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How About Never – Is Never Good Enough for You? My Life in Cartoons Author: Bob Mankoff  “The New Yorker has published more than 75,000 cartoons since its founding, 95% of them drawn by only a few hundred cartoonists, and Mankoff has been at the center of this talented group of artists for over 30 years.  In How About Never – Is Never Good Enough for You? My Life in Cartoons, Mankoff traces his love for the craft back to his childhood when he started creating funny drawings at age eight ... continue reading...

The Blonde Author: Anna Godbersen   Ok ,I have read some really strange fiction about Marilyn Monroe and Jack Kennedy but this one takes the cake.  The writing is good.  The plot is farcical and unbelievable.  I don’t think any of us believes that Jack Kennedy loved Marilyn Monroe.  Nor do I think that Frank Sinatra treated her like a little sister.  Just my opinion. From 1948 through the Cold War years, the plot of this book rests on the fiction that Marilyn was given a promise by ... continue reading...

The Second Diary  Author: Ciara Threadgoode Sometimes we just want a novel that places us in a small town with characters whom enter in, sit down, and start telling us a story.  Fannie Flagg, Ann Tyler, Garrison Keillor are authors who deliver locale: small town residents, and people: quirky and wonderfully warm characters.  Now we have Ciara Threadgoode and Truckee, California and goings on of Dorothy Rose Nolte Hughes, her daughter Peggy, and her granddaughter Cherry, who narrates the ... continue reading...

Ice Bound A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole  Author: Dr. Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers Sometimes we open a book and race from page to page, exhilarated and so involved 10 hours go by and we are still reading. Ice Bound is such a book. The true story of Dr. “Duff” Nielsen and the adventurers and scientists she lives with for one year at the Antarctic South Pole, with temperatures of below 100 degrees F, astounds. The South Pole “winter” (our summer) months of 6 ... continue reading...