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Book Review: Centsible Meals: How to Feed Your Family for Less

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Centsible Meals Cover 310 By Lorae Bowden
A new book has been released that teaches families how to save hundreds off their groceries bills without coupons or gimmicks. In Centsible Meals: How to Feed Your Family for Less (CFI, $9.99), Montana author Lorae Bowden discusses how she feeds her family of nine on $200 a month – less than a dollar per person per day. Her timely advice and tips can save anyone substantial money as she reveals her secret to feeding healthy and thrifty meals for pennies.

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Change Your Questions, Change Your Life

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Change Your Question cover 210By Wendy Watson Nelson
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is a must-read for anyone serious about making this their New Year. Complete with color pictures, graphs and illustrations to help readers visualize and personalize the important concepts, this book can help you find new solutions to old problems.

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Book Review: America’s Choir Meets Broadway’s Leading Man

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I wo national icons come together as America’s Choir meets Broadway’s leading man in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s new release, Ring Christmas Bells (Mormon Tabernacle Choir®, $18.98).
In this 16-track album, the talents of Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell –one of Broadway’s brightest stars –combine with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square, along with a huge bell choir of more than 100 members. The CD is comprised of live recordings from the choir’s 2008 Christmas concert from Temple Square, a musical spectacle that was seen in person by more than 80,000 last year.

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Book Review: Christmas on Mill Street

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In the tone of A Christmas Story, syndicated columnist and author Joseph Walker has created a coming-of-age story and, one of fitting in with Christmas on Mill Street (Shadow Mountain; Oct. 2009; 978-1-59038-804-4; Hardcover, $14.95). 

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Book Review: Gifts to a Hearing Heart

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hearing heart 1209 1 a novel by Georgia Jensen Blosil
This mystery romance unfolds within the beautiful and legendary San Francisco Bay Area.

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Book Review: Brianna, My Brother, and the Blog

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Jack Weyland, a pioneer in the LDS fiction genre, is back with his 27th novel, Brianna, My Brother, and the Blog (Deseret Book; Publication Date; Sept. 2009; ISBN: 978-1-60641-140-7; Paperback, $14.95), an amusing look at dating in the digital age.

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Book Review: Christmas Jars Reunion

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In an economy where the upcoming holiday season appears that for many, it will be less than “merry and bright” and more people than ever will likely need some form of charitable assistance, a rapidly spreading Christmas tradition is bringing hope to thousands around the globe.

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Book Review: The Undaunted: The Miracle of the Hole-in-the-Rock Pioneers

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Undaunted cover 809By Gerald N. Lund
The king of LDS fiction is back after a nearly decade-long absence. Gerald Lund, who penned the bestselling The Work and the Glory series, returns with another great pioneer saga, The Undaunted: The Miracle of the Hole-in-the-Rock Pioneers (Deseret Book, Hardcover, $34.95).

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Book Review: Pingo

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Pingo case 809Written by Brandon Mull
Illustrated by Brandon Dorman
Meet Pingo, Imaginary friend, or imaginary enemy?

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Book Review: Lemon Tart

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Lemon Tart 709By Josi S. Kilpack
Everyone loves a good mystery, and culinary mysteries are one of the country’s fastest growing genres. They combine a reader’s love for food and recipes with suspense and intrigue. Deseret Book publishing enters the genre for the first time with Lemon Tart (Deseret Book, $16.95) by award-winning novelist Josi S. Kilpack.

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Book Review: Hearts of Courage

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hearts of courage 709By John M. Tippets
Hearts of Courage is a true story of Alaska Aviation, perseverance, faith and prayers answered.

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Book Review: The Hourglass Door

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Hour Glass Door 609By Lisa Mangum
Fans of the Twilight series will enjoy The Hourglass Door (Shadow Mountain Publishing, $18.95).

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Book Review: Mormon Women

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A reformed communist guerilla. A Utah Supreme Court chief justice. A best-selling mystery writer. A survivor of Stalin’s Gulag prison system. A mom negotiating the ups and downs of teenage angst. These are just a few of the Mormon women who share their stories in these pages. Some are well known. Most are not.

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Book Review: Unsteady

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Young love. The simple term can bring to mind an innocent crush – the blossoming, tender emotions of two young hearts. To marriage and family therapist Jeanette G. Smith, however, it means something far different.

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Book Review: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing New Mormon Tabernacle Choir CD brings strength, healing and hope

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At a time when America needs it most, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square release Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing: American Folk Hymns and Spirituals, (Mormon Tabernacle Choir®, $17.98).

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