Things I liked about this book:
Kimberlee Auerbach is hilarious. She won’t admit it, though. Oh, sure, she’ll tell you about stalking a boyfriend’s ex, about an ill-fated high school campaign slogan, about constant reminders that she hates her job and is still not married, and, finally, about the tarot card reader she called on to figure it all out. She’ll freely tell yo
Wayne Gisslen’s Professional Baking is my new baking Bible. If you need to bake anything, it will be in this one massive textbook. Learn how to make chocolate truffles, blown sugar decorations, Amish pretzels, brioches, éclairs, or petits fours all with
When I first picked up this book I figured that it would be all about the cat. Of course, much of it was, but there is a lot more to this book. The author, Vicki Myron, also writes about her own life, with its trials and tribulations, ups and downs. In so doing, she paints a picture of life in a small midwestern town.
Bauby, using only his reflections and left eyelid, has written a languorous and wistful memoir.
As a Prague native, I like looking at books about Prague, especially, guidebooks. I am always curious to see what recommendations are made to visitors coming to my home town. Recently, I have picked up a DK Eyewitness travel guide, Top 10 Prague. I am really impressed by it. It truly highlights the very best that Prague has to offer.
This debut novel takes a slightly different look at plantation life at the turn of the 19th Century. At its onset, Lavinia, a seven-year-old orphaned Irish indentured servant, is taken to live with black slaves in the Kitchen House of a Virginia tobacco plantation.
In A Garden In Paris, Mary Kathleen Davis was once a vibrant young woman with hopes and dreams for a beautiful future. Now, 26 years later, she is a widow, emotionally separated from her only daughter Elizabeth, and trying desperately to find some sense of who she is and where she’s going. Her thoughts turn to a time in Paris many years ago and a man who loved her desperately. She too had been in love yet walked away to marry the security she felt she needed in her life. If only
In Mystic Warriors, the third of the Mystic Indian series, the sacred white buffalo robe has been stolen from the Lakota people. Buffalo Dreamer, a holy woman, knows that much misery will befall them from such a loss, but even she wasn’t prepared for what was to come.
