Mary Kate Leming's Blog Posts Tagged 'book' (12)

Ron Standerfer, of Gulf Stream, looks over memorabilia and photos from his days as a fighter pilot for the U.S. Air Force.  His adventures — and misadventures — were all fodder for his first novel, The Eagle’s Last Flight. Tim Stepien/The…

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Lee DiPietro has been running since she was a child. She competes in about 25 races per year.

Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Mary Jane Fine

    

Lee DiPietro knows how it must look to the uninitiated.…

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Gail Adams Aaskov, author of two books, also is a Realtor, property manager  and a town commissioner.

Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Rich Pollack

    

Gail Adams Aaskov remembers getting…

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Ocean Ridge town attorney Kenneth Spillias has departed from his daily genre of resolutions and ordinances to pen a newly published novel, Widow’s Walk, Part I: The Precipice.

The self-published book is set in South Florida and tells the tale of character Jim Donovan in his lifelong struggle between…

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By Arden Moore

Even though I’m the one with a bachelor’s degree in communication, the stellar communicators in my family are a pair of rescued mutts who answer to the names of Chipper and Cleo. Their “talk” is always clear and consistent — whether they are communicating with…

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This year, voters in the sixth biennial Read Together campaign sponsored by the Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition have chosen Last Train To Paradise, by Les Standiford, as the book they hope everyone will read.

The book, available in local libraries and…

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By Christine Davis



    No muss. No fuss. Unlike many interior decorators, Suzanne Rheinstein prefers to keep decor pretty, comfortable and simple.

    Sharing the development of her design style, she’ll be speaking at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach on Feb. 15 on  “At…

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By Mary Jane Fine



David Pollay has told this story a quintillion times by now: He was in New York, his hometown, cabbing it to Grand Central Station. A black car zipped out of its parking place, cutting off the taxi, whose driver jammed on the brakes, avoiding a rear-ender by an inch. The guy behind the wheel of the black car, the bum, had the gall to curse the cabbie. So what’d the cabbie… Continue

By Mary Jane Fine

Oh, does Bill Finley have stories to tell! About his growing-up years in a Chicago tenement. About his Uncle Jack, who taught him at 16 to fly a Piper Cub. About meeting Anita, his wife of 36 years now,… Continue

By C.B. Hanif

Deborah Lee Prescott is a Christian, who teaches at Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Christian college, but whose passion is to study the memoirs and autobiographies of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.…

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John Katsaros has quite a story! And, until recently, not one he was allowed to tell.

During World War II, Katsaros served as a gunner, photographer and engineer in the

U.S. Army Air Corps, when he was barely out of his teens.…

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Reproductions of Laura Woodward’s work can be seen at the Boynton Beach City Library, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd., through April. A similar exhibit at the Delray Beach Historical Society, 3 NE First St., runs through May.



By Ron Hayes



In the 1890s, that golden Gilded Ager, Henry M. Flagler, enticed his fellow multimillionaires to discover the subtropical splendor of Palm Beach.

But who enticed Flagler?

In the… Continue