A Caribbean idyll that was slowly turning gray, wrinkled, and arthritic was only the final detail of a period when real life surpassed ...

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Jeannie Burt grew up on an eastern Oregon farm. Her rural community was so small and close knit that she was related to three of the oth...

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Each night Thomas listened closely to the jazz in the basement, especially the piano work of Julian Henson, which was tightly controlled ...

It’s official! The Dumas Law Group will open its doors for business on March 31, 2014.  (April 1 would have been more logical, but I didn...

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If this wasn't a crazy busy week for me, I would ponder what's it's been like to have a book blog for six whole years and sha...

. . . [I]slands form in all kinds of ways, sometimes because of high water or at a confluence where the force of one river meets anothe...

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If he thought about it – and he rarely had – he would have allowed the possibility of something Almighty-ish: some sort of vague and un...

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathl...

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I reach into my pants pocket and pull out the note from Sitka's mom. Jenny. My drugged out, ex-con, now-I'm-ready-to-come-hom...

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COMPLETED! Margot from Joyfully Retired started the Foodies Read Challenge a couple of years ago, before passing the torch to Vicki f...

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FIVE FAVE VENICE BOOKS It is Carnival in Venice this week, so here is a short list of my favorite Venice books: The World of Venic...

That space, that divide that came between us so many years ago, still weighed on Molly, and I felt she always blamed Patty over it, thou...