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The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Her brother is on the fast track to a successful career in finance and has plans for his sister to follow along. But in Jane Pek’s debut novel, “The Verifiers,” Claudia Lin secretly drops out of the corporate rat race without telling her siblings or mother and takes a job at Veracity, a new start-up…
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Breathless: A Mountaineering Thriller by Amy McCulloch
Breathless, Amy McCulloch’s debut adult thriller, is set on the world’s eighth highest mountain in Nepal. Cecily Wong, is a struggling journalist given the opportunity to interview legendary mountaineer Charles McVeigh but with one catch: she has to summit the mountain as part of his team first. I had a chance to ask McCulloch, a…
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Recipes from Tara Teaspoon’s Delicious Gatherings
I love cookbooks, whether they’re old or new and I’m always looking for those that offer recipes for what’s available from local farms and also using ingredients that I want to learn more about. And my friend Carrie Bachman sent me a cookbook that covers both. It’s by Tara “Teaspoon” Bench, a former Martha Stewart…
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Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog, the Making of a Super Athlete
With her golden eyes and short brown coat, Al is unlike most Newfoundland dogs not only in color. She’s also bigger than a bear cub at an equivalent age and able to pull two to three times her weight. Al is also exuberant, intelligent, and eager to please. But in her overwhelming enthusiasm, Al doesn’t…
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NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL: ONCE AGAIN, BOOK TV IS LIVE, IN-PERSON
22nd-STRAIGHT YEAR: EXCLUSIVE NON-FICTION BOOK COVERAGEON BOOK TV ON C-SPAN2 C-SPAN’s Book TV has provided live, in-depth, uninterrupted coverage of the National Book Festival since it began. Now, after several years of virtual coverage because of the pandemic, Book TV is back in person, once again providing signature LIVE gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Festival’s non-fiction authors.…
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Back From the Farm: Family Recipes and Memories of a Lifetime
Family memories, times together, food, family, and friends–all come together in Phil Potempa’s newest cookbook.
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Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy by Jamie Oliver
Noted chef Jamie Oliver has introduced a cookbook full of recipes for making memorable meals easily.
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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.
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From Crook to Cook: Snoop Dogg Hits the Kitchen
Whether he’s in the hood or in an international city, Snoop Dogg says he’s got to eat and over three decades of performing around the globe, the famous rapper has learned to adapt dishes from what he grew up eating as well as recipes he’s discovered on the road. He shares these in his cookbook,…
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Traveling Through Time and Around the Globe
The quote from Jean Batton, an early female aviator was the inspiration for Maggie Shipstead to write “Great Circle” about a female aviatrix who disappears in Antarctica in the last century and a modern day movie being made about her.
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