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Mar 23, 20212 min

Planning Your Garden

Perhaps the most unique book for beginning gardeners published this year is The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food by Joseph Tychonievich...

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Mar 23, 20212 min

Road Trip USA, Get Your Kicks

Are you getting tired of quarantines, lockdowns, staying at home but still wary of large crowds and being cooped up with strangers? This...

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Nov 18, 20201 min

Dolly Parton Times three

We’ll remember this year for many turbulent events, but for Dolly Parton she will remember this year as when not one, but three, major...

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Oct 15, 20201 min

Couple of Christmas Books

Publishers are already issuing Christmas and holiday-themed books, anticipating delays in the book supply chain. A book published last...

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Oct 15, 20201 min

The Donner Party

In 1846 a group of travelers left Springfield, Illinois, bound for California under the leadership of George Donner and James Reed,...

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Oct 3, 20201 min

Coal Mining Hits the Books

Coal mines once proliferated in Illinois. Countless families in the area had fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, etc., who worked in the...

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Sep 18, 20201 min

Joe Gunther and Walt Longmire Return this fall

Back in the USA, two premier mystery writers, Archer Mayor and Craig Johnson, present us with their newest crime novels. Archer Mayor’s...

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Sep 18, 20201 min

New Mysteries from Louise Penny and Ann Cleeves

Canadian author Louise Penny relocates her 16th book in the Armand Gamache series from Montreal and the village of Three Pines to Paris,...

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Sep 3, 20201 min

The Literary Event of the Year

Billed as the literary event of the year by the publisher, Europa Editions, Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults, has generated...