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Noteworthy Events Pelican in Pages Quotes from Media Author Appearances |
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Kitty Morse, author of The California Farm Cookbook (9780882899114, $26.95), attended the International Fancy Food and Confection Show® for her famous farm-fresh recipes. The thirty-third annual Fancy Food Show® took place in the San Diego Convention Center in January. Morse is the author of nine cookbooks and has written articles for several culinary magazines including Cooking Light and Health. |
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Kay Shaw Nelson, author of The Art of Scottish-American Cooking (9781589803862, $21.00), will be speaking at the Twelfth Annual Scottish Symposium in Williamsburg, Virginia. The event will be held at the College of William & Mary on Febuary 22 through February 24. The school, founded by Scotsman James Blair, is arranging for the Scottish Coalition USA to showcase its materials and memorabilia in the Swem Library archives. |
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Layne will deliver the same speech on Thursday evening, February 21 at the Nebraska State Reading Seminar in Kearney. The theme of the seminar is "Literacy Journey: Share Your Passion." He is also the author of The Teacher’s Night Before Christmas, (9781565548336, $15.95) and This Side of Paradise (9781589800960, $15.99). |
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Dotti Enderle, author of The Cotton Candy Catastrophe at the Texas State Fair (9781589801899, $15.95), will sign at the first annual Pancakes & Pajamas Barnyard Bash in Sugar Land, Texas, on Saturday, February 9. Organized by the Fort Bend Junior Service League, the event will take place at the Honor Roll School on Sweet Water Boulevard, and the proceeds will benefit the ESCAPE Family Resource Center. Enderle will also be signing her latest book, The Fat Stock Stampede at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (9781589804432, $15.95). |
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The spring issue of Jewish Book World, available February 28, will feature a review of Haggadah Illuminated (9781589804951, $19.95), a Hebrew-language version of the Seder which memorializes the exodus from Egypt. Hand-written by Even Caredio with illustrations by Guglielomo Bigi Benajá, the Haggadah is read as part of Jewish Passover traditions. |
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Acadian Plantation Country Cookbook (9781589804623, $25.00), by Anne Butler, will be mentioned in the February issue of House and Home magazine. A few of the book’s interior photos will also be included. |
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Mary Cassatt: Impressionist Painter (9781589804524, $15.95), by Lois V. Harris, will be reviewed in the February/March issue of ForeWord Magazine. |
  February’s issue of Fort Bend Focus Magazine will contain a feature article on 200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen: 1835-1935 (9781589805149, $16.95 pb), by Laurence Yadon with Dan Anderson. |
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by Sydelle Pearl: "A great real-life story with an important message about freedom." —Pittsburgh Magazine |
(9781589805835, $8.95 pb), by Steven L. Layne: "Layne weaves a fantastic story full of action and tender moments, conflict and teamwork." —The Alan Review |
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"The book reads like a series of short stories, the photographs are so wonderful you want to lick them, and the desserts themselves will bring you to your knees in joy. It just doesn’t get any better than this!" —Linda Ellerbee |
"The baby boomer’s bible—a surefire way to make the rest of your life the best of your life." —Jean Gatz, author of Mama Said There’d Be Days Like This and How to Be the Person Successful Companies Fight to Keep |
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"A charmer of a book with an air of its own; one which should start an "and I remember" feast from anyone reading it to a younger relation. It’s a keeper of the first order." ––Marilis Hornidge, The (ME) Courier-Gazette |
"Gilmore’s new book is a bombshell! It turns the ‘standard textbook’ Civil War history of the bloody Missouri-Kansas border war right on its head—and about time, too!" —Dr. Jerry Morelock, Ph.D., colonel, U.S. Army, retired, |
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February 2 (Sat.), 11:00 am: Mardi Gras Madness, Cortana Mall, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; concert, signing |
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February 16 (Sat.): American Association of University Women, 551 Cypress Rd; Vero Beach, Florida; talk, signing |
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 Richard
Trout, author of the MacGregor Family Adventure Series. February 9 (Sat.): Bell County Reading Council, Belton, Texas; talk, signing
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February 8 (Fri.), 12:00 pm: Commonwealth Club of California main office, 595 Market St., second floor, San Francisco, California; speaking engagement, signing |
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February 16 (Sat.) 11 am-1 pm: Givens Books, Lynchburg, Virginia; signing
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February 15 (Fri.): Kaskaskia Special Education District Conference, Centralia, Illinois; talk, signing |
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February 2 (Sat.): Books-A-Million, Grapevine, Texas;
signing |
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February 12 (Tues.), 7:00 pm: |
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February 1 (Sat.): Gordon Parks Elementary, Kansas City, Missouri; talk, signing |
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February 16 (Sat.), 1:00 pm-4:00 pm:
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February 2 (Sat.), 7:00 pm-9:00 pm: Barnes & Noble, 3414 Hwy. 190
Ste. 10, Mandeville, Louisiana; signing |
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February 2 (Sat.), 11:00 am-1:00 pm: Sam’s Club, Baton
Rouge,
Louisiana; signing |
James Swisher, 
Deryl
P. Sellmeyer,
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