Beekeeping Everything You Need to Know to Start your First Beehive By Joachim Petterson This multifaceted book offers insight into everything bee-related: pollination, gardening, beekeeping and recipes. Whether you’re a first-time beekeeper or looking to improve and expand your backyard beekeeping, this book is a must-have. Beekeeping might seem exotic orContinue Reading
Book Signing for North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries “The book is an essential resource for anyone wanting to explore the state’s beer scene or plan a few suds-inspired road trips this summer.” —Andrea Weigl, Raleigh News & Observer On Wednesday, July 6th at 7:00 pm Erik Lars Myers andContinue Reading
Jerald Pope has created a 24 page coloring book of super-intricate patterns based on the original Beacon blankets woven at the world famous Beacon Blanket Mill. The Beacon Blanket Mill, located in Swannanoa, NC, was at one time the biggest manufacturer of blankets in the world. In the 20’s, 30’s,Continue Reading
My birthday falls near or on Mother’s Day every year, which I like to think of as either a made-to-order gift or a cosmic joke for my dear mother (mostly it’s the first one. I think.). It only makes sense that they put a day celebrating all of the hardContinue Reading
What does it mean to be a woman of the Smokies? While author Courtney Lix spent more than five years researching and writing her way to an answer, the Gatlinburg, TN, native – like Dorothy in Oz – actually knew the appropriate response all along. “To me, it means toContinue Reading
In 2011 Ernest Cline published Ready Player One which went on to win numerous awards, including an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, and millions of diehard fans. In March 2015 Steven Spielberg announced he would direct Ready Player One and the film is set to hitContinue Reading
Emoke Spring is springing and I am feverishly purchasing new books for the coming summer and fall. Our children’s books are going to be in the able hands of Amy. Erin can also help out since she loves children’s books. These recommendations don’t mean you can’t ask anyone else, butContinue Reading
Priceless and Unique Books by Emoke B’Racz There are books that just cannot be repeated. This has been the case with Categories on the Beauty of Physics, by Hilary Thayer Hamann, slices of art and physics and literature on shared pages filled with short bursts of fine and thought-provoking information.Continue Reading
by Lauren Napoli – Five great books that happen to have great romances too. Craving a good love story, but find your stomach turning at the prospect of a disappointing plot and overly saccharine writing? Here are my top five weird, wonderful, lovely picks! 1) House of Sleep, by JonathanContinue Reading
