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Friday July 9 -
add your thoughts to the TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Part I) readalong discussion
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An educator's creative TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD lesson (fab guest post!)
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Friday July 23 - add your thoughts to the TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Part I) readalong discussion
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Tuesday Thingers: Does the Early Reviewer bird catch the worm?

From Marie, the Boston Bibliophile:  Early Reviewers- do you participate? How many books (approximately) have you received through the program? Have you liked them generally? What’s your favorite ER book? Do you participate in the discussion group on LT?

I joined LibraryThing on April 1 of this year, just about six months ago.  After entering a [...]

Three winners for *The Genizah at the House of Shepher*!

 

I used the random.org sequence generator to find winners for the three copies The Genizah at the House of Shepher.  The winners are the first three in the list (drumroll, please):

Random Sequence Generator

Here is your sequence:

12
6
16
22
17
36
13
31
33
29

(I deleted the list after the first 10 numbers; too much clutter!)

Timestamp: 2008-08-01 10:38:19 UTC

Which corresponds to:

12 [...]

Giveaway: The Genizah at the House of Shepher

The folks at St. Martin’s Press have offered to let me give away a few copies of The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin.

This wonderful epic tale covers 150 years and four generations, culminating in a present-day resolution to a mystery that has been passed down throughout the years.   It’s a great book to [...]

Book Review: The Genizah at the House of Shepher

Click here to enter a giveaway for a copy of The Genizah at the House of Shepher!

 

The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin; 1st St. Martin’s Griffin Ed edition (July 22, 2008 )
Paperback: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0312379072
ISBN-13: 978-0312379070

The Genizah at the House of Shepher opens in the 1850s [...]