Second Glance by Jodi Picoult From the dustjacket: An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it’s a burial ground. …
Puerto Rico designed by Andreas Seyfarth, published by Rio Grande Games Description: The players are plantation owners in Puerto Rico in the days when ships had sails. Growing up to five different kind of crops: Corn, Indigo, Coffee, Sugar and Tobacco, they must try to run their business more efficiently than …
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Alessandra that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. Check out what other participants are getting from their libraries! Here’s my loot for the week. A couple are for me, a couple for Amber. Blue Bay …
Size 2 for Life by Ashley Marriott and Marc L. Paulson, MD Description: We didn’t start life as a size 8, 12, 16 or more. So how did we get here? Well, the simple truth is we ate, and we ate, and we ate! So how do we turn things …
The Case of the Fiendish Flapjack Flop (Humpty Dumpty Jr., Hard Boiled Detective #1) by Nate Evans and Paul Hindman, illustrated by Vince Evans and Nate Evans From the back: Humpty Dumpty, Jr. has always gotten the bad guy. Always. Except once, when the case got too personal. You know that …
I found a couple of new words this week, both are out of Second Glance by Jodi Picoult. tatterdemalian: wasn’t in the dictionary tatterdemalion: a person dressed in ragged clothing, ragamuffin not that Ethan would be left a tatterdemalian if she was hit by a car nictitating: winking Abe Huppinworth, …
