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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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6 editions
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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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5 editions
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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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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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Unspoken by Jann Alexander In Alexander’s debut novel, she twines together the poignant narratives of Willa Mae Becker and her child, Ruby Lee Becker in Hartless, Texas, during the Dust Bowl and Depression years. The story begins as the Becker family ...more |
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Rapid City Summer by Connie Richardson When Natalie is forced to move away from her friends in Chicago and relocate to Rapid City, she views South Dakota as the end of the earth. Her mother is not enthused about reviving a relationship with her quirky ...more |
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In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps along the Appalachian Trail
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| After graduating from the University of Michigan, Amanda Jaros faces the question everyone has asked at some point in their lives. What comes next? What is my purpose in life? While many people dream of high adventures, few follow through with their ...more | |
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| In Cracks Beneath the Surface, Mary Ann Miller created a twisted suspense-filled novel that dribbles in details about two related murders. Her descriptions of rural Indiana accurately portray a gritty small town surrounded by corn fields like the one ...more | |
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What shall we read in March, 2025? Books published after 1990.
49 total votes
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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— last activity May 06, 2020 11:11AM
...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
