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PLEONEXIA
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Wild Word Friday! I’ve been reading Bill Giovannetti’s recently released book SECRETS TO A HAPPY LIFE. (Don’t miss this book. It’s incredible. Find out about it here: http://www.secretstoahappylife.org/ ) On page 62, Bill uses the word PLEONEXIA. Bill tells us that we should pronounce it as play-oh-nex-EEE-ah, and he explains that PLEONEXIA is a Greek…
ALEUT
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Wild Word Friday! ALEUT (pronounced al-yoot) is a word of undetermined origin that was used by Russian explorers to designate the people who lived on the islands and the peninsula that stretch from southwestern Alaska to divide the North Pacific from the Bering Sea. Some linguists believe that the word ALEUT was derived from the…
Corsets & Lace: Fashion and Pain!
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Do you know what these two items are? At the bottom is a piece of whale baleen. (Some whales have teeth, others have baleen in lieu of teeth. The plates of baleen act as a filtering system when a krill-eating whale whooshes in a mouthful of sea water and krill.) At the top of the…
March 2013 Free Book!
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Our March Free Book is a fantastic novel set in the late 1800s: THE DILEMMA OF CHARLOTTE FARROW by Olivia Newport. From the back cover: “While the rest of Chicago focuses on the enormous spectacle of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, Charlotte Farrow’s attentions are entirely on one small boy – her boy – whom…
Your Pet! Noah!
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Cathy and her Border Collie, Noah! Today we’re celebrating Cathy West’s four-year-old Border Collie, Noah! In addition to celebrating Noah, we’re also celebrating Cathy’s newest book HIDDEN IN THE HEART! Here’s a recap from Cathy’s website: www.catherinejwest.com. Hidden in the Heart Everything Claire wants seems to be beyond her reach… After losing her mother to…