Posts Tagged ‘12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years’
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In Sunlight and in Shadow
0December 28, 2012 by Reader's Connection
1946. Harry Copeland and Catherine Hale fall deeply in love. She’s an heiress and would-be actress and singer, and he’s a paratrooper back from World War II, trying to run…
Category Book Review | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, In Sunlight and in Shadow, Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
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An Interesting Reason to Go to College, and a Piece about a Pharmacist in Colorado, and One about Teaching, and . . .
0December 18, 2012 by Reader's Connection
I didn’t plan to include any Best of books on this year’s gift suggestion list. No one needs to be told that these are excellent stocking-stuffers. But I was standing…
Category Book Review | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, Dr. Don, Garret Keizer, Getting Schooled, Mark Edmundson, Peter Hessler, The Best American Essays, Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?
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Simple Gift Wrapping With a Twist
1December 16, 2012 by Reader's Connection
We’ve been putting together a gift suggestion list since early October, and now Susanne has a suggestion about how to wrap these presents. The Japanese art of origami involves the…
Category Booklist | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, Furoshiki, Gift Wrapping
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This Blessed Plot
0December 14, 2012 by Reader's Connection
The 2012 gift suggestion list had only one history title on it so far, about the battle of Tippecanoe. I’m grateful to Deanna Long of the East Washington branch for…
Category Book Review, Gift Suggestions, Newsletter | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, Foundation: The History of England From Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors, Peter Ackroyd
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No Gift Suggestion List Is Complete Without Children’s Books . . . and Coffee Table Books
0December 7, 2012 by Reader's Connection
A few teen titles (What’s Left of Me, and Ashfall & Ashen Winter) have shown up so far on my 2012 gift suggestion list, but no books for…
Category Booklist, Gift Suggestions | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, Jennifer B. Pickens, O. Winston Link: Life along the Line: A Photographic Portrait of America's Last Great Steam Railroad, Pets at the White House: 50 Years of Presidents and Their Pets, Simon Winchester, Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley's Curious Collection, Tony Reevy


