Showing posts with label NAL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NAL. Show all posts

May 13, 2015

Spotlight: The Sound of Glass by Karen White

Hey everyone! Today I'm spotlighting a brand new women's fiction novel - The Sound of Glass by Karen White! Read on for more information about the book and the author!


The Sound of Glass

Author: Karen White
Genre: Women's Fiction/Chick Lit
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Publisher: NAL

Description:

The New York Times bestselling author of A Long Time Gone now explores a Southern family’s buried history, which will change the life of the woman who unearths it, secret by shattering secret.

It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward’s husband, Cal, when she receives unexpected news—Cal’s family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal’s reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt.

Charting the course of an uncertain life—and feeling guilt from her husband’s tragic death—Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where the secrets of Cal’s unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of the ancestral Heyward home on the Bluff. This unknown legacy, now Merritt’s, will change and define her as she navigates her new life—a new life complicated by the arrival of her too young stepmother and ten-year-old half-brother.

Soon, in this house of strangers, Merritt is forced into unraveling the Heyward family past as she faces her own fears and finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Low Country.
 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23398961-the-sound-of-glass?ac=1
 
 

May 6, 2015

Spotlight: I Regret Nothing by Jen Lancaster

Hey everybody! I'm so excited to be spotlighting the newest release by Jen Lancaster - I Regret Nothing: A Memoir! I can't wait to read this one, so keep an eye out for my review! Read on for more info on the book and the author - and don't forget to add it to your TBR!


I Regret Nothing: A Memoir

Author: Jen Lancaster
Genre: Biography/Memoir 
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Publisher: NAL

Description:

New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she’s managed to document her (and her generation’s) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all—sometimes with disastrous results…

Sure Jen has made mistakes. She spent all her money from a high-paying job on shoes, clothes, and spa treatments. She then carried a Prada bag to the unemployment office. She wrote a whole memoir about dieting…but didn’t lose weight. She embarked on a quest for cultural enlightenment that only cemented her love for John Hughes movies and Kraft American Singles. She tried to embrace everything Martha Stewart, while living with a menagerie of rescue cats and dogs. (Glitter…everywhere.)

Mistakes are one thing; regrets are another.

After a girls’ weekend in Savannah makes her realize that she is—yikes!—middle-aged (binge watching is so the new binge drinking), Jen decides to make a bucket list and seize the day, even if that means having her tattoo removed at one hundred times the cost of putting it on.

From attempting a juice cleanse to studying Italian, from learning to ride a bike to starting a new business, and from sampling pasta in Rome to training for a 5K, Jen is turning a mid-life crisis into a mid-life opportunity, sharing her sometimes bumpy—but always hilarious—attempts to better her life…again.
  

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23398854-i-regret-nothing?ac=1
Jen Lancaster is the author of her own memoirs including: as Bitter is the New Black, Bright Lights, Big Ass, Such A Pretty Fat, Pretty in Plaid, My Fair Lazy, and the newest: Jeneration X.

She has also dabbled with fiction in her first book, If You Were Here. (Author info and photo taken from Goodreads.)

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