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Soup’s On: Easy Free-Style Soup Recipes!

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Soups can be fast, easy AND economical! Soup is a great way to stretch your food budget. And let’s face it, with chillier weather ahead, who doesn’t like a cup or bowl of hot, comforting soup? These are basic “free-style” soup recipes. Tailor them to your own...

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From the Vinyl Gym: Manupt

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The Vinyl Gym is giving songs involving “men” a real workout as we take a stroll down the Oldies Trail! Some Oldies made proclamations: James Brown let everyone know that Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag and also, in no uncertain terms, that: It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s...

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Free-Style Recipes: EZ Recipes “Your Way”

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Free-style cooking is basically cooking with simple basic recipes and altering them to fit your personal taste. Once you learn how to Free-Style cook, you won’t even bother measuring ingredients, you’ll just know instinctively, and from repetition, how to alter basic...

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Murder in Berkeley Square by Vanessa Riley

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This Regency-era England mystery opens just a few days before Christmas in 1806. The prologue sets an eerie stage of what’s to come. Benjamin Brooks, a high-profile Barrister is relishing in the fact that he discovered a hideous old Rebel’s Rhyme. He’s going to use...

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Concrete Prayers

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Life has a way of rattling even the best of us at times. Sometimes you’re on a winning streak – other times you’re on a losing streak. Let’s face it – losing streaks always seem to last “longer” than “winning streaks.” But that’s life – a constant flurry of changes...

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Quilty As Charged by Maggie Bailey

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Quilty As Charged is the second in this delightful Measure Twice Sewing Mystery series by Maggie Bailey. The setting: the picturesque town of Peridot, Georgia. Lydia Barnes is the new owner of Measure Twice fabric store. Like a lot of new business owners, she’s in...

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Desperation Reef by T. Jefferson Parker

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Desperation Reef is a hard-hitting compelling piece of crime-fiction. But it’s more than that. It’s also a story about unbreakable family bonds and the instinct for survival in this dangerous world we live in. It was the perfect marriage: Twenty-six year old John...

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From the Vinyl Gym: Spooky Halloween Oldies

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Every year I re-post this list of “classic-retro” blasts from the past that fit the spooky season like a glove. It’s the season to be screamin’: In 1956 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins popped out of his on-stage coffin to “put a spell on you” (and millions of others). He was a...

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