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Your Back-to-School Game Plan
Set up a few systems now for an easy and organized routine when school starts
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Vote on a New Room to Update the Iconic CLUE Board Game
Choose a stylish new potential crime scene inspired by a Houzz designer photo for CLUE, the classic whodunit game
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World of Design: 16 Fun Homes That Encourage Play
By Houzz
What does a fun home look like? These 16 very different properties around the world are designed with enjoyment in mind
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Please Don't Stand Up In My Canoe ! - Jean Shaw
The Divine Circle of Ladies Rocking the Boat -- Dolores Riccio
She Who Must Be Obeyed - Carrie Breeze
She - H Rider Haggard
Riders of the Purple Sage --- Zane Grey
The Galloping Major - Ronald Ferguson
Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes - Kathleen West
The Farmer's Market Mishap -- Wanda E. Brunstetter
Quite a Year for Plums - Bailey White
A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
Paris, Edward Rutherfurd
Maigret in Monmartre - George Simenon
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
Homesick for Another World ----- Otessa Moshfegh
Love Sick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams - Paul Hemphill
I've Got Tears in My Ears from Lyin' in My Bed While I Cry over You - Paula Schwed
Three Weeks in Wet Sheets - H Smith
Bon and Vee - ROTFL! Who can follow that act? (This is not a book title.)
The Detective and the Toga: Complete Guide to Ancient Roman Mysteries
I Wonder Why Romans Wore Togas, Fiona MacDonald
Keeping Cool - Daniel L Wright
The Joy of Keeping Chickens -- Jennifer Lynn Megyesi
All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
Each Little Bird that Sings - Deborah Wiles
The Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowicz
Who Killed Cock Robin, Mother Goose
Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds - Agatha Christie
The Ravenmaster - Chris Skaife
Birds of a Feather, Jacqueline Winspear
On the Flocking Habits of Migratory Birds - Charles Trowbridge
A Feathered River Across the Sky ---- Joel Greenberg
Across the River and into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
Deep in the Forest - Brinton Turtle
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, Susan McBride
The Transatlantic Book Club -- Felicity Hayes-McCoy
The 3,000 Mile-Garden: An Exchange of Letters on Gardening, Food and the Good Life --- Leslie Land and Roger Phillips
(correspondence between a British and an American food and garden lovers. The letters became the basis for this book and a PBS TV series)
Digging for Victory - C H Middleton
(from his talks given on the BBC during WWII)
Crockett's Victory Garden - James Underwood Crockett
Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
The Secret /Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Hampton Court Maze and Garden Trail - Rosalin Barker
Shining - Stephen King
A Clash of Kings -- George R.R. Martin
Queens Of The Conquest - Alison Weir
The Princess and the Pea, Hans Christian Anderson
The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
Ebb And Flow - Heather Smith
And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhor
A Quiet Life in the Country -- T. E. Kinsey
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
(an excellent book!)
Sheri, I will have to hide in my room and read that one! :)
If Beale Street Could Talk......James Baldwin
We Never Talk About My Brother .... Peter Beagle
My Brother Michael, Mary Stewart
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel -- Oyinkan Braithwaite
A Family of Strangers -- Emilie Richards
Dark Family Secrets - Linda Coles
Relative Successes................. A. L. Barker
Eight Cousins, Louisa May Alcott
Siblings: Your Stuck with Each Other so Stick Together - James Crist
Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
My Brother's Husband -- Gengoroh Tagame
The Other Wife, Claire McGowan
The Other Side of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon (Ha! Bold returns)
The Small Hours - Graeme Thomson
Too Early, Too Late, Now What ? - David Hawk
I Was Right On Time -- Buck O'Neil
First Grave on the Right, Darynda Jones
The Green Reaper - Elizabeth Fournier
Emerald Blaze -- Ilona Andrews
The Galway Blazers - Edmund Mahony
Something Up a Sleeve - Richard Lockridge
Starched Caps, Collars and Cuffs - Jan O'Leary
Sue Barton, Student Nurse -- Helen Dore Boylston
Notes on Nursing: What it Is and What it is Not - Florence Nightingale
One Pair of Feet - Monica Dickens (her memoir of being a student nurse during WW2)
With Two Hands - Rebecca Davis
Head, Shoulders, Pee and Moles -- Paul Kleinman
(In case you're wondering the subtitle is: An Eyes-and-ears-and-mouth-and-nose Guide to Self-diagnosis)
How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature - Marc Hamer
Whack A Mole: A Jack Ceepak Mystery, Chris Grabenstein
How Can I Help a Hedgehog? - Helen Bostock
A Prickly Situation - Michelle Ann Hollstein
Sting Like a Bee -- Leigh Montville
Telling the Bees - Peggy Kesketh
The Beekeeper's Pupil - Sara George
(I was at High School with SG. Her father was the author of Dr Strangelove from which the film was made)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie King
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Death of a Garden Pest.......Ann Ripley
The Secret World of Slugs And Snails - David Gordon
The Secret Life of a Snowflake ... Kenneth Libbrecht
Melting Moments - Anna Goldsworthy
Helga Hanson's Hotflash Handbook - Janet Martin
The Homeschooling Handbook -- Lorilee Lippencott
My Best Teachers Were Saints ! - Susan Swetham
Because I Had a Teacher, Kobi Yamada
Good Morning Miss Dove - Frances Gray Patton
(about a grade school teacher)
Tales From a Village School.......Miss Read
One-Room School, Raymond Bial
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - Robert Fulghum
Beautifully Small and Clever - Sara Emslie
I Am All That ! - Sarah Price
I Am Perfectly Designed, Karamo Brown
The Mirror Lies - Gina Gennaro Butchin
The Broken Looking Glass - Cliff Hill
The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side - Agatha Christie
The Lady of Shallot - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lords and Ladies -- Terry Pratchett
(Double points?)
Miss Manners Guide To Excruciatingly Correct Behavior - Judith Martin
( Kathy, a twofer fer sure ! )
Emily Post's Etiquette, Lizzie Post
A Manual of Politeness - Florence Hartley
Mind Your P's And Q's - Genie Dailey
Mind Your Manners, Nicola Edwards
Please and Thank You - Amanda Li
Rules Of Civility - Amor Towles
Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
Vietnam: Things I'll Never Forget - James Dixon
I Remember Nothing - Nora Ephron
Hogan's Heroes: Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13! - Brenda Scott Royce
(Sergeant Schultz "I know nothing!")
A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich - Alice Childress
Club Sandwich -- Lisa Samson
Still Life With Breadcrumbs.....Anna Quindlen
The Bread of Life, Joyce S. Hilton
If Bread Could Rise to the Occasion -- Paige Shelton
The Yeast Connection - William G Crook
A Fine And Distant Itch - Jerusha Jones
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine -- Ann Hood
Where The Tour Buses Don't Go - Jerry Lekas
Lost Horizon, James Hilton
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America -- Bill Bryson
Navigation Techniques - Pete Hawkins
Compass Points - David Whyte
(playing all on my own for 24 hours?)
North By Northeast - Ray Ellis
West with the Night - Beryl Markham
East of West -- Jonathan Hickman
Stay Home - Don Moyer
(Kathy, that title sounds like my DH giving me driving directions...."go East 50 yards then proceed West for 322 yards " )
Arriving Home: A Gracious Southern Welcome, James T. Farmer
Make your Home Among Strangers -- Jennine Capó Crucet
(Bon - I wish Houzz had a selection of emoji buttons, something more than just a thumbs up, because I need a LOL for your husband's driving directions.)
Comfort of Srangers - Ian McEwan