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Digital Potpourri 8/14

Shenanigans occurred on the internet over the weekend, and LendInk.com has been taken down as a result. A large number of indi authors were up in arms over perceived copyright violations allegedly perpetrated by LendInk.com. Unfortunately, the authors did not seem to understand that their contracts with B&N and Amazon allow for their books to […]Read more "Digital Potpourri 8/14"
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Free Book Friday!

TGIF and happy Free Book Friday! Congratulations to @GeoLibrarian who is the winner of A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return! This week, Free Book Friday is getting a little disgusting! We are giving away the disturbingly terrific new book from award-winning author Rebecca L. Johnson, Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead. Are zombies […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"
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An Inspiring Group of Visitors

Part of my weekend and the first few days of this week were spent with my young nieces and their parents, who were visiting us in Minnesota. They live in South Dakota, where the girls will be returning to school next week. We did some back-to-school shopping for supplies, gym shoes, new book bags, and […]Read more "An Inspiring Group of Visitors"
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Of codes and canons

So I just finished Elizabeth Wein’s masterpiece Code Name Verity. I have nothing to add to the richly deserved praise already heaped on this book. I enjoyed it so much that I cannot muster my normal critical faculties to answer the question I almost always ask: “how is this a YA novel?” I trust it’s […]Read more "Of codes and canons"
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Digital Potpourri 8/7

Hey everybody. First things first; I caught some flack for not getting a post up last Tuesday so I want to apologize to you other four readers up front. I hope you can forgive me! Right now is the time of summer when all of my new iBooks and eBooks are ready to roll out […]Read more "Digital Potpourri 8/7"
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GLEE—A Note from Down Under

Writer Felicity Britton hails originally from Down Under and is a longtime citizen of the United States—and an enthusiastic Gleek.  She wrote The Glee Cast: Inspiring Gleek Mania for TFCB’s Fall 2012 USAT Lifeline series. I have to say it’s one of my favorite Lifelines to date, in part because of Felicity’s nose for the […]Read more "GLEE—A Note from Down Under"