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January 2000

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published January 2000.

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Step-by Step Garden Basics

by Dean Conners

Everyone who gardens knows it is a continuous learning process. Like all learning, it has to start somewhere. For beginning gardeners, this often means consulting many different books to glean basic information on all the various aspects... Read More

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Between the Flowers

by Leeta Taylor

Posthumous publication, even posthumous praise, is bittersweet vindication and at the least a cautionary tale of nearsighted commercial aims. In the mid 1930s, Arnow, a young Kentucky writer being groomed to be a distaff rival to John... Read More

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Raggedy Ann and More

by Sharon Flesher

Arguably one of the most famous dolls in history, yarn-haired Raggedy Ann has been around for forty years longer than the overly fashion-conscious Barbie. When the Malibu princess debuted in the late 1950s, eventually becoming the... Read More

Book Review

White

by Anne-Marie Oomen

Jennifer O’Grady’s first collection deservedly won the Midlist First Series Award for Poetry. It is a slim volume, which reveals a wide range of interests and perspectives of her writer’s universe. She moves easily from the work of... Read More

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Salt Water

by Michele McDonald

Veteran novelist and nominee for the Lambda Library Award (If You Had A Family, 1996), Wilson has brought together nine of her best shorts in this most recent work. A brilliant feminist writer, she explores the relationships between... Read More

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A Mother's World

by H. Shaw Cauchy

A welcome addition to the award-winning series of women’s travel stories, this collection concerns itself with motherhood in all its manifestations. The travelers in these short stories are women with small children, mothers in search... Read More