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  • Girls and Their Horses by Eliza Jane Brazier

    Girls and Their Horses by Eliza Jane Brazier

    “Horses are healing,” says Eliza Jane Brazier, author of “Girls and Their Horses” (Penguin-Random House), as she walks her horse around the arena while we talk on the phone. Brazier, who first started riding when she was five and has worked as a horse trainer, riding instructor and a head wrangler at a dude ranch,…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 26, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Audio book, Culture, Fiction, Kindle, mystery, Thriller
    “Girls and Their Horses:, #books, Eliza Jane Brazier, Fiction, mystery, Mystery-Thriller, Penguin Random House
  • Dinner’s in the Oven: Simple One-Pan Meals

    Dinner’s in the Oven: Simple One-Pan Meals

    I’m a huge fan of Rukmini Iyer and am revisiting an old favorite Dinner’s in the Oven: Simple One-Pan Meals (Chronicle Books 2018; $19.95), featuring wonderfully easy sheet-pan recipes that always wow people when you bring them to the table. Hah! Little do they know how quick they are to assemble and cook. But we’ll…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 25, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Cookbooks
    #books, Chronicle Books, Cookbooks, Dinner’s in the Oven: Simple One-Pan Meals, Food, Recipes, Rukmini Iyer
  • Night Shift by Robin Cook

    Night Shift by Robin Cook

    His mother-in-law has moved in with him, his young daughter has been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, his son’s school wants an ADD diagnosis, and his wife’s promotion to Chief Medical Examiner has turned her into a nemesis in some ways as she now expects her husband to no longer go rogue when…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 6, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Medical mystery, mystery, Thriller
    “NIght Shift”, #books, Fiction, Medical mystery, Mystery-Thriller, New York Journal of Books, Robin Cook
  • The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons

    The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons

    “Smirnoff, who lives in Sweden, has done an excellent job, one that should reassure Larsson’s fans that the series is in good hands.” Lisbeth Salander, the brilliant computer hacker who is both reclusive and aggressive, is back in The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons, the seventh in the Millennium series. The first three of this…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 5, 2023
    Uncategorized
    David Lagercrantz, Karin Smirnhoff, Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Millennium, Millennium series, mystery, Sweden, Swedish Crime Novels, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Thriller
  • Jacques Pépin Cooking My Way: Recipes and Techniques for Economical Cooking

    Jacques Pépin Cooking My Way: Recipes and Techniques for Economical Cooking

    “This is a pleasure of a cookbook full of great recipes . . .” Jacques Pépin, winner of 16 James Beard Awards and author of over 30 cookbooks, has taken his considerable skills and created Cooking My Way, a charming cookbook of easy-to-make recipes designed not only to save money but also time and effort.…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 30, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Chefs, Cookbooks, Food, Recipes
    “Cooking My Way”, #books, Cookbooks, Food, Jacques Pepin, Jacques Pepin Foundation, Recipes
  • Western Mexico: A Traveler’s Treasury

    Western Mexico: A Traveler’s Treasury

    A travel guide for the intellectually curious, Tony Burton’s Western Mexico: A Traveler’s Treasury provides an insider’s entry to this extraordinary region of Mexico. The book, published by Sombrero Press and now in its fourth edition is less about logistics and instead focuses on the myriad of reasons–historical, ecological, cultural, and/or scenic–that make each place…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 27, 2023
    Adventure, Architecture, Culture, Ethnic Enclaves, Food, Food History, Mexico, Mexico Travel, Non-fiction, Travel
    Angahuan, Angangueo, aqua Blanca Canyon Resort, Bolaños, Camino Real restaurant, Cookbooks, Copper Canyon, Diana Kennedy, El Molino hotel and restaurant, Guadalajara, Hotel Real de la Loma, If Walls Could Talk: Chapala’s historic buildings and their former occupants, Jocotepec, Junapeo, Lagos de Moreno, Lake Chapala, Manantlán, Manantlán Biosphere Reserve, MexConnect, Non-fiction, Our Lady of Sagrario festival, Pátzcuaro, Puerto Vallarta, Purépecha Indian style, Rancho San Cayetano, River Tuxpan, San Blas, Santa Clara del Cobre, Tamazula, Tamazula River, Tingambato, Travel, Yucatán, Zacatecas, Zitácuaro
  • Dead Mountain by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

    Dead Mountain by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

    Two fraternity brothers taking a drunken joyride after too much Captain Morgan Spiced Rum crash their Jeep in the mountains of New Mexico on a freezing winter night. With no cell service available, they manage to find a cave to spend the night. Unfortunately for them they discover several other things as well. Besides ancient…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 17, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Amazon, Audiobooks, Authors, mystery, Thriller
    “Dead Mountain”, #books, Adventure, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Lincoln Child, Mystery-Thriller, Native Americans, Nora Kelly
  • CrimeReads: The Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    https://crimereads.com/the-best-reviewed-books-september-2023/

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 1, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Amazon, Audio book, Audiobooks, Authors, crime, Fiction, Murder, mystery, Noir
    #books, #booktock, #BookTok, #BookTok Books, #Fiction #mystery #crime, #murder #mayhem
  • Three Charming Villages on the shores of Lake Chapala

    Three Charming Villages on the shores of Lake Chapala

    Born in the United Kingdom, Tony Burton, a Cambridge University-educated geographer with a teaching certificate from University of London, first traveled to Mexico after spending three years as a VSO [Voluntary Service Overseas] volunteer teaching geography, and writing a local geography text, on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. From there his travels took him…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    August 16, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Food History, Historic Architecture, History, Mexico, Mexico Travel, Non-fiction, Recipes, Travel
    “Lake Chapala: A Postcard History”, “New Worlds for the Deaf”, #books, Ajijic, Cookbooks, Food, Gwen Chan Burton, Historic Architecture, History, Jocotepec, Lake Chapala, Recipes, Sombrero Publishing
  • C-SPAN’s Book TV is again partnering with the Library of Congress to bring the 2023 National Book Festival to a national television audience, live and on-site.

    C-SPAN’s Book TV is again partnering with the Library of Congress to bring the 2023 National Book Festival to a national television audience, live and on-site.

    As an original supporter of the National Book Festival, C-SPAN’s Book TV is contributing the following for this year’s event – held on Saturday, August 12, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center: • live coverage of author interviews and panel discussions.• lengthy live call-in interviews with nonfiction authors on location from the grand lobby.•…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    August 5, 2023
    American History, Autobiography, Biography, Book TV, C-Span, Current Events, History, National Book Festival, Politics
    #books, Author interviews, Biography, books, C-Span, C-Span's Book TV, C-SPAN2, Current Events, Government, Library of Congress, Media, National Book Festival, Politics, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
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