Sarah White
Content by Sarah White
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Liberty Fish, the protagonist of Stephen Wright's new novel, The Amalgamation Polka, is the only child of an abolitionist couple living in New York who constantly leave him in the care of his
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Miles O'Malley is a special kid. The main character of Jim Lynch's debut novel, The Highest Tide, is the smallest 13-year-old on the Washington coast.
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Southeast Asian jewels were prized throughout Europe during the Renaissance, and traders regularly made the precarious, multiyear journey across the seas to trade for precious rubies and sapphires
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A mysterious stranger wanders out of the woods of Siberia in 1919, finding himself in a small town inhabited by a bizarre Christian sect and occupied by a company of Czech soldiers whose leader wants
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Girls' Best Book of Knitting, Sewing, and Embroidery, by Virginie Desmoulins, aims to give girls an overview of three classic crafts that are still popular among women of all ages.
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Sure, the wedding day is all about the bride, but what about those unsung heroes of the modern bridal party: the bridesmaids?
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Toloki, the professional mourner at the heart of South African writer Zakes Mda's acclaimed Ways of Dying finds himself in Ohio on Halloween, just before the 2004 presidential election, in Mda
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The perfect way to jazz up an outfit is with a great beaded necklace, earrings or bracelet.
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Crafts of all sorts have made a huge resurgence right along with the DIY trend, and women who knit, sew or are otherwise crafty will want to incorporate some of that into their wedding (and save a
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For people whose crafty skills are limited to getting airline upgrades, Travel Scrapbooks: Creating Albums of Your Trips and Adventures might inspire vagabonds to keep their travel photos
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Every family's journey to parenthood is unique, and that's particularly true when it comes to families that choose foreign adoption.
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As society becomes more mobile and friends and family members are scattered all over the country, more couples are planning destination weddings to give them more time with friends and to make th
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Evangelical Christians are a growing force in America, to the frustration—and sometimes fear—of nonbelievers like Gina Welch.
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Fans of Jennifer Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts novels will find much to appreciate in her latest effort, The Winding Ways Quilt.
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For a wedding book that is all fantasy and little reality for most brides, there's Colin Cowie's Extraordinary Weddings: From a Glimmer of an Idea to a Legendary Event.
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For people who are not biblical scholars and who have not traveled to the area where the Bible stories took place, it's sometimes hard to visualize exactly where these events occurred in relati
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For brides who want something unique for their floral design, To Have and to Hold: Magical Wedding Bouquets is an indispensable guide to flowers.
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In the past, most people learned crafts from a friend or family member. They taught the new crafter basic stitches and were nearby to help when he or she got stuck working on a new project.
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In the past, most people learned crafts from a friend or family member. They taught the new crafter basic stitches and were nearby to help when he or she got stuck working on a new project.
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In his latest book, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A.J.
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If you're trying to plan a unique event without the help of an in-person wedding planner, Signature Weddings: Creating a Day Uniquely Your Own by event planner Michelle Rago can help.
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The Inuit of Canada's sub-Artic Hudson Bay are tough people.
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For brides who want to dream big (with a budget to match), this book from Vogue's favorite wedding coordinator offers many beautiful, modern and stylish ideas.
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Swimwear designer Ashley Paige knows more than most about the interplay between crafts and fashion.
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<b>Imagining F.
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In his best-selling memoir, Father Joe, Tony Hendra expressed the concern that to write a great novel I'll have to get to know some really wicked people.
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The Simple Stunning series of wedding books from Stewart, Tabori, &andamp; Chang focuses on simplifying the wedding planning process without taking the beauty out of a bride's big day.
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The Simple Stunning series of wedding books from Stewart, Tabori, &andamp; Chang focuses on simplifying the wedding planning process without taking the beauty out of a bride's big day.
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When faced with an interminably long airport delay, which is all too common these days, the traveler has several options. He could spend the endless layover drinking at T.G.
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Pharmakon is a Greek word meaning both poison and cure.
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Things haven't been going too well lately for Paul Gustavson, protagonist of Pete Nelson's I Thought You Were Dead. The freelance writer has signed on to write the book Nat
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Many new books on wedding planning take this go-your-own-way approach, not only telling couples it's fine to do what they want, but also attempting to show them how to achieve it.
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Like his hit debut novel The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl's second book, The Poe Shadow, deals with literary obsession, mystery and murder.
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For a no-nonsense guide to wedding planning, Countdown to Your Perfect Wedding: From Engagement to Honeymoon, A Week-by-Week Guide to Planning the Happiest Day of Your Life can't be beat.
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The stereotypical Southern wedding is extremely traditional, but Southern brides create celebrations every bit as modern and sophisticated as those held anywhere else in the world.
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Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who ruled as empress of China in name or in fact for decades around the turn of the 20th century, was reviled in the Western press as the dragon lady and larg
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Britt Johnson, a newly freed slave at the end of the Civil War, moves with his family to the wild country of Texas, where he finds more dangers than the racism and violence of the Kentucky he left
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How does someone like Adolf Hitler become who he becomes?
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<b>The thinking person's beach read</b> Katherine Taylor's <b>Rules for Saying Goodbye</b> is a novel filled with sadness, hilarity and the futile feeling that often comes f
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T-shirts have long been a fashion staple because they are so easy to dress up or down. But in the end, a T-shirt is just a T-shirt, right?
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If you've traveled to London, you may have visited V.V. Rouleaux, the world-renowned ribbons and trimming company.
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Jack Burns, the protagonist of John Irving's 11th novel, Until I Find You, is a successful movie actor trained to focus on his audience of one, for him the father who left his mother before
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One of the first things many women do when they get engaged is pick up wedding magazines. InStyle Weddings takes articles and wedding stories from the magazine of the same name.
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Will Allison, who has worked as executive editor at Story magazine and editor-at-large for Zoetrope: All-Story, knows his way around a good tale.
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Peter Bognanni would probably not appreciate the word "sweet" being used to describe his punk-rock-fueled debut novel, The House of Tomorrow, but parts of the story are decidedly s
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