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They quickly loaded her small tacklebox, two spinning rods, and the picnic hamper. She was so effervescent that it verged on playacting...

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Parachutes & Kisses is the third book in Erica Jong's Isadora Wing trilogy that started with the terrifically good Fear of Fly...

Although many artisan cheesemakers of this era learned to make cheese by trial and error, Pierre Kolisch, a former attorney, learned to...

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The kitchen is finally done! I haven't posted about this remodel for a couple of weeks because the final process slowed to a crawl wa...

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  Francis Cornish was an eccentric Canadian art collector who, in The Rebel Angels , died and left his enormous, disorganized, uncatalogu...

He had placed his chair carefully, leaving a space between himself and the left-hand arm of the sofa. Into this space the shadowy figure ...

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Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about th...

Now he was taking long strides, bawling her name as he pounded the length of an aisle and headed once more for the door. . . .  His...

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"Welcome, Droodists," Bettina said from the dais. The 17th Triennial Conference of the United States Chapter (Western Sector) ...

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The bricks finally got here! So we now have the proper brick foundation in the new kitchen bump-out. I was a long time to wait for a sm...

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GIVEAWAY WINNER   Freda at Freda's Voice is the lucky winner of Vacationland by Sarah Stonich , her new collection of connected s...