Summer Reading List From a Local Book Editor
A Pen to Paper summer list offers varied picks from Tolstoy themed essays to crime thrillers and apocalyptic fiction. Readers will find Andrew Kaufman Peter Pan Must Die Philip Kerr Edan Lepucki Andy Weir Dan Barber Tom Rachman Kari Heshtamar Marianne Ihlen and Stephen King highlighted with notes on accessibility and appeal.
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Andrew D. Kaufman
Simon & Schuster
Leo Tolstoy
Kaufman
John Verdon
Crown
Verdon
NYPD
Dave Gurney
Sherlock Holmes
Watson
Philip Kerr
Putnam
FBI
Gil Martins
Texas
St. Peter
Eyes of My Heart Love Letter to a Blind Girl
Poem expresses a lover’s path to love a blind girl. The speaker recalls questions about loving someone unseen and thanks her for opening inner sight. Time passes as darkness fades and true beauty is revealed.
Area poets invited to submit for Iralston showcase
Our Poet's Showcase invites area poets to submit work by email with the subject Poet's Showcase to Iralston jworld.com. Include hometown and contact information in the submission.
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Iralston
Jworld.com
Bestsellers week ending June 8 list top hardcover fiction
Nationwide data show Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes at number one, with Unlucky 13 by Patterson and Paetro, Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler, and The One and Lonely by Emily Giffin among the top ten. Tie-ins include The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, plus notable titles from Butcher, Hamilton, and Baldacci.
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Mercedes
Stephen King
Scribner
Patterson/Paetro
Little, Brown
Cussler/ Brown
Putnam
the One & Lonely
Emily Giffin
Ballantine
Hurricane Sisters
Dorothea Benton Frank
William Morrow
Jim Butcher
Roc
Light
Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley
AseraCare Lawrence Honors Nursing Assistants Week Heroes
Lori Selamab and Caroline, home health aides and certified nursing assistants at AseraCare of Lawrence, are featured as real AseraCare Heroes during National Nursing Assistants Week. The Lawrence office serves nine counties offering 24 7 care hospice aides social worker spiritual guidance bereavement counseling volunteers respite inpatient and continuous care and medical directors.
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Lori, Selamab
Caroline
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IEW
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