Movie Pass Giveaway ~ Missing Link

We are hosting a special advance screening  of Missing Link on Saturday, April 6th at 11:00am and have several passes to give away!

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small-minded high-society peers seems to recognize this. Sir Lionel’s last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on traveling to America’s Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature.… Read More »

Book of the Week: My rec plus tons of Aha! Subscriber Recommendations too!

I chose Where the Crawdads Sing as our “book of the week” last October.  I have since verbally recommended this book over and over and over again but just realized that I never WROTE about how much I loved it after reading it.   This book is one of my favorite books EVER!  After learning about it,  both my Aunt and my mother-in-law chose it for their book clubs. … Read More »

Book of the Week: Educated

This is my Meadowlake book club’s April choice.  I haven’t read it yet but here’s what Amazon has to say:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S AWARD IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post O: The Oprah MagazineTime • NPR • Good Morning America San Francisco ChronicleThe Guardian The Economist Financial TimesNewsdayNew York PosttheSkimmRefinery29BloombergSelfReal Simple Town & CountryBustlePastePublishers WeeklyLibrary JournalLibraryReadsBookRiot • Pamela Paul, KQED • New York Public Library

An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.… Read More »

Books of the Week: 101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers

My 11th grader’s ACT Tutor (Brad Daniell) recommended that my son choose a book from this list of 101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers.   They plan to read it together and discuss….much like a book club for just the two of them.   The goal:   increase his ACT reading category score.  

Everyone who knows me, understands that I’m a book lover.  … Read More »

Worth the drive – ‘Salad Days’ return with Salata expansion

By Christina Mimms for The Aha! Connection

If you mourned the closing of Doc Green’s years ago, there’s a new restaurant in town to finally fulfill your custom salad dreams.

Salata, with multiple locations around Atlanta, offers more than 50 different items to build your own salad. From proteins to fruit to vegetables, you can fill your bowl with as many healthy delights as you wish.… Read More »

Movie Pass Giveaway ~ HANNA

Amazon Prime Video invites you and a guest to attend an advance screening of the high-concept thriller and coming-of-age drama HANNA on Wednesday, March 27 at 7:00pm at AMC Phipps Plaza.  Click on the link below to download free passes to an exclusive sneak peek of the at the first two episodes. Plus each attendee will receive complimentary concessions and a HANNA survival kit!… Read More »

Movie Pass Giveaway ~ Red Carpet Event ~ BREAKTHROUGH

20th Century Fox is having an exclusive red-carpet advance screening on Wednesday, March 13, with star Chrissy Metz and producer DeVon Franklin, and they have invited The Aha! Connection subscribers to attend!  Please note that this is not a typical screening, so RSVPs will be first-come, first serve amongst all participating groups. Please be patient with on-site representatives as they try to evaluate how many attendees can be admitted – we intend to admit as many people as possible.… Read More »

Style Moment: We’re Giving Away the New Early Spring Polish Colors!

Welcome Spring! Hopefully the cold, rainy weather will soon be behind us!  It is time for rejuvenating mani/pedis in fresh colors!

So if you are a Lady Gaga fan and enjoyed her performance of “Shallow” with Bradley Cooper at the Oscars, I have a little inside scoop for you.  The color she wore on her nails that night is a brand new color by Essie, called Stirring Secrets.  Read More »

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Aha! Style Editor
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Tatiana Gives Advice to a Woman Worried About Husband’s Dementia Symptoms

Dear Tatiana,

My husband is 83, in great shape, healthy and plays tennis. He is losing memories. Things that just happened he does not remember. He asks me the same question over and over. I have taken him to a neurologist. He gave him pills to take twice a day. He won’t take them as he never took any pills in his life, not even vitamins. … Read More »

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tatiana@theahaconnection.com

Book of the Week: (FIVE FEET APART)

Friday I watched the trailer for this week’s movie giveaway and thought to myself:  “I bet this book was good!”   On Saturday, I found myself meandering through Barnes and Noble and ran across the book.   I bought it, went home, sat in the gorgeous Saturday warm sunshine,  and commenced reading.   My husband MADE me put it down to leave for the Dunwoody Varsity baseball game. … Read More »

Movie Pass Giveaway: FIVE FEET APART (Several Passes for Aha! Subscribers)

The Aha! Connection invites you and a guest to attend an advance screening of FIVE FEET APART on Wednesday, March 6th at 7:00 PM at Regal Cinemas Avalon 12

Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old…she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient.… Read More »

Audra’s Fitness Blog: There aren’t many things for which I’d get up before 6 AM!

What would get me up before 6 AM?  The first thing that comes to mind is:  catching a flight to a tropical beach.   I’m not sure there’s much else for which I’d willingly get up that early.

When I told my friend Libba I’d work out with her at 6 AM at Dunwoody Baptist one morning I should have remembered that it is extremely difficult for me to get myself anywhere that early. … Read More »

Book of the Week: Unstoppable: Step into Your Purpose, Run Your Race, Embrace the Future

I’m in a Christian women’s group studying this book together.  I’ve just finished chapter 5 and decided I needed to share the book as our book of the week.   We are reading one chapter per week but I’m having a hard time reading one chapter then stopping and waiting until the next week.  I have the actual paperback book AND the audio version.  … Read More »

City Winery Announces Spring Wine Down Weekends March Lineup

City Winery at Ponce City Market is thrilled to announce the return of Wine Down Weekends, a free music series held on the expansive, dog-friendly patio every Friday and Saturday this spring from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Kicking off on Friday, March 1st with a high-energy show from artist, Wesley Cook, the series will take place through May 2019.… Read More »

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(404) 946-3791

Book of the Week: Originals by Adam Grant

I haven’t read this but it is the March choice for my neighborhood book club and Heather always chooses interesting books! 

The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas—and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take and co-author of Option B


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