Tag: Biographies & Memoirs

  • Book of the Day: Tuesdays with Morrie

    Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary EditionTuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition by Mitch Albom

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    Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.

    For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

    Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?

    Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live.

    Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world.

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    Miss Janie's Girls Over 3,700 5-Star Reviews!

    A bittersweet reunion becomes a time for looking back and starting over in a heartwarming new novel from New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.

    Miss Janie is at the end of a long and full life, but she has no intention of crossing that finish line until she’s found her girls…

    It’s been ten years since Teresa and Kayla shook off the dust of Birthright, Texas, went their separate ways, and never looked back. Apart from their foster mom, Miss Janie, they don’t have many fond memories of their hometown. Or of each other. Still, neither can forget the kind woman who opened her home and heart to two teenagers in need.

    When a private investigator—who just happens to be Miss Janie’s handsome nephew—tracks them both down and tells them Miss Janie is dying, Teresa and Kayla know deep down that they’ve got to be there for her as she had been there for them.

    With Teresa and Kayla together again under the same roof, old tensions may flare, but with Miss Janie’s help, they might rediscover that home is the perfect place for new beginnings.

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    One-Pan Meals: Sheet Pan and Skillet Dinners for the Whole Family Prepare 66 delicious and healthy meals for the busy household with just one pan in the oven.

    One-Pan Meals is really cooking at its simplest. Prepare entire family meals in a single pot, sheet pan, skillet, or casserole in the oven that will save you time on prep work, cooking, and cleaning—perfect for a hectic Monday or a busy weekend.

    Featuring Swedish celebrity chef Tareq Taylor’s simple and tasty approach to cooking, One-Pan Meals uses a lot more greens and other simple ingredients for healthy meals, spices from across the globe for bold flavors, and just one pan to make them all.

    Make pizzas with different fillings, delicious cookies baked in a pan, pull-apart breads and stuffed sandwiches, and homemade muesli while the oven is still hot. One-Pan Meals provides 66 wholesome, lip-smacking recipes for vegetarian dishes, seafood, meat and poultry, pizzas and breads, and sweets:

    • Mushroom and zucchini frittata
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    Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting a more complete and vivid portrait of our closest relatives.

    On the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe is a community where the principal residents are chimpanzees. Through Goodall’s eyes we watch young Figan’s relentless rise to power and old Mike’s crushing defeat. We learn how one mother rears her children to succeed and another dooms hers to failure. We witness horrifying murders, touching moments of affection, joyous births, and wrenching deaths.

    As Goodall compellingly tells the story of this intimately intertwined community, we are shown human emotions stripped to their essence. In the mirror of chimpanzee life, we see ourselves reflected.

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    Paper Wife: A Novel
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    Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife—a paper wife.

    On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and detainment on Angel Island. But when she finally reaches San Francisco, she’s met with a surprise. Her husband, Chinn Kai Li, is a houseboy, not the successful merchant he led her to believe.

    Mei Ling is penniless, pregnant, and bound to a man she doesn’t know. Her fragile marriage is tested further when she discovers that Siew will likely be forced into prostitution. Desperate to rescue Siew, she must convince her husband that an orphan’s life is worth fighting for. Can Mei Ling find a way to make a real family—even if it’s built on a paper foundation?

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    A Very Nantucket Christmas: Two Holiday Novels Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    Celebrate the holidays with New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer in this festive collection featuring two heartwarming tales set on Nantucket island.

    The Yuletide season’s wonderful traditions are much loved by Nicole Somerset, new to Nantucket and recently married to a handsome former attorney. But the cheerful mood is soon tempered by Nicole’s chilly stepdaughter, Kennedy, who arrives without a hint of holiday spirit.

    Determined to keep her stepmother at arm’s length—or, better yet, out of the picture altogether—Kennedy schemes to sabotage Nicole’s first Christmas with her new husband. Yet, in the season of miracles, holiday joy has a way of coming to all, both naughty and nice.

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    A Forever Thing (A Three Magic Words Romance) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Fancy Lynn Sawyer says that before she’ll even think about the M word, a man has to say the three magic words, but ‘I love you’ isn’t enough. He has to promise her a forever thing.

    She intends to find her forever thing in Florida, her home since she was fifteen, so she wasn’t even looking for it when she comes to Texas to help her grandmother. With a job at the elementary school lined up, Fancy Lynn moves but she intends to stay only until her grandmother regains her health.

    Theron Warren has absolutely no intention of falling in love again. His one failed marriage was painful enough. As an elementary school principal, part-time cop, and full-time ranch owner, he doesn’t have time for the sassy woman who suddenly appears in his life: first in the jailhouse, then at his school and soon everywhere he turns.

    Fate is trying to tell Fancy Lynn and Theron that they are soul mates, but is having a tough time convincing them.

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    The Riviera House Over 1,600 5-Star Reviews!

    A lush and engrossing novel of one woman’s quest to keep Nazis from stealing priceless art during WWII, perfect for fans of The Rose Code.

    Paris, 1939: The Nazis think Éliane can’t understand German. They’re wrong. They think she’s merely cataloging art in the Louvre and unaware they’re stealing national treasures for their private collections. They have no idea she’s carefully decoding their notes and smuggling information to the Resistance. But Éliane is playing a dangerous game. Does she dare trust the man she once loved with her secrets, or will he only betray her once again? She has no way to know for certain… until a trip to a stunning home on the French Riviera brings a whole new level of peril.

    Present Day: Wanting to forget the tragedy that has left her life in shambles, Remy Lang heads to a home she’s mysteriously inherited on the Riviera. While working on her vintage fashion business, she discovers a catalog of the artworks stolen during World War II and is shocked to see a painting that hung on her childhood bedroom wall. Who is her family, really? And does the Riviera house hold more secrets than Remy is ready to face?

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    Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Edition With Complete Illustrations (A Classic Illustrated Novel of Charlotte Brontë) Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontë’s moving masterpiece – the novel that has been “teaching true strength of character for generations” (The Guardian). Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

    Jane Eyre is a coming of age novel which follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.

    The novel revolutionized prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist’s moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are colored by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness", and the literary ancestor of writers like Marcel Proust and James Joyce.

    The book contains elements of social criticism with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core, and it is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane’s individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism.

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    Chicago Blue: A Fast-paced and Funny Crime Caper (Red Riley Adventures Book 1) Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    She’s not a karate expert. She can’t pick a lock. And she certainly isn’t a master of disguise…

    But Riley is stubborn, and this is her city. She’s not going down without a fight!

    If you like female characters who are strong, funny, and real, then you’re going to love Kay Riley, a Chicago cop wrongly accused of a terrorist bombing, and on the run for her life. A wiser woman might flee the country, but Riley is determined to clear her name.

    Armed with a quick wit and some friends who don’t mind breaking a few laws, Riley becomes an amateur vigilante. Can she stop the killer before they strike again?

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    One Little Favor: A Christmas Novella (Frozen Hearts Series) This is teeing up to be the worst Christmas ever.

    First, my parents win a last-minute cruise and ditch me for the white sand beaches of the Caribbean.

    Then, my annoyingly sexy boss, Tom, needs one *little* favor—in the form of sacrificing my entire weekend to help him revamp his office space. Now I’m forced to spend the last days before Christmas with the very person I’m trying to avoid.

    Some sort of holiday spirit must be in the air, though, because the more time we spend holed up in his corner office together, the harder it becomes to keep our emotions off and our clothes on.

    I may have also agreed to be his fake girlfriend, but that part’s unclear. Mostly because nothing that’s developing between us in that office feels fake.

    Then he springs a surprise getaway on me—effectively making all my Christmas dreams come true—and suddenly it’s impossible to remember all the reasons getting involved with my boss is a terrible idea.

    But no matter how hard he tries to convince me this can work between us, when reality hits, only one of us stands to lose everything. And it isn’t him.

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    The Signal: A First Contact That Would Drag Our World Towards Armageddon. (Earth Song Series) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    For decades radio telescopes have scoured the skies for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence but have found none. Why?

    Could it be we really are alone in the universe? Or is it that the truth has been withheld from us by a global conspiracy of silence?

    When radio telescope operators Lauren Stelleck, a woman with a special gift enabling her to literally see certain sounds, and Steve Andrews, a diehard sci-fi geek, detect a signal like no other at Jodrell Bank in England, a chain of events is unleashed that propels Earth towards all-out nuclear war. Can Lauren and Steve unlock the secret of the signal before our species tears itself apart?

    Watch the skies because the darkness is coming for us…

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    Caroline Creek Chaos (Caroline Creek Series Book 2) A community is most vulnerable without its leader. When Bishop Mast disappears from the Amish community of Caroline Creek, rumors, gossip, and speculation quickly begin to dominate conversations.

    That speculation is soon replaced by worry, and then, fear. Someone, or something, is manipulating members within the community—an invisible force, playing God with their lives. Still, steeped in tradition and manmade rules, they try mightily to stay the course. Now, they must elect a new leader to replace the bishop. But even in this simple task, the invisible force intervenes.

    Maria Reader, a controversial Amish teen who is perpetually at odds with the ministers, who lives with one foot inside the community and one foot out, is one of the only people asking the tough questions. Maria teams up with Bruce Ellsworth, an English private investigator from the nearby city, and together, they search for the missing bishop.

    The community’s lack of leadership is ultimately their downfall. Caught in a tangled web of deceit, power struggles, and always the invisible force manipulating them, they finally run out of time and members begin to turn on each other. The only real question is, can Maria Reader save them before all is lost?

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    Christmas on Reindeer Road (Highland Falls Book 2) Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    Can the magic of mistletoe bring together two busy single parents?

    Mallory Maitland knows all too well what it’s like to feel abandoned, which is why she’s sworn never to give up on her two stepsons — her late husband’s children. But when the teens land in hot water, she’s got a whole new problem: how to resist the caring and incredibly hot Chief of Police Gabriel Buchanan. All Mallory wants is to give the boys a magical holiday. She doesn’t need the distraction of wondering what it would be like to kiss Gabriel under the mistletoe.

    After his wife died, Gabriel left his job as an adrenaline-chasing New York City homicide detective to focus on raising his three sons. But back in Highland Falls, he doesn’t have to go looking for trouble. It finds him — in the form of a beautiful neighbor and her troublemaking stepchildren. With Gabriel’s mother-in-law looking for any excuse to gain custody of his sons, Gabriel can’t risk getting involved with Mallory, even though she’s the only woman capable of making this Christmas — and all the rest to come — his best ever.

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    The Mercy Rule: A Novel Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Once Dismas Hardy was a cop. Now he spends his days in a lawyer’s suit, billing hours to a corporate client in a downtown San Francisco office. Hardy’s wife and kids like it that way. Then one client changes everything.

    Graham Russo, a former baseball star, is charged with murdering his dying father. Was it suicide, the last desperate act of a dying man? Was it murder? Or mercy?

    Now, as a carnival of reporters, activists, cops, lovers, and families throng around the case, Dismas Hardy is going to trial with a client he doesn’t trust, a key witness he cannot believe, and a system that almost destroyed him once. For Dismas, this case will challenge everything he believes about the law, about his family, and about himself. Because a chilling truth is beginning to emerge about an old man’s lonely death. And what Dismas knows could put him next in line to die…

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    Summer on the Island: The Perfect Beach Read Over 900 5-Star Reviews!

    A summer of healing, friendship, love…and a secret that could change everything.

    After the death of her US senator father, Marlow Madsen travels to the small island off the coast of Florida where she spent summers growing up to help her mother settle the family estate. For Marlow, the trip is a chance to reconnect after too long apart. It’s also the perfect escape to help her feel grounded again—one she’s happy to share with friends Aida and Claire, who are hoping to hit reset on their lives, too.

    A leisurely beachfront summer promises the trio of women the opportunity to take deep healing breaths and explore new paths. But when her father’s will reveals an earth-shattering secret that tarnishes his impeccable reputation and everything she thought she knew about her family, Marlow finds herself questioning her entire childhood—and aspects of her future. Fortunately, her friends, and the most unlikely love interest she could imagine, prove that happiness can be found no matter what—as long as the right people are by your side.

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    Death of a Dog Whisperer (A Melanie Travis Mystery Book 17) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    It’s summer in Connecticut, and Melanie Travis’s life has become an endless string of dog shows, soccer camp, and the antics of her energetic toddler. She hardly has time to pay much attention to her Aunt Peg’s new protégé, Nick Walden, a self-proclaimed “dog whisperer” with an uncanny gift for decoding dog-speak.

    The well-heeled dog owners of Fairfield County are lapping up his alleged talents, anxious to discover exactly what their pampered pets are thinking—that is until the pooches start spilling their secrets.

    When Nick is found dead, his sister enlists Melanie to track down the killer. Now, as she juggles the demands of marriage and motherhood—not to mention her six beloved Poodles—Melanie can scarcely even begin to nose through the growing list of suspects. But just when she thinks she’s barking up the wrong tree, she’ll find herself face to face with a purebred murderer…

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    Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours.

    “The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it’s different.

    A stranger comes to Pico Mundo, accompanied by a horde of hyena-like shades who herald an imminent catastrophe. Aided by his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, Odd will race against time to thwart the gathering evil. His account of these shattering hours, in which past and present, fate and destiny, converge, is a testament by which to live—an unforgettable fable for our time destined to rank among Dean Koontz’s most enduring works.

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    Phantom: A Harry Hole Novel (9) Over 1,700 5-Star Reviews!

    Inspector Harry Hole attempts to exonerate his would-be son Oleg in this installment of Jo Nesbø’s New York Times bestselling series.

    When Harry Hole moved to Hong Kong, he thought he was escaping the traumas of his life in Oslo and his career as a detective for good. But now, the unthinkable has happened—Oleg, the boy he helped raise, has been arrested for killing a man. Harry can’t believe that Oleg is a murderer, so he returns to hunt down the real killer.

    Although he’s off the police force, he still has a case to solve that will send him into the depths of the city’s drug culture, where a shockingly deadly new street drug is gaining popularity. This most personal of investigations will force Harry to confront his past and the wrenching truth about Oleg and himself.

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    The Town (Rob Stone Book 2) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    Rob Stone is taking time out to climb in the mountains of Oregon. Taking a break, drinking coffee in a diner in a small mountain town he watches a helpless man humiliated. Stepping in to help, he sparks a confrontation. Within an hour somebody tries to kill him.

    A message has been sent, but Stone will not be pushed. As he starts to investigate what some people in the town do not want uncovered, the truth becomes unthinkable. Cruelty on a scale unimaginable, Stone is determined to shut it down and reclaim the town for its people.

    Outnumbered, hunted through the dense forest and mountain terrain, his enemy are unaware that they haven’t gained the advantage. They have merely released him into his element.

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    All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business Over 4,000 5-Star Reviews!

    At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now he shares his story for the first time.

    For anyone who loves American comedy, the long wait is over. Here are the never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances from a master storyteller, filmmaker, and creator of all things funny.

    All About Me! offers fans insight into the inspiration behind the ideas for his outstanding collection of boundary-breaking work, and offers details about the many close friendships and collaborations Brooks had, including those with Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Gene Wilder, Madeleine Kahn, Alfred Hitchcock, and the great love of his life, Anne Bancroft.

    Filled with tales of struggle, achievement, and camaraderie (and dozens of photographs), readers will gain a more personal and deeper understanding of the incredible body of work behind one of the most accomplished and beloved entertainers in history.

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    Say Goodbye for Now Over 6,000 5-Star Reviews!

    From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a feel-good story of four outcasts who learn that some bonds are stronger than blood.

    On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and Justin Bell, a newly arrived African American father and son.

    When Pete Solomon, a neglected twelve-year-old boy, and Justin bring a wounded wolf-dog hybrid to Dr. Lucy, the outcasts soon find refuge in one another. Lucy never thought she’d make connections again, never mind fall in love. Pete never imagined he’d find friends as loyal as Justin and the dog. But these four people aren’t allowed to be friends, much less a family, when the whole town turns violently against them.

    With heavy hearts, Dr. Lucy and Pete say goodbye to Calvin and Justin. But through the years they keep hope alive…waiting for the world to catch up with them.

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    The Mousse Wonderful Time of Year (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries ~ Book 10): A Holiday Mystery Christmas Whodunit Special Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    Tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose is looking forward to a holiday filled with delicious Yuletide treats, time with friends and family, and maybe even a "white Christmas" in Oxford…

    But when she’s snowed in at a country manor, she finds herself stumbling on an intriguing murder — complete with a body in the library, a house full of suspects and a trail of mysterious footprints!

    Luckily, the nosy Old Biddies are on hand to help, not to mention her cheeky tabby cat Muesli. Add in some carol singing, Christmas baking and flannel underwear, and Gemma’s stocking is bursting at the seams. Can she solve this festive whodunnit in time to enjoy the most wonderful time of year?

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    A Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder (A Cats and Dogs Cozy Mystery—Book 1) Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Audrey Smart is a brilliant vet—yet fed up by her demanding clients who think they know more than her and who don’t care about their animals.

    Burnt-out with the endless hours, she wonders if the time has come for a new direction. And when her 15th year high school reunion (and her hopes for re-sparking on old flame) end in disaster, Audrey knows the time has come to make a change.

    When Audrey sees an ad for a $1 home in Sicily, it captivates her. The only catch is that the house requires renovation, something she knows little about. She wonders if it could be real—and if she may really be crazy enough to go for it.

    Can Audrey create a life and career—and the home of her dreams—in a beautiful Sicilian village? And perhaps even find love while she’s there?

    Or will an unexpected death—one that only she can solve—put an end to all of her plans? Are some dreams too good to be true?

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    The Next Girl: A gripping thriller with a heart-stopping twist (Detective Gina Harte Book 1) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Deborah Jenkins pulls her coat around her for the short walk home in the pouring rain. But she never makes it home that night. And she is never seen again…

    Four years later, an abandoned baby girl is found wrapped in dirty rags on a doorstep. An anonymous phone call urges the police to run a DNA test on the baby. But nobody is prepared for the results.

    The newborn belongs to Deborah. She’s still alive…

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