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Whether you need to make a gift for someone, or just keep your hands busy so you don't eat all the Christmas cookies at one time, the library has plenty of books and videos that tell you how to stay busy making things. My particular fascination at the moment is knitting, so here is a smattering of...
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I don't want to alarm anyone, but Christmas is coming; in fact it's less than two months away. Now, it's still entirely too early to be putting up tinsel and whatnot, but it is absolutely time to get on the waiting lists for these new Christmas cookbooks! I'm personally very much looking...
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11-03-2012
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Filed under: nonfiction, Christmas, holiday, cookery, cooking, recipes, baking, Sharon Bowers, chocolate, Mia Ohrn, Dede Wilson
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Thanksgiving is maybe one of our simpler holidays. We give thanks for what we have and we eat good food. The giving thanks part usually doesn't require a lot of preparation; maybe just a few minutes quiet consideration. The good food, on the other hand, can sometimes be a challenge. Last November...
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11-03-2012
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Filed under: nonfiction, Food, holiday, cookery, cooking, recipes, baking, Sam Sifton, Vegetarian Times magazine, Lou Seibert Pappas, Rick Rodgers, Fine Cooking magazine, James W. Baker, Laurie C. Hillstrom, Thanksgiving, traditions, giving thanks, vegetarian
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I love to listen to memoirs read by the authors that wrote them. Not so long ago, I was quite skeptical of all audiobooks. I viewed listening to a book as cheating, unless it was a matter of poor eyesight. I have, however, warmed somewhat to audiobooks, and memoirs read by their authors have become a...
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09-24-2012
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Filed under: nonfiction, audiobooks, biography, celebrities, memoir, Kate Braestrup, Maine, growing up, Indiana, Marriage, Craig Ferguson, Bill Bryson, Tina Fey, read by the author, autobiography, Bible, Iowa, A J Jacobs, spirituality, Haven Kimmel, Amy Dickinson, Anna Quindlen
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Baseball season is here, and with it, a whole new lineup of baseball books. I just finished reading Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift by Harvey Araton, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable visit to Yankees' spring training. For years, former pitching ace Ron Guidry...
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Have you ever found a book you didn't even know you were looking for? That's how Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings felt to me. I didn't know I was looking for this book, but I am so glad I found it. I love, or geek, if you prefer, maps and globes....
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10-24-2011
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Filed under: nonfiction, Africa, travel, North America, Library of Congress, Asia, maps, Ken Jennings, Australia, geocaching, GPS, geography, South America, cartography, Antarctica
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A new series of cookbooks has recently caught my attention. The My Cooking Class series includes Vegetable Basics , Sauce Basics , Chocolate Basics , Steaming Basics and Middle Eastern Basics . All the books have large color photographs to illustrate every recipe. I'm looking forward to spending...
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03-22-2011
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Filed under: nonfiction, Food, series, cookery, cooking, recipes, baking, chocolate, middle eastern, color photographs, vegetables
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I've always thought if you can read a recipe, you can cook, more or less. However, I've been told this simply isn't true and that there are actually very smart people who fail miserably in the kitchen. This past summer O'Reilly , a publisher I usually associate with software manuals,...
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Perhaps you'd like to read about reported hauntings right here in Indiana as Halloween approaches. Even if you don't believe in ghosts, these books can be entertaining and spooky reads perfect for the season. Haunted Travels of Indiana by Mark Marimen Encyclopedia of Haunted Indiana by Nicole...
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"Eleven elephants. One plane. Hurtling together across the sky." From these opening sentences, I was captivated by this account of the inner workings of zoos, in particular Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. The author is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and currently a professor of journalism at Indiana...
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Cupcakes are for everyone! Who doesn't love cupcakes? They're fun, they're delicious and they can be easy to make. There are more than a dozen books devoted to cupcakes here at EVPL! Hello, Cupcake! and What's New Cupcake? by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson are good choices if you want...
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It's springtime! Time to leave the house and enjoy the outdoors! Two recent books you should know about if you're planning on going further than the park down the street are Botanic Gems: Indiana Public Gardens, Including Greater Chicago, Dayton, Cincinnati & Louisville by Alan McPherson...
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03-20-2010
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Filed under: nonfiction, hoosiers, Indiana, travel, gardening, gardens, outdoors, parks, Kentucky, Alan McPherson, Susan Reigler, color photographs
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Do you find pansies and impatiens a little dull? Would you rather grow something that eats, than grow something to eat? If so, check out these books on carnivorous plants. Even if you're not interested in planting venus fly traps, pitcher plants or other insect-eaters in your yard, the pictures in...
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You're walking down the street and a legless man on a skateboard zooms by. Your first reaction--shock? disgust? pity? Welcome to Kevin Michael Connolly 's world. Author of the recent memoir Double Take , Connolly was born without legs. Instead of being institutionalized or coddled, Connolly's...
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Linnea's Windowsill Garden and Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina Björk and Lena Anderson are two garden books that are great even in cold weather! Linnea and I have something fun in common. We've both received amaryllis bulbs as Christmas presents. Amaryllis bulbs are not very pretty...