Archives: Book Excerpts 2017
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Excerpt from: Sugar Pine Trail (HQN Books), written by RaeAnne Thayne: In this heartwarming holiday romance, unexpected attraction between two polar opposites might just make for the best match yet. "RaeAnne Thayne is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors... Once you start reading, you aren't going to be able to stop." ~ Fresh Fiction
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Excerpt from: The Feminist's Guide to Raising a Little Princess (TarcherPerigee), written by Devorah Blachor: In this book inspired by her viral New York Times Motherlode piece “Turn Your Princess-Obsessed Toddler Into a Feminist in Eight Easy Steps,” Blachor offers insight, advice, and plenty of humor and personal anecdotes for other mothers who cringe each morning when their daughter refuses to wear anything that isn’t pink.
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Excerpt from: The Room at the End of the Hall: An Ombudsman's Notebook (Sense Publishers), written by Bette Ann Moskowitz: This first-person narrative describes what it is like to be a volunteer, long-term care ombudsman, and how, with thirty-six hours of training, she entered the unfamiliar world of a nursing home to advocate for its almost three hundred residents. She brings the reader along as she learns the ropes, makes mistakes, and meets tragic and beautiful people struggling for their lives. The book was a Finalist in the New York Foundation for the Arts literary non-fiction category in 2012.
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Excerpt from: The Summer that Made Us (MIRA Books), written by New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr: This novel is a powerful multi-generational story about mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins, and the ties that bind us together forever. Everyone has a summer they’ll never forget,
and for the women of the Hempstead family, this has never been more viscerally true. USA Today writes, “Appealing characters and a fresh and heart-tugging twist to a familiar conflict..." |
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Excerpt from: The Happiness Diet (Atria Books), written by bestselling author and mental health advocate Rachel Kelly. Since suffering from her last serious bout of depression, Kelly has developed a broad holistic approach to staying healthy and happy, and the heart of her recovery process involves a crucial shift in diet. Kelly and nutritionist Alice Mackintosh have drawn from more than 100 scientific studies to identify the foods that either drag us down or lift us up. The book contains over five dozen recipes that target particular symptoms, from insomnia and mood swings to anxiety and exhaustion.
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Excerpt from: Ignore It! (TarcherPerigee), written by Catherine Pearlman, Ph.D., LCSW: This guide teaches parents to selectively ignore bad behaviors so kids actually learn from their mistakes. Readers will learn how to eliminate problem behaviors, how to use time-outs effectively, how to create a reward system that actually works, and how to work out discipline when Mom and Dad are not on the same page. Pearlman is the founder of The Family Coach.
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Excerpt from: Something Like Happy (Graydon House), written by Eva Woods: Eva was inspired to write Something Like Happy after surviving her own brush with cancer and the breakdown of her marriage. It is an emotional novel that asks the question, "What would you do if you only had 100 days to live?" The Guardian says this novel is "Page-turning." Note: As Eva Woods, she writes contemporary women's fiction. She writes crime fiction as Claire McGowan.
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Excerpt from: Ultimatum (Sourcebooks, Inc.), written by K. M. Walton: This YA novel is a gripping and emotional story of two brothers who must come face-to-face with their demons - and each other - if they are going to survive a very uncertain future. They must make the ultimate decision about what's more important: family or their differences. Publisher’s Weekly describes the story as “a heart-wrenching portrait of a dysfunctional family and its destructive force.”
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Excerpt from: Stop Dieting Start Living (Interior design: Bright Flame Books), written by Ellie Savoy: Ellie is also the founder of the Stop Dieting Start Living Weight Loss System. Her commonsense and step by step approach has literally transformed the way people look at their body, health and life. Ellie spent over two decades under a great deal of stress. She lost sight of the importance of her health time and time again, gaining weight and yo-yo dieting to take care of it, skipping meals during the day, eating too late at night, and letting work dictate how all of her time was spent.
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Excerpt from: Clean Out the Closets of Your Life (Born Successful Publishing), written by DeLores Pressley: This book will help you uncover those obstacles in your life that keep you from living your dreams. Through the use of worksheets and thought provoking processes you will learn to identify those things in life that hold you back, put a plan in place to make the necessary changes in your life, learn developmental techniques for creating balance in your life, and, most importantly, you'll learn to discover a new you. Bestselling author, Les Brown, says, "This book is going to change your life!"
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Excerpt from: Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Lake Union Publishing), written by Mark Sullivan: Mark is the bestselling author of 18 books, including the award-winning The Purification Ceremony. This latest novel is based on the true story of a forgotten hero who saved countless lives during WWII. Mark spent time with Pino Lella over a ten year period as he listened to him recall his past. This story is one of courage, love and redemption.
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Excerpt from: Three Green Rats: An Eco Tale (Ink Pinn Press), written by Linda Mason Hunter and Suzanne Summersgill: This award-winning book teaches children to be eco-friendly. John Adams, Founding Director of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), wrote, “With simplicity and charm, they tell how three green rats lead their hometown away from greed for too much stuff to the fullness of a simple life that respects the earth.” (For ages 7 to 11 and precocious adults)
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Excerpt from: Allie and Bea (Lake Union Publishing), written by Catherine Ryan Hyde, the award-winning author of Pay It Forward: This is a cross-generational story about two women, whose lives could not be more different, and their struggle for survival and search for a place to call home. The Denver Post reports, "Catherine Ryan Hyde is a magnificent storyteller, an expert at plot and pacing and voice."
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Excerpt from: In Farleigh Field (Lake Union Publishing), written by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen: This is an historical novel which takes place during WWII. The book begins when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death at Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters. This suspenseful page-turner weaves a tale about loyalty, blurred class lines, love and betrayal.
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Excerpt from: Pretty Little World (Lake Union Publishing), written by Elizabeth LaBan, author of The Restaurant Critic's Wife, and Melissa DePino: This novel is a story about how an unconventional living arrangement, once thought to be idyllic, tests the bonds of friendship and marriage. When boundaries are blurred, the couples are forced to question their choices and reimagine the true meaning of family.
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Excerpt from: On Second Thought (HQN BOOKS), written by New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins: This story is about sisterhood, marriage and loyalty. It weaves a tale of how heartache leads to coming to terms with the inevitable imperfection of relationships and family. The Library Journal Starred Review states, "Emotional depth is seared into every page along with wry banter, bringing readers to tears and smiles."
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