Reunion, J.L. Penn?s first novel, was inspired by reconnecting with her childhood crush on the Facebook social media site. It got her thinking. How many people reconnect with old flames through social media sites? How many end up having an affair through the reconnections? The infatuation never created any sort of union at school or in [...]

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Adopting a child from a foreign country is for the big hearted, not for the fainthearted. Cathy Bonnstetter and her family adopted four and a half year old Alex from Romania after a long process dealing with agencies and bureaucracy. More than once they thought about giving up on the idea Cathy had had since [...]

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Yaktivate.com is pleased to present the 12 Podcasts of Christmas- an eclectic mix of holiday themed podcasts by many of our podcast show hosts. Listen in here as our very own Mrs. Claus, aka Bernadette Dimitrov, interviews each of the hosts participating in this special event. The hosts tell a little bit about their [...]

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Malcolm Aitken in his essay, Hitler, the Jews and the Ballot Box, provides an analysis of the campaign by the Nazis leading up to the 1932 Reichstag election. Aitken says, The consensus varies about when and to what extent the Germans started supporting Nazi anti-Semitic persecution and murder of Jews, but it was widely accepted [...]

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Jason Cookâ??s descent into a world of hard core drugs began at age 12. By 19 he was in prison, having started supplying drugs in order to finance his drug dependency which included Ecstasy, Cocaine and Marijuana. When Jason was a boy his parents moved from London to Hertfordshire, with the idea of removing him from [...]

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A conversation with John Francis is interspersed with relevant rhyme in a delightfully silly and engaging way. Some of Johnâ??s poetry is of the more serious and dark persuasion, but it is the more childish rhymes that bring him most joy. John talks with Clare Tanner on the Bookhabit Show and divulges that he talks [...]

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Michael Timothyâ??s wife said her husband didnâ??t come home that day. That day was September 11, 2001. Gladly, Michael wasnâ??t a victim in the World Trade Center collapse, but the man who returned home was as permanently changed as the New York skyline. Michael worked 5 blocks away at the New York Stock Exchange and went [...]

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Christopher Horan has seen the criminal system from many angles, having worked with criminals, neglected, abused and out-of-control children, and their families, for more than 30 years. Still he finds the energy to write about a career that takes so much of you, and often with little reward or thanks. Christopherâ??s has two books on Bookhabit. [...]

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Every culture has tales of hidden or mythical creatures, legends that grow beyond the size of the creatures they portray. Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster - stories are passed down through the generations, and youngsters grow up with imaginings of darkness cloaking monsters ready to pounce at any moment. Crypto Zoology is the study of these [...]

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Water is integral to life and woven into our history through every tale ever told. Garry Law traces New Zealand history through his book, Abundance and Constraint: A Short History Of Water Use In New Zealand. As a water engineer, he has worked in most aspects of the modern dilemmas around water; ownership, allocation, supply, [...]

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