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  • Mindy Kaling announces first books for Mindy’s Book Studio

    Mindy Kaling announces first books for Mindy’s Book Studio

    Mindy’s Book Studios is a boutique story studio created to publish stories by emerging and established diverse voices and imagine books from page to screen.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    June 5, 2022
    Amazon Publishing, Amazon Studios, Lauren Thoman, Mindy Kaling, Mindy’s Book Studios, Sonali Dev
  • The Book of Cold Cases

    The Book of Cold Cases

    When she was nine, Shea Collins managed to outwit and escape a child predator, hiding as he searched for her before moving on to his next victim. Still traumatized two decades later, Shea keeps to herself, working as a medical receptionist during the day and at night holing up in her apartment, heating up single…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    June 3, 2022
    Audio book, Fiction, mystery
    audiobook, Fiction, Mystery-Thriller, Simone St. James, Supernatural
  • The Twisted Soul Cookbook: Modern Soul Food with Global Flavors

    The Twisted Soul Cookbook: Modern Soul Food with Global Flavors

    Chef/owner Deborah VanTrece takes the flavors and foods of her heritage and her travels to create the dishes served at her award winning restaurant and now shares them in her cookbook, The Twisted Soul Cookbook.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    May 26, 2022
    Cookbooks, Culture, Food, Recipes
    Atlanta, Aunt Lucille’s 7UP Pound Cake, Bacon-Praline Macaroni and Cheese, Cookbooks, Country Captain Chicken Stew, Deborah VanTrece, Food, Global flavors, Grandma Lue’s Spinach Rice, Recipes, Soul food, Spring Pea Bacon and Radish Salad, The Twisted Soul Cookbook, Twisted Soul Cookhouse and Pours
  • 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

    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
  • The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

    The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

    With their perfumed fragrance and lovely colors, pitcher plants beckon, inviting insects to partake of what promises to be the most delicious nectar nestled in the depths of their beguiling wide open red and green lined mouth. But the slope is slippery and tiny plant tentacles pull the insect down into dark depths making escape…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    May 8, 2022
    #books, Gardening
    Bladderwort, California, California Carnivores, Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Little Shop of Horrors, Peter D'Amato, Pitcher plants, Sebastopol, The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants, Venus flytraps
  • Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

    Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

    A compelling look at three talented women and their youthful time, separately, in Paris and the great city’s influence on their lives.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    May 7, 2022
    #books, Biography, Culture
    "Dreaming in Paris", Alica Kaplan, Angela Davis, Biography, Culture, expatriate literature, Jackie Kennedy, Paris, Susan Sontag, Yale University
  • Author explores the partnership between Chicago chefs and the farmers who grow food for them

    Author explores the partnership between Chicago chefs and the farmers who grow food for them

    The stories behind 25 Midwest Farms and Farmers as well as the chefs who use their produce.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    May 1, 2022
    Authors, Chicago, Farming, Food, Michigan
    Abra Berens, Anna Blessing, Bare Knucke Farm, Charlie Trotter, Farming, Frontera Grill, Granor Farm, Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Gunthorp Farm, James Beard Foundation, LaGrange Indiana, Lena Brava, Locally Brewed, Locally Grown, Northport Michigan, One Plate at a Time, Rick Bayless, Ruffage, Three Oaks MI, Topolobampo, XOCO
  • Short on time? Sarah Copeland has a recipe for you

    Short on time? Sarah Copeland has a recipe for you

                  Want a dinner that tastes like Saturday night when you’ve had all day to putter around in the kitchen on a Wednesday? Don’t despair. Sarah Copeland, author Feast, has a new cookbook out that’s just right for you.               In Every Day Is Saturday: Recipes + Strategies for Easy Cooking, Every Day of the…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 29, 2022
    Cookbooks, Recipes, Uncategorized
    Cookbooks, Everyday is Saturday, Food, Recipes, Sarah Copeland
  • By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream

    By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream

    “My birth was planned around Judaism and basketball,” writes Dan Grunfeld in the opening paragraph of his book. “It’s an appropriate testament to what I was inheriting. When I was born in 1984, my dad was an NBA player for the New York Knicks. My parents scheduled my C-section delivery to take place between two…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 11, 2022
    #books, Autobiography, Sports
    #books, "By the Grace of the Game", Anyu Grunfeld, Basketball, Dan Grunfeld, Ernie Grunfeld, Holocaust, Hungarian, Judaism, NBA, Romania, Sports, Triumph Books, World War II
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