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Cooking and Stories from Immigrants in Minnesota

Kitchens of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home by Linda Svitak, Christin Jay Eaton, Lee Svitak Dean

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Kitchens of Hope: Immigrants Share Stories of Resilience and Recipes from Home. This is a cookbook that admits that it’s not just about the recipes. It’s about the stories and a point as well. It’s very not shy about that, which is rare. Most anyone who’s read a cookbook, or even an online recipe has probably noticed that a lot of the writers try to sneak a lot of story and maybe also a ideological point in as well. There are 3 introductions to highlight […]

It’s time for bed, beaches!

Tuck Me In! by Nathan W Pyle

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My lunch time pastime is looking at old and new online reader copies. I swap back and forth as to which gets attention during that particular viewing. Recently the new ones were the lucky ones. I saw a thumbnail cover that had a moon and what I assumed was a beach on the cover. It said Tuck Me In!, and my first thought was (to be honest)  that it looked boring as it was going to be just another bedtime story for babies and toddlers. […]

Quest for courage

Hupo and the Wonder Thief by Billy Partridge

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I enjoyed the book Hupo and the Wonder Thief by Billy Partridge. There is something about this dog-like critter (they say they are a dog-rabbit combo) and his quirky personality. Now, to boil it down, he is a lot. And I mean a lot. He might be physically smaller in size, but there is a big amount of wonder that fills him. He loves learning, exploring, being himself and sharing that with others. However, the city he lives in is not the most open to […]

Princesses, pirates and sisters

Story Spinners: A Sisterly Tale of Danger, a Princess, and Her Crew of Lady Pirates by Cassandra Federman

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I started a review once that said that I like sibling books and sister books in particular. Story Spinners: A Sisterly Tale of Danger, a Princess, and Her Crew of Lady Pirates written and illustrated by Cassandra Federman is one of those books. Currently available, this is a cute story about modern day sisters, with one having some old school ideas that get messy when the sisters unite to tell their “other sister” a bedtime story. Of course, there is more than that. The oldest […]

Choose Your Own Adventure for the younger crowd

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Ghost on the Mountain (Dragonlarks) by Kyandreia Jones

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I don’t know about you, but I used to enjoy the Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid/pre-teen. They were easy and even back then I liked that quick read. That mystery of where your choice would take you. Now they were not my main genre for reading and I moved onto other books, but I always held a small space in my heart for them. And as a bookseller I found them again, but again, I don’t need to read. But I found […]

If ducks can solve mysteries maybe fairies are real?

Detective Duck V02 The Case of the Missing Tadpole by Henry Winkler

Fairy Door Diaries: Eliza and the Flower Fairies by Megan McDonald

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One of the fun parts of my job is reading books before they come out. And reading books that are below my physical age because I can say I am “reviewing” it for work. Of course, I usually just say that I’m reading for fun as I’m not embarrassed to read a book for a six to ten-year-old. And the below two books are those kinds of books. The nice thing about Detective Duck V02 The Case of the Missing Tadpole is that you do […]



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