Tag: Biographies & Memoirs

  • Book of the Day: Maid

    Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to SurviveMaid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

    The true story that inspired the Netflix Series!
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    Over 9,000 5-Star Reviews!

    "A single mother’s personal, unflinching look at America’s class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work."

    -President Barack Obama

    At 28, Stephanie Land’s dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet.

    Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie’s years spent in service to upper middle class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients’ triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren’t being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor.

    Maid is Stephanie’s story, but it’s not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the courage, determination, and ultimate strength of the human spirit.

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    Once in a Lifetime (Lucky Harbor Book 9) Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    After a wrenching loss, Ben McDaniel tried to escape his grief by working in dangerous, war-torn places like Africa and the Middle East. Now he’s back in his hometown and face-to-face with Aubrey Wellington, the hot-as-hell woman who is trouble with a capital T.

    Family and friends insist she’s not the one to ease his pain, but Aubrey sparks an intense desire that gives Ben hope for the future.

    Determined to right the wrongs of her past, Aubrey is working hard to make amends. But by far, the toughest challenge to her plan is sexy, brooding Ben – even though he has absolutely no idea what she’s done…

    Can this unlikely couple defy the odds and win over the little town of Lucky Harbor?

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    Code Red (A Rogue Warrior Thriller Book 1) Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Bob is just another homeless guy. So why is he being hunted by a crack team of assassins?

    Bob Singleton used to be a top CIA assassin. Now, scarred by his terrible past, he lives in a refrigerator box behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago.

    He just wants to be left alone. But his past is coming back to haunt him, in the shape of a nurse and a teenage boy who desperately need his help.

    They are being pursued by trained killers because they stumbled on a long-buried conspiracy, a secret that is tied to a failed mission in Bob’s military past.

    Now they need Bob to protect them. The old Bob, the one who fearlessly put his enemies in the ground.

    Bob sees a chance to discover the truth about what happened all those years ago. Can he redeem himself, and honor the sacrifice of the men who died?

    To do so, he must use the same deadly skills that made him a legend in his day. Skills he had sworn he would never use again…

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    It's Complicated: A BRAND NEW completely hilarious friends-to-lovers romantic comedy from Camilla Isley for 2024 Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Lori has been in love with her best friend Aiden since college. Now Aiden (handsome, fair, All-American dream doctor) is getting married, and Lori desperately needs a date to the wedding.

    So she asks the best man, Jace (tall, dark, and brooding), to pretend their platonic friendship is something more not to have to face the worst day of her life alone.

    Fake dating one best friend to forget the other should be easy… Plot twist—it’s not. When Jace starts acting like the sweetest, most attentive boyfriend, Lori begins to wonder if she’s been seeing him wrong all this time?

    They’ve been an inseparable trio since freshman year, but now everything is changing — and that’s not even bringing Jace’s feelings into the mix.

    Basically? It’s complicated.

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    Tom Clancy Code of Honor (A Jack Ryan Novel Book 19) Over 5,600 5-Star Reviews!

    As President of the United States, Jack Ryan has faced many challenges, but none have been as personal as this and never has he been this helpless in the face of evil in the latest entry in Tom Clancy’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.

    Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he’s been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam.

    President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can’t move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who is framing the priest.

    There’s one other twist to the story. President Ryan discovers a text on his private cell phone from the priest warning about a coming attack against America…

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    Frontier Justice: A Coogan Mystery Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    Danny Coogan, a freshly minted Montana Fish and Game Officer and recent Afghanistan veteran, hopes to bury his demons in a simple life in the wilderness around the small town of Darwin. But his life becomes a nightmare when he is shot and left injured and alone in the freezing countryside to struggle for survival.

    His assailant? A local Native American, he had considered a friend, Edmund Goodrunner.

    Thus begins a brutal battle of lies, deception, and revenge with drug runners, weapons dealers, kidnappers, and killers. Danny finds himself thrust into an FBI investigation and forced to juggle the threats of a dangerous domestic terrorist group that threatens every aspect of the community he loves and has vowed to protect.

    Danny, along with his surrogate father, Senior Game Warden Ben Whitetail, and the local Tribal Police Chief, instill the rich flavor of rural America through poignancy and down-home humor as they struggle, each in their own way, to bring peace back to their snowy town.

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    The Ludlow Ladies' Society Over 1,200 5-Star Reviews!

    Connie Carter has lost everyone and everything dear to her. Leaving her home in New York, she moves to a run-down Irish mansion, hoping to heal her shattered heart and in search of answers… How could her husband do the terrible things he did? And why did he plough all their money into the dilapidated Ludlow Hall before he died, without ever telling her?

    At first Connie tries to avoid the villagers, until she meets local women Eve and Hetty who introduce her to the Ludlow Ladies’ Society, a crafts group in need of a permanent home. Connie soon discovers Eve is also struggling with pain and the loss of having her beloved Ludlow Hall repossessed by the bank and sold off. Now, seeing the American Connie living there, the hurt of losing everything is renewed. Can these women ever be friends? Can they ever understand or forgive?

    As the Ludlow Ladies create memory quilts to remember those they have loved and lost, the secrets of the past finally begin to surface. But can Connie, Eve and Hetty stitch their lives back together?

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    The Comfort Book
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    Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement.

    Named by The Washington Post as one of the best feel-good books of 2021.

    “It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learnt while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.”

    The Comfort Book is Haig’s life raft: it’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.

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    House of Cards (House of Cards Series Book 1) Over 1,200 5-Star Reviews!

    The #1 bestselling novel that inspired the hit Netflix series!

    A dark tale of greed, corruption, and unquenchable ambition, House of Cards reveals that no matter the country, politics, intrigue and passion reign in the corridors of power.

    Francis Urquhart has his hand on every secret in politics—and is willing to betray them all to become prime minister. Mattie Storin is a tenacious young reporter who has a knack for finding the real stories hidden behind the spin. When she stumbles upon a scandalous web of intrigue and financial corruption at the very highest levels, she vows to reveal the truth. But to do so she must battle her own demons and risk everything, even her life.

    House of Cards is a classic political thriller reinvented for a new generation.

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    Enemies With Benefits: An Enemies-to-Lovers Romance (Loveless Brothers Romance Book 1) Over 6,000 5-Star Reviews!

    I don’t love him. I don’t even like him. I just want him.

    Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to do better – and vice versa. The day he left town was the best day of my life.

    Ten years later, the day he came back was the worst. Now he’s my coworker. Grown-up Eli Loveless is sexy as sin. He’s hotter than asphalt in the summer. The irritating kid I once knew is gone, and he’s been replaced by a man with green eyes, perfect abs, and a cocky smile. It’s bad that I want him. It’s worse that he wants me back. There are looks. There are smirks. There are smiles that make my panties burst into flame. And then, there’s a shared kiss that leads to the hottest night of my life. This is no office romance. This is a five-alarm fire.

    What’s a girl to do when the man I can’t stand is the one I can’t stop lusting after? Enter into a friends-with-benefits agreement, of course. No dates. No relationship. Just blisteringly hot sex, because if there’s one person I could never fall for, it’s Eli…right?

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    Motherhood is Murder (A funny mystery) (A Maternal Instincts Mystery Book 2) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    From the Bestselling Author of Bundle of Trouble comes a fun new installment to the Maternal Instincts Mystery Series.

    Nights out are hard to come by for new parents. So when Kate’s new-mommy club, Roo & You, holds a dinner cruise, she and her husband leave baby Laurie with Kate’s mom and join the grown-ups for some fine dining on the San Francisco Bay.

    But when one of the cofounders of Roo & You takes a fatal spill down a staircase, the police department crashes the party. Suddenly every mom and her man has a motive. Kate’s on deck to solve the mystery, but a killer’s determined to make her rue the day she joined the first-time-mom’s club…

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    The American Wife: Heart-wrenching and unputdownable World War 2 fiction (The Diplomat's Wife Book 1) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    From the moment the Nazis arrived in Vienna, I knew everything would change, especially for my closest friend, Judith. The very fact that she is Jewish means she is in danger, but I hoped that she’d get her visa in time to leave the country. That they wouldn’t come for her…

    But I was wrong. And when Judith is taken by the Gestapo, I realise I only have one choice: save my dearest friend or betray the man I love? Because I am a diplomat’s wife, I know I can steal the papers that will allow Judith to escape to safety. It’s the hardest choice I have ever had to make, but I know I must be brave, and do the right thing, no matter what…

    And besides, I’ve started to wonder which side of the war my husband, Edgar, is really on. Ever since I joined him in Europe, I’ve watched him grow distant and secretive. And as his behavior gets stranger, and he pushes me even further away, I begin to wonder: how well do I know the man that lies beside me every night?

    So as I creep into my husband’s study in the dead of night, I know in my heart I’m doing the right thing. But, will I be too late to save my best friend and, if I get caught… what will happen to me?

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    The Tourist Attraction (Moose Springs, Alaska Book 1) Over 1,300 5-Star Reviews!

    Curl up with a quirky small-town Alaskan rom-com that’ll leave you laughing.

    He had a strict "no tourists" policy…until she broke all of his rules.

    When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he’s stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless parade of resort visitors who couldn’t interest him less. Not even the sweet, enthusiastic tourist in the corner who blushes every time he looks her way…

    Two weeks in Alaska isn’t just the top item on Zoey Caldwell’s bucket list. It’s the whole bucket. One look at the mountain town of Moose Springs and she’s smitten. But when an act of kindness brings Zoey into Graham’s world, she may just find there’s more to the grumpy local than meets the eye…and more to love in Moose Springs than just the Alaskan wilderness.

    This story of Alaska marries together all the things you didn’t realize you needed: a whirlwind vacation, a friendly moose, a grumpy diner owner, a quirky tourist, plenty of restaurant humor, and a happy ending that’ll take you away from it all.

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    The Vanishing of Class 3B: From the No. 1 Kindle bestselling author comes a breath-taking new thriller to keep you on the edge of your seat Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head off on a much-anticipated day trip…

    But as night falls and the well-heeled parents – one or two of them famous, as well as wealthy – wait at the school to collect their weary offspring, it soon becomes clear that something has gone very wrong.

    The children and their teachers simply do not come back.

    What’s happened doesn’t seem possible.

    How can an entire class of children simply vanish?

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    Vox Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.

    On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can’t happen here. Not in America. Not to her.

    Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves heard.

    For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.

    This is just the beginning…not the end.

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    The Trench: MEG 2 Over 1,400 5-Star Reviews!

    Master of suspense Steve Alten always takes readers to the edge with his non-stop, adrenaline-charged novels. Now, in The Trench, Alten shows just how deep fear can run when you don’t know what lurks beneath the surface…

    Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth, scalpel-sharp. For the first time, the captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more…

    On the other side of the world, in the silent depths of the ocean, lies the Marianas Trench, where the Megalodon has spawned since the dawn of time. Paleobiologist Jonas Taylor once dared to enter this perilous cavern. He alone faced a Megalodon shark and cut its heart out. Now, as the body count rises and the horror of a monster’s attack grips the California coast, Jonas must begin the hunt again, and return to the waking nightmare of…The Trench.

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    Dog Show Demise: A Bishop's Landing Cozy Mystery Bakery owner Annie Bishop finds herself entangled in a mystery when a prestigious dog show comes to the charming seaside town of Bishop’s Landing.

    After a mysterious fire, the dog show turns deadly when Annie discovers the editor of Canine Today, dead on the first day of the show. As the town buzzes with speculation, Annie plunges into the world of competitive dog shows, uncovering dark secrets beneath the glossy surface.

    Amidst primped poodles and pampered pooches, Annie must navigate the complexities of the show ring while following the tangled leads of betrayal, jealousy, and old wounds.

    With her beloved golden retriever Cookie in tow and a flirtatious firefighter on their side, can Annie and friends Casey and Maggie help Sheriff Jake Hail collar the culprit before the final ribbon is awarded?

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    Mystical Warrior (Midnight Bay Book 3) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Trace Huntsman’s peaceful life has headed to hell in a handbasket ever since stunningly beautiful Fiona Gregor moved into the vacant apartment above his house.

    Kidnapped centuries earlier and transformed into a red-tail hawk, Fiona is human once more and must learn how to be a modern woman. But damned if Trace is going to be the one to teach her. Not when her mere presence ignites a fiery passion deep within his cautious heart.

    Fiona longs to overcome the painful memories of her tragic past—to let down her guard and become a mother again. But so far her handsome landlord is not exactly thrilled with the stray animals—and suitors—that keep following her home.

    When the wizard Maximilian Oceanus shows up, Trace reaches the end of his rope. Weird things happen when Mac is around—raging storms, snarling demons—but this time, Midnight Bay is at the center of a fierce battle, and Fiona is the primary target. Only Trace can save her, but first, the lovers must set aside their fears…and open up their hearts.

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    The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband Over 900 5-Star Reviews!

    Five years after David Finch married Kristen, the love of his life, they learned that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explained David’s ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, but it didn’t make him any easier to live with.

    Determined to change, David set out to understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better husband with an endearing zeal. His methods for improving his marriage involve excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all, the Journal of Best Practices: a collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies, including “Don’t change the radio station when she’s singing along” and “Apologies do not count when you shout them.” David transforms himself from the world’s most trying husband to the husband who tries the hardest. He becomes the husband he’d always meant to be.

    Filled with humor and wisdom, The Journal of Best Practices is a candid story of ruthless self-improvement, a unique window into living with an autism spectrum condition, and proof that a true heart is the key to happy marriage.

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    All That Is Mine I Carry With Me: A Novel Over 1,400 5-Star Reviews!

    A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the children, there is only doubt…

    One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot.

    So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin?

    Investigators suspect Jane’s husband. A criminal defense attorney, Dan Larkin would surely be an expert in outfoxing the police.

    But no evidence is found linking him to a crime, and the case fades from the public’s memory, a simmering, unresolved riddle. Jane’s three children—Alex, Jeff, and Miranda—are left to be raised by the man who may have murdered their mother.

    Two decades later, the remains of Jane Larkin are found. The investigation is awakened. The children, now grown, are forced to choose sides. With their father or against him? Guilty or innocent? And what happens if they are wrong?

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    We Were Liars
    Over 38,000 5-Star Reviews!
    New York Times Bestseller

    "Haunting, sophisticated… a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents."
    —Wall Street Journal

    A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret.

    Lies upon lies. True love. The truth.

    We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

    Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

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    The Memory Eater A teenage girl must save her town from a memory-devouring monster in this piercing exploration of grief, trauma, and memory, from the author of The Valley and the Flood.

    For generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach, Maine, surviving off the unhappy memories of those who want to forget. And for generations, the Harlows have been in charge of keeping her locked up—and keeping her fed.

    After her grandmother dies, seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow inherits the family business. But there’s something Alana doesn’t know: the strange gaps in her memory aren’t from an accident. Her memories have been taken—eaten. And with them, she’s lost the knowledge of how to keep the monster contained.

    Now the Memory Eater is loose. Alana’s mistake could cost Whistler Beach everything—unless she can figure out how to retrieve her memories and recapture the monster. But as Alana delves deeper into her family’s magic and the history of her town, she discovers a shocking secret at the center of the Harlow family business and learns that tampering with memories always comes at a price.

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    Touch: A heart-warming and romantic women's fiction novel. (Ellie Rose Series Book 1) She can heal her patients. But when tragedy strikes, can she mend her own broken heart?

    England, 1986. Physiotherapist Ellie Rose is devastated by the tragic loss of her soulmate. Unable to endure the stifling sympathy of friends, she quits London for the quiet countryside of Essex where she knows no one. And after suffering too long at an awful job, she establishes a holistic health clinic and wonders if she’ll ever reclaim her happiness.

    Much to her surprise, Ellie finds solace in healing her clients. But she still can’t release the pain lingering in her soul. Until a charming new neighbor with his own grief opens the door to loving again.

    Can Ellie at last find the strength to let go of the past and live life once more with passion?

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    The Watchmaker's Daughter (Glass and Steele Book 1) Over 11,500 5-Star Reviews!

    India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who’ll accept her – an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates him when he’s ill.

    Matthew Glass must find a particular watchmaker, but he won’t tell India why any old one won’t do. Nor will he tell her what he does back home, and how he can afford to stay in a house in one of London’s best streets. So when she reads about an American outlaw known as the Dark Rider arriving in England, she suspects Mr. Glass is the fugitive. When danger comes to their door, she’s certain of it. But if she notifies the authorities, she’ll find herself unemployed and homeless again – and she will have betrayed the man who saved her life.

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    The Lifeboat Sisters: A heart-warming feel-good romance to escape with Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Escape to Seaspray Cottage on the Cornish coast, with its stunning views of honeycomb sand beaches and aquamarine seas, where Ava is about to discover the man of her dreams might be closer than she thinks…

    When Ava Morrow’s beloved father, Jack, is killed on his lifeboat at sea, the Cornish village of Port Promise unites in grief. Jack’s twinkling eyes and warm smile are remembered by the whole village, and Ava is determined that he will never be forgotten.

    Inspired to follow in her father’s footsteps, Ava quits her job and begins to train as a lifeboat volunteer, alongside her best friend Harry, who was with Ava’s father the night he died. As they work side by side every day, Ava begins to see Harry, with his sea green eyes and his sandy blond hair, in a different light. Ava’s mother and sisters are worried about Ava’s safety and want her to stop, and Harry is the only person who really understands what she needs to do. Still, she pushes her feelings to one side, afraid to risk their friendship.

    But when, one summer’s evening, Harry reveals a tragic secret about the night that Jack died, Ava’s world is turned upside down once more. Will his secret drive her away from him and the new life she loves?

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