tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60552641908378993502024-02-17T11:51:48.985-08:00Books DirectBooks for the Whole Family - brought to you by Lynda DicksonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3293125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6055264190837899350.post-37348456536482533542020-07-05T00:00:00.000-07:002020-07-05T00:00:31.060-07:00Quote of the Week by Louis L’Amour<br />
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Lynda Dickson - Books Directhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12068350276588179501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6055264190837899350.post-80824624018611751072020-06-28T00:00:00.000-07:002020-06-28T00:46:08.732-07:00Quote of the Week by Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
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Lynda Dickson - Books Directhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12068350276588179501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6055264190837899350.post-77444082553237742832020-06-21T00:00:00.000-07:002020-06-21T00:00:32.549-07:00Quote of the Week by Malcolm X<br />
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Lynda Dickson - Books Directhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12068350276588179501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6055264190837899350.post-59461977144653112512020-06-20T01:00:00.000-07:002020-06-27T20:33:51.509-07:00"Out of My League" by Sarah Sutton<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://xpressobooktours.com/2020/05/26/blitz-sign-up-out-of-my-league-by-sarah-sutton/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">book blitz</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and giveaway for <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk43562096"></a><a href="https://amzn.to/2NhLmmE" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk43562096;"><i>Out of My League</i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk43562096;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk43562096;"></span> by Sarah Sutton is hosted by </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="http://xpressobooktours.com/services/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Xpresso Book Tours</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For another book by this author, please check out my <a href="https://booksdirectonline.blogspot.com/2020/01/what-are-friends-for-by-sarah-sutton.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2QZmcw6" target="_blank">What Are Friends For?</a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sophia Wallace is convinced her life is over when her high school cuts the journalism program. Without the elective, she loses her chance to intern with the biggest newspaper company in the county, and why? All because the baseball team needs more funding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To make matters worse, her boyfriend publicly dumps her at a party, which is mortifying. But the icing on the cake is when the captain of the baseball team and the most popular guy at Bayview High, Walsh Hunter, decides to be chivalrous. He jumps in, throws his arm around Sophia, and declares his undying love for her. In front of everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Suddenly, Sophia is thrown into a world of fake relationships and undercover journalism, and she realizes she’s way, way out of her league.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Good thing she’s got the team captain to teach her how to play.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But faced with choosing between saving her journalism class or her newfound feelings for Walsh, will she strike out or hit a home run?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Staring at his face, I noticed a faint, silvery scar underneath his right eye, as small as my thumbnail. I reached out with my free hand, tracing my fingertip along his skin. A featherlight touch, barely there. “What happened here?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His gaze never left mine. “Baseball cleat. Fourth grade. One of my teammates threw it at me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Some little league kid threw their <i>shoe</i> at you? <i>Why</i>?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I told him that he couldn’t bat very well.” Walsh shrugged. “He couldn’t take the truth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I snorted. “You were <i>that </i>kid? The dream crusher?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Well, someone had to be.” His small smile was unapologetic. “Ask me who the kid was.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I looked at him for a moment before tipping my head. “No way. Scott?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Who else would be that aggressive as a fourth-grader?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dina pulled at my arm as I laughed, shaking my head at the thought of miniature Scott throwing a shoe at small Walsh. I stepped out from the tangle of leashes at our feet, glancing down. “Oh, your poor rich-boy shoes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“What?” Walsh looked at his feet. “<i>Oh</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brown smeared the side of his expensive-looking shoe, probably coating along the bottom. “With dogs around, you should probably watch where you’re walking.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Walsh let go of my hand to switch the leash and proceeded to try and smear the offensive substance onto the grass. “Now you tell me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Should we clean the poop off your shoe together? Is that romantic?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His response was dry. “Ha-ha.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“What? Shouldn’t we get a photo and caption it, ‘<i>This might’ve been an accident, but falling in love wasn’t’</i>?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Watch it, or I’ll wipe it on your ankle.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I jerked back just in case he tried it, nearly tripping over Dina’s wealth of leash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The entire book tugged at my heartstrings.” ~ <i>Lynelle Barrett, author of Kiss and Consume</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Get ready to swoon.” ~ <i>Goodreads Reviewer</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Another home-run from up and coming YA author Sarah Sutton!” ~ <i>Carrie Baker, author of Gull's Cry Cottage</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It felt like I was back in high school experiencing these things first hand.” ~ <i>Tathy's Cozy Nook, Goodreads</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“A story that keeps you hooked!” ~ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">By </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2VIacSG" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lynda Dickson</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sophia is about to enter her senior year of high school and can finally
apply for the internship with the local newspaper. But, when her school journalism
course is shut down, she is no longer eligible to apply. She discovers that the
funding is being diverted into the school’s baseball program and focuses her
anger and frustration on Walsh Hunter, the oh-so-perfect captain of the
baseball team. She decides to try to persuade the school board to change their
minds with a killer article – an exposé on the baseball team. Sophia is
publicly humiliated when her boyfriend breaks up with her at Walsh’s
end-of-year party and, when Walsh comes to her rescue, they somehow end up
fake-dating. Sophia’s reasoning is that the situation will be helpful to her to
write her article. But what could Walsh be after?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sophia has an endearing, overly-dramatic way of telling her story. The
characters around her are interesting: her best friend Edith is a breath of
fresh air, ex-boyfriend Scott is a jerk, and Walsh is a super-sweet hero. I
felt sorry for Sophia because of her parents’ self-centered and uncaring
behavior and was glad they redeem themselves in the end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This funny (yet, at times, sad) young adult romance hits a home run for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Warnings: underage drinking, alcohol abuse, marital difficulties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Some of My Favorite
Lines<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I was losing heartbeats, misplacing them in the fog in my mind.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“The moment rapidly cracked apart like glass, and I inhaled the broken
shards in, cutting my lungs.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“This was the kind of kiss people wrote about in books - the toe-curling,
heart fluttering kiss I’d always dreamt about.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sarah Sutton is a YA Romance author, bringing you stories about teenagers falling in love (sometimes with magic)</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "segoe ui emoji" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">✨</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">She spends her days dreaming up ideas with her two adorable puppies by her side being cheerleaders (and mega distractions).</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">by Kathleen M. Jacobs<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Description<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When Sophie's family moves from New York City to West Virginia, she not only has to leave her friends and the city and library she loves so much, but she has to figure out what will happen when she discovers that there is no library in her new town. But when she discovers something called a bookmobile and other new treasures, all is right with the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Excerpt<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chapter 1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What did you say?” Sophie Hunter asked as her mother filled and taped the last box of books from Sophie’s room. She labeled it <i>SH: BOOKS</i> with a hunter green marker, Sophie’s favorite color. Sophie stopped in her tracks, frozen as if she had just been hypnotized; she refused to believe not only what her mother had said, but that it had any truth to it at all. It reminded her of the time her best friend, Pepper (who called Sophie “Salt” all the time), told her that her new best friend was a boy. A boy?! Sophie couldn’t believe what Pepper had said, any more than she could believe what she <i>thought</i> she had just heard her mother say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And so, Sophie asked again, “<i>What</i> did you say?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Now, Sophie,” her mother said, “there really is no need to be so alarmed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>What?</i> No need to be alarmed? Are you kidding me? I mean, really Mom! I need to make sure that what I think I heard was actually what you said.” Sophie was jerked back in motion as if someone had switched her lever to the on position. She quickly sat down on the wooden floor after falling back against the wall: the one with the painted mural of shelf after shelf of books, which her mother had painted for her the year before, on her ninth birthday. Sophie wished she could peel off the mural and take it with her, but knew that was impossible. Her mother had promised her that she would paint it again, on a wall in her bedroom of the new house, in the new town where they were moving, though. Knowing that made Sophie a bit more accepting of this “new adventure,” as her parents called it. Yet with this new revelation, Sophie felt as if she might faint once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I wanted to tell you earlier,” her mother said, “but I knew you would be upset, and there really is no need to be alarmed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There it was again: that word, <i>alarmed</i>. The more Sophie’s mother let it slip from her tongue, the more alarmed Sophie became.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“If there is no need, as you say, to be alarmed, then why have you used the word twice already?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Sophie, I believe you are a bit more dramatic than is necessary,” her mother replied, dodging the question. Sophie’s pure white cat, Snowball, tilted her head, seemingly confused, as she and Sophie looked at each other. Sophie tilted her head as well, in complete agreement with Snowball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Well,” Sophie said, “Snowball and I would both have to disagree. As a matter of fact, we’re both more than just a little concerned that you are not alarmed <i>enough</i>.” Suddenly, as if on cue, Snowball and Sophie straightened their gazes and nodded in complete agreement. She and Snowball had always had this affect on one another. Sophie picked up Snowball and hugged her close to her heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sophie felt that because her mother kept saying there was no need to be alarmed that there was, in fact, every reason to be alarmed. And as Sophie’s mother repeatedly looked around her room to make sure that she had packed everything, Sophie was certain that her mother was equally alarmed, even as she tried to appear otherwise. The only things that remained in Sophie’s room that hadn’t been packed away in cardboard boxes were Sophie, her mother, Snowball, and the book that Sophie had just started reading that morning, Missing May. She clutched the novel close to her heart as she held Snowball, afraid that if she released her hold on either that they too would end up in a taped box on their way to their new home, in a place where everything is completely different from what she’d always known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Sophie & the Bookmobile</i> was fun to read! Sophie has to be brave to live without friends or a library when she moves to a small town in West Virginia. But she finds all the things she loves in the Bookmobile! I love that Sophie knows that books are awesome and that she loves West Virginia as much as I do.” ~ <i>Julia, age 10</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I love when my daughter, Julia, can recognize herself in the pages of books, and Jacobs is able to capture both the trials and splendors of childhood perfectly. Plus, any book that confirms that reading is both essential and the best thing ever is the kind of book I want in my daughter's hands!” ~ <i>Anna, Julia's Mom</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I grew up LOVING the bookmobile in our town. Where we live now, we don't have one, so I was excited to introduce my kids to this book that talks about mobile libraries.” ~ <i>Leslie Shogren</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“As I read <i>Sophie & the Bookmobile</i> I was reminded of my love of books that began at a young age, which has continued on to this day. In addition to the wonders of books (and bookmobiles), Sophie’s story is a great reminder that change can be good, despite our fears or thoughts that say otherwise.” ~ Ella Dillon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This is a wonderful story for avid young readers for whom books are perhaps their closest companions.” ~ <i>roadreads</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ten-year-old Sophie and her family move from the Upper East Side of Manhattan to a town called Victor, West Virginia. Sophie is excited to be moving to the country – until she finds out that there is no library in Victor. But her mother promises her that there is something even better. What can it be? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The story itself is a bit anti-climactic as, of course, the answer is provided in the book’s title and the author’s note to the reader at the beginning of the book. This story is based on the author’s own discovery of the magic of the bookmobile and is complemented by the cute illustrations by Ashley Teets. Unfortunately, not all chapters have a picture, and there isn’t even one of the bookmobile. There are a few editing errors, which is always disappointing in a children’s book. Overall, however, this book successfully conveys both Sophie’s and the author’s love of books and is suitable for budding young book lovers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kathleen M. Jacobs is the author of the critically-acclaimed YA-novels, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2MvqFTY" target="_blank">Honeysuckle Holiday</a></i> and <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2XxJyw8" target="_blank">Betsy Blossom Brown</a></i>. Her other works include <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3dwUXSp" target="_blank">Marble Town</a></i>, a book for the MG-reader. Her first children’s book, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/36X0f7d" target="_blank">Please Close It!</a></i> has enjoyed numerous awards, and her chapbooks <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3gSPQOj" target="_blank">The Puppeteer of Objects: A Lyrical Poem</a></i> and <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2U7xeAz" target="_blank">Collected Curiosities: Poems, Essays & Opinions</a></i> offer insights into human behavior and understanding. She is a former teacher of English and Creative Writing and holds a M. A. in Humanistic Studies. She was the 2017 New River Gorge Writer-in-Residence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lynda Dickson - Books Directhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12068350276588179501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6055264190837899350.post-70458836067012227192020-06-02T00:00:00.000-07:002020-06-04T04:08:45.966-07:00"War of the Institutes" by Paul James<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Modest Proposal Institute, which began in 2018 with such high hopes of saving the future progress of mankind, has broken into rival factions by 2030. Book 4, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/300ApxA" target="_blank">War of the Institutes</a></i>, brings to an end this dystopian young adult, near-future sci fi, history of Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Alexis and his pioneers have set up home on the moon and Mars, with an Earth 2.0 to come. Shane and his ocean pioneers are establishing mankind's presence on the seabed. Nadia and Tomas reign supreme in Western Europe and would like to extend their dominion across all the old Western lands. A splinter group, led by Jamie, wishes to live free in North America. All would be well if only they would be happy with what they have - but not everyone can and on Earth mankind returns to its pre-industrial state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Alexis frowned. He wished, and not for the first time, that he’d never started this history and yet it had to be told. To be honest, all he really wanted was his view of events told in his own voice. Looking back, he could see so many times where he failed and people would wonder why? They would ask why the same man who, in his early days, had pushed the Space Institute forward so forcefully, but then had been so unsure of himself when the Institute began to fracture. And they’d be right to ask. He could hardly understand it either. Until 2040, he’d been striding forward into space. After 2040 he’d been out of his depth on Earth. People there made no sense to him. Unfortunately, that’s the time he’d reached in this history, and he felt almost afraid to go on. He shrugged. <i>Best to get it over with</i>, he thought, and began recording.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was the darkest time of the Institute’s history. The time when the three branches drifted farther and farther apart in growing mistrust and then violence. These events had happened only a few years ago and yet were almost forgotten by most. Or here in space they were, anyhow. He couldn’t speak much about those left on Earth because he never visited now, but he suspected their everyday thoughts were consumed by just finding enough food to keep living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It wasn’t a dark time for everyone. Here in space, life went on as if nothing had changed. It was always a reflection of the Earth of 2018 here, only better. Before the moon and Martian cities were even half finished, exploratory missions had gone out in search of asteroids, other moons, and anything in the solar system that looked like it could be colonized. The drive was relentless. Even Alexis was staggered at the energy his pioneers showed in every possible new territory. Now he could see how the ancestors of the Western world could have arrived in a wilderness hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of their civilization and built a city almost overnight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He also now saw why the Founders had not focused on recruiting men with any one particular attribute—not IQ or physical strength or any other single quality. The Institute needed a range of qualities. Once those who explored had put roots into a new territory, pioneers needed to arrive and build. Nothing stopped the pioneers—not heat, cold, or exhaustion. They threw themselves into building each new settlement like there was no tomorrow. The contrast to the people he’d tried to help on Earth was staggering. Back on Earth people were starving, freezing, and yet could barely organize a hunt. Any one of the Institute’s men was worth ten of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The story reaffirms that no matter how technologically advanced or intelligent we humans are, our basic human nature doesn't change, or rather, the more things change, the more they stay the same.” ~ <i>MJC</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“You will enjoy this book more - as you will know the history of the main characters and the plot if you read books 1-3 of the Modest Proposal Institute. Be advised that the characters’ life spans last for hundreds of years. Tomas and Nadia rule Europe, Alexis controls Outer Space, Shane the Oceans, Jamie - Jamestown, North America, and Asia and the rest of the world had more localized control. What happens when one leader wants to control the Earth?” ~ <i>Terry Biehl</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Author Skye Horn stops by today to share an excerpt from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk41221430"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk41222718;"></span></a><a href="https://amzn.to/2TxYfMW" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk41221430;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk41222718;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wings of Fate</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk41221430;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk41222718;"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk41221430;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk41222718;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, the first book in her <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3hqVuaS" target="_blank">Kingdoms of Faerie</a></i> series. </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Available for pre-order: <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2WZhqBD" target="_blank">Wings of Deception</a></i> (releases 30 June).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Death chose her for her blood; Fate chose her for her heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a world without magic, Thea is ordinary, but everything changes when she discovers she is a Lost Princess from a kingdom in Faerie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now, a land Thea never knew existed expects her to become queen - but only if she can stop her villainous father who sits on her throne from releasing the Goddess of Death first. As darkness spreads across the Kingdoms of Faerie, Thea must prepare for the battle ahead by mastering the magic that runs through her veins with the help of the Fae who brought her home - a guardian sworn to protect her with his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With proper training, Thea might able to stop her father, but saving her kingdom may cost her heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Standing drenched in the rain of a foreign country after over twenty hours of travel definitely made Thea Gilbert’s list of top-ten-worst days. She admitted it probably didn’t rank as high as her parents’ dying in a car accident or finding out she was adopted, but it definitely outranked breaking up with her high school sweetheart, Marcus, after his heartfelt proposal. Apparently, being eighteen and an orphan meant she needed a husband to take care of her. That was one reason she’d left Colorado and fled to Ireland, despite the guilty voice in her head patronizing her and slating her decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Are you here to see the Faeries too?” a little boy asked from beside her, startling Thea out of her thoughts. He stared at the unextraordinary green hillside with eager eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sure, Ireland was beautiful, but once she’d seen one rolling green plain, hadn’t she seen them all? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thea glanced at the boy briefly. He stood with his hands tucked into his red hoodie next to an elderly woman who wore a matching red raincoat. “Granny says they only come out at dusk.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Don’t bother the poor girl,” his grandmother scolded, tugging the little boy away from the hill. “Let’s get inside before you catch your death.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before Thea could formulate a response they pulled their hoods tight over their heads and hurried down the path to the village, leaving her alone in the rain. She knew this weather was normal in these parts, but by the ominous clouds forming over</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "cambria math" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">‐</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> head and the shortage of people willing to stand outside, she wondered if this would sooner grow from a sprinkle into a storm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Regardless, she forced her feet toward the Hill of Knockainey, which was the entire reason she</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">’</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">d chosen Ireland as her destination to begin with. According to her adoption file, this was where her biological parents had abandoned her, wrapped in a purple silk blanket with no hint of who they were. She’d let herself sink into an aching numbness since her parents’ deaths, but it never extinguished the loneliness that constantly plagued her. It resurfaced in the form of a stomachache, twisting her insides until she felt as if she might puke, but she swallowed back the bile, inhaling sharply. Just because she was now an orphan didn’t mean she needed to fall apart at the seams. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like the little boy who wished to see the Faeries, Thea wished she could see what her biological parents had thought when they left her in this cold, rainy country fifteen years ago. She was grateful for the loving and supportive parents who’d raised her. They’d put her through private school and intended to send her to art school in the fall, but the car accident had changed everything. Thea hadn’t touched her sketchpad since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I liked the author's take on Faerie and the creatures that make up its citizenry. There’s action, humor, and romance. I highly recommend this book!” ~ <i>Brett Humphrey Author</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This is a tale, richly woven and brilliantly told. Celtic mythology lovers, this fantasy story is just the thing you will want to read!” ~ <i>Ashley Zerwas</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Skye does an amazing job of painting a vivid world, lifelike characters, and a unique and thrilling tale! […] I recommend this book and am so excited that the author is already working on the next books in the series!!!” ~ <i>SvenAdorbs</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“What a great first book in the series. Intriguing fantasy world with plenty of opportunity for further world building in future books. The danger to the main characters and the four kingdoms helped turn the last half of the book into an unputdownable read. I also liked the inclusion of a bunch of mythical creatures throughout the story! I’m interested in seeing what happens next.” ~ <i>Matt</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I really enjoyed the adventure that unfolded in the <i>Wings of Fate</i> book. I felt drawn into the storyline and felt the characters pulled me into each page offering me the chance to watch them grow and overcome numerous obstacles along the way. I would recommend this book to anyone whether they like science fiction or fantasy. Actually, I would recommend them to readers of any genre.” ~ <i>Ken Keiscome</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Skye Horn lives in the San Bernardino Mountains with her husband and two fur-babies. She enjoys the beautiful and quiet mountain life, morning writing sessions with a cup of coffee on her home's large deck, and dancing in her living room to help her creative juices flow, while her dogs look at her like she's a madwoman. She hopes to inspire a new generation of young writers to always follow their dreams by telling the stories that constantly distract them from reality. All she really wants is to keep creating worlds of myth and magic to escape to for the rest of her life.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here is a nest egg of memories and anecdotes teased from a life uplifted by an appreciation of the natural world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Memories of childhood in rural England, raising a family in Orkney and Lincolnshire, and retirement in Northern Scotland are threaded together into a broad tapestry of the natural year. These experiences meet with a view of Earth’s uncertain future to illustrate the necessity for respect of all lifeforms and shares a passion for the wellbeing of this planet with all generations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The ninth day of January and it is frosty. Smells carry well. Hours earlier, we caught a whiff of cleaning-out-the-byre when we were coming down the hill and, a few moments ago, I went outside to empty the household rubbish and caught the same scent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">January in Caithness is not the same as January in Orkney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It isn't the same as January in Lincolnshire. January in Caithness is completely unpredictable. A couple of years ago, when the year changed, I noticed the plants in the window boxes were suffering from windburn and the pond at Newtonhill Croft was very full due to melting snow and rain. And yet, last year, daisies were flowering, and we had gnats indoors. This week we have had some strange winds which sometimes became aggressive and then suddenly dropped, waved the flag of peace, and left behind an absolute stillness. Last year, same week, one of our number was nervous about walking home from work due to the threat of falling roof tiles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Child of the Earth</i> shares memories from her childhood, raising a family, and retirement. Stories of Christmas, Jack Frost, feathered friends, flowers, and more of nature fill the pages. Tidbits of history and poetry along with reflections about the world and its resources abound, with beautiful full color photos along the way.” ~ <i>Cheryl Malandrinos on Goodreads</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2zSblxM" target="_blank">Child of the Earth</a></span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is a memoir consisting
of Susan Crow’s month-by-month essays and musings on nature and the environment,
interwoven with previously published online articles, photographs, drawings,
excerpts from poems (both traditional and original) and songs, extracts from
her diaries, some fictional stories, and examples of life on the land as seen
through the eyes of a nineteenth century farmer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this book I want to share my amazement at the detail in all forms of life.” And
that she does. She treats us to the sights, sounds, and smells of the world
around her. Recurring themes include nature, the seasons, gardening, and conservation.
There is a particular focus on the beauty and abundance of birdlife and flowers
in the places where she has lived, including myths and legends associated with particular
plants and animals and the history of different plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flowers, and birds so often mentioned. It would have been helpful if the
photographs had captions, were placed where they appear in the text, and were
in the correct orientation (problem in the Kindle version). I was disappointed
that the author didn’t include a photo of “an oil painting of a wild rose, done
by my mother many years ago, is an exquisite representation of the flower.” In
addition, while the author includes plenty of excerpts from poems, she also
mentions a lot of poems and songs without including the verses referenced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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scoring and to roll up their sleeves and take chances. Their ultimate aim needs
to be to save this planet for our children, their children and their children's
children. And to save it in all its glory.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pedalled through it all, we were marbled with mud.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Susan Crow grew up in the Isle of Axholme, which inspired the </span><a href="https://www.crowvus.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">Crowvus</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> best-seller, </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.crowvus.com/product-page/child-of-the-isle" target="_blank">Child of the Isle</a></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. She has a deep love of nature which is apparent in all her writing from the poems she has had published in various anthologies, to her 2020 release, </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2zSblxM" target="_blank">Child of the Earth</a></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Susan released <i><a href="https://www.crowvus.com/product-page/rosie-jane-and-the-swodgerump" target="_blank">Rosie Jane and the Swodgerump</a></i> as part of the John O’Groats Book Festival. This story was written and inspired by raising her six children in Orkney. After moving to England for a while, Susan finally returned to North Scotland in 2009, and continues to write her monthly blogs, <a href="https://susancrowauthor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">What’s It Like Up There?</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Her latest book, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2zSblxM" target="_blank">Child of the Earth</a></i>, is a nature companion, drawn from her own experiences throughout her life. It provides a colourful telling of Susan’s encounters with nature, told with a style which makes it accessible to all readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lynda Dickson - Books Directhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12068350276588179501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6055264190837899350.post-35745884436934736202020-05-17T00:00:00.000-07:002020-05-17T00:00:13.866-07:00Quote of the Week by Eleanor Roosevelt<br />
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tour stops here today for my review and an excerpt. Please be sure to visit the
other <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/rabtbooktoursandpr.com/spring-2020-tours/lm-preston-1" target="_blank">tour stops</a> as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3fPOaEG" target="_blank">Homeschooling and Working While Shaping Amazing Learners</a></span></i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is a nuts to bolts
guide for working parents who want to groom exceptional learners through the
flexibility of homeschooling. Learn to juggle working and homeschooling your
kids while maintaining your sanity. Also, use aspects of homeschooling for
after-schooling when traditional school isn’t working. Single parents are given
options for executing homeschooling or after schooling methods that work in
practical bits for the busy parent. Learn how to take your child from an
average student to an exceptional student by exploring the possibilities shown
in the section on acceleration of learning. From pre-K to Homeschooling
College, open your eyes to the many options in flexibility this approach to
learning can give. You can homeschool and work to shape amazing learners by
exploring the possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first and foremost expectation and goal of homeschooling and working
should be to build a close and loving relationship with your child. Don’t ever
let the educating of your child get in the way of that. Remembering, as long as
they are growing to perform well in their core courses or anchor courses all
the rest will fall in place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Before diving into homeschooling, being realistic is the first step to
managing your expectations. Sometimes through aiming in the middle, you are
pleasantly surprised when you and your children exceed them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In order to start from a good place, create a list of your bottom line
goals for the school year and build your mindset to be happy that at the very
least you’ve met them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Wow! Until I read this book, I never considered how important the
homeschooling format is to the homeschooled child, other siblings, and the
parents. <i>Homeschooling and Working While Raising Amazing Learners</i> is so
well thought out and organized that I can see why LM's children are so
accomplished.” ~ <i>MeandMibooks</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Words cant possibly express how much of a satisfied customer I am. This
book gives many options on ways to homeschool effectively while working and
enjoying your family.” ~ <i>Tericka</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Great book! EXTREMELY helpful on this scary, yet exciting journey of
homeschooling for the first time.” ~ <i>Crystal K</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Read this in one sitting last night. It's just what I needed as I
prepare to start my first year of homeschooling. I work from home and was super
worried that I would struggle to work and be the homeschool leader my kids need
me to be. This gave me so much confidence and helped me build a path forward.
Thank you so much for this!” ~ <i>Britney</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“The things I liked about this resource include the practical approach.
It is easy to read. A lot of time and information is given on the preparation
portion of this book. Developing schedules, considerations to include, like the
child’s learning style, curriculum requirements, length of children’s attention
and so very much more. It is very comprehensive and presented in a logical
manner.” ~ <i>Suzanne Hare</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book is a “guide for working parents who want to groom exceptional
learners through the flexibility of homeschooling.” In fact, it’s the book the
author wishes she had when she began her homeschooling journey. The book is
organized into four sections: preparing for homeschooling (things to consider
before you begin), the day-to-day operation of your home school, accelerating
your child’s learning, and maintaining your sanity throughout the process. The
author covers practical and emotional considerations for your child as well as
yourself, the importance of play and socialization, issues of boundaries and discipline,
the distinction between home and school at home, fostering a love of learning, and
maintaining your mental health. The Appendix contains schedule templates for
all grade levels, weekly curriculum plans, and lists of curriculum options.
Working in the field of education support, I found the list of websites (with
handy hyperlinks in the ebook version) under Appendix H and Appendix I to be
especially helpful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of the key takeaways is that it is important to separate your roles
as parent and teacher. You also need to understand your child(ren) in order to present them with a curriculum that suits their personality,
their learning style, and your time constraints. If read cover to cover, the
book is a bit repetitive. However, this becomes useful when you need to re-read
certain sections later. There are numerous editing errors and poorly phrased
sentences in the edition I read. Hyperlinks to chapters and appendices referenced
in the text would also be useful in the ebook version.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book isn’t only for homeschooling families who work; it is an
invaluable resource for any parent or educational staff interested in the
education of the child(ren) under their care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">L. M. Preston is an author, engineer, former college professor, and
working mother who has been married for over twenty-five years. She
homeschooled three of her four children from elementary school and beyond while
she and her husband worked outside their home. Three of her kids graduated with
degrees by the age of 17 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mai Senn knows Anthony Adams is no good for her – no matter how hard she might crush on him. She’s valedictorian; he’s a surf bum. She’s got plans, he’s got his art. Complete opposites in every way. Vinegar and baking soda, they once joked. A chemical reaction that bubbled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yeah, they bubbled. Maybe still do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Good thing Anthony’s got the perfect plan: two weeks to prove just how not good they are together. Whoever can come up with the worst date - something the other will seriously hate, proving how incompatible they truly are - wins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like taking a snake-phobe to the Reptile House at the zoo (his idea).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or a cooking class where they don’t even get to eat the food (her idea).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s all about the competition, and it’s meant to help them finally crush their crushes. But it wasn’t supposed to be so hot. Or so fun. And when Mai’s future becomes at stake, will she be able to do the right thing and quit Anthony forever?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Josie pauses with her hand on the doorknob of Jason’s house. Through the heavy wood door, I can hear the thrum of music and the loud chatter and laughter of our graduation party in progress. A rager. I think that’s the correct terminology. I’ve never been to one myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Are you planning to take off your clothes?” Josie looks over my outfit. Crisp, sleeveless black button-down tunic with satin trim. Black leggings. Gray booties. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“No, but I’ve never had alcohol before.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jason’s party is officially alcohol-free, but that won’t stop kids from bringing it in. Apparently, the students of Cholla High, while not known for high test scores, are geniuses at sneaking in booze. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Enough to feel it,” I say, “but not enough to kill any brain cells. I need them all for college.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I’m pretty sure you’d have to kill a lot of brain cells before you started peeling off clothes.” Josie wipes at the corner of my mouth. “Lipstick.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She pins me with a suspicious look. I never wear makeup, not even lipstick. With one exception. Her gaze says she knows that, and she’s wondering why I’m wearing it tonight. I bought the lipstick this past semester during a momentary blip of recklessness. How else to explain it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s in honor of graduation. That’s all.” Josie Walters, Best Friend in the Knowable World, was against my crush from the start. Of course, she hated baseball players with a passion. Now she’s madly in love with one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She pushes open the door. Memories greet me along with a wall of sound. We were here two months ago to watch a baseball game. But really it was so I could stalk my crush. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I’m not getting drunk, either,” Josie says. “I’m grossed out by the idea of vomit in my hair.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“So we agree. No undressing and no puking.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“We could stand on a table, though,” she says brightly. “Do a sexy dance.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The witty banter pulled my spirits up so many times during this Quarantine. I absolutely encourage everyone to read this book. All the stars and then some!” ~ <i>Susan's Reviews</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Mai and Anthony are two main characters that the reader will immediately resonate with and will have to devote some time to sit down and finish the book in one sitting - it's just that good. Highly recommend.” ~ <i>Victoria</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I was immediately pulled in and fell in love with Mai and Anthony. My heart was broken and healed over many times throughout their story. This book was too short, I want more! I absolutely recommend this book!” ~ <i>Readingmypages, Catherine</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Once I got hooked, it was impossible to put it down until I was done with the last page. Give it a try and you'll not regret it. 100% recommended.” ~ <i>Johanna</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I utterly adored <i>How to Quit Your Crush</i>. It was full of sweet, romantic moments with a little humor and drama mixed in. The perfect YA read.” ~ <i>Lozzie</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2VIacSG" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lynda Dickson</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">School valedictorian Mai has a crush on baseball player Anthony, a match that makes no sense. But, then again, “crushes aren’t sensible.” In fact, the two of them are opposites. As Anthony says, “we have almost nothing in common - from the way we were brought up to the way we want to live our lives.” Nevertheless, when Anthony runs into Mai over spring break, she “woke something up in me. Made me feel human again.” When school goes back, Mai comes to her senses and breaks it off, even though (or especially because) she is still attracted to him. Anthony volunteers for a program Mai is attending because he figures that “I just need to spend more time with you, and all the ways we’re different are going to start bugging me.” Mai and Anthony decide that a two-week fling is just what they need to get over each other. So, they begin “planning dates … that we’ll love and the other person will hate.” Hmm, I wonder how that will work out for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The story is told alternately by Mai and Anthony, who are both beautifully flawed, totally likable and, in fact, perfect for each other. This book is cute, humorous, romantic, and full of baseball references. What’s not to love?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“She once complained that my kisses made her stupid. I loved that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“There are no promises in life. You have to live for the day and quit dreaming about tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“My heart might be broken, but it still aches.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“You were so busy going through the motions, so worried about what came next, you never saw what was going on around you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I speak around a heart-shaped lump in my throat.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“You lose so much more than the person, you know? You lose the life you would’ve had.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Amy grew up loving to read and figured out at an early age that books were magical and necessary. She started submitting her own stories to be published when she was thirteen. Amy is now the award-winning author of nine books spanning young adult, middle grade, and picture books. Titles for Entangled include </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3fkRwzk" target="_blank">Announcing Trouble</a></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and the companion novel, </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2yxU24E" target="_blank">How to Quit YourCrush</a></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Amy lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband and a puppy who is training them.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Are you plagued by chronic health problems with no cure or remedy in sight?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Are you tired of spending thousands on medications that only seem to make you worse?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Think that your drugs are a sham that are just managing symptoms and never dealing with the root cause? You’re not alone!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Millions suffer from similar ailments and health struggles just like you, only to be prescribed more medications that can actually cause harm, and in some cases, even kill you. The medical industry has it all backward!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chronic health conditions and mental health disorders are increasing at an alarming rate, and yet we are still trying to use the same old ineffective drugs that can have very serious side effects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We’re the blind leading the blind in the hopes that the next great pill will solve all of our problems. Meanwhile, the health of the majority of Canadians and Americans is deteriorating - fast!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But there is a growing understanding in the community that there’s a bigger beast at the heart of the health epidemic …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s called the microbiome. And it’s intimately connected to your brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Microbiome health is brain health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In <i><a href="https://amzn.to/35BvtzW" target="_blank">Biology of the Brain</a></i>, Kent MacLeod, pharmacist, founder and CEO of NutriChem Compounding Pharmacy and Clinic, breaks down why modern medicine is killing people instead of healing them. Instead of leaving the problem as it stands, he provides you with clear, actionable steps to not only heal your microbiome, but to restore your brain health and get your life back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ll never forget this 63-year-old woman who’d come into my clinic. We’ll call her Susie. Susie had type two diabetes, suffered from obesity, and from severe high blood sugar. She tried diets and to exercise to lose the weight, but nothing worked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She even resorted to medication to stimulate normal blood sugar levels and weight loss. This only made matters worse for her. By the time she came to me, she was desperate (it’s unfortunate I was seen as the last resort, but I’m glad she came to me).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We evaluated her lifestyle, her food intake, her diet, her regimen, her medications. We went over her prior tests, then did our own full-body analysis to determine the culprit of her health issues and inability to lose weight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You’re right. Her gut microbiome was all out of whack and needed a drastic recovery if she had any hope of living an abundant life without worry, stress, and chronic health failure. After I went over the test results with her and explained her situation, she became noticeably distraught.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She had been struggling with her weight for years and she had made it her identity. She was never going to lose weight and would always have diabetes and health problems. There was no hope for her. As she wiped the tears from her eyes and lifted her head to me, I asked her one question, “Susie, do you want to get well?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In this book, the author explains what the body’s microbiome is and its link to different diseases. He also discusses the connection between the gut and the brain and how the gut microbiome affects mental health. We learn about the importance of a good diet, the ill effects of alcohol and drugs (legal and illegal), and the beneficial effects of probiotics and prebiotics on the microbiome. He concludes by presenting seven case studies and how these patients were treated in his clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The book contains a wealth of information on the gut-brain connection and provides dietary solutions to both physical and mental illnesses. While the author includes details of his clinic’s practices, a lot of the dietary advice can be implemented by readers on their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A fascinating look at the importance of diet on both physical and mental health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kent MacLeod is an international thought leader and award-winning pharmacist, with over 35 years of clinical experience delivering patient-centered health care. He’s globally recognized as a hormone health and nutrition expert, and he has lectured at health conferences, published research, and developed course material for many professional clinics based on NutriChem’s success.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He’s won numerous awards for his dedication to patient wellness, including the Canadian Compounding Pharmacist of the Year award, the Distinguished Pharmacy Practice Award, and the Outstanding Service Award for Innovation. He also wrote the book, <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3cdzZHq" target="_blank">Down Syndrome and Vitamin Therapy: Unlocking the Secrets of Health, Behavior, and Intelligence</a></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Author Michael Kirby </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">stops by today to share an excerpt from his satirical novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2SmdDeP" target="_blank">The Out Crowd</a></i>. You can also enter our exclusive giveaway for a chance to win a paperback copy of your own. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hallie Flynn was ready for the perfect senior year, but everything changes at Homecoming when petty rumors spiral out of control. The In Crowd was always who everybody in the Out Crowd dreamed of being. The Out Crowd consisted of everybody else. Isaiah was also expecting a normal senior year. His biggest concern was earning a scholarship for college, but then all the norms evaporated. Gossip piles on top of itself, overwhelming his social life, and everyone else's. Friendships are ruined. People from all walks of Gates High School life no longer know who to trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Determined, Hallie makes it her mission to set the record straight. But by the time the gossip desperately needed to be stopped, it was already too late. Gates High could never be the same as it was again, because rumors and gossip are not toys to be played around with. What appears simple and straightforward becomes more confusing. Eventually the rumors take on a life of their own and truth and untruth merge into an unrecognizable blur. Both the In Crowd and the Out Crowd learn to live with their new fate in different ways. Inevitably, lessons are learned, but only after the damage is already done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Shut it down! Shut it down! Shut it down!" Every football player and cheerleader in the school was there, shouting it in unison. Isaiah, Craig and Everett joined a handful of other members of the Out Crowd coming in to catch a peek of what was going on. A few of them actually joined in with the In Crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Principal Terrence's secretaries stood up to greet the mob at first. Soon, however, they were overwhelmed and returned to sitting at their desks, their eyes wide as marbles, exchanging looks with one another. Principal Terrence himself was nowhere to be found.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah looked around. "Okay, what's going on here?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"What's going on is that our latest story seems to have rubbed some people the wrong way." Tyler Base walked up and stood beside Isaiah, appearing quite pleased with himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Is it true?" Everett asked Tyler, sounding somewhat skeptical. "Did they really rig the Class Clown election by giving lollipops to the eighth graders, or is this just another one of your gossip columns?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Oh, it's not just gossip this time," said Tyler. "We've got mountains of evidence for it. Listen to how the In Crowd is desperately trying to sweep this one under the rug. This is going to be priceless."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"What do you mean?" Craig asked him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Let me put it to you this way. Nobody will be doing them any favors simply to sit with them at lunch anymore. They're finished."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hallie continued to lead the chants from just in front of the secretaries' desks. "Shut it down! Shut it down!" she continued to lead as much of the portion of the student body gathered there repeated after their leader. "Resist toxicity!" shouted Hallie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Resist toxicity!" the rest of the In Crowd repeated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Shut down the <i>Gates Sentinel</i>!" yelled Hallie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Shut down the <i>Gates Sentinel</i>!" echoed the rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"What's going on guys?" Karen had just entered the room herself. She turned off her cell phone and put it in her backpack. Everything in front of her now had her full attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Chaos," said Everett.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Total chaos," Craig concurred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Finally, Principal Terrence opened the door to his office and emerged into the entranceway. "Alright, I'm coming out," he said, exasperated, as the noise filling up the whole room gradually simmered down. "Hello, all you students who have come to my office with no appointment to yell really loudly. What can I do for you?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“In <i>The Out Crowd</i> by Michael A. Kirby, at Gates High School, the pupils are separated into two groups; the In Crowd of just 69 pupils and the Out Crowd. Hallie Flynn, senior cheerleading captain, becomes the victim of gossip when information about her relationship becomes public knowledge. As she tries to quell the rumors, her actions make the gossip even worse. Hallie believes she has the answer to make Gates High School less toxic. At first, her plan seems to be working but, as time goes on, the line between what is acceptable behavior and what is simply people's points of view becomes blurred. Hallie's obsession to rid the school of toxicity becomes out of control and soon both the In Crowd and the rest of the school have to decide what is truly important to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For more books by this author, please check out my </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://booksdirectonline.blogspot.com/2016/10/omg-i-did-it-again-by-talia-aikens-nunez.html" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">blog post</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> on </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2VKz5fD" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">OMG... I Did It Again?!</span></i></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and my <a href="https://booksdirectonline.blogspot.com/2016/11/colors-of-the-sun-and-moon-by-talia-aikens-nunez.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> on </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://amzn.to/35dUTUj" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Colors of the Sun and Moon</span></i></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Take a journey through the world - just listening. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/35jPISM" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk39004378;"><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Escucha Means Listen</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk39004378;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk39004378;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> helps children discover sounds around them in both English and Spanish. A beautiful picture book with lyrical prose and delightful illustrations, from lawn mowing to the splish-splashing of rain puddles.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Buzz. Buzz. <i>Qué oyes?<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I would have loved to have had this book when my kids and grandkids were small.” ~ <i>Patricia aka Mamaw</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I love the concept behind this cute little picture book! I personally think it is a great idea to expose children to as many cultures and languages as possible when they are young and still little sponges welcoming in knowledge.” ~ <i>Melissa’s Eclectic Bookshelf</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Eschucha Means Listen</i> is lyrical, with a repetitive prose that will make it easy to read as your child grows.” ~ <i>cheryl c malandrinos</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“My 4 year old daughter loves the illustrations in Escucha Means Listen.” ~ <i>Chantilly Patiño</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This is a great book for introducing children to a second language. It takes sounds that are familiar and presents the words for them in both English and Spanish.” ~ <i>Teresa Kander</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">By </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2VIacSG"><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lynda Dickson</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The little girl in this book takes us on an auditory walk around her
neighborhood, teaching us Spanish at the same time. We hear the harsh sounds of
the ambulance, the truck, men hammering on the roof, the neighbor mowing her
lawn, the dogs barking at the cat, and the church bells ringing. Then comes the
thunder, followed by the rain and the splashing of children in the puddles. When
the sky clears, we hear the sounds of nature: the birds start singing, the squirrels
run up the tree, the bees buzz around the flowers, the wind whistles by, and
the leaves rustle in the trees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This delightful book is full of the colors, sights, and sounds of humans
and nature. As an added bonus, we learn key words in Spanish. The colorful
illustrations by Dina Ashraf Helmi depict these words and bring the story to
life. I love how the girl in the book looks like the author!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book would make a lovely addition to any child’s library.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Talia Aikens-Nuñez wanted to be a meteorologist, a politician and a lawyer. She never thought she would be an author. It was the birth of her daughter that caused her to start writing. Raising a bilingual child inspired Talia to write multicultural children’s books.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Talia’s family loves nature so much that she and her husband vowed that they will always try to live close to water. She and her family live in Connecticut with a little pond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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