MAROONED: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and the New History of America’s Origin, by Joseph Kelly, Ph.D.
Now available in paperback, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America’s founding myth. “The U.S. loves its creation myths, and this mythmaking, myth-breaking history gives us a new character, Stephen Hopkins… Though Hopkins and those like him left few records, Kelly fleshes out the available glimpses with a […]
MANIPULATED: Inside the Global War to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth, Theresa Payton
A chilling analysis of the many ways Americans are being manipulated and divided by an array of increasingly sophisticated tools, including election hacking, “deepfake” videos, AI bots and more. Payton lays out how to protect our democracy from these threats from bad actors (including foreign governments) on an individual and national level. Theresa Payton is […]
Ben H. Winters’ GOLDEN STATE published simultaneously in US and UK
Here are the covers side by side. It’s always fascinating to see the differences. I love both the US cover (left) from Mulholland, division of Little Brown, and the UK cover from our friends across the Atlantic at Penguin Random House (right).
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS – Buy Books for the Ones You Love
Today, for the cook in your life, we recommend Holly Herrick’s THE NEW CHARLESTON CHEF’S TABLE: Extraordinary Recipes from the Heart of the Old South (Globe Pequot). Holly is a Cordon Bleu-trained chef who resides in Charleston. In this beautiful cookbook, illustrated with color photographs throughout, she takes us into the best eateries in this […]
Ben H. Winters’ THE LAST POLICEMAN trilogy–with all new covers!
Our dear friends at Quirk Publishers are repackaging Ben H. Winters’ award-winning THE LAST POLICEMAN trilogy in time for the release of his new novel, GOLDEN STATE (Mulholland/Little Brown), releasing January 22. Love, love, love these new, very commercial covers. Most of all, I appreciate the willingness of a publisher to keep re-inventing; alas, this […]
KIDS, SEX & SCREENS, Dr. Jillian Roberts
Kids, Sex & Screens is Dr. Jillian Roberts’ primer for parents that know they need to speak with their children about sexualized media, but don’t know where to start. Our kids are being exposed to sexual content at a younger and younger age, whether through the Internet, advertisements, or interactions with their peers. When children are exposed to this sexual […]
WITNESS publishes mid-November! Check it out.
https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Witness/9781328802699
THE REMARRIAGE MANUAL: The 10 Keys that Make Sex, Money, Kids, Communication and More Work the Second Time Round, Terry Gaspard, LICSW
From the author of DAUGHTERS OF DIVORCE, marriage counselor, and relationship blogger Terry Gaspard explains how go avoid becoming another dismal divorce statistic by learning tools for handling the issues specific to a second (or third) marriage (Sounds True, World Rights, Spring 2020)
RIDERS OF THE REALM: Across the Dark Waters, Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
A new and exciting fantasy novel—the first in a trilogy—from the imagination of Guardian Herd series author Jennifer Lynn Alvarez. Perfect for fans of Lisa McMann’s Going Wild, Brandon Mull’s Wild Born, or Erin Hunter’s Warriors series. Riders of the Realm: Across The Dark Waters (May 1, 2018, Simon & Schuster) Deep in the jungles of the […]
SWIMMING BETWEEN WORLDS, Elaine Neil Orr
From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement… One of Buzzfeed’s “7 coming-of-age tales to pick up this April” (Berkley/April 2018) Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as a local high school […]