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Nina Bawden (January 19, 1925 – August 22, 2012) was a British novelist, children’s book writer, and campaigner. Best known for the children’s novel Carrie’s War, she published twenty-three adult novels and twenty children’s books over some fifty years.

In all of her writing, she made “use of all of

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Lio

Oglaf

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Dylan Vargas had a crush on Brisa Franco since high school. Since she's his best friend's little sister, she has always been off limits. Now, a decade later, he meets her again for the first time.

DYLAN

Several birds chirped from a tall live oak tree nearby as a gentle breeze rustled its leaves.

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A Pulp Action & Adventure Anthology Series featuring YELLOW JACKET: MAN OF MYSTERY™ and a cast set in the Golden Age of Comics!ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! The premiere issue of Scott McCullar's self-published independent comic book series THRILL SEEKER COMICS ANTHOLOGY #1 is available to back on KICKSTARTE Read more of this blog post »

Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general? Post about it here!

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Please give a warm welcome to a new guest to my blog. I've invited Lorraine Mace along to tell us about her fabulous new book, The Guest, and the inspiration behind it.Lorraine, tell us about yourself first:I was born and raised in South East London, hen I lived and worked in South Africa, on the Is Read more of this blog post »

"As I repeated these words, my sobbing stopped as suddenly as it had begun...I closed my eyes. When I opened my eyes, she was gone." - Sr. Timothy Marie, O.C.D

Dear Reader,

Today is the first day of October, which means it’s the first day of INKtober—a month-long challenge to create daily ink drawings. I heard of it for the first time in 2018 when I’d started drawing every day, and I loved it immediately. It got me practicing inking techniques like hatching

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On the blog this week, I relate one of the happiest surprises to befall me in years, and I have Uncle Bob to thank for it. Chime in with your comments here.

And the Deals fairy has smiled on all four Windham Brides titles for the month of October. Details on my Deals page. (Clever of me, I know.) Thi

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Blurb

Twoyears ago, a solar pulse destroyed modern life. Bea Crenshaworganized her starving, suburban neighbors into a farming community.But now Bea’s gone, and her grandchildren must carry her legacyforward.

Inthe post-apocalyptic pressure cooker of Austin, Texas, 19-year-oldKeno

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It’s not even chilly yet, but the hot is gone from southern PA, so I’ve been drinking hot chocolate, a beverage I forget about entirely once spring gets here. But as soon as the temperature reaches that maybe-take-a-sweater point, I buy milk and dump chocolate powder into it. Bob would sneer at this

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The final joke of Bomb, the fourth episode of The Young Ones, never gets the laugh I think it deserves. It’s not a bomb, it’s an egg the plane has laid. I wonder if the noise of the baby plane has been mixed too loud and drowns out the laugh.

Anyway, here’s Rick’s exclamation when he firsts sees the

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 My stomach feels like it has swollen several inches and gurgles as it hardens around the food inside.  A wave of sluggishness consumes my flesh, my eyes flutter as they fight to stay awake but only succumb to the sloshy wave of fatigue.

 

Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I chose this short story as my first spooky October read, and I'm glad I did because it was a lot of creepy fun.

Marcus is enjoying a nice second date with a girl he really likes when he shares the unfortunate story about how his father kille Read more of this blog post »

Author Lis Wiehl joins Major Garrett for this edition of "The Takeout" to discuss her book, "A Spy In Plain Sight." The book chronicles a behind-the-scenes look at Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was discovered to be a Russian spy. Hanssen is also the subject of Major's new podcast series, “A Read more of this blog post »

DARWIN VOLTA À INGLATERRA

    Em 1836, o naturalista Charles Darwin chega a Falmouth, na Cornualha, no Sudoeste da Inglaterra,  depois de cinco anos de viagem a bordo do navio Beagle  em que coletou espécimens e fez observações que servem de base à sua Teoria da Evolução das Espécies atrav

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Hi multipotentialite friends!

In celebration of the new Puttyverse website, which we just launched last month, I’ve decided to run a contest—woo hoo!!

I’m giving away 3 lifetime memberships to the Puttyverse community. As long as the ‘verse exists, you will have free access.

This contest is open to eve

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Review of Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (London: Oneworld, 2023).

Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Avi Shlaim is an Israeli-British scholar who has authored six books on the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the role played in it by the Kingdom of Jorda

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NEW RELEASE BLOG TOUR

Book Title: Sting in the Tail: Carnival of Mysteries

Author: TA Moore

Publisher: Rogue Firebird Press

Cover Artist: Diane Theis

Release Date: October 4, 2023

Genre: MM Paranormal Romance

Tropes: Unfinished Business, First Times, Ticking Clock

Heat Rating: 4 flames

Length: 87

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10/1/2023 UPDATE: The Indigo Girls will also play about 45 minutes by car from Springfield, Massachusetts, in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 2. Tickets were almost sold out days after they went on sale. Amtrak goes from Northampton, Massachusetts to New Haven, Connecticut.

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As part of my slow slip into elderly lady land, I dragged Josh to the yarn store to purchase supplies for a blanket-like wrap. It had been a long time since I had entered a yarn store, and I realized I had no clue what I needed or how much. I showed the woman working […]

It’s October, and we’re reading manuscripts for our annual Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series. Recent chapbooks in this series include Kelly Rowe’s Child Bed Fever, Caroyn Oliver’s Night Ocean, Jon Conley’s House Hunters International, Cameron Gearen’s Sorry, Wept the Littered Riverbed, and–publishing soon

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Interview in: Tageszeitung junge Welt, 26.01.2013 / Inland / Seite 2 / Peter Wolter

Bewaffnete Drohnen, wie die Bundeswehr sie haben will, müssen international geächtet werden. Ein Gespräch mit Tobias Pflüger

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A lot of men out there seriously hate women. And "not all men" to be sure, but enough that it's starting to slide into it's own pandemic. And with feminine rage slowly growing it's starting to become a real battlefield.

Why isn't feminine rage man hating? Because women actually don't hate men. We hat

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Our Boston Red Sox

In the “Big Inning” baseball was created and has been religiously followed by the fans of Boston ever since.

Recently I attended a panel entitled Our Boston at the Boston Bookfest where Bob Oakes, sporting a fake beard and coiffed in a Red Sox cap, discussed the restorative force of

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 So, I knew about Earthworks Park in Kent, which incorporates the remnants of the original Mill Creek that once ran off East Hill and across the valley floor  And a few years back I discovered the standing stones of Tukwila (or possibly Renton), near the remnants of the old Black River (now a repari

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The Tangerine Drama Queen, while attacking the mental acuity of his prospective opponent in 2024, current prez Joe Biden, claimed that if Biden was to be re-elected, he’d be too much of a farting old drooler to prevent World War II.
 
As most of you are aware, nobody prevented World War II, which end Read more of this blog post »

Back to the Future: Trends to Watch For

We’ve made it to the last post on “

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alterwomanwrites

It is World Communion Sunday, a day on which churches from across the globe gather at the Table to celebrate the promise of oneness at the Table. Since I'm not preaching this morning, I share this sermon from 2011. May it prove to be a blessing. 
John 6:41-51


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“…I want to write this one as though it were my last book.” (Journal of a Novel, the East of Eden Letters, by John Steinbeck, quote from page 8, February 12.)

From January 29-November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck documented the writing of East of Eden in notebooks, entries addressed to “Pat” (Pascal C

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The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story ���Returns,��� which was published in a 2022 issue of The New Yorker.