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  • 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
  • Harlan Coben’s “Hold Tight” Now a Netflix Movie

    Harlan Coben’s “Hold Tight” Now a Netflix Movie

    From the Book Jacket How well do you really know your child? Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they’d spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his best friend Spencer Hill, they can’t help but worry. Within days of installing a sophisticated spy…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 5, 2022
    Fiction, mystery, Thriller
    Fiction, Harlan Coben, Hold Tight, Movie, Mystery-Thriller, Netflix
  • The Heights by Louise Candlish

    The Heights by Louise Candlish

                  Ellen Saint knows she isn’t wrong but then how could she be right? After all the man she just spotted, Kieran Watts, can’t possibly be alive. That’s because two years ago she killed him.               And so begins The Heights, the latest page turner by bestselling author Louise Candlish whose previous book Our House…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 21, 2022
    Thriller
    Louise Candlish, Mystery-Thriller, The Heights
  • Spooky and Scary: Beneath the Stairs

    Spooky and Scary: Beneath the Stairs

    An abandoned octangular home hidden away from the main road, a mysterious door leading to a dark and haunted basement. What is beneath the stairs?

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 14, 2022
    Fiction, mystery, Thriller
    Beneath the Stairs, Fiction, Jennifer Fawcett, Mystery-Thriller
  • This Might Hurt

    This Might Hurt

                        While her sister Nat is successfully climbing the corporate ladder in Boston, Kit has embraced life on a remote Maine island where she enjoys the structure imposed by the leaders of Wisewood. For most, Wisewood is a temporary respite from the world—a place for self-improvement and a total immersion into life totally off…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 13, 2022
    Chicago, Fiction, mystery, Thriller
    Child abuse, Darling Rose Gold, Fiction, Maine, Mystery-Thriller, Sisters, Stephanie Wrobel, This Might Hurt
  • These Toxic Things

    These Toxic Things

              Michaela Lambert has a career I’ve never heard of and indeed doesn’t quite exist yet (but someone should start doing it) as a digital archaeologist for a new start-up run by her boyfriend. No make that ex-boyfriend. Well, like everything in Rachel Howzell Hall’s These Toxic Things, a wonderfully intricate mystery about the secrets that…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 12, 2022
    Fiction, mystery
    Fiction, mystery, Rachel Howzell Hall
  • Tipsy Scoop: New Book Takes Ice Cream to the Next Level

    Tipsy Scoop: New Book Takes Ice Cream to the Next Level

    It’s been beautiful these last few days and I’m already thinking of warm weather and ice cream.  But Melissa Tavss of Tipsy Scoop has taken it one step farther. Instead of just ice cream, she’s adding artisanal spirits and creating boozy sweet treats. Her ice creams such as Dark Chocolate Whiskey Salted Caramel Ice Cream,…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 12, 2022
    Cookbooks, Food, Ice Cream
    book, Cookbooks, Desserts, Food, Ice Cream, Recipes, Tipsy Scoop: Latest and Greatest Recipes
  • Book Riot: 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist Announced

    Book Riot: 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist Announced. https://bookriot.com/2022-international-booker-prize-longlist/

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 10, 2022
    Uncategorized
    #books
  • CrimeReads: Three L.A. True Crime Stories That Went From Reality to Books to Films

    CrimeReads: Three L.A. True Crime Stories That Went From Reality to Books to Films. https://crimereads.com/three-l-a-true-crime-stories-that-went-from-reality-to-books-to-films/

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 6, 2022
    #books, movies, True Crime
    #books, Los Angeles, movies, mystery, True Crime
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