When a young boy’s imagination brings a group of wild animals barreling into his house, things will likely begin to get crazy. Eric Pinder’s new picture book If All The Animals Came Inside has an elephant tromping through the living room, a yak raiding the fridge, and even a kangaroo jumping on the couch! But…
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More Like Her
More Like Her is touted as a book that exposes what really goes on behind seemingly perfect public lives, but it’s really more about women reinventing themselves to please their man and then beginning to think out the ramifications of that. It’s also about what happens when a truly horrific event impacts a small community…
The Newlyweds
Meet Amina and George, The Newlyweds. They are not your typical American couple. In fact, they aren’t even both Americans. Having met on the AsianEuro.com matchmaking site and gotten engaged after George traveled to Bangladesh to meet Amina and her family, they are now married and living in George’s home in Rochester, New York. As…
Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers
Bloggers, journalers, scrapbookers, birthday letter writers, Facebook status-updaters — motherhood tends to make us writers in one or more of these ways. I’ve always processed by writing, becoming a different type of person as the words made their way from my head and heart onto the page — more introspective, more expressive of my thoughts…
On Reading: From Children’s Bookseller to Childen’s Author
Most people who love books have probably walked into a bookstore at some point in their lives, taken a deep breath, inhaling the scent of ink and paper, and said to themselves, “I would love to work in a place like this.” I was no exception. When spring semester of my freshman year in college…
Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs
I like A.J. Jacobs. His books always focus on a particular area, which he tackles like the journalist that he is. He shares facts you might not even know you wanted to know! Because they are in the context of a memoir-type book, he also mixes in some humor and personal insight with the skillfully…
You Choose
You Choose is a book that will entertain your child again and again. Written by Pippa Goodhart and illustrated by Nick Sharratt, you will find something new to look at every time you open this delightful picture book from Kane Miller. The simple text is designed to jump start your child’s imagination, asking questions such…
The Singles
A wedding reception can often be the setting for romance and drama, with more than a few stories playing out in a ballroom after the nuptials. In the case of Beth Evan’s wedding, the behind-the-scenes activities take center stage with a cast of five playing the title role of The Singles. Meredith Goldstein’s debut novel…
Shadow on the Wall: Book One of the Sandstorm Chronicles
Shadow on the Wall is like no other book I’ve ever read. Set in Elih, Turkey, it follows the story of Recai Osman, an extremely rich young playboy. His father founded a business that helped build the city from the foundations up, and he was instrumental in setting in place a system of loans to…
After the Fog
In 1948, the town of Donora, PA, home to steel and zinc mills, was covered in a thick blanket of fog for several days. The “killing smog” caused severe breathing difficulties and even multiple deaths. This disaster is the basis for Kathleen Shoop’s new novel, After the Fog. Rose Pavlesic is a community nurse, visiting…
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