Daily Archives: November 27, 2018

My Grape Year (Grape Series Book 1)by Laura Bradbury

At the age of seventeen in a last-minute twist of fate, Laura Bradbury is sent to Burgundy, France, for a year’s exchange. She arrives knowing only a smattering of French and with no idea what to expect in her first foray out of North America. With a head full of dreams and a powerful desire to please, Laura quickly adapts to Burgundian life, learning crucial skills such as the fine art of winetasting and how to savor snails.

However, the charming young men of the region mean Laura soon runs afoul of the rules, particularly the no-dating edict. Romantic afternoons in Dijon, early morning pain au chocolat runs, and long walks in the vineyards are wondrous but also present Laura with a conundrum: How can she keep her hosts happy while still managing to follow her heart? Follow along on Laura’s journey to I’amour in My Grape Year.

Praise for Laura Bradbury’s Grape Series:
“Bradbury’s Grape Series feels like a series of honest and funny letters sent from a friend about her fascinating (and sometimes baffling) life in France. A beautiful read.”
–JANICE MACLEOD, New York Times bestselling author of Paris Letters and A Paris Year

“Bradbury’s Grape Series takes the reader on a romantic adventure into the heart, soul, and people of la belle France. Filled with delicious food, love, and laughter, Bradbury’s writing proves that you have to dare to follow your heart wherever it leads you…and that sometimes we have to step outside our comfort zone to truly live.”
–SAMANTHA VÉRANT, author of How to Make a French Family and Seven Letters from Paris

The Non Dead Wifeby Roberta Huckle

The Non Dead Wife…….

What if the things you thought were true really weren’t.
What if someone you thought was dead really was alive.
What if that someone was here right now.
What if they wanted to take away everything that you loved.
What would you do……. What will Emma do?

Emma returns home to find her husbands previous wife in her back garden, a bit odd maybe you would think. But its also slightly scary when that previous wife has been dead for seven years.

Funny how things can change so suddenly isn’t it. The people you thought that you knew, the friends that you thought you had, it can all change overnight, without warning.

The things you believed were true, well maybe they just aren’t true after all.

Rookie Mistakes: Advice from Top Executives on Five Critical Leadership Errorsby Mike McHargue

Are Your Critical Leadership Errors Undermining Your Team and Organization?

After working with more than 300 teams as a Principal Consultant for The Table Group, Mike McHargue recognized an emerging pattern. It became clear that, as many of those well-intentioned leaders made their way from managers to executives, they made significant leadership mistakes.

For his work Rookie Mistakes: Advice from Top Executives on Five Critical Leadership Errors, McHargue interviewed hundreds of executives, 25 of whom were vulnerable enough to share their wisdom about errors that must be avoided both by the rookie leader and the seasoned executive.

Rookie Mistakes focuses on the most damaging of those errors to leaders and teams. McHargue learned from his research that those errors fell into five clear categories:

•Allowing confusion
•Failing to connect with their team
•Running truly awful meetings
•Hiring too fast and firing too slow
•Failing to give and receive feedback

This book offers practical advice to help you become the leader you always imagined you would be.

The Third Girl (Molly Sutton Mysteries Book 1)by Nell Goddin

A missing girl. An expat amateur sleuth. And a whole lot of croissants.

Meet Molly Sutton, 38 years old and out of work, who moves to the French village of Castillac to recover from the end of her marriage. She’s looking for peace, beautiful gardens, and pastry–but she’s barely gotten over jet-lag when a local girl goes missing.

In between getting her old ramshackle house in order and reveling in French food, Molly ends up embroiled in the case, along with the gendarmes of Castillac. And unlike the Nancy Drews she loved as a child, this mystery stirs up emotions she thought had been put to rest..and terrifies the residents of her beloved village.

Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connectionby S.J. Scott

Feel disconnected from your spouse or partner? Struggle to keep your relationship fresh? Worried that everything will end in heartbreak?

It’s easy to fall in love. The challenging part is keeping that spark alive while you and your partner deal with “the real world.”

Your relationship can often seem less urgent than the day-to-day emergencies that you deal with — your job, finances, children, and that to-do list full of chores. They all demand your immediate attention. So how do you find the time to nurture your love and intimacy??

What often gets lost in the shuffle is the love you share with your partner. Maybe you’ve neglected some of the positive habits you adopted when you were dating to win over your love partner. Or perhaps all of your conversations seem to end in arguments? Or worse, you might occasionally wonder if your relationship is even worth salvaging.

The Solution: Build Mindful Relationship Habits

If you want to build a deeper connection with your spouse or partner, then one solution is to build “Mindful Relationship Habits.”

In a mindful relationship, you are intentional about all your choices and interactions with your partner. You become more proactive in responding to each other’s needs and less reactive to the challenges that often arise. You evolve to a higher level of interaction with one another.

The Viking Throneby JB Michaels

Family comes first in the dystopian sea-faring adventure: The Viking Throne.

The Henihans, a family of sirens, are brutally separated.

James Henihan failed to protect his family. He will dive into the murderous depths of the Cursed Seas of Europe to find his family on a voyage wrought with bloodthirsty pirates, supernatural beasts, sorcerous legends, and environments not fit for the living.

Will James find redemption? Or will his enemies both above and below the Cursed Seas quell his hopes of a family reunion?

“FIVE STARS: The villain of the story is repugnant and brutal. Hatred for him comes as easy as breathing. It takes a skilled author to arouse such strong emotions in readers, and JB Michaels has proved his talent by doing just that. The plot is extremely riveting and enticing. The action scenes are remarkably vivid and exciting. The plot never seemed to loosen its grip on me.” – Ankita Shukla for Readers’ Favorite

“FIVE STARS: Fast-paced and interesting, this is a novel that is perfectly woven together. And after a breathtaking ride, we realize that all the courage and heroism in this story is driven purely by that emotion called love. ” – Maria Beltran for Readers’ Favorite

“FIVE STARS: The characterization of the various enemies he meets along the way is what really sets the novel apart from its other counterparts. JB Michaels takes traditional beasts and pirate tropes and bathes them in realistic writing to bring them to life.” – K.C. Finn for Readers’ Favorite

Quiet Mind Epic Life: Escape The Status Quo & Experience Enlightened Prosperity Nowby Matthew Ferry

Matthew Ferry presents his Rapid Enlightenment Process inside his new book Quiet Mind Epic Life.

Enlightenment is not a place. It’s not a destination. It’s a state. It’s a point of view. Enlightenment is a contextual framework that makes living an epic life possible. Let me give you my definition of Enlightenment so you understand our end game together…

Enlightenment is the recognition that the source of life within you… is also the source of life in everyone else… and everything else. We are all one thing expressing itself with infinite variety.

When you truly see that the source of life within you is also the source of life in everyone else, and everything else, you enter into an enlightened state. When you see that we are all one thing expressing itself with an infinite variety, and the only thing that makes us different, is our perspective about it…. boom! Everything changes and fear disappears.

From this new perspective you rise above the limitations of cultural conditioning. You don’t have to follow the rules anymore. Everything is up for evaluation. You see dogma for what it is, just stories that were made up by well meaning people. But stories none the less. Not valid. Not true. Not real. Finally, you feel free. The invisible barriers disappear.

This is what I want for you. This is the promise of Quiet Mind Epic Life.

The Complete Thief Series: Boxed Setby Michael Dirubio

The whole Thief Series in one boxed set! Enjoy the complete adventures of Michael Davidson, master thief, in three unabridged works. Start the adventure as Davidson get double crossed by the Russian Mob in Thief in Law. A retired Davidson is called back to action to help an old friend in Thief in Need. The series is wrapped up as Davidson finds himself squarely in the middle of the 2016 US election in Thief in Time.