Things We Set on Fire is a detail-rich family story by up-and-comer Deborah Reed that will suck you in from the first pages.  When ...

THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the b...

When Oregon became the 33rd US state on February 14, 1859, it entered the Union as a free state, prohibiting slavery.  But the new state...

And then came the Lehman crisis of 2008, the subsequent bust of the real estate bubble, and the beginning of a whole different value sy...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday!  MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before tur...