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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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Celebrate with Babs: The TikTok Grandma’s New Cookbook
Barbara Costello didn’t do social media when she first helped her daughter by posting a cooking video on TikTok. “I thought TikTok was all about dancing,” says Costello, the mother of four and grandmother of eight, who is known as Grandma Babs. Her first post was in April 2020 during the pandemic. Nine…
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Book Riot: Barnes and Noble Announces Their Best Books of 2022 So Far
Book Riot: Barnes & Noble Announces Their Best Books of 2022 So Far. https://bookriot.com/barnes-noble-best-books-of-2022-so-far/ The Top Ten Books So Far
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Big names lined up for Ireland’s Dalkey Book Festival
The Dalkey Book Festival, held in Dalkey, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland is hosting myriad speakers and authors this June including Sally Rooney, John Banville, Fiona Hill, Simon Schama, and Catherine Belton.
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