December 11, 2020
I am always looking for innovative ways that book groups come together. Yesterday morning, the yarn designer Miss Babs announced that their 2021 Book Club was kicking off. They noted, “We've enjoyed reading and knitting along for the past 2 years. We'd like to invite you to join us for another year in the Miss Babs Book Club. We have chosen 3 works of fiction for 2021 that will spark your imagination and keep you guessing. Our designers and our dyeing will be inspired by the book selections. The projects will be shawls and wraps. The yarn weights included in the club will range from heavy lace to DK, and Babs will dye an original and club-exclusive colorway for each shipment. 2021's designers are Rose Beck, Michael Harrigan and Tiziana Sammuri."
Editorial Content for The Arctic Fury
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A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition --- and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back.
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A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition --- and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back.
About the Book
A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition --- and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back.
Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge.
A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder. Survivors of the expedition willing to publicly support her sit in the front row. There are only five. What happened out there on the ice?
Set against the unforgiving backdrop of one of the world's most inhospitable locations, USA Today bestselling author Greer Macallister uses the true story of Lady Jane Franklin's tireless attempts to find her husband's lost expedition as a jumping-off point to spin a tale of bravery, intrigue, perseverance and hope.
Editorial Content for The Bluest Eye
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2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Toni Morrison's first novel, THE BLUEST EYE. Here, the Nobel Prize winner powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity --- and asks questions about race, class and gender with her characteristic subtlety and grace.
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2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Toni Morrison's first novel, THE BLUEST EYE. Here, the Nobel Prize winner powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity --- and asks questions about race, class and gender with her characteristic subtlety and grace.
About the Book
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity --- and asks questions about race, class and gender with her characteristic subtlety and grace.
In Morrison’s bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove --- an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others --- prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).
Editorial Content for The Chicken Sisters
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Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. Reese Witherspoon calls KJ Dell’Antonia's debut novel "[a] charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds and rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!”
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Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. Reese Witherspoon calls KJ Dell’Antonia's debut novel "[a] charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds and rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!”
About the Book
Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster.
In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state --- and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than 35-year-old widow Amanda Moore, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi's before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie's. Tired of being caught in the middle, Amanda sends an SOS to "Food Wars," the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100,000 to the winner. But in doing so, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire.
The last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore, Amanda's sister, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes, helping the fading Mimi's look good on "Food Wars" becomes Mae's best chance to reclaim the limelight --- even if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie's. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other, or for their heritage?
