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Bernadette Hondl Thomasy

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Coauthors and sisters Bernadette Hondl Thomasy and Colleen Hondl Gengler enjoy reminiscing about the Minnesota family farm where they grew up and sharing the challenging and fun times with readers everywhere. Graduates of the University of Minnesota, the authors love all things book-related and are active Friends of the Library volunteers.
Bernadette earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Michigan and worked as a newspaper and public relations writer in Toledo, Ohio for 30 years. Since 2009 she and husband Ken have lived in Sacramento near their two daughters who are pursuing careers in Northern California. Bernadette loves being a grandmother to two girls and visits her Minnesota family as often as she can.
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The Family Man by Elinor Lipman
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Elinor Lipman's quirky but memorable cast of characters love to talk about each other and, like most families, can't keep secrets. That leads to trouble but it makes a fun read and probably is even better in audio with the right voices bantering and ...more
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The Wager by David Grann
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Who needs historical fiction when you can have David Grann tell you the real story or at least provide understanding of the many conflicting versions of an event? Such is the case with The Wager, a remarkable pulling together of research on the 1740s ...more
Original Sin by Jake Tapper
"PLEASE NOTE: I would be exceedingly grateful that if you are a Trump supporter that you bypass reading and commenting on my review. I honestly have no tolerance for what you have done to our country by voting for Trump or continuing to support him. E" Read more of this review »
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The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens
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Listening to The Quiet Librarian was intense as a Bosnian Muslim woman relives the horrors she experienced in 1995 during the war between Bosnia and Serbia. I knew very little about the conflict but Allen Eskens brings the wartime personal trauma to ...more
The War at Home by Greg Gaut
" This does sound fascinating, but I will learn from your good summary and am not likely to read it. I do see lots of relevance to today's political tur ...more "
The War at Home by Greg Gaut
"If you want to learn about tumultuous times in Minnesota around the time of the Great War, Gaut's book has to be the prime resource. He spent about ten years writing this but I can understand why. The research is detailed, meticulous, and includes ma" Read more of this review »
The Residence by Kate Andersen Brower
"This book was an interesting read, but the author hopped all over the place when telling stories so it was hard to follow. A couple of times, I felt I had already read the same "story." Having said that, I enjoyed the stories and learning which first" Read more of this review »
Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai
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Yes, Twist is amazing. Set at the bottom of the oceans where underwater glass cables carry most of our computer messages, pictures, commerce and modern communications, McCann's novel delivers an intriguing story about the men making the repairs when ...more
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“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
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“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
Steven Spielberg

Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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John Berger
“Seeing come before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
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Oscar Wilde
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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