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07/23/2024

I know you love tales of eerie old mansions. In my upcoming book, "The Grays of Truth," the grand, Gothic Victorian Hamilton Place sees guests meet mysterious ends. Is it murder, or merely misfortune? Inspired by true events, this spine-chilling story will keep you guessing!

We're just 100 days away from release! Pre-order now to unlock exclusive freebies, including an invitation to the launch party AND a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the historic Selma Mansion for the launch party. Mark your calendar for October 29—things are about to get intriguing!

Check out the per-order freebies here: https://hubs.ly/Q02HjBsH0

07/17/2024

Spotted on the shelves of our very own In The Garden Behind the Moon (on the shelf above Liz Cheney’s book.)

07/11/2024

From bestselling historical true-crime author Sharon Virts comes a gripping tale of murder and deceit. In Reconstruction-era Baltimore, members of the city’s elite keep turning up dead. Below the polished surface of high society, there are illicit affairs, jilted lovers,...

07/09/2024

From the CEO of Mommy’s Bliss comes a book for new moms that’s not about the baby. It’s about you, mama.

You might be just a few days out of the hospital or months into your sleep-deprived postpartum journey when the realization hits you: life as you know it―your whole identity―will never be the same. Mom Your Way will guide you through this fundamental shift into new motherhood. With a healthy dose of humor and comforting best-friend energy, Yasmin Kaderali shares judgment-free wisdom for navigating your postpartum life.

06/30/2024

You can find me in San Diego at the American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition, the world's largest library event. I am in the Ingram Booth #2534. We will be debuting my newest novel, The Grays of Truth. I'd love to see you there Thomas Balch Library, Loudoun County Public Library.

06/28/2024

June 27 – July 2, 2024 in San Diego, CA. — ALA Annual Conference is the biggest library event of the year. Attend in person or online for top-quality education, inspiring speakers and author talks, and access to 600+ exhibitors.

06/25/2024

06/25/2024

The life—or death—of a teen with a traumatic brain injury could be determined by a controversial experimental procedure that may unlock a previously undiscovered level of consciousness.

Kyle Nichols, a teenage baseball player with major-league potential, lies in a hospital bed after suffering a traumatic brain injury with a devastating twist—he is fully conscious and expected to survive but is completely paralyzed and unable to communicate. Kristen, Kyle’s mother, has no way to know his wishes, so she is forced into an unspeakable choice: transfer Kyle to a long-term care facility where he could linger for decades, mute and helpless, or provide him with a gentle death by ending his life support.

Although Kristen is wary of experimental procedures, Kyle’s beloved Uncle Owen pursues any treatment that might improve the boy’s quality of life. He connects with neuroscientist Dr. Rene Elder, whose new research is devoted to helping people with brain trauma regain their voices and agency. Her experiments uncover a radical new way to connect with patients, challenging Rene with revelations far beyond her imagination. As Rene and Owen rush to confirm the method’s potential for helping Kyle communicate his wishes, they face strong resistance from both Kristen and the medical establishment. Hanging in the balance is Kyle’s right to make this decision for himself: Life or death?

A brilliant debut novel that challenges all we know about consciousness and existence, Of One Mind explores the depths of love, loss, belief—and the wonders of the universe.

06/18/2024

The Compassion Advantage is your

The rapid advance of and rising demand for social equity and environmental stewardship have forever altered the corporate landscape. In this new world, leadership is a way to be-not a thing to do. To leaders need to shift their focus from holding up a mirror to opening a window to appreciate and harness the lived experiences of others. Filled with practices you can use every day on the job, The Compassion Advantage holds the key to making well-informed decisions; empowering and engaging teams; delivering on goals; and creating a happier, healthier, and more productive workplace that attracts and retains the best and brightest employees.

Throughout, strategic advisor and CEO Dr. Jill Birch provides the framework for furthering your through groundbreaking techniques in relational leadership. Combining insights from dozens of renowned CEOs and luminaries with hard-won lessons from her own storied career, Birch shares seven simple, actionable practices that will transform your leadership style. Whether you are an aspiring leader or a seasoned pro, this book will up your game, teaching you how to become more self-aware, read the room faster, rally people around a common cause, and channel your experience so that you can become a better mentor and more confident leader.

With on-the-ground examples and concrete steps you can take to start developing these skills today, The Compassion Advantageoffers the strategies you need to be a better, more caring leader for the people around you.

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06/14/2024

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Looking for something to read around the pool? Let award-winning A Noble Calling transport you to Yellowstone National Park where a young FBI agent finds himself surrounded by danger. This book is both a fast-paced thriller and a heartfelt story of trust and grace. Get it at https://amzn.to/3vy3b6R or wherever books are sold.

06/11/2024

Author Kirk Russell returns to the wilderness—this time with a love story and a dark crime.

As a long undercover assignment ends, Special Agent Mark McCabe of the US Fish and Wildlife Service learns that the bullet-riddled, bloodstained SUV belonging to his ex-girlfriend, biologist Jesse Hall, has been found in the Mount Shasta Wilderness. Jesse was studying the only known wolf pack in the area, and that pack was shot and killed the day she disappeared.

A wolf-hunting craze spread by a site on the dark web that offers high bounties adds more intrigue in the search to find Jesse. McCabe can’t accept that she’s likely dead. So, he consults with the FBI as a wilderness expert—but continues to investigate on his own, reaching out to poachers and hunting guides, a rifle-range owner, and the angry spouse and son of an eccentric mountain man who has gone missing.

Leads have dwindled and the search has stalled when a ransom demand arrives at the Sacramento FBI office. Mikayla Hebert, the FBI special agent in charge, joins the other local law enforcement to do a wider house-to-house search. . .but the answer lies in the wild.

06/11/2024

Perfect for fans of Anthony Bourdain’s irreverent food-as-adventure writing, Misfit Chef chronicles award-winning chef Christopher J. DeStefano’s wild journey at his former restaurant Christopher’s Table, an acclaimed food shop on the North Shore of

One part one part —with a dash of late-night adventure—Misfit Chef celebrates both food and people. DeStefano tells it all, from his humble roots growing up in his grandparents’ small-town New England grocery store to leading adventures through the streets of Paris. He recounts opening his dream restaurant, hosting wild parties with in his restaurant’s kitchen, and escaping a catering job that literally went up in flames.

Each chapter of DeStefano’s story is complemented by gorgeous photographs and thirty-eight signature Christopher’s Table including roast pork tenderloin with poached plums, oven fried chicken, farmhouse gazpacho, and grilled peaches with mascarpone cream and crumbled amaretti. Misfit Chef celebrates the power of food and reminds us of how it can bind us to the very best bits of life.

06/11/2024

Paul Weigel knows what it means to struggle, and his story is sure to energize and inspire you to live every day to the fullest, as he has chosen to do.”
—Dean Karnazes, New York Times bestselling author of Ultramarathon Man

A powerful memoir about a dad navigating loss, fighting cancer, surviving, and thriving alongside the most important person in his life—his daughter.

Paul Weigel’s life always felt hard. Throughout his isolated childhood, with distant and detached parents, losing his college sweetheart in a horrible tragedy, and enduring the unexpected death of his father, Weigel spent his life in despair. It all just hurt.

Everything changed when his daughter was born.

From day one, Weigel and his daughter shared an incredible bond. She was a constant source of peace and inspiration to him, and he was determined to give her the love and security he’d never had. His life and the family that he’d dreamed about seemed to be finally getting on track—that is, until a devastating cancer diagnosis threatened that future.

But this time around, Weigel chose hope. If you believe in the impossible, he told himself, the incredible can come true. Using this mantra, Weigel pushed forward, determined to show his daughter true strength and power. Facing the ups and downs of his illness and treatment with courage, he trained for and completed an Ironman triathlon within six months of finishing chemotherapy, and he continued to be a dedicated father.

In Iron Dad, Weigel celebrates the unique bond between fathers and daughters and shares an inspiring story of finding and clinging to the joy in life, no matter the odds.

06/11/2024

Whoo hoo! Thanks to Beyond the Bookends for including DEAR ELIZA on this amazing list! It's an honor to be on a list with such amazing authors as Nita Prose, Louise Penny and Paula Hawkins! Check out the full list here: https://www.beyondthebookends.com/october-2024-book-releases-by-genre/

06/11/2024

Charlene Pell wears her scars like badges of honor-she has never hidden them.

Thirty years ago, on a sunny afternoon, Charlene was on a private flight to Cat Island, Bahamas, when the unthinkable happened: the plane, piloted by her fiancé, experienced a mechanical problem and crashed in a fiery inferno. When Charlene awoke, she discovered that 64 percent of her body had been burned, and her fiancé had died.

In This Altered Body is the compelling story of Charlene’s physical and emotional odyssey to reclaim her life and identity after surviving a tragedy that left her facially disfigured and grieving. As Charlene begins the long, painful process of recovery, she fears she will never be loved again, because her outward beauty has been destroyed and our society, obsessed with flawless skin and superficial beauty, stigmatizes disfigurement. But through dogged determination, Charlene overcomes difficult obstacles both physical and emotional-and learns from the experiences of other burn survivors to never write off her dreams and to be open to possibilities . . . including love. Brimming with insight from a life of perseverance, In This Altered Body is a piercing memoir about tragic loss and the resilience of the human spirit.

06/10/2024

Today I learned how to say “scoundrels” in Spanish – "BRIBONES!!"

Spanish-speaking friends—the Spanish edition of Remembering Shanghai is out! Book title: “Recuerdos del Viejo Shanghai: Memorias de miembros de la alta sociedad, eruditos y bribones”.

The publisher decided to take a different approach with this book cover. What do you think?

Available here: https://quaterni.es/producto/recuerdos-del-viejo-shanghai/

06/08/2024

GFP author

Go ahead. Make my day. Pick one. You can’t go wrong.
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06/04/2024

“Pawlosky stages nail-biting fight scenes that are unusually imaginative. [A] fast-paced investigative thriller pitting journalists against a conspiracy.”
— Reviews by Weekly

The has receded and life in the United States has returned to normal-or that’s what the government insists. So what is causing residents in a remote religious compound in Idaho to drop dead in a grisly fashion? And why are prominent virologists meeting with untimely ends?

Something-or someone-is killing the religious followers and scientists, and Newshound reporter Nik Byron is determined to find out what’s behind the deaths. Could Xion Labs’ top-secret vaccine program be connected? Nik suspects so, but he’s being stonewalled at every turn. As he inches closer to the truth, Nik’s professional enemies move to quash his threaten his career, and destroy his personal life. With his world crumbling, Nik finds one last lead: Puck Hall, a resolute, free-spirited young woman and Xion Labs researcher, who is soloing the Appalachian Trail. It’s only when Puck, barely clinging to life after eluding trained killers, crawls out of the wilderness that Nik and a rookie reporter cobble together the nightmarish facts that bring the story into focus.

Populated with old-school , double-crossing politicians, black-ops assassins, and government secrets, Black Bird follows Nik Byron on a thrilling investigative journey along the deep into the northern over the Pacific Ocean, and eventually right to the doorstep of the

05/30/2024

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05/30/2024

Congratulations to this GFP author for her foreign rights deal.

"There is a hidden strength in every soul - a strength that can conquer any circumstance and achieve any success, and that strength is unleashed when a person resolves to translate his or her good intentions into actions." - W Clement Stone

It's here! Silence your Imposter and unleash your inner fire with the audiobook edition of Soulblazing! This will take you on an inspiring adventure that will help you to live with passion, purpose, and discover your superpowers! Don't miss out on the chance to unlock your true potential!

Click the link on my bio to order!

You can also check out my website: https://lisahaisha.com

05/30/2024

Dr. Diane H. Nettles 4/30/24 Dr. Diane H. Nettles 4/30/24 Just Look at the Bright Side! What is benefit finding? It’s a term psychologists use for the seemingly illogical phenomenon of experiencing something really awful (such as the loss of a loved one), but then realizing a positive outcome. Rea...

05/30/2024

GFP author

I hope that my experiences and suggestions will help someone who has found herself to be in a club she never wanted to join. If you’re a or the loss of someone you love, I’m sorry you need my book. But I hope it helps.


https://www.dianenettles.com/blog/why-i-wrote-this-book

05/29/2024

Our own was a guest on the Stepping Into Your Leadership podcast. Find out what she had to say about and

05/28/2024

Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father―her last parent―brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chinese mythology.

A left-brained and successful daughter, Chan finds her logical approach to life utterly fails her in the face of this profound

Unable to find a way forward, she must either burn to ash or forge herself anew.
Slowly, painfully, wondrously, Chan discovers that her father and have left threads of renewal in the artifacts and stories of their lives.

Through a long-lost interview conducted by Roosevelt’s Federal Writers’ Project, a basket of war letters written from the Burmese jungle, a box of photographs, her world travels, and a deepening relationship to her own art, the archaeologist and lifelong rationalist makes her greatest discovery to date: the healing power of enchantment.

In an epic story that travels from prerevolution China to the South under Jim Crow, from the Pacific theater of WWII to the black sands of Reynisfjara, Iceland, and beyond, Chan takes us on a universal journey to meaning in the wake of devastating loss, sharing the insights and tools that allowed her to rebuild her life and resurrect her spirit. Part memoir, part lyrical invitation to new ways of seeing and better ways of being in dark times, the book includes beautiful full-color original Chinese brush paintings by the author and fascinating vintage photographs of an unforgettable cast of characters. In the Garden Behind the Moon is a captivating family portrait and an urgent call to awaken to the magic and wonder of daily life.

05/24/2024

Our Chinese edition is now available from numerous Taiwan book websites—partial list below. Signed editions are also being sold at the same price, while supplies last (those titlepages that I spent days and days signing and red-sealing!)
Please stay tuned for US online sellers. Unfortunately my Taiwan publisher doesn’t plan to list on Amazon. We are working on other options. Meantime, the Taiwan websites all offer e-books as well as paperbacks.

Standard edition:
博客來→ https://reurl.cc/kO1lNq
誠品→https://reurl.cc/LWmNjx
金石堂→https://reurl.cc/mMoldG
讀冊→ https://reurl.cc/kO1qxn
三民→https://reurl.cc/6vZLoO
友善書業→https://reurl.cc/MyEYXm
Momo→https://reurl.cc/5v5MgR
讀書共和國→https://reurl.cc/bV276r

Signed edition:
博客來→ https://reurl.cc/DjyXVE
誠品→ https://reurl.cc/EjrXAK
金石堂→ https://reurl.cc/gG2QdX
Momo→ https://reurl.cc/qV5ZxN
讀書共和國→ https://reurl.cc/QRLWz5

05/24/2024

Congratulations to GFP author Rhona Weaver!

05/23/2024

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05/22/2024

What’s the difference between and publishing? Girl Friday Productions is cooking up the answers in this serious dish with and

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