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The Faerie Handbook: An Enchanting Compendium of Literature Lore, Art, Recipes and Projects
To me, fairies have always been about the holiday season—think the Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker Suite ballet and Tinkerbelle, the blonde-haired imp who wore a green outfit with matching translucent green wings in the 1904 play Peter Pan and knew how to handle a wand and pixie dust—both a job requirement. Imagine then…
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Horseshoe Casino exec pens book about supportive women
Region resident Dawn Reynolds, drawing upon the early loss of her mother and the encouragement of others, has written “The Highmore Circle,” a novel chronicling six women who learn to navigate life together. Writing as Cricket (her nickname) Reynolds, she tells the story of Gracie Anderson, a single college professor in her 30s with a severely lacking…
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Searching for Ghosts Along the Underground Railroad
My latest book, Hauntings of the Underground Railroad. Ghosts of the Midwest (Indiana University Press), is due out August 1. Researching the book took me into the small towns of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan where ghost stories abound about UGRR. Though I never saw a ghost myself, The Courtyards housed in a building dating back…
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Marisol Murano’s Valentina Goldman Books Now Available as Audiobooks
When Marisol Murano’s first novel Valentina Goldman’s Immaculate Confusion hit the shelves five years ago, readers were delighted at her heroine’s brash and completely unique voice that shone through in every short and sweet chapter. Reading the book is a lot like gossiping with your best friend–if your best friend is a no-holds-barred Latina who has recently…
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Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo
The spark for his second novel stems from what it means to be an adopted child from a land very far away says Boris Fishman, author of (Harper/HarperCollins 2016 $26.99) which was just named as one of the 100 best books of 2016 by the New York Times, Fishman, who was born in Minsk, Belarus…
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Duck Season: Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in Gascony, France’s Last Best Place
When David McAninch first moved to Plaisance du Gers, a small village in Gascony, with his wife Michele and their young daughter, Charlotte, he was going full-force Francophile by indulging a dream he’d nourished for years—to become part of French village life, a move he chronicles in Duck Season: Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in…
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Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Call it the case of the disappearing sculpture for that’s what started Donna Seaman on her quest to chronicle the lives and works of the seven female artists featured in her just released book, Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists (Bloomsbury 2017; $35). “I remember going to the Chicago Art Institute and seeing this…
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Blissful Basil: Over 100 Plant-Powered Recipes to Unearth Vibrancy, Health & Happiness
Finding a sense of peace and contentment in her life by eating healthier and follow a menu of plant based of Vegan meals, Ashley Melillo began blogging while earning her graduate degree in school psychology. Eating whole food helped Melillo deal with the anxiety and stress of her life. And she shares her food philosophy…
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The Restoration of the Calumet Region by Kenneth Schoon
In a time when so many issues seem insurmountable, Dr. Kenneth Schoon, professor emeritus of science education at Indiana University Northwest, has written a book about how community activists, government entities and corporations have all worked together to turn around the once vastly polluted lands and waters of Northwest Indiana. “It’s nothing short of miraculous,”…
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Munster resident Kimberly Kay Day is a wildlife advocate.
“This may be the last chance we have to save the elephants,” says Kimberly Kay Day, a wildlife advocate who lives in Munster and is author of The Journey of Timbo: The Indomitable Elephant, which she wrote as a way to raise money for organizations actively working to protect wildlife. Setting a goal of…
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