Thursday, March 11, 2010

Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Bracket Yourself for March Madness

Bracket Yourself for March Madness

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 9:30

It’s March, which means it’s time to break out the brackets. Time to pit sixteen greats against each other in a few exciting rounds of head-to-head matches and determine, once and for all, who is this year’s best of the best. Oh, you thought I was talking about basketball? No, this is ...

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39 Clues Book Giveaway

39 Clues Book Giveaway

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 6:00

**UPDATE: Somehow comments were inadvertently turned off. It should be fixed now...sorry. When the opportunity came along to give away a few signed copies from the 39 Clues series, I wasn't sure that I wanted to ...

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Book Review - Weight Release: A Liberating Journe

Book Review – Weight Release: A Liberating Journe

Monday, March 8, 2010 7:00

About The BookFor most people, “losing weight” is about loss—giving up foods and behaviors that have provided comfort and served other valuable purposes. It’s ...

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Book Review - Terror on East 72nd Street

Book Review – Terror on East 72nd Street

Friday, March 5, 2010 12:00

About the Book In Ernest Hunt’s gripping novel, Terror on East 72nd Street (Publish America), the story is made frighteningly convincing by his superb job of demonstrating the ongoing struggle ...

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Star Wars X Goodnight Moon Mashup By Noah Dziobecki

Star Wars X Goodnight Moon Mashup By Noah Dziobecki

Friday, March 5, 2010 11:35

The Force is strong with this one. Noah Dziobecki made this awesome, Star Wars-themed Goodnight Moon parody for a friend's kid's first birthday. But there is another: Noah's a dad-to-be himself. And there could be yet another. Because you...

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Help Save Reading Is Fundamental From the Budget Axe

Help Save Reading Is Fundamental From the Budget Axe

Friday, March 5, 2010 9:30

If you’re a regular reader of GeekDad, you know that all of us here are huge supporters of reading, and of any program that helps encourage kids to read. So you can imagine our consternation when we learned that the long-running Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program could see its government ...

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Tights Don't Help You Fly

Tights Don’t Help You Fly

Thursday, March 4, 2010 10:00

My earliest memory is riding in a car with my grandmother, probably somewhere in the Rio Grande Valley since that’s where my grandparents lived when I was little, and since my memory of this event includes being surrounded on all...

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Book Review - Kids, Parents and Technology. An Instruction Manual for Young Families

Book Review – Kids, Parents and Technology. An Instruction Manual for Young Families

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 7:00

About the Book With the recent data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which showed that kids 8-18 years old are consuming an average of over 7 hours of media a day, and the launch of the iPad, youth media consumption is ...

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Book Review - The Circle of Friends (Book 5 - Heather)

Book Review – The Circle of Friends (Book 5 – Heather)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 7:00

About the Book Goldsboro, North Carolina based author L. Diane Wolfe has just come out with the fifth book in her The Circle of Friends series, a developing set of inspirational fiction ...

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Book Review - Wrath

Book Review – Wrath

Sunday, February 28, 2010 7:00

About The Book First in ‘The Deadly Sins Series,’ Wrath (Sterlinghouse Publisher) by Robert Santoro, introduces Jake Chase; derring-do, adrenaline junkie, part of the FBI’s anti-terrorism unit.  Don’t let his boyish good ...

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