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Get Through the Winter With an Après-Ski Attitude
By Becky Harris
Try these 10 easy ways to bring the pleasures of a ski vacation home
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Hard Winter? 9 Ways to Battle Cabin Fever
By Becky Harris
We know a lot of you are trapped where it just won’t stop snowing. Here are some ways to survive
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To-Dos: Your February Home Checklist
Keep your home fresh and organized this month while you plan for warmer days ahead
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Dog Treats from the Baking Mold - Lydia Gross
A Dog's Life - Peter Mayle
Can Somebody Please Scratch My Back ? - Jory John
It Begins with Please and Doesn't End with Thank You, Edwin P. Baldry
Manners Begin at Breakfast - Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece
Prepare my Crown: A Princesses Guide to Life - Paris R Polite
Birth of the Chess Queen : A History - Marilyn Yalom
Your Move - Jonathan Kay
One Wrong Turn..........Deanna Lynn Sletten
No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre
There Must Be Some Mistake -- Frederick Barthelme
The Apology - Eve Enslor
Love Story - Erich Segal
Love means never having to say you're sorry (a load of codswallop if you ask me)
Men Are Like Waffles ----Women Are Like Spaghetti - Bill and Pam Farrel
Whatever that could possibly mean !
(astrokath, notice that the codswallop was penned by a man :0)
Everything on a Waffle .... Polly Horvath
Waffles Are Just Pancakes with Abs, Chiz Rano
Donkey on a Waffle - Caz Campbell
Do You Ever Wonder What Happens In The Barnyard At Night ? - Christina Taber
And Sometimes I Wonder About You -- Walter Mosley
I Yam What I Yam ! - W.C. Hall
Sweet Potato Pie -- Eugenia Collier
(So you knew my book title was directed at you, huh Yoyobon? ☺☺☺)
The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men: Every Man I Love is Either Married, Gay or Dead - Jill Conner Browne
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Well, somebody had to post this.
The Channel Islands at War: A Dark History - Robert Bard
( a more accurate antidote to the schmaltz of the Guernsey L & PPS book)
The Winds of War - Herman Wouk
The Winds Of Change - Martha Grimes
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Toad of Toad Hall - A A Milne
(the play of the book)
Leaving the Hall Light On -- Madeline Sharples
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark - Alvin Schwartz
Mysterious Kentucky, Vol. II; The Dark and Bloody Ground, Barton M. Nunnelly
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
Marry, Kiss, Kill - Anne Flett-Giordano
Reader, I Married Him -- Tracy Chevalier
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katrina Bivald
Reader, Come Home, Maryanne Wolfe
The Wolf's Story: What Really Happened to Little Red Riding Hood - Toby Forward
Fast Forward, Play, and Rewind -- Michael Oberman
Beach Music - Pat Conroy
Beach Read -- Emily Henry
The Summer Book ... Tove Jansson
A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight - Henry Williamson
Moonlight Storms And Sunshine - M. Blackstone
By the Light of a Thousand Stars -- Jamie La Turner
The Lighthouse, P. D. James
All the Light We Cannot See -- Anthony Doerr
Kingdom of the Blind - Louise Penny
Blindness - José Saramago
The One-Eyed Man - Lauren Stinton
Odyssey - Omero
2001, A Space Odyssey -- Arthur C. Clarke
The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
The Mysteries of the Universe, Will Gater
News of the World - Paulette Jiles
The Shipping News- Annie Proulx
The Quality of Estuary and Coastal Waters - E J Perkins
On the Beach - Nevil Shute
The Nantucket Inn - Pam Kelley
Jamaica Inn -- Daphne du Maurier
Seabreeze Inn - Jan Moran
The Innkeeper's Song ... Peter Beagle
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Alan Burgess
The Mystery at Lilac Inn - Carolyn Keene
Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner
The Hotel New Hampshire -- John Irving
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
Street Corner Kid - D Holford
Just Hanging Out - Khaya Klanat
The Magic Clothesline -- Scott Hume
Now You See Them, Elly Griffiths
Eyes Wide Open - Mariana Caplan
This Book is Shocking!: Cover Your Eyes When You Read It
by Dom Sileo
Seven Thousand Ways to Listen -- Mark Nepo
Listen, Slowly ... Thanhha Lai
Beat the Drums Slowly, Adrian Goldsworthy
Beat This ! : The Eggbeater Chronicle - Don Thornton
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Never Ending Winter --- Harri Romney
Wait Until Spring - John Fante
June in her Spring - Colin MacInnes
If Onions Could Spring Leeks -- Paige Shelton
If Winter Comes, Joyce S. Anderson
Knight of Onions and Knight of Garlic - Hayyim Nahman Bialik
The Nonexistent Knitgh and The Cloven Viscount - Italo Calvino
Clovenhoof: The Isolation Chronicles - Heide Goody
( must be a very recent title)
The Secret History of Lucifer, Lynn Picknett
The Screwtape Letters - C S Lewis
(correspondence between a senior devil and his young nephew)
The Devil's Punchbowl -- Greg Iles
(It's always handy to know someone who has a punchbowl.)
Punchbowl: The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Doug Carlson
Spike It - Chris Niles
( it's always handy to know someone who brings along a pint of vodka ! )
Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
The Sewing Bible - Wendy Gardiner
Sewing Happiness, Sanae Ishida
Whatever Floats Your Boat - Donna Fareed
The Tide In The Attic - Aleid Van Rhijn
The Secret in the Old Attic, Carolyn Keene
Confederates in the Attic -- Tony Horwitz
(interesting book)
Under the Roof - Eunice Crabtree
The Secrets We Keep - Kate Hewitt
What Keeps You Up at Night, Pete Wilson
My Soul to Keep -- T. Davis Bunn
Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf
Dark Night of the Soul - St John of the Cross
Sunny Side Up - Jennifer Holm
And the Beat Goes On - Sonny Bono
Drums Along the Mohawk, Kenneth Roberts
Rebel Drums - Nancy Faulkner
Drums of Autumn - Diana Gabaldon
The Little Drummer Girl, John LeCarre
THE SNARE OF THE HUNTER - BY HELEN MACINNES
The Man Trap - Richard Hughes
(good one Skibby)
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost - Michael Walsh
because...
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus - John Gray
Love Among the Stars, Hannah Walker
A Thorn Among the Lilies -- Michael Hiebert
The Rose Without a Thorn - Jean Plaidy
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain - Jeffrey Moore
I Wish I Had A Red Dress - Pearl Cleage
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
The Woman in the Green Dress -- Tea Cooper
The Little Black Dress - Tracy Martin
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home - Rhoda Janzen
How to Dress an Egg: Surprising and Simple Ways to Cook Dinner - Ned Baldwin & Peter Kaminsky
Last One in Is a Rotten Egg, Leonard Kessler
Hydrogen Sulphide Safety and First Aid - Robin Hutchinson
The
Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the
History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements - Sam Kean
Salt - Mark Kurlansky
Vinegar Girl -- Anne Tyler
Mustard - Jacob Palmar
Ketchup is My Favorite Vegetable - Liane Kupferberg Carter
Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable, Barbara D'Amato
I'll Take Spaghetti, But Hold the Mayo! -- Greg Henderson
Bad Taste - Jim Barrett
The Yucky Monster........Arthur Roth
The Gallery of Regrettable Food -- James Lileks
Hot Sour Salty Sweet - Jeffrey Alford
Pick A Lane - Mark Tarchetti
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
The Invention of Medicine -- Robin Lane Fox
Cherokee Medicine Man, Robert J. Conley
Smoke Signals for Spiritual Healing - Janine Palmer
Can it, Bottle It, Smoke It -- Karen Solomon
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
The Mirror, Marlis Millhiser