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Book Review and Author Event: Julie Klam with *You Had Me at Woof*

You Had Me at Woof:  How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness by Julie Klam
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (October 28, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-1594487767

Back-of-the-book blurb:  The hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of a woman learning the secrets of love, health, and happiness from some very surprising teachers: her dogs.

Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as [...]

December 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: author event, book review | 7 comments

Author Event with Maud Hart Lovelace's *Emily of Deep Valley.* Foreword by Mitali Perkins

Last weekend I had the fun of attending a Boston-area event for the reissue of Maud Hart Lovelace’s Emily of Deep Valley, part of the Betsy-Tacy family of books.

The event was held at Brookline Booksmith and organized in conjunction with the publisher, HarperPerennial — which also reissued the three “high school and beyond” books last [...]

November 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: author event | 7 comments

Spotlight on Bookstores: *Brookline Booksmith* in Brookline, Mass.

This week’s Spotlight on Bookstores post is written by Daphne Kalotay, author of the captivating novel Russian Winter, which will be out on September 7 (oh, the day my kids return to school, mark the date for many reasons!).  I’ll post my review of Russian Winter tomorrow; here’s a six-word tease: “I didn’t want it [...]

September 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Spotlight on Bookstores | 6 comments