Category: Authors

• CrimeReads: 10 New Books Coming Out This Week ‹ CrimeReads

  CrimeReads: 10 New Books Coming Out This Week ‹ CrimeReads. https://crimereads.com/10-new-books-coming-out-this-week-january-3-2022-2/

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  January 4, 2023

  #books, #BookTok, Authors, Fiction, Murder, Noir, Thriller

  #thrillers, crime, Fiction, Fiction. new books, mystery, whodunit

• Bad Love Strikes

  

  Who is Dr. Kevin Schewe and why is he winning all these awards? Shelf Life is lucky to have Guest Blogger Kathy Tretter, co-publisher and editor of the Ferdinand News and Spencer County Leader, two award winning newspapers in Southern Indiana, to answer that question. The following is from her column which ran in the…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  January 1, 2023

  #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Authors

  #books, "Bad Love Beyond", "Bad Love Medicine", "Bad Love Strikes'", "Bad Love Tigers", "Santa's Daughter", 4 Rotary Club of Jasper's ATHENA International Leadership award, B-17G Flying Fortress, Best Original Story, Best Sci-Fi Screenplay, Best Screenplay Halo International Film Festival, British Lieutenant John Crisp, Cannes World Film Festival (Cannes, Ferdinand News, France), Jasper, Kevin Schewe MD, Manhattan Project, Memorial Hospital and Health Care's Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center, mystery, Oak Ridge Tennessee, Pat Koch, Southern Indiana, Spencer County Leader, Stardust Films and Screenplays Festival, The Bad Love Series, World War II

• Printers Row Lit Fest

  FULL PROGRAM SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR PRINTERS ROW LIT FEST, THE MIDWEST’S LARGEST LITERARY CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 10 & 11 Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey joins over 100 authors including national bestsellers Jamie Ford, Marie Myung-OK Lee, and Danyel Smith in a jam-packed weekend of free programming This year’s festival highlights Chicago stories and offers fun for all ages, with a poetry tent…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 7, 2022

  #books, Author event, Authors, Autobiography, Biography, Chicago, Culture, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction

  #books, book signing, Chicago, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Sun-Times, Danyel Smith, Dr. David Ansell, Dr. Thomas Fisher, Eric Charles May, Joe Meno, Natalie Moore, Neil Steinberg, Printers Row Lit Fest, Sandmeyer's Books, The Book Cellar, Toya Wolfe, United States Poet Laureate, WBEZ

• Big names lined up for Ireland’s Dalkey Book Festival

  

  The Dalkey Book Festival, held in Dalkey, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland is hosting myriad speakers and authors this June including Sally Rooney, John Banville, Fiona Hill, Simon Schama, and Catherine Belton.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  June 6, 2022

  #books, Author event, Authors, European, Fiction, Non-fiction

  A Crooked Tre, April in Spain, Beautiful World Where Are You?, Blindboy, Bloomsday, Bright Burning Things, Catherine Belton, Claire Keegan, Dalkey Book Festival, Dalkey Island, DJ Annie Mac, Dublin, Eamonn Morrissey, Eat or We Both Starve, Fáilte Ireland Dublin City South, Fiona Hill, Ireland, John Banville, Kevin Power, Killiney Hill, Lisa Harding, Louise Kennedy, Luke O'Neill, Marian Keyes, Nora, Normal People, Norman castles, Nuala O'Connor, Putin's People, Rosaleen McDonagh, Sally Rooney, Simon Schama, Small Things Like These, The End of the World is a Cul de Sac, Una Mannion, Unsettled, Victoria Kennefick, White City

• Article: The Best Places to Find Free E-Books

  The Best Places to Find Free E-Books https://flip.it/sE664l

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 25, 2022

  American History, Authors, Autobiography, Berkley, Berkley Publishing, Biography, Bloomsbury, Blue Rider Press, Center Street Publishing, Chicago Review Press, Cookbooks, Counytryman Press, Culture, Digital, Doubleday, Epic Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Fiction, Gallery Books, Gallery/Scout, Grand Central, Grosset & Dunlap, Hachette Book Group, History, Humor, mystery, Non-fiction

  #books, download books, free books, free ebooks

• Author explores the partnership between Chicago chefs and the farmers who grow food for them

  

  The stories behind 25 Midwest Farms and Farmers as well as the chefs who use their produce.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 1, 2022

  Authors, Chicago, Farming, Food, Michigan

  Abra Berens, Anna Blessing, Bare Knucke Farm, Charlie Trotter, Farming, Frontera Grill, Granor Farm, Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Gunthorp Farm, James Beard Foundation, LaGrange Indiana, Lena Brava, Locally Brewed, Locally Grown, Northport Michigan, One Plate at a Time, Rick Bayless, Ruffage, Three Oaks MI, Topolobampo, XOCO

• Luckiest Girl Alive book review|Lainey Gossip Books

  

  If You’re not following Lainey Gossip, may I suggest that you do. It’s all about pop culture including books, fashion, movies, celebrities, etc. with lots of fun videos including this one of Tom Cruise thanking people for seeing his latest movie Top Gun: Maverick while free falling from an airplane and talking on his way…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 18, 2022

  #books, #BookTok, Authors, Autobiography, Culture, Female Voices, Fiction, Gossip, Psychology, Social media, Women

  "etalk", "Listening to a Squawking Chicken", "The Social", Autobiography, Culture, Elaine Lui, fun, Gossip, Humor, Lainey Gossip, Lainey Lui, Listen to the Squawking Chicken, Memoir, Pop culture, Reece Witherspoon, Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick

• Windy City Blues

  In her fun very readable Windy City Blues (Berkley 2017; $16), Chicago author Renee Rosen again takes another slice of the city’s history and turns it into a compelling read. Rosen, who plumbs Chicago’s history to write such books as Dollface, her novel about flappers and gangers like Al Capone, and What the Lady Wants…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 15, 2022

  Amazon, American History, Architecture, Audiobooks, Authors, Berkley, Blues, Blues Highway, Chicago, Fiction, History, Jewish, Judaism, Music, Musician, Random House

  #bestsellingbooks, #books, #netgallery, #ReneeRosen, Architecture, Authors, Blues Highway, Chess Brothers, Chicago, Civil Rights, Dollface, Fiction, fun, Jazz, Music, musicians, New Orleans, Renee Rosen, Willie Dixon, Windy City

• If These Walls Could Talk by Reggie Brooks

  

          “I wouldn’t have been so open if I had written my book five years ago,” says Reggie Brooks, author of the just released If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box (Triumph Books 2021, $17.95). “But Covid showed me how important it is to…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 22, 2021

  Author event, Authors, Autobiography, Book signings, Chicago Review Press, Indiana, Northwest Indiana, Sports

  Author event, Autobiography, book signing, Fighting Irish, Football, Hammes Book Store, Holtz's Heroes Foundation, NFL, Notre Dame, Reggie Brooks, Sports, Triumph Books

• National Book Lovers Day: Celebrate By Learning to Download Books for Free

  

  August 9 is National Book Lovers Day, a celebration for book worms everywhere. And lucky for us, our public library has its own collection of ebooks and audiobooks that we can download for free.Libby, the leading library reading app by OverDrive, lets users download ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, comics, and more at no cost. All you need…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  August 8, 2021

  Adventure, Authors, Culture, Digital, Fiction, mystery, Romance

  B.A. Paris, Best Selling Author, Daniel Silva, Danielle Steel, Debbie Macomber, Fallen, Falling, Fiction, It's Better This Way, Jasmine Guillory, Kathy Reichs, Kristin Harmel, Libby Reading App, Linda Castillo, Miranda Cowley Heller, New York Times bestseller, Nine Lives, OverDrive, Romance, Suspense, T.J. Newman, The Bone Code, The Cellist, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Therapist, Top Ten Books, While We Were Dating