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		<title>The Growing Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In spite of the seriously dry conditions in our neck of the woods, we&#8217;ve had the best garden ever. Fabulous crop of green beans, amazing peppers, decent collection of okra, and heading for a banner year of tomatoes. And this is the first year our blueberry bushes have produced without the birds eating more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=667</link>
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		<title>Jewels in the Gulf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in Tallahassee, Florida recently to visit my elderly father. My sister, her husband, and various of their friends often take me on nature adventures when I&#8217;m down there&#8211;expeditions I would never entertain on my own. With the oil steadily encroaching on the Gulf coastline, they are particularly cognizant of how fleeting these moments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=658</link>
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		<title>The Rich and the Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year Mystery Writers of America chooses a celebrity editor/writer to put together an anthology of short stories based on a theme of the celebrity author&#8217;s choosing. Next year the anthology, THE RICH AND THE DEAD, will be edited by Nelson DeMille, published by Grand Central in April. I&#8217;m very psyched to report that my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=650</link>
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		<title>Happy July</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy fourth and fifth of July&#8211;hope everyone had a great weekend! This was my masterpiece&#8211;a light yellow sponge cake covered with whipped cream and sliced fruit. The blueberries came right out of the garden and the raspberries from the farmer&#8217;s market. It&#8217;s my week to come up with content for Jungle Red Writers so stop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=646</link>
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		<title>Fun at the Edgars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had a fantastic two days at the Edgars&#8211;Wednesday night was the MWA agents/editors party. Here&#8217;s a photo of MWA president Laura Lippmann, along with the incomparable Mary Higgins Clark, and Hank Phillippi Ryan, who chaired the committee to choose the Mary Higgins Clark award winner this year. The award went to SJ Bolton for THE [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=640</link>
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		<title>Hand of Fate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking for an exciting spring read? Cybergirlfriend April Henry has just released her newest thriller, HAND OF FATE, written with former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Lis Wiehl. About the book When the host of a popular radio talk show is murdered, the suspects almost outnumber his millions of listeners. Outspoken radio talk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=633</link>
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		<title>spring in Connecticut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is our neighbor&#8217;s tree&#8211;pretty spectacular!]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=630</link>
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		<title>Ellen Meister&#8217;s Amazon gift card drawing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation of a new book coming next year, cybergirlfriend Ellen Meister is getting ready to spread the word. Pitched as &#8220;Jodi Picoult meets THE TIME TRAVELER&#8217;S WIFE,&#8221; THE OTHER LIFE tells the story of a suburban mom expecting her second child who discovers that she might be able to slip through a portal to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=624</link>
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		<title>Everyone She Loved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;re celebrating not only the paperback release of Sheila Curran&#8217;s EVERYTHING SHE LOVED, but also her health after a bout with cancer. Read more at her blog. Hurray Sheila&#8211;may you live in good health to write many, many more!]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=619</link>
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		<title>Winging It: Memoir of a Vengeful Parrot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ROBERTA:  Today I&#8217;m happy to welcome another one of my cybergirlfriends, Jenny Gardiner, with a different kind of book and a hysterical title. Welcome Jenny! Tell us about your latest release and the inspiration behind it. JENNY:  This time around my book is a memoir, titled WINGING IT: A MEMOIR OF CARING FOR A VENGEFUL [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertaisleib.com/blog/?p=606</link>
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