Culinary Reading Delights — A Noncaloric List

Most people love to eat and have cherished memories of meals they’ve shared over the years with friends and family. If you’ve ever read Peter Mayle, Frances Mayes or Carol Drinkwater, you know exactly what I mean. Their memoirs, while not technically in the culinary genre, all describe the planning and execution of those meals in a very personal way.

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Book Discussion Series: Bud, Not Buddy

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father — the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

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Schooled by Gordon Korman

Meet peaceful, patient Capricorn Anderson, a dyed-in-the-wool hippie who has grown up on the Garland Commune for all of his 13 years with his grandmother […]

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The Underneath

Kathi Appelt is a first time novelist, but you wouldn’t know it.  Her Newbery honor winner The Underneath reminds me of someone telling a folk […]

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Things Not Seen

What would you do if you woke up one morning and discovered that you had become invisible? This is what happens to 15-year old Bobby […]

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