Author: Lanna Nakone

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Genre: Personal Time Management

Discover which organizing techniques work best for your thinking style—and make it easier to gain control of your environment!

Drawing on the science of brain function and her experience as a professional organizer, Lanna Nakone offers tailored and specific advice that will actually work to help you tame your desk, unclutter your closet, manage your time, and save your sanity. Take the Brain Style quiz to determine which of the four parts of the brain you rely on the most to process information, and which organizing style complements your brain function. If you rely on the:

Posterior left section of your brain, you’re a Maintaining Style. You develop and follow routines well and adhere to traditional organizing methods.

Frontal right section of your brain, you’re an Innovating Style. Artistically creative, you have a unique stacking system that no one else understands.

Posterior right section of your brain, you’re a Harmonizing Style. Valuing interconnectedness with your family or coworkers, you need to be organized enough to keep your environment peaceful.

Frontal left section of your brain, you’re a Prioritizing Style. Adept at analyzing data, you prefer to delegate organizing.

Chapters specific to each type offer practical tips and strategies for implementing an organizing system, maintaining your system, and coexisting with different brain styles. Insightful and understanding, Organizing for Your Brain Type turns the task of managing your life into an enjoyable experience.

What makes this different: Nakone solves the fundamental problem with most organizing advice—it assumes everyone’s brain works the same way. Her brain-based approach explains why traditional systems work brilliantly for some people and fail miserably for others. The four-style framework means you stop fighting your natural tendencies and start working with them, whether you’re the person with the “unique stacking system” or the one who needs routines and labels.

Author: Piu Marie Eatwell

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Genre: European & European Descent Studies

They Eat Horses, Don’t They?: The Truth About the French tells you what life in France is really like. Do the French eat horses? Do French women bare all on the beach? What is a bidet really used for?

In this hilarious and informative book, Piu Marie Eatwell reveals the truth behind forty-five myths about the French, from the infamous horsemeat banquets of the nineteenth century that inspired an irrepressible rumor, to breaking down our long-held beliefs about French history and society (the French are a nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys, right?).

Eatwell lived in France for many years and made the most of long French weekends, extended holidays, and paid time off to sit on French beaches, evaluate the sexual allure of the French men and women around her, and, of course, scan café menus for horses and frogs. As a result, They Eat Horses, Don’t They? reveals a fascinating picture of historical and contemporary France—a country that has both changed radically in the twenty-first century, but yet still retains much of the mystery, romance, and allure that has seduced foreigners for decades. Truth, as always, is stranger than fiction . . .

“Highly entertaining . . . offers a welcome corrective to the charming postcard tableaux on display in the faux innocent-abroad works that have proliferated like multicolored macarons.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[A] very funny take-down of French stereotypes . . . Eatwell’s tome is not only humorous, but also painstakingly researched.” —The Boston Globe

Here’s what you’re getting: Eatwell brings both insider knowledge and outsider perspective, having actually lived the French life long enough to separate cliché from reality. The forty-five myths structure gives you bite-sized chapters perfect for browsing, while her painstaking research (praised by The Boston Globe) ensures you’re getting facts, not just opinions. The New York Times comparison to “faux innocent-abroad works” signals this is the antidote to romanticized France fantasies—real cultural insight delivered with genuine wit.

Author: Nancy Wakeley

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Genre: Small Town & Rural Fiction

The Secrets of the Past are Buried at Wingate Winery

When Kate Tyler learns that her brother may need a kidney transplant, she has no choice but to unravel the mystery of her biological parent’s health history. Given only her birth mother’s name to start with, she begins untangling the threads of her past despite her own desire to leave it all alone. Undeterred by the risk of a second betrayal, she follows the leads to the Wingate family, a well-off presence in the New York State wine scene.

Using her travel blog as a cover, Kate inserts herself into the Wingate family’s wine festival, hoping to quietly confirm her suspicions of her father’s identity. But as the Wingates close ranks to protect their own, painful secrets come to light with devastating consequences. Only the truth can lead these broken families to forgiveness and healing. Desperate to help her brother, Kate must press on no matter the personal cost.

Secrets at Deep Lake is the third book in the Kate Tyler series. Each book can be read and enjoyed in order of publication or as a stand-alone story.

Why this resonates: Wakeley gives Kate the most compelling motivation imaginable—her brother’s life depends on finding answers she’d rather avoid. The wine country setting adds sophistication to what could have been standard family drama, while the travel blog cover story creates natural narrative tension. The standalone note means you can jump in here without reading the first two books, though the emotional weight suggests Kate’s history of “second betrayal” runs deep.