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  • Literary Hub: The 10 Best Cookbooks of 2022 for Everyone on Your Holiday List

    Literary Hub: The 10 Best Cookbooks of 2022 for Everyone on Your Holiday List. https://lithub.com/the-10-best-cookbooks-of-2022-for-everyone-on-your-holiday-list/

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 15, 2022
    Cookbooks, Eat it and Read, Food
    Cookbooks, Recipes
  • Santa Museum Hosting Story Teller and “Santa’s Daughter” by Mrs. Pat Koch Book Signing

    Santa Museum Hosting Story Teller and “Santa’s Daughter” by Mrs. Pat Koch Book Signing

    On Saturday, December 3, 2022, at 1:00 pm Central time, guests are invited to gather in the historic Santa Claus Church where the spell-binding Susan Fowler will return to the site to give us her entertaining and interactive rendition of the classic tale Twas the Night Before Christmas. A Merry Memory Sketch souvenir illustration of…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 1, 2022
    #books, Autobiography, Book signings
    "Santa's Daughter", Autobiography, book signing, History, Holiday world, Jim Yellig, Pat Koch, Santa Claus, Santa Claus Land
  • New Worlds for the Deaf: The Story of the Pioneering School for the Deaf in Rural Mexico

    New Worlds for the Deaf: The Story of the Pioneering School for the Deaf in Rural Mexico

              In 1982, Gwen Chan Burton, who had previous taught in a government secondary school students in both  Australia and Canada for 12 years was faced with a big career decision.             Burton (whose name at the time was still Chan but that would become part of her adventure as well) had recently been certified…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 27, 2022
    Uncategorized
  • The Best Book and Song Pairings from Taylor Swift’s New Album, Midnights

    The Best Book and Song Pairings from Taylor Swift’s New Album, Midnights

    Didn’t get a ticket for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour? Don’t despair. Think of all the money you saved when jamming out instead to Midnights along with a good book instead. The librarians at Libby, an app for borrowing ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more that let’s you borrow from your local library for free, went track…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 19, 2022
    #books, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Music, Musician, Non-fiction
    #books, "Along for the Ride", "Anti-Hero", "Beach Read" Emily Henry, "Before the Devil Breaks You" Libba Bray, "Bejeweled", "Daisy Jones & The Six" Taylor Jenkins Reid, "I'm Glad My Mom Died" Jennette McCurdy, "Isla and the Happily Ever After", "It Happened One Summer" Tessa Bailey, "It Starts With Us" by Colleen Hoover, "Karma", "Labyrinth", "lavender Haze", "Maroon", "Mastermind", "Midnight Rain", "Mocking Jay", "New Noon" Stephenie Meyer, "Question…>", "Snow on the Beach", "Sweet Nothing", "The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers", "The Invisible Life of Addie Larue: V.E. Schwab, "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" Taylor Jenkins Reid, "Vigilante Sh*t", "You're On Your Own Kid", :ibby Library app, Adam Sass, Fiction, Humor, Joe Skelley, Music, mystery, Mystery-Thriller, OverDrive, Sarah Dessen, Stephanie Perkins, Suzanne Collins, Taylor Swift, V.E. Schwab
  • The Last Dress From Paris

    The Last Dress From Paris

    London, 2017. There’s no one Lucille adores more than her grandmother (not even her mother, she’s ashamed to say). So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks Lucille to help secure the return of something precious to her, she’s happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to Paris, tasked with…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 7, 2022
    #books, Audiobooks, Coulture, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Kindle, Paris, Romance
    audiobook, Courture, Dior, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Jade Beer, Kindle, London, Paris, Postwar France, Romance, The Last Dress from Paris
  • Smile Beach Murder

    Smile Beach Murder

    When Callie Padget is laid off from her reporting job, she returns to her hometown of Cattail Island and lands a gig at the local bookstore—the same one where she found comfort after her mother died. In fact, the anniversary of her mother’s infamous death is approaching. Years ago, Teri Padget tumbled from the top…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 6, 2022
    #books, Beach Read, Murder, mystery, Romance
    Alicia Bessette, Cattail Island, mystery, Outer Banks, Romance, Smile Beach Murder
  • Mirrorland

    Mirrorland

    Twin sisters, once extremely close when growing up in an eccentric household with a demeaning and scolding mother, alcoholic grandfather, and absent father, are now separated by thousands of miles and endless anger. Cat lives in Los Angeles in an apartment overlooking the water. But it’s not hers, and she’ll have to move soon when…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 4, 2022
    #books, Fiction, mystery, Simon & Schuster
    #books, "Mirrorland", Carole Johnstone, Fiction, Mystery-Thriller
  • St. Louis Jewish Book Festival

    St. Louis Jewish Book Festival

    This November, the St. Louis County Library and the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival are hosting  SLCL Authors @ the J – a joint event series for readers throughout the St. Louis metro area. Additional information about St. Louis County Library’s author series is available online. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public.…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 2, 2022
    #books, Author event
    "The Betsy Faria Murder Case", Amanda Elliot, Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Andy Dunn, Barry Nalebuff, Bone Deep, Cathy Barrow, Festivals, Gregory Zuckerman, Jason Kander, Jason Levin, Jen Maxfield, Julia Haart, Julian Zelizer, Lynda Cohen Loigman, Missouri's Own Authors, Molly Yeh, Paul Ford, Phil Rosenthal, Rabbi Benjamin Spratt, Rina Raphael, Scott Lenga, SLCL Authors, Split the Pie, St. Louis County Library, St. Louis Jewish Book Festival
  • An Honest Living

    An Honest Living

    “Noir land is always smoke and mirrors, and for those who like entering that world, be assured that Murphy is already at work on his next book.” Anchored in life by little except a few friends, a love of books and cinema, and his nascent law practice—a downward slope from his previous position with a…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 2, 2022
    #books, Fiction, mystery, New York, Noir
    "Chinatown", An Honest Living, Atmospheric, Dwyer Murphy, Fiction, mystery, New York, Noir
  • Jobs For Girls With Artistic Flair

    Jobs For Girls With Artistic Flair

    June Gervais, author of Jobs For Girls With Artistic Flair (Pamela Dorman Books 2022 available in hardcover, Kindle edition and on Audible), talks about her highly praised first novel. What inspired you to write about an aspiring tattoo artist? Why did you decide to set it in the 1980s?  My fascination with tattoos was sparked…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 28, 2022
    #books, Fiction
    Fiction, Jobs For Girls With Artistic Flair, June Gervais, Pamela Dorman Books
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