's asleep. My bee sting of two days ago itches. And, I ...
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Guess what I did, today, book fanatics? I started a whole new Nano story and set that other one aside to let it percolate a bit -- actually removed it from the word counter and replaced it. The more I pondered, the more I didn't want to write Story #1 quickly and felt it wasn't the right story ...
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A Climate for Change by Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley Copyright 2009 Faith Words - Nonfiction/Science/Christian 206 pages, incl. discussion questions and nearly 40 pages of sources, plus numerous charts, graphs & photos What do you mean you're not interested in global ...
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Elements
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called ...
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No Idea: Entrusting Your Journey to a God who Knows by Greg Garrett Copyright 2009 David C. Cook - Memoir/Christian 220 pages, incl. notes I read Greg Garrett's first memoir, Crossing Myself , because the promotional material for No Idea sounded fantastic but one book ...
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Greg Bear
Briefly . . . an update on my NaNoWriMo progress: I hit 10,006 words, last night. This morning I got a very late start, but then I managed to finish up the night with 11,288 words. Not huge progress, but at least it's something. I can still cram in something if I'm not completely wiped out ...
