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A Glance Back – Vacation!
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Last week my husband Neil and I took a vacation. Altogether now – “AHHHHHHH.” Yes, that’s the sound of relaxation, and I didn’t know how badly I needed to relax until I lay down on the king sized bed in our rented ‘home-away-from-home’ (Apologies for the cliche.) and slept away the first afternoon of our…
Second October 2013 Book Winner!
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Congratulations to DeeDee Firack the winner of WINTER IN FULL BLOOM by Anita Higman. DeeDee, I’ll get the book to you ASAP! Blessings! Sue
November 2017 FREE BOOK Winner!!
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Congratulations to Janeen Hunt Radtke who won our two free books for November 2017!! When asked if she thought she could survive in a wilderness situation, Janeen said, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” Great attitude! Janeen, please message me your address, and I’ll send the books your way! Happy Reading, Janeen!! Sue
Your Life & Mine: The Rules of Ancestry Research
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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…
March 2014 – 2nd Free Book
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THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls is one of the finest memoirs I’ve ever read, so I can’t resist including it as our second Free Book in March 2014. From the back cover: “THE GLASS CASTLE is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional…
May 2013 2nd Free Book!
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Our second FREE BOOK this month is by one of my favorite authors, Geraldine Brooks. She has won a Pulitzer Prize for her work, and the only fair way to describe her prose is by calling it poetry. She writes for the general market, and the book we are giving away is her novel, PEOPLE…