The October 28, 2022 Friday Finds are here with a new Author of the Week, Indie Author News, Delicious Recipes, Newly Released Books, a Blog Roundup & a Scrap Craft
Hello, my friend & welcome to the October 28, 2022 Fun!
I’m visiting the Northern family for a couple of weeks and having a wonderful time. The fall foliage is gorgeous. As I write this, I’m watching a constant rain of brilliant yellow, red, orange, and purple leaves falling passed the window. It’s beautiful and relaxing, especially since I’m not the one responsible for their cleanup!
What’s new in your part of the world?
I hope you enjoy this week’s post and be sure you leave a comment below voting for your favorite find of the week.
Peace & Love
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Friday Finds | October 28, 2022 | Author News
Do you have a new book releasing soon, a special promotion coming up, or any other news of your author life I can share with my readers?
In the reported book and author news this week…
Tom Tracy sent this in regarding National Adoption Month.
There are more than 7 million individuals in the United States who have been adopted. Of those, 1.5 million are children.
November has been recognized as National Adoption Month in the U.S. since 1995. This year, South Jersey based, award-winning children’s author, Tom Tracy, is partnering with Hindi’s Libraries, a New York based international literary nonprofit, in support of National Adoption Month. Together, they are coordinating a book donation effort with global reach throughout November. This effort will benefit children and families with a focus on those touched by adoption.
The book drive initiative will launch on November 1 through an Amazon Charity Wishlist and run for the entire month. All books collected will be donated to All About Love Adoptions (Exton, PA) & the Junior League of Rockford, IL – two organizations that are committed to strengthening families and ensuring a better future for children. To promote awareness and drive traffic to the Amazon Charity Wishlist, Hindi’s Libraries will be sharing various adoption statistics and highlighting relevant children’s books through social media every day in November.
In addition to the books collected from online efforts, Tom and Hindi’s Library co-founder Leslie Gang, both award-winning authors, will personally donate copies of their respective books to the cause. Hindi’s Libraries will also donate an additional 500 children’s books to the organizational beneficiaries of this effort.
The Amazon Charity Wishlist can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/authors4adoption
To learn more about this initiative, please contact Leslie Gang a Leslie@hindislibraries.org or 516.400.3428 for Hindi’s Libraries or Tom Tracy at teebirdjr@hotmail.com or 856-513-5054.
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E. Denise Billups is my newest featured author. She writes the most amazing stories. The most recent I reviewed was Keepers of the Gate Please welcome Denise to the website (on the sidebar & in this post) by reading my reviews and visiting her website. She is also the featured author in my Bookshop for the next week.
Would you like to be featured as my Author/Blogger of the Week? Please drop me a comment below to let me know. That’s all it takes!
Readers may also nominate a favorite author or blogger if they prefer.
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Friday Finds | October 28, 2022 | Books
These are a few of the books that caught my eye this week. Have you read them? Would you like to?
It’s Not the Three Little Pigs by Josh Funk
Meet the three (ahem—four!) little pigs as they convince the narrator to tell a slightly different version of their fairy tale: First, there’s Alan, the one pig in the bunch who is actually a builder. He’s got a BIG problem with building a home out of flimsy straw. Next, there’s Alfred, who wants to be an actor and wouldn’t dream of getting his hands dirty.
Then we have Alvin, whose dream is to be…a pumpkin. Last but not least is Alison, the fourth pig, who is ready to bring some flair to this story—if only she can get the narrator to agree to a few changes…And what about that wolf? Grab your jetpacks and get ready for this rollicking retelling of the popular tale.
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Excuse Me While I Disappear by Laurie Notaro
A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife.
Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn’t end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every hair’s root is a symbol of knowledge (she knows how to use a landline), experience (she rode in a car with no seat belts), and superpowers (a gray-haired lady can get away with anything).
Though navigating midlife is initially upsetting—the cracking noises coming from her new old body, and receiving regular junk mail from mortuaries—Laurie accepts it. And then some. With unintentional abandon, she shoplifts a bag of russet potatoes. Heckles a rude driver from her beat-up Prius. And engages in epic trolling on Nextdoor.com. That, says Laurie, is the brilliance of growing older. With each passing day, you lose an equivalent amount of fear.
And the #1 New York Times bestselling author has never been so fearlessly funny as she is in this empowering, candid, and enlightening memoir about living life on the other side of fifty.
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The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEY
A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.
“I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor’s obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.”
Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau.
During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale.
As Nazi killing squads roamed Birkenau before abandoning the camp in January 1945, Tova and her mother hid among corpses. After being liberated by the Russians they made their way back to their hometown in Poland. Eventually Tova’s father tracked them down and the family was reunited.
In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalizes what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive, at a time when it’s in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims. Written with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important book. Brabant’s meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova’s extraordinary story about the world’s worst ever crime.
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Friday Finds | October 28, 2022 | Recipes
Homemade Stromboli from Jo Cooks!
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Broccoli Potato Soup from Lil Luna
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Apple Cider Doughnut Cake from Princess Pinky Girl
Friday Finds | October 28, 2022 | Creative Projects
What project do you currently have in progress? If you are looking for a fun, fast project, this might be for you.
Scrap Fabric Mod Podge Pumpkins
If you are looking for pretty “scrap” fabric pieces, check here.
Friday Finds | October 28, 2022 | Gina’s Blog Roundup
What are some of your favorite blogs to visit each week? I love surfing through an eclectic mix of blogs. It’s a rabbit hole I fall into frequently!
The Irresponsible Reader by H.C. Newton
If you missed one of my reviews in the past week, here’s an easy link to find them all, or click on the image & links below. Be sure you check out the giveaways. There are some great prizes this week!
End Man by Alex Austin | Book Review | Fascinating #UrbanFiction #TechnoThriller 4.5 Stars
Twofer Murder by Lauren Carr | Book Review | $50 PayPal Giveaway
My Rainbow Baby by Caitlin G Johnson | Book Review, Picture Excerpt, $10 Giveaway | Children’s Book
Double Dog Dare (The Owl’s Nest Mysteries #3) by C.S. McDonald | Book Review – Fun #CozyMystery
Searching (Dragons of New York #1) by Rachel Graves | Spotlight, Excerpt, $50 Giveaway
What would you like to see in next week’s Friday Finds?
Thanks for reading this week’s October 28, 2022 edition. Peace & Love!
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The one about the 4 little pigs looks really funny! I have a busy November ahead! I hope you are doing well and staying warm!
Wow, I like the structure of your post, there’s definitely something for everyone: books, food, craft, you cover it all!
The spin on the 3 little pigs sounds fun.
Thanks for visiting Words And Peace
Your blogs always make me smile! Thanks Gina.
Gina, I’m so honored to be chosen author of the week. Thank you!❤️❤️
I have author news! My book, Gemini Divided, won three BookFest Awards: First place for both Mystery – Thriller and Romance – Suspense and Second place for Thriller – Suspense.
Great news, Lauren. I’ll put it in the notes for next week. Congrats!!