tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13760055081266345262012-02-21T22:06:47.217-05:00Celebrate books and great gift giving at Novel News where we provide book reviews, hot new book releases, highlight great gift giving ideas and make your life easier with shopping tips and hints.Book Bouquethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15008663774871448443noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376005508126634526.post-35207888312834495842012-02-21T22:06:00.000-05:002012-02-21T22:06:47.223-05:00

If the cold and grey have you wanting to stay inside under a warm blanket you are not alone!  Instead of trudging to the mall for the February birthday gift sit back and relax with a hot chocolate and check out our great February birthday gift ideas! Book and Teas Gift Basket OUR SUGGESTIONS:SOUP, COFFEE or TEA Baskets anything warm and toasty. BOOK Baskets curling up with a good book is

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If you'd like to send a gift basket, don't want to include all the "junk" food that often comes in a gift basket you will be happy to know Book Bouquet has a line of healthier gift baskets and even no-food gifts. Better Than Birthday Cake $79.95 Our Better Than Birthday Cake gift box includes a hardcover book of your choice and healthy snacks. Our Healthy Snacks Gift Basket is a collection of

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Here are some great gift ideas to share your love with all the people you love this Valentine’s Day! Lavender Bath Basket Gifts for Grandparents –Puzzle book baskets, a mug with teas and cookies, sugar free candies all make great gifts for the grandparents!  We think our Puzzles and Smiles Gift Box would be great! Apple A Day Care Package Teachers-We have a lovely assortment of budget

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Okay, we admit there is no scientific polling in coming up with this list, but we think you’ll agree we got it right!  Hey feel free to add your own Valentine’s day “No Nos” to the comments section."Chia Pets", or anything else from an “As Seen on TV” commercial!  Last minute anything, from the wilting flowers to the crinkled card if you picked it up on the way home from work, (which made you

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New books that you will love to give for Valentine's Day or any day you need a special gift.  Here is the list of our bestselling hardcover books that are available for inclusion in many of the Book Bouquet gift baskets. 30 Lessons for Living by Karl Pillemer, Ph.D. inspirationA Devil is Waiting by Jack Higgins Spy Thriller All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley mystery All In The Education

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Our adorable baby gift baskets are perfect for welcoming the new little one to the world.  We offer unique baby baskets for baby showers, baby adoptions, twin baby gifts, gifts for first babies and gifts for boy and girl babies!Customer favorites include our Very Hungry Caterpillar Gift Box featuring the books or Eric Carle and a plush caterpillar.  Our Peter Rabbit Gift Box is also a fan

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Our housewarming gifts send a warm welcome to those who chose to move during this cold month! The term “housewarming” is descended literally from the act of warming a new house. Each guest would bring firewood, and build fires in all the available fireplaces, offering firewood as a gift. Today, of course we can spread the warmth with gift baskets full of gourmet foods to savor and gifts to turn

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January birthdays can be tough. The holidays just finished and you wonder what could the birthday person have left on their list of things they want?   Gift baskets are so perfect for this occasion! Our book and desserts gift basket makes a wonderful birthday gift.  A lovely tea gift basket or funky coffee gift can be just the right touch for that cold weather birthday! Sitting by the

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This year we’d like to help you support your loved ones’ New Year’s resolutions by offering a variety of gift baskets with healthier snacks and themes. From vegan to gluten free we have great tasting items that you don’t have to feel guilty about giving. We’re also happy to create a custom gift basket with your specific dietary needs in mind too! For diabetics we offer sugar free cookies and

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For women there are great mystery, romance and literature books that make great holiday gifts. A mystery romance is Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts. A new literature find is Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi. For inspiration there is 10 Mindful Minutes by Goldie Hawn. For the busy mom there is the Great 5 Ingredient Cookbook. For fans of True Blood there is The Julius House by Charlaine Harris. For those who

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Hot summer days and hot summer books go hand in hand!  Especially for those that like reading at the beach.  Our first official book review of the summer is Smokin' Seventeen: A Stephanie Plum Novel. She's back, who can believe Stephanie Plum is staring in book seventeen, though there was no fourteen, but there were four mini Plum "holiday" books so count them how you like.  Anyway, it's hard

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Father's Day is just around the corner and if you are ordering a gift to be shipped then you need to do that soon!  Here are some great book recommendations and gift ideas for Dad this Father's Day. Golden Moments Gift Box with Bel-Air Dead by Stuart Woods.  This elegant gift box features gourmet foods that Dads love and your choice of a hardcover bestselling book by some of Dads favorite

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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson is under fire by 60 minutes and other watchdog groups as shown on Sunday's 60 minutes and many morning news programs Monday and Tuesday morning.  Since I really enjoyed reading this book and his follow up Stones Into Schools I am into finding out what's up! An interview I saw this morning featured Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air and other non-fiction

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The title The Orchid Affair may have you believing that this is a lurid romance novel like the infamous Harlequin romances.  Fortunately for me I found it to be a fun mystery with a touch of romance thrown in for good measure. This is the first book by Lauren Willig that I have read so I wasn't sure what to expect.  This is a series she is writing called The Pink Carnation series.  The flowers

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Did you like Magnum PI with Tom Selleck? If yes, then you will enjoy the Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington novel series.  They are always fun, face paced mysteries written with a touch of humor and sarcasm. In the latest aptly named, Strategic Moves, Barrington finds himself a pawn in a game where he doesn't have all the pieces.  There is a financial "madoff" type crisis, a terrorist escape, oh

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I am not a yoga person, but I am happy to report you don't have to be to really enjoy Tales from the Yoga Studio: A Novel by Rain Mitchell. The story revolves around the lives of a group of diverse women who come into and go out of each other's lives through the local yoga studio.  The main character, Lee is the owner of the studio and it's her story we get into the most, though I am hopeful

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The Judas Gate is a spy type thriller by Jack Higgins.  The plot is interesting, the action is good, but reading it can be like being the spouse at the high school reunion, if you have not read any of Higgin's previous books.  There are something like six main characters working together and keeping track of who is who can get confusing at times.  Plus you don't have any of the back story to help

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How to review The Poison Tree without getting out my poison pen? I was so excited to read this book, because I heard great buzz about it, and maybe that was the problem.  I read the prologue and thought "Great, this is going to be another Tana French type book, can't wait".  By the time I was on chapter four I knew this was no Tana French mystery.  I tried to get into the type of book it is, but

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This week we talk with Joan Bigwood, author of the book, Co-opted, a fun read for fans of contemporary literature. How did you decide on the book title? The title is a play on words—co-opted, as in being forced into joining a group, and co-opted, a term I coined to mean experiencing life in a preschool co-op, which is why I wrote this book in the first place. I wondered what it would be like to

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Maybe your new year's resolution was to get along better with your partner's family.  Family relationships make such a difference in our general well-being and happiness it's worth the time to try to make those relationships work, or in some cases at least be civil.  If you've struggled with in-law issues you'll enjoy our interview with Kelli Cooper author of Love the Unlovable: In-Laws. What

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January is a great time for reading because all the bad weather makes you want to stay inside!  So why not take advantage of some extra down time and do something just for you.  Here are some of our favorite books for making 2011 the year you fall back in love with you! The 4 Hour Body is by Timothy Ferriss the same author of The 4 Hour Work Week. He spent ten years trying every diet, excercise

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HOT new books are out by your favorite mystery authors! Leading the pack are: Lost Symbol by Dan Brown Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly Intervention by Robin Cook The Professional by Robert B. Parker Rough Country by John Sanford If you have October gift giving to do, it doesn't have to be scary! Books are always the right size and color. At www.BookBouquet.com we make it easy to send great

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