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Joan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Joan Donaldson’s Followers (309)
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Joan Donaldson
Goodreads Author
Born
in Mount Clemens, MI, The United States
Website
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Influences
Tasha Tudor, Conrad Richter, CS Lewis
Member Since
April 2012
Bright spells and showers
The Irish coined the phrase: bright spells and showers, and those words describe the fall view out my window. Brilliant red and orange sassafras leaves, tawny oaks, against a flow blue sky...then clouds darken and fling rain across my farm.
Another bright spots during the showers is a visit to our mushroom logs. I've picked several perfect shiitake mushrooms that looked like chocolate truffles and Read more of this blog post »
Another bright spots during the showers is a visit to our mushroom logs. I've picked several perfect shiitake mushrooms that looked like chocolate truffles and Read more of this blog post »
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Hearts of Mercy
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2018
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On Viney's Mountain
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2009
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Ae Fond Kiss: Love Blossoms in Tennessee
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A Pebble and a Pen
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2000
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Wedded to the Land: Stories From a Simple Life on an Organic Fruit Farm
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2013
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The Real Pretend
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1992
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Cooking on a Wood Stove
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2013
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Platt Rogers Spencer: Creator of Spencerian Script
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Appalachian Trickster: Shortstory Prequel to On Viney's Mountain (Cumberland Mountain Series)
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How to Make Maple Syrup
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2013
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Joan’s Recent Updates
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| Before reading Paulette Mahurin’s unique novel Secrets of the Artis Zoo, I had not known how the Amsterdam Zoo contributed to the Dutch Resistance against the Nazis. Karl, the main character, tells the story that begins with him celebrating his fifth ...more | |
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What the Ocean Brings Tonya Ulynn Brown’s writing creates a powerful narrative showing Breanna Clarey swept from the ocean and into Dawson Robert’s life. Accompanied by his trusty Newfoundland dog, Dodge, Dawson brings Breanna into his small cottage a ...more |
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| Every young reader who has defended a treehouse or fort will identify with Sour Apples protagonist, Jimmy Hamiliton. Set in 1975, a world without cellphones and digital attractions, the novel focuses Jimmy’s summertime adventures, from the destructio ...more | |
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Spirt Sight by Hightower From the opening scene and throughout the novel, Hightower creates a mythical landscape and strong characters that pull readers into the conflicts. Spirit Sight is a hero’s journey as Joseph Campbell described, where a charact ...more |
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Wish I Was Here: Even When Invisible, There's No Place to Hide (Wish Trilogy Book 1)
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| Wish I Was Here taps into the universal emotions of feeling different from other teens. For Ana and Issac, their academic skills separate them from the other students who bully them. Because of his extraordinary intellect, Issac resembles Charles Wa ...more | |
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| Just as Mary Cassatt painted domestic scenes between a mother and children, or a young woman at the Opera, Lisa Groen has given readers an intimate look at the relationship between two sisters. One a rising star within the Impressionist community, an ...more | |
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Premonition Series: The Gift In The Gift, E C Quinn crafted a story that weaves together social issues of bullying, an absent father, and a deceased clairvoyant grandmother with a message for her grandson. Her note advises Sammy to, “Accept the Gift w ...more |
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Picking up the Pieces J B Abbot has created a cozy mystery where a group of puzzle solvers employ their skills to resolve a murder and find the villain. When Katie Chambers returns to her hometown on Whidbey Island, she works for a puzzle company and ...more |
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Polls
What shall we read in March, 2025? Books published after 1990.
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Around the World ...: Tennessee | 10 | 358 | Oct 16, 2020 06:45PM | |
On the Southern L...:
Now accepting nominations for March 2025 Group Reads
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Ask Joan Donaldson about organic farming
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...June 27, 2013 to July 27, 2013... Want to know more about life on an organic fruit farm? Ask me to explain organic practices, or why we use solar p ...more