Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons A Book Club Tale
A 1998 hospital room frames Lorna Landvik’s warm novel about five friends who start a book club a decade earlier. Each chapter recalls a meeting with a chosen title revealing secrets, humor, and growth as they navigate life, friendship, and loss. The set of companions evolves through shared laughter and tested loyalties.
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Lorna Landvik
Ballantine
Alisa Valdes- Rodriguez
St. Martin's Press
Lauren
Sara
Amber
Elizabeth
Rebecca
Usnavys
Monkeypox guidance for pets and owners amid 2003 outbreak
Health authorities outline risks of a zoonotic monkeypox spread from animals to humans and advise pet owners on symptom recognition, quarantine, cleaning, and transport steps. A CDC FDA ban on imports and sales of prairie dogs and several rodents from Africa is noted, with penalties for violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asia
Canada
Africa
U.S
Centers For Disease Control
The
Food and Drug Administration
CDC
FDA
The Man Who Made the First U S Postage Stamp
The article traces WT Silby’s role in issuing the first U S stamps under Polk era postmaster general Cave Johnson. It notes engravers Rod Wright & Co and the staged seal arrangements, plus early distribution and subsequent larger issues. Also covers a 1897 stamp ad, a piece on recruiting female philatelists, and Arctic Fundra first day issue details with address for submissions. Black River Stamp Club meets July 11 at Harvest Christian Church Elyria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piney Creek
WT. Silbey
National Capital
Green Mountain
Berkely County
Parkersburg
W. Va
The
Enquirer
General Post Office Department
Cave Johnson
Tennnessee
Rod. Wright & Co
Rod
Philadelphia
Washington
Silby
Black River Stamp Club
American Philatelic Society
Nature of America
Arctic
Harvest Christian Church
Boston Avenue
Eastern Heights Boulevard
Elyria
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Vincent O. Carter
Steerforth Press
Kansas City
Amerigo Jones
Carter
Switzerland
Jane Turner Rylands
Pantheon Books
Grand Canal
Venice
Italy
Loni
Eric Jerome Dickey
E.P Dutton
Dickey
Oryx
Drake
Margaret Atwood
Nan A. Talese
Doubleday
Snowman
Jimmy
Gretchen Moran Laskas
the Dial Press
Elizabeth Whitely
West Virginia
Donald E. Westlake
Mysterious Press
Warner Books
Josh Redmont
Josh
Mitchell Robbie
Roxana Robinson
Random House
Isabel Green
Adirondacks
Paul
Michael
Australia
Todd James Pierce
MacAdam/Cage
Sam Browne
California
Sam
Pierce
Philip Gulley
HarperSanFrancisco
Harlan Cohen
E.P. Dutton
Jennie Fields
William Morrow
Jane Larson
Jane
Wigfield
Amy Sedaris
Paul Dinelle
Stephen Colbert
Hyperion
Russell Hokes
America
Russell
Jane Heller
Stacey Reiser
Helen
Tinseltown
Stacey
Pai
Focal Health Department
Wew
Cde
Goviother
Htmf
Paulanne Oakes
Polk
New York
United States
Black River
Stamp Club Meeting
Frederick
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