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  • Heartwood delves deep into a search and rescue mission

    Heartwood delves deep into a search and rescue mission

    “Heartwood explores the many components of what a hunt for a missing person entails, pulling all the threads of the multiple facets of the investigation together to tell a fascinating story . . .” “We’ve searched over 4000 acres so far. At about 5000 acres, give or take, we start to get into what’s called…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 28, 2026
    #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Fiction, mystery
    #books, Adventure, Amity Gaige, Appalachian Trail, Book Review, book-reviews, Fiction, Mystery-Thriller, reading
  • NYTimes: Classic Crime Novels, Newly Reissued and as Thrilling as Ever

    Classic Crime Novels, Newly Reissued and as Thrilling as Ever https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/books/review/new-mystery-novels.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 8, 2026
    #books, #BookTok, crime, Fiction
    #classic #vintage #needtoread, #Fiction #mystery #crime
  • NYTimes: Billy Idol Had It All, and Then He ‘Lit It With Butane’

    Billy Idol Had It All, and Then He ‘Lit It With Butane’ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/arts/music/billy-idol-should-be-dead-documentary.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 21, 2026
    #books, #BookTok, Autobiography, Music, Musician, Non-fiction
    #books, Autobiographies, rock-and-roll
  • People.com: Mystery Writers of America Announces 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominations — See the List!

    https://people.com/mystery-writers-of-america-announces-2026-edgar-allan-poe-award-nominations-11888473

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    January 20, 2026
    #books, #BookTok, Fiction, Murder, mystery, Thriller
    #Fiction #mystery #crime
  • College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

    College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

    14 years ago, Lauren Spierer, an over-served 20 year-old student at Indiana University who had been indulging in recreational drugs, walked out of her friend’s apartment building at 4 in the morning and disappeared, never to be seen again. She was barefoot, having left her shoes and cell phone at a bar. Her purse and…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    January 12, 2026
    #books, #BookTok, crime, Indiana University, Non-fiction, True Crime, Uncategorized
    #books, Book Review, book-reviews, Indiana University, Lauren Spierer, Non-fiction, Shawn Cohen, Sourcebooks, True Crime, writing
  • The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter

    The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter

    Jed Rosenthal is living a desultory life in a garden apartment with his cat, both having been exiled from the family home they shared with Jed’ s partner and their daughter who he can see only at approved times. Despite a job as a professor of writing at Loyola University in Chicago and receiving good…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    January 11, 2026
    #books, #BookTok, Audio book, Fiction, Murder
    #books, book-reviews, Chicago, Family, Fiction, gossip columnist, History, Karyn Kupcinet, Kup, Murder, Romance, Sidney Korshak, writing
  • Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

    Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

    It’s an epic story. A young man with talent, maybe not as much as some but what he lacks in physical and athletic prowess he makes up with moxie and determination. And like most epics, there’s a rise to the heights and then a fall from grace. It could be a movie. Maybe it will…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 31, 2025
    #books, #BookTok, Baseball, Biography, Non-fiction, Sports
    Baseball, Biography, Charlie Hustle, gambling, Keith O’Brien, Major League Baseball, mlb, Pete Rose, Sports
  • NPR: Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries’ most-borrowed lists in 2025

    https://www.npr.org/2025/12/29/nx-s1-5645098/libraries-most-borrowed-books-2025

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 29, 2025
    Audible, Audio book, Audiobooks, Authors, Fiction
    #bestsellingbooks, #books, Fiction, Women
  • Southern Lights: Easier, Lighter, and Better-for-Recipes From the South

    Southern Lights: Easier, Lighter, and Better-for-Recipes From the South

    “Throughout these pages, I’m going to (politely) refute the claim that Southern food is all bad for you and hopefully breathe new life into some tired, worn-out notions,” writes Lauren McDuffie in the first pages of her latest cookbook, Southern Lights: Easier, Lighter, and Better-for-You Recipes From the South (Gibbs Smith). McDuffie, an advocate of…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 23, 2025
    #books, #BookTok, Cookbooks, Food, Gibbs Smith, Healthy food, Recipes
    #books, book, Chicken, Cookbooks, dinner, Food, Gibbs Smith, Healthy food, Lauren McDuffie, recipe, Recipes, Southern cuisine
  • Peas Love & Carrots

    Peas Love & Carrots

    Savory Stovetop Turkey. Photo by Moshe Wulliger. So, before we start talking about Danielle Renov’s wonderful new cookbook, Peas Love and Carrots (Me’sorah Publications, Ltd. 2020; $28.93 Amazon price) I want to take a few moments to whine. I write a lot about food, I have a food blog, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts where…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 23, 2025
    #books, #BookTok, Cookbooks, Food, Recipes
    #books, Chicken, Cookbooks, Danielle Renov, dinner, Food, recipe, Recipes
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