Category: Non-fiction

• Haunted Lighthouses: Scary Tales of the Great Lakes

  

  Michigan is home to more lighthouses than any other state and about 40 of those are rumored to be haunted by the spirits of former keepers, mariners and others with ties to these historic beacons. Inside the pages of Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses, long-time researcher, writer and promoter of all things Michigan, Dianna Stampfler, shares stories of…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 5, 2022

  #books, Adventure, American History, Architecture, Author event, Book signings, Culture, Ghosts, Great Lakes, Hauntings, Historic Architecture, History, Lake Michigan, Lighthouse, Michigan, Murder, mystery, Non-fiction, Shipwrecks, Travel, True Crime

  book signing, Great Lakes, Historic Architecture, Historical Society of Michigan, Mackiac City, Marquette Harbor Lightouse, Michigan, Michigan Maritime Museum, Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses, Point Iroquois, Seul Choix Point Lighthouse, Whitefish Point, Whitehall Michigan

• 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

• Straight Bourbon: Distilling the Industry’s Heritage by Carol Peachee

  

  “Bourbon is a legacy of blue grass, water and Kentucky limestone,” Carol Peachee tells me when I ask what makes Kentucky bourbon so prized. Limestone? Water? Bluegrass? What’s that have to do with fine bourbon? Turns out it’s quite simple. According to Peachee, the limestone filters the iron out of the water as it flows…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 6, 2022

  Bourbon, Indiana University Press, Non-fiction, Recipes, Travel

  #books, Bourbon, Carol Peachee, Cocktails, Distilleries, Kentucky, Prohibiton, Recipes, Straight Bourbon: Distilling the Industry's Heritage

• A Terrified Puppy and a Life Re-Examined: The Lessons Love Teaches Us

  

  A very anxious dog teaches a couple how love stretches our capacity for compassion and caring.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  June 30, 2022

  Animals, Anxiety, Audiobooks, Dogs, Memoir, Non-fiction, Pets

  "Loving Edie", Anxiety, Audiobooks, Dogs, janeammeson.com, Memoir, Meredith May, Non-fiction, Park Row Books, Pets

• 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

• 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Books and Drama

  

  This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 23, 2022

  #books, drama, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Pulitzer Prize

  Ada Ferrer, Andrea Elliott, Beacon Press, Biography, Bloomsbury, Carla Power, Chasing Me to My Grave, Covered with Night, Cub: An America History, Diane Seuss, drama, Fat Ham, Fiction, Francisco Goldman, frank:sonnets, Gayl Jones, Graywolf Press, Grove Press, History, Home, Home Land Security, Invisible Child, Jame Ijames, Janice P. Nimura, Joshua Cohen, Joshua Prager, Kate Masur, Kristina Wong, Liveright/Norton, Mai Der Vang, Monkey boy, New Directions, New York Review Books, Nicole Eustace, Non-fiction, One World/Random House, Palmares, Pessoa: A Biography, Poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner, Refractive Africa, Richard Zenith, Scribner, Selling Kabul, Sylvia Khoury, The Doctors Blackwell, The Family Roe, The Netanyahus, Until Justice Be Done, W.W. Norton, Will Alexander, Winfred Rembert, Yellow Rain