Christmas Week (Holiday Harbor Christmas Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
She’s a single mom with deep roots. He’s a travel writer who’s never in one place for long. Is there any hope for their romance this Christmas?
Sophie Springer has revived Christmas Week in Holiday Harbor, her late husband’s hometown. She wants her son to experience what his father did when he was a kid. It’s been a lot of work, but she’s happy to do it. And she jumps at the chance to spread the word in Wander and Journey Magazine when they offer to write an article about it.
Thomas Hall hasn’t spent a holiday with his family for the last six years. As a travel writer, he’s never in the States for Christmas. But this year, his boss is sending him to Holiday Harbor for his next assignment, which happens to be where his sister lives.
Sophie and Thomas start off on the wrong foot, but they need to spend the week together for the article. Will they be able to get along? Or by the grace of God, is romantic Christmas magic floating in the air in Holiday Harbor?
Red Coat Running: A Shawn Riggs Novel (affiliate link)
Can’t Make This Up (affiliate link)
He seemed ordinary. Just my luck.
Speaking of luck, lost my job too.
Now I just need to find a new gig with great pay and a good boss.
That boss turns out to be that hot billionaire I just mentioned.
You just can’t make these things up.
Unfortunately I can’t seem to get our one night out of my head.
It’s playing on a loop and I’m seriously ready for the sequel.
But there’s no redeeming this guy.
He’s really good at getting the girl.
And this time, it’s me.
The Perfect Marriage (affiliate link)
Sarah Morgan is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Washington, DC. With a perfect case record and having made named partner before the age of thirty-five, her life is going exactly as she planned.
However, the same cannot be said for her husband, Adam, a failed author, who’s grown to resent his wife’s meteoric success as he feels it’s come at the expense of their relationship.
For almost two years, Adam has kept his affair with Kelly Summers a secret, but everything changes when her body is discovered at the couple’s lake house and Adam is arrested on suspicion of murder.
Sarah now finds herself facing her most challenging case yet when she vows to defend her husband–a man accused of murdering his mistress.
While Adam is certainly guilty of sleeping with Kelly, the question remains: Is he guilty of killing her too?
I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir (affiliate link)
From standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan, and coming to terms with her parents’ shortcomings (Michelle Zauner).
“Do you know what happens if you laugh while crying? Hair grows out of your butthole.” It was a constant truism Youngmi Mayer’s mother would say threateningly after she would make her daughter laugh while crying. Her mother used it to cheer her up in moments when she could tell Youngmi was overtaken with grief. The humorous saying would never fail to lighten the mood, causing both daughter and mother to laugh and cry at the same time. Her mother had learned this trick from her mother, and her mother had learned this from her mother before her: it had also helped an endless string of her family laugh through suffering.
Mark Twain (affiliate link)
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain
Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at the local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn’t long until the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize.
In this richly nuanced portrait of Mark Twain, acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow brings his considerable powers to bear on a man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune, and crafted his persona with meticulous care. After establishing himself as a journalist, satirist, and performer, he eventually settled in Hartford with his wife and three daughters, where he went on to write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.