BERING SEA STRONG: Finding Strength Among Fish and Men, Laura Hartema
Seaworthy meets Wild in the spirited memoir of a young woman on a journey to find her place between land and sea. Spending 90 challenging days as the sole woman and scientist on a commercial fishing boat on Alaska’s treacherous Bering Sea, Hartema unravels an unsettled past as she finds her strength to overcome adversity […]
CELTIC MYTHOLOGY: Tales of Gods, Goddesses and Heroes, Philip Freeman
Audio sale: An accessible and vivid collection of stories featuring the ancient tribal people of Ireland, Scotland and France, featuring magical Welsh queens and great Irish warriors, by a noted classicist. To be published in March 2017 by Oxford University Press. (Brilliance/Audible, World English2017)
What we’re reading now: Susan Gilbert-Collins
Novelist Susan Gilbert-Collins, author of the delightful novel, Starting from Scratch, shared with us what she’s reading now. http://www.susangilbertcollins.com/blog/first/
COLD HARD TRUTH ABOUT YOU AND ME, Anne Greenwood Brown
A former good girl and a star hockey player, court-ordered to the same juvenile work crew, must decide to help each other heal their wounded pasts, if only the pasts would strop trying to destroy their futures. Greenwood Brown is the author of GIRL LAST SEEN and the LIES BENEATH trilogy. (Albert Whitman, World Rights, […]
THE MINDFUL WOMAN, Caroline S. Welch
Scientifically-based, practical strategies to help busy women achieve lasting personal and professional well-being by a long-time mindfulness practitioner. (Tarcher Perigee/Penguin Random House, World Rights, January 2019)
LOVE AND…Assholes, The One & Other Fun Ways to Sabotage Your Relationship, Jen Kim
From the popular thirty-something Psychology Today blogger–Valley Girl with a Brain–comes a self-help book that doesn’t want you to change. Kim draws on personal experience as well as the latest scientific findings to shed light on why we do the things we do when it comes to relationships. (Skyhorse Publishing, World Rights, 2018)
Protecting Your Internet Identity, Ted Claypoole and Theresa Payton
Are You Naked Online? People research everything online – shopping, school, jobs, travel – and other people. Your online persona is your new front door. It is likely the first thing that new friends and colleagues learn about you. In the years since this book was first published, the Internet profile and reputation have grown […]
The Language of the Dead, Stephen Kelly (Paperback)
As the shadow of World War II descends over Europe, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb hunts for an elusive killer behind the veil of a seemingly charming English village. German bobmers are arriving daily, seeking to crush England. But in a rural Hampshire village, things appear quiet, until an elderly loner, Will Blackwell, is brutally murdered. […]
WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, Ariel Burger
Tuesdays with Morrie meets The Last Lecture when a devoted student, friend and protege of Elie Wiesel–one of the world’s greatest thinkers, author of more than 40 books, and teacher for four decades–takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, and shares the remarkable interactions and lessons he witnesses there about what it means to […]
MY (PART-TIME) PARIS LIFE, Lisa Anselmo
Lisa Anselmo wrapped her entire life around her mother, a strong woman who was a defining force in Lisa’s life―maybe too defining. When her mother dies from breast cancer, Lisa realizes she hadn’t built a life of her own and struggles to find her purpose. Who is she without her mother―and her mother’s expectations? Desperate […]