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Congratulations to Sue Miller MacDonald who won Tessa Afshar’s novel, HARVEST OF GOLD. Sue tells us that her favorite way to be pampered is to go for a boat ride with her husband and read a good book while he fishes! I’ll get HARVEST OF GOLD to you in the next few days, Sue. Happy…
April 2013 FREE BOOK!
I’m delighted to offer the glorious novel, SCENT OF LILACS by Ann H. Gabhart as our April 2013 Free Book! This is a delight of a book, and I’m sure you’ll be pulled in from page one as you travel back to 1964 and meet sweet quirky Jocie Brooke, wise beyond her years and a…
Your Life & Mine: The Rules of Ancestry Research
Left to Right: My father, his grandparents, my mother and her parents. I’m currently reading a book by Christine Kenneally entitled, THE INVISIBLE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE. In the first chapter Ms Kenneally tells us about the Maori people of New Zealand and their tradition of whakapiri — the recitation of genealogies to establish…
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Beginning next Tuesday (November 1, 2011) and continuing for most Tuesdays – at least until next summer (when life becomes nearly too hectic for me to breathe let alone blog), I will begin to write a very short blog about the books that I love. These aren’t the average everyday books I love, as in “Oh,…
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This Thanksgiving I felt especially blessed, because my mother is still with us, despite the ravages of white matter dementia, which has so afflicted her body and mind. Imagine not being able to use your hands, not being able to speak, not being able to walk, your muscles so stiff that even when you lie…