While I’m not a lifelong Californian like the author, I did spend my teen years in the San Joaquin valley, in Modesto and Fresno, and while those years were in the 80s, not the 60s, I remember all too well the news coverage of Cesar Chavez’s last hunger strike – the one that was contemporary to my life – as well as picket lines at grocery stores. To this day, I feel guilty whenever I buy grapes.
About the book, The Gift of Cockleberry Bay Paperback: 328 pages Publisher: Lightning Books (April 1, 2020) Scroll down for giveaway. From the author of the #1 BESTSELLING The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay All of our favourite characters from Cockleberry Bay are back in this final, heart warming story in the series. Including […]
About the Book: The Blue Zones Kitchen • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: National Geographic; 1 edition (December 3, 2019) Best-selling author Dan Buettner debuts his first cookbook, filled with 100 longevity recipes inspired by the Blue Zones locations around the world, where people live the longest. Building on decades of research, longevity expert Dan Buettner has […]
About the book, Fresh Eggs and Dog Beds Nick and Lesley Albert yearn to leave the noise, stress and pollution of modern Britain and move to the countryside, where the living is good, the air sweet, with space for their dogs to run free. Suddenly out of work and soon to be homeless, they set […]
About the book, The War Beneath • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Permuted Press (October 1, 2019) “There is a war going on behind things, beneath them.” Paul had been a forensic psychologist. But after his daughter’s funeral, he hit the rock bottom of a spiraling addiction. When the spirits of the dead started rasping their wishes […]
