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Cook your favorite restaurant meals at home with 'The Everything Restaurant Copycat Recipes Cookbook'
Restaurant prices have been creeping upward in the last few years, and for many people, this means dining out has become a special indulgence instead of a regular occurrence. But what if you could enjoy your favorite restaurant dishes without the hefty menu price?
That’s where The Everything Restaurant Copycat Recipes Cookbook by cookbook ...Read more

11 cures for your 'White Lotus' hangover
Did you become far too invested in "The White Lotus" Season Three for it to only be eight episodes? Have you scrolled through every Tweet, TikTok carousel and Instagram comment about the finale and still aren’t satisfied? Are you dreaming of a vacation where the conversation poolside is seeping with mixed messages and underlying motivations?
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Move over, baby showers. There’s a new tradition in town
Forget the diaper toss game and mimosa station. The hottest trend for expecting parents in 2025 is the nesting party — a low-key, practical spin on the traditional baby shower. It’s all about getting things done with your sleeves rolled up, not just sipping punch and unwrapping onesies.
According to Pinterest Predicts — an annual report ...Read more

Lori Borgman: The intersection of bunnies, Christmas and Easter
On a cold spring day years ago, young neighbor children found a small, dead bunny in their yard. They ran inside to tell their mother about the discovery. She went outside with the children to view the pitiful sight.
When the woman’s husband came home that evening, unbeknown to the children, he disposed of the bunny. The next day, the ...Read more

Secrets threaten to derail CIA duo’s quest for vengeance
Krista Beggan’s debut novel "A Life Saving Bullet" starts off fast and never lets up. Six months after a young CIA officer dies during a clandestine operation, his best friend and sister, both CIA officers themselves, get assigned the mission of finding his killer. Hunting a ruthless criminal puts everything at stake, especially since the best...Read more

Exploring family, love, loss and second chances
Through alternating perspectives in "Kalayla: Unraveling Tangles," Jeannie Nicholas brings to life an engaging story that explores themes of family, love, loss, marital abuse, healing, and second chances.
Set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, between the summer of 1999 and the spring of 2002, the novel follows the lives of three women from vastly ...Read more

Heart survivor living on a remote Christmas tree farm bought an AED. His family saved him with it
Once their three children became adults, Michael and Jill Loughran moved from Stowe, Vermont, to a rural town about an hour away – more specifically, to a 300-acre spread that used to be a wholesale Christmas tree farm.
Before semi-retiring, Michael had been the operations manager at his family's industrial engineering company in Philadelphia...Read more

Lori Borgman: Do-it-yourself plumbing is a pipe dream
There are two kinds of people in this world: Do it Yourself People and Hire Someone to Do It For You People. Wisdom is knowing which category you fall into.
We are Do it Yourself People. Unless it involves plumbing. Then we are Hire Someone to Do It For You People.
Experience has taught us that nearly every home plumbing project can and will ...Read more

An in-depth look at race, culture and their effect on society
Cultural Psychosis. You might not have heard the term before, but you’re sure to have seen its effects. The term is used to describe a unique set of psychological and behavioral responses — such as feelings of hopelessness and alienation, anxiety, depression, anger, and maladaptive behaviors — within a marginalized group to systemic ...Read more

Road to freedom fraught with danger in historical western adventure
The son of a Virginia plantation owner and an enslaved woman flees west after he is accused of killing his father… but that is only the beginning of his misadventures in Dan Schafer’s western homage, "Sun Walker."
In 1821, Joshua Beck is one of a hundred volunteers for a large trapping party ascending the Missouri River on keelboats to its ...Read more

New pacifier monitors electrolytes in newborns
Creators of an innovative pacifier believe it will transform neonatal care.
According to team lead and associate professor Hong Yeo in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, this is the first device in the world that can continuously measure a baby’s electrolyte concentrations.
“We started to develop this technology...Read more