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July 2018 Free Book!
I have a weakness for great big historical sagas, so this month when everybody else is looking for beach reads, I decided to give away one of my favorite sagas — Edward Rutherfurd’s amazing chronicle of New York City, entitled (what else?) NEW YORK, a Novel. From the back cover: “Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest…
PALE
Wild Word Friday! When I hear the word PALE I usually think of the color of my skin. But there is an older nearly obsolete meaning for the word PALE , which comes to the English language from the Latin word palus, a stake. A PALE was a pointed, narrow, upright piece of wood. Generally,…
January 2015 FREE BOOK!!
Maybe you’ve recently seen — and loved — the movie UNBROKEN, but the book is even better!! That’s why we’re giving away a copy on my blog this month!! UNBROKEN (A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption) by Laura Hillenbrand was hailed as the top nonfiction Book of the Year by…
A Glance Back – Back
Um, no, the title is NOT a typo, and the picture? Let me explain. In December 2007 my husband Neil, a high school principal, had begun his first day of Christmas break. He was silently celebrating that he had only one chore left to accomplish, and then the next two weeks were his to do…