Author: Deb Goodman
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Sweet, Small-town Brothers RomCom
It was supposed to be one night. 💫
When I spontaneously enlist a super hot customer to play a prank on my cranky boss, it seems like the perfect, momentary distraction from my life’s focus—starting fresh with my son and becoming a nurse. 😂
As a single mom, things haven’t been easy. But nothing’s going to stop me from achieving my goals. Especially not this handsome stranger. 💪
Which is why we agree never to see each other again.
Except, fast-forward six months, and guess who walks through the door? My boss’s brother, Milo Tate—wearing that same devastating smile, like fate’s playing some kind of joke. 😍⚡
But I cannot become involved—not with anyone. I refuse to give up my dreams for a man.
Besides, love and I? We don’t mix.
I can’t fall prey to my family curse, the one that basically ensures that love won’t last—that love’s going to hurt. 💔
Too bad Milo is making it his mission to prove me wrong. 🔥
Why this one stands out: Deb Goodman’s Tate Brothers series is comfort reading for fans of sweet small-town romance with large interconnected families. 🏡 By book six, readers are invested in the entire Tate clan, making Milo’s story a welcome reunion with beloved characters. Goodman delivers single-mom representation with a heroine who’s got her priorities straight—nursing school and her son come first, romance can wait (or so she thinks). The second-chance/unexpected reunion setup is perfectly executed: they had one magical night, agreed to walk away, and fate laughs by making him her boss’s brother six months later. The “family curse” about love adds emotional depth beyond typical RomCom fluff, while Milo’s determination to prove her wrong promises swoony persistence. This is clean romance with emotional stakes, laugh-out-loud moments, and the guarantee that everyone gets their HEA. Perfect for readers who love Lucy Score’s small-town charm, Susan Mallery’s family sagas, or anyone seeking feel-good romance without steam. 💕📚
Author: Napoleon Hill
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Personal Money Management
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” 💡✨
Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is more than a book—it’s a life-changing philosophy that has inspired millions to unlock their potential and achieve extraordinary success. First published in 1937, this timeless classic distills the secrets of prosperity, purpose, and personal achievement into 13 powerful principles that continue to transform lives around the world. 🌍💰
Drawing from interviews with some of history’s greatest achievers—Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and more—Hill reveals how thought, faith, and persistence can turn any dream into reality. Through practical lessons and mental discipline, he teaches readers to master the invisible forces of belief, desire, and imagination, turning them into tools for wealth and fulfillment. 🎯
From goal-setting and visualization to the power of the subconscious mind, Think and Grow Rich lays the foundation for modern self-improvement and entrepreneurial success. Its insights apply to every aspect of life—money, career, relationships, and personal growth—making it as relevant today as ever. 💪
A cornerstone of motivational literature, this book remains a blueprint for success, urging readers to cultivate a winner’s mindset and take decisive action toward greatness. 🏆
Bottom line: This is quite possibly the most influential self-help book ever written—the grandfather of personal development literature that spawned an entire industry. 📚 Napoleon Hill spent 20 years studying over 500 successful individuals at Andrew Carnegie’s request, distilling their wisdom into 13 principles that have shaped modern success philosophy. Published during the Great Depression, it offered hope and a roadmap when America desperately needed both. The 13 principles (desire, faith, auto-suggestion, specialized knowledge, imagination, organized planning, decision, persistence, mastermind, sex transmutation, subconscious mind, the brain, sixth sense) form a complete system for achievement. Every modern motivational speaker from Tony Robbins to Bob Proctor has built on Hill’s foundation. Yes, some language feels dated and certain concepts (like “sex transmutation”) are controversial, but the core message—that mindset shapes reality and persistent action creates results—remains powerful. This influenced The Secret, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and countless other success books. Free or paid, this is essential reading for entrepreneurs, ambitious professionals, and anyone seeking to understand the psychological principles of achievement. 💎📖
Authors: Stacy Monson, Eleanor Bertin, Johnnie Alexander, Angela D. Meyer, Sara Davison
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Christian Short Stories
With nothing going as planned, will Christmas be a complete disaster this year? 🎄💔
The people in these stories are tired, weighed down by the struggles and cares of life. In the midst of their challenging situations, each receives an unexpected letter. ✉️✨
❅ The Christmas Kiss – Stacy Monson
❅ Unremarkable Sue – Eleanor Bertin
❅ Love, Christmas – Johnnie Alexander
❅ Gifting Christmas – Angela D. Meyer
❅ The Back Door Christmas Tour Company – Sara Davison
Songs like “O Holy Night” are filling the airwaves and promising hope for a weary world, but what will it take for the men and women in these stories to experience true joy this Christmas? 🎶💫
A Weary World Rejoices is a collection of five stories about discovering joy in the midst of life’s challenges—at Christmas and every day of the year. 🌟
What makes this special: The Mosaic Collection brings together talented Christian fiction authors for themed anthologies, and this sixth installment tackles something we all feel but rarely admit: sometimes Christmas arrives when we’re too exhausted and overwhelmed to celebrate. 😢 Rather than sugarcoating the season, these five stories acknowledge the weariness—grief, financial stress, broken relationships, shattered dreams—that can make “the most wonderful time of the year” feel impossibly hard. The unexpected letter device connects all five stories while each author brings their unique voice and perspective. This is comfort reading for anyone who’s ever felt like they’re failing at Christmas joy, offering hope without toxic positivity. Perfect for readers who loved The Christmas Sisters by Sarah Morgan or Karen Kingsbury’s Christmas novels, this anthology delivers faith-based hope, emotional authenticity, and the reminder that joy can coexist with struggle. Ideal for book clubs, gift-giving, or your own December reading when you need encouragement wrapped in fiction. 🎁📚
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Author: Stephen Kurczy
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Sociology of Rural Areas
In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet. 📵🌲
“Captures the complex beauty of a disconnected way of life.” —The Nation ✨
With a new afterword to the paperback edition
Deep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly quiet town in America. Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned: It’s home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the universe using the latest technology, while schoolchildren go without WiFi or iPads. 🔭 With a ban on all devices emanating radio frequencies that might interfere with the observatory’s telescopes, Quiet Zone residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity. But a community that on the surface seems idyllic is a place of contradictions, where the provincial meets the seemingly supernatural and quiet can serve as a cover for something darker. 🏔️
Stephen Kurczy embedded in Green Bank, making the residents of this small Appalachian village his neighbors. He shopped at the town’s general store, attended church services, went target shooting with a seven-year-old, square-danced with the locals, sampled the local moonshine. 🎯🥃
What caught my attention: Stephen Kurczy delivers immersive journalism that reads like a novel, exploring a genuine American anomaly: a town where technology is legally banned to protect radio telescopes. 📡 This isn’t just quirky Americana—it’s a profound meditation on what we’ve lost and gained in our hyperconnected age. Kurczy embedded himself anthropologist-style, giving us intimate access to a community that’s both refuge (for people fleeing electromagnetic sensitivity) and prison (for young people desperate for connection to the wider world). The contradictions are fascinating: cutting-edge astronomy coexisting with technological deprivation, intentional disconnection hiding darker isolations. With The Nation‘s endorsement and comparisons to works like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy, this offers both sociological insight and compelling narrative. Perfect for readers who loved The Internet Police, Four Futures, or anyone fascinated by technology’s impact on community, anyone nostalgic for pre-smartphone life, or anyone curious about the “electromagnetic refugees” who’ve moved there. This is essential reading for understanding what silence really means in 2025. 🌟📚
Author: Nancy Horan
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Women’s Historical Fiction
An unprecedented view of Lincoln’s Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. 🎩✨
Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln’s home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal. 🇵🇹➡️🇺🇸
Showing intelligence beyond society’s expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. 👨👩👦 Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln’s views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary.
Along with her African American friend Cal, Ana encounters the presence of the underground railroad in town and experiences personally how slavery is tearing apart her adopted country. Culminating in an eyewitness account of the little-known Springfield race riot of 1908, The House of Lincoln takes readers on a journey through the historic changes that reshaped America and that continue to reverberate today. 📜⚖️
Why you’ll love this: Nancy Horan proved with Loving Frank (over 1 million copies sold!) that she can bring famous historical figures to vivid life through the eyes of lesser-known women. 📚 This novel does it again, showing us Lincoln’s transformation through Ana, a Portuguese immigrant girl whose outsider perspective makes her the perfect observer of American contradictions around freedom, equality, and belonging. Horan gives us Mary Todd Lincoln in all her “full complexity”—not the caricature of the “crazy” First Lady but a brilliant, troubled woman navigating impossible expectations. The immigrant lens adds crucial dimension to the Lincoln story, while Ana’s friendship with Cal connects her to the underground railroad and the lived reality of slavery beyond political debates. The inclusion of the 1908 Springfield race riot (lesser-known but horrific) extends the narrative beyond Lincoln’s assassination to show how the promises of emancipation remained unfulfilled. Perfect for readers who loved The Personal Librarian, The Lincoln Highway, or anyone seeking historical fiction that centers marginalized voices while illuminating famous lives. Horan writes American history as it was actually lived. 🌟📖
Author: Michelle Obama
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Women’s Memoirs
Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including never-before-seen images, The Look is a stunning journey through Michelle Obama’s style evolution, in her own words for the first time. 👗✨📸
In this celebration of style, from the moment she entered the public eye during her husband’s U.S. Senate campaign through her time as the first Black First Lady and today as one of this country’s most influential figures, Michelle Obama shares how she uses the beauty and intrigue of fashion to draw attention to her message. 💪👑
Featuring the voices of Meredith Koop, Obama’s trusted stylist, as well as her makeup artist Carl Ray, hairstylists Yene Damtew, Johnny Wright, and Njeri Radway, and many of the designers who have dressed Obama for notable events, The Look brings readers behind the scenes not only to reveal how her most memorable looks came together but also to tell a powerful story about how we present ourselves. 💄💇♀️
Obama’s intimate and candid stories illuminate how her approach to dressing has evolved throughout her life—from the colorful sheath dresses, cardigans, and brooches she wore during her time as First Lady to the bold suits, denim, and braids of her post-White House life and all the active looks and beautiful gowns in between. 🌈
In The Look, Michelle Obama explores the joy and the purpose of fashion and beauty and how—when wielded with grace and care—they can uplift and affirm the values one holds most dear. Confidence, she concludes, cannot be put on. But when you’re wearing something that’s intentional or beloved, clothing can make you feel like the best version of yourself. ✨💎
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Bottom line: Michelle Obama is one of the most admired women in the world, and The Look offers unprecedented access to her thinking about fashion, identity, and presentation—subjects often dismissed as superficial but which Obama elevates to political and personal strategy. 👑 With over 200 photos (many never-before-seen), this is coffee table gorgeous meets memoir substance. Obama’s fashion choices were always deliberate: supporting emerging designers, especially Black designers; wearing affordable brands to signal accessibility; using bold colors and sleeveless dresses (controversial at the time!) to project strength and modernity. The behind-the-scenes voices—her stylist Meredith Koop, her glam squad—add intimacy and show the collaboration behind iconic moments. This isn’t about vanity; it’s about how women in public life must think strategically about every visual choice, and how Obama used fashion as both armor and message. Her evolution from corporate lawyer to First Lady to post-White House freedom (those BRAIDS! 😍) tells a story about finding your authentic self while meeting the world’s expectations. Perfect for anyone who loved Becoming, fashion enthusiasts, young women figuring out their own style, or anyone interested in the intersection of image and power. Michelle Obama makes you think differently about getting dressed. 💕📚