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Happy Easter! ©2018 Nancy Horner. All rights reserved. If you are reading this post at a site other than  Bookfoolery  or its RSS fee...

I want to make a note of the fact that this is the second in a series but it stands fine on its own, up front, because I'd hate for a...

In I Am the Boss of this Chair , Oswald is an only cat and the king of his household, the "boss" of the chair, sole owner of hi...

Recent arrivals: If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson, 20th Anniversary edition from Penguin Just One Damned Thing After Anothe...

There were two books that helped break my February book slump: Our Native Bees and The Brontë Sisters . It was at my worst moment, when I...

I ordered a copy of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande on a bit of a whim after reading Al Franken's ...

I've decided I'm going to do several sets of mini reviews to get myself caught up (again) since a good portion of the books I have l...

Subtitled "The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando", The Saboteur is the fascinating true World ...

Has Izzy got your attention? Good. I've pre-posted what amounts to a veritable avalanche of reviews and scheduled them to publish ove...

Orphan Master Spy starts out with a bang. 15-year-old Sarah emerges from the floor of her mother's car to find that her mother ha...

We really don't have a good idea of how well wild bees are holding up to habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation plus whatever e...

Recent arrivals: None. Again.  I think this makes 3 weeks with no arrivals? Some that I've been expecting have not arrived, ...

With apologies to Facebook friends, who have already seen this - my favorite photo of the week. Fiona was on my lap. ©2018 Nancy Horne...

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James weaves together two stories. Idlewild Hall is a boarding school for girls who are unwanted or diffi...

An incredibly gripping YA novel that's almost impossible to put down but also quite disturbing, Nothing Left to Burn tells the story...

Recent arrivals: None. But, clearly spring has arrived so you get a glimpse of tulips, this week.  Books finished since last Mal...

Recent arrivals: Rocket Men by Robert Kurson - from Random House for review via Shelf Awareness Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killee...

This is the look I get when she wants something. It was time for breakfast. ©2018 Nancy Horner. All rights reserved. If you are readi...

From the cover:  Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut no...

Happy Monday! It's spring in our area. If you're sick of snow, I can take some spring photos to share with you. The tulip trees, fru...