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9Jun

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From The Celebrated Author Of The Secret Life Of Bees, A Magnificent Novel About Two Unforgettable American Women

Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world—and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, a...

The Highly Anticipated Memoir By Bestselling Author Glennon Doyle Melton

8May

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The Highly Anticipated Memoir By Bestselling Author Glennon Doyle Melton

Love Warrior tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage. Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out—three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list—her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. In the midst of crisis, she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life. Love Warrior is the story of one marriage, but it is also the story of the healing that is possible for any of us whe...

Nine Lives – A Moving Novel From New York Times Bestselling Author Danielle Steel

21Aug

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Nine Lives – A Moving Novel From New York Times Bestselling Author Danielle Steel

BOOKS A woman who longs to avoid risk at all cost learns that men who love danger are the most exciting in this moving novel from New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine. Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together. As the family moved from one city to the next, her mother warned her to beware of daredevil men and avoid risk at all cost. Following her mother’s advice, and forgoing the magic of first love with a high school boyfriend who was too wild to feel safe, Maggie instead sought out all the things her mother had lost—a predictable partner, a stable home, and a regular paycheck. She chose to marry a d...

From The Number-One New York Times Best-Selling Author Of The Martian – An Incredible New Science-Based Thriller

17Jul

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From The Number-One New York Times Best-Selling Author Of The Martian – An Incredible New Science-Based Thriller

Project Hail Mary (Unabridged) By Andy Weir A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Martian. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ...

The 4 Components To Building An Author Platform

29May

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The 4 Components To Building An Author Platform

What is an author platform? An author platform focuses on who you are as the author, and how many people you influence. It is what you represent. It is what comes to mind when people hear your name. There are four components to building a platform as an author. Authors should think of themselves in the same way as celebrities do. Becoming famous does not happen overnight. In fact, you don't become famous without having a following. And you can't have a following without first having a presence. People have to come to know you as an author. They must encounter your brand in order to get to you. Many new authors tend to believe that the only thing they need to focus on is writing the book; when that is so far from the truth. As an author, yes, you must write books; but, you also have to ...

Oprah Winfrey, others pay tribute to late author Toni Morrison

22Nov

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Oprah Winfrey, others pay tribute to late author Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, a Nobel Prize-winning US writer known for her work on race, died in August, aged 88. In offering tribute to Toni Morrison, speakers from Oprah Winfrey to Fran Lebowitz have each shared a very different, but equally special portrait of the late Nobel laureate, who died in August at the age of 88. Angela Davis remembered a dear friend who as a Random House editor helped launch her writing career and would jot down notes for what became the classic Song of Solomon as she cooked eggs for her family. Lebowitz marvelled at Morrison's seemingly photographic memory of the bad reviews she had received. Poet Kevin Young once went to the cinema with her and otherwise proudly sat at her feet. Winfrey spoke of Morrison's majestic, sometimes intimidating pres...

4Apr

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Nobel-prize winning author Toni Morrison dies at 88

Morrison, a seminal voice in African-American literature, had 'a long, well-lived life', her family says. Toni Morrison helped raise the United States' multiculturalism to the world stage [File: Francois Durand/Getty Images] Toni Morrison, the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 88, according to her family. The US author, who was a seminal voice in African-American literature, died on Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, her family said in a statement. "It is with profound sadness we share that, following a short illness, our adored mother and grandmother, Toni Morrison, passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends," they said. "Although her passing represents a tremendous ...