#books

1. Halfway to Halloween Book Signing Event!

   Mark your calendars for tomorrow! I will be at the Barnes & Noble in St. Pete, Florida , signing books, during the Halfway to Halloween event, between 11am & 4pm, with the following amazing horror authors: Shannon Stephan, Derik Cavignano, Victoria Nations, Robbie Dorman, Douglas Fo
   

2. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem defends book excerpt where she describes killing dog and goat

   By Kit Maher, CNN Vice presidential contender South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem defended actions described in her upcoming book in which she killed a dog and goat on her family farm. According to an excerpt, which was obtained by The Guardian , Noem killed her dog Cricket because the do
   

3. This platform is a treasure ...

   This platform is a treasure - I don't want to see it go! I've been on numerous other social media platforms - none of them create the spark of creativity or the feeling of community I have found here. I've met so many wonderful people here, and have felt a sense of 'home' - if th
   

4. No way out by Tim Shipman review: an exhaustive chronicle of a chaotic political divorce

   By Anne McElvoy In his intro to No Way Out, finally charting the long, strange trip the UK took from the fraught post-referendum days to leaving the EU in January 2020, Tim Shipman risks a comparison political biographers would shy away from. He declares an urge to match the epic
   

5. Harpers Ferry

   July 11, 1983: After four miles on the Appalachian Trail, I reached the junction with the Loudon Heights Trail, which descended steeply off the west side of the ridge into West Virginia. I turned onto this path, which is part of the blue-blazed alternate route through Harpers Ferr
   

6. Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book. No doubt, she would kill anything in her way to climb the ladder for MAGA

   In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon famously stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers , as a political gift. In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the famil
   

7. Kristi Noem Reveals She Fatally Shot Her Dog: 'Had To Be Done'

   By Kate Plummer Kristi Noem has revealed that she shot her dog Cricket after realizing it was "untrainable." Writing in her new book, No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, the South Dakota governor described how she shot and killed
   

8. Cherokee Nation citizen Wilson Rawls is best known for his book "Where the Red Fern Grows." The book was first printed in 1961 as a three-part series in the "Saturday Evening Post" under Rawl's original title "The Hounds of Youth." The name was changed when it was published in boo
   

9. Today's Recommended Reading: The initial offering in an excellent series on the history of England by Peter Ackroyd covers centuries in Foundation: The History of England From Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors . #history #reading #books