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Best Man Speaking by Jessie Elizabeth is a romance novel copyrighted in 2024 avaimlable on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Q8K9i6 "Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create." The story revolves around Hallie , who returns to her hometown and confronts her past love, Marcus , while attending her best friend's wedding. The novel explores themes of second chances, grief, heartbreak, and...

Deal with the Devil by Lizzie Strong is a dark monster mafia romance novel published in 2024 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40QCdHp "Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create." The story revolves around Amelia , a struggling murder mystery writer, who makes a deal with Knox , a fiendish mob boss, to protect her friend Penny from a dangerous debt. Amelia agrees to be Knox'...

The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes is a non-fiction book published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3EsHflD "Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create." It delves into the attention economy , arguing that our attention has been commodified, impacting our human experience. Key themes: The transformation and commodification of attention in the digital age. The struggle t...

SHIFTS: 6 Steps to Transform Your Mindset and Elevate Your Leadership by Sam Adeyemi, published in 2025, is a leadership and personal development guide designed to help readers transform their mindsets and elevate their leadership skills available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hOPg30 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. Key aspects of the book: Framework for Transformation...

A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage by Marcus Chown is a non-fiction science book published in 2024 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3CvUCBd Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book explores the evolution of black holes from theoretical concepts to essential components of our understanding of the universe . It...

Pompey the Great: The Roman Alexander by Lee Fratantuono is a narrative history and biography published in 2024 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jTbjr5 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book provides an accessible introduction to Pompey, rooted in a close examination of surviving sources. Key aspects of the book: It aims to be fair and impartial to both Pompey...

Lead Well by Paula Davis is a leadership and business book published by Wharton School Press in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/415IPmj Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. It offers a blueprint for leaders to address the root causes of stress and motivation, build thriving teams, and help their teams navigate change, complexity, and uncertainty. Key themes and...

Something Like Fate by Amy Lea is a romantic comedy published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WRhrGk "Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create." The story revolves around Lo, who comes from a family with the ability to foresee their soulmates. Lo experiences a vision and believes she will find love in Venice. She embarks on a trip to Italy with her best friend, T...

A Mutual Accord: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Caroline Cartier is an Austenesque novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hphl0T Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. Summary: This variation of Pride and Prejudice includes the mysterious Count of St. Germain as a guest character, incorporating elements of alchemy and legend. The story follows Eli...

Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft is a Disney Fairies novel published in February 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hReVrP Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story centers on Clarion , a fairy preparing to become queen, and her efforts to unite Pixie Hollow while defending it from Nightmares . Clarion must confront challenges related to her perceived inade...

Deep End by Ali Hazelwood is a contemporary romance novel that was first published in Great Britain in 2025 by Sphere available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/418lWip Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The novel explores themes of kink , specifically power exchange , and BDSM . The story seems to revolve around Scarlett Vandermeer , a diver, and her relationships, including...

Glamorous Notions by Megan Chance is a historical mystery novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/415vXN2 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story begins in Los Angeles in 1951, but flashes back to 1948. Elsie Gruner, an aspiring fashion designer, moves from Ohio to Los Angeles with dreams of making it big. Elsie gets involved with leftists in E...

Source Code by Bill Gates, is a memoir published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jMUBJQ Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book revisits the early part of Bill Gates' life and explores his memories. It highlights the unique circumstances that shaped his character and career, emphasizing the unearned privilege he experienced as a white male born in the...

Eleven Numbers , a short story by Lee Child , falls into the fiction/thriller genre and was copyrighted in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3EpkQpr Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. Summary : The story revolves around Nathan Tyler , a math professor, who is approached by the White House to assist in a highly classified operation. Tyler is asked to use his expe...

To Save the Man by John Sayles is a historical fiction novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Q8gNR1 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story is set primarily at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota during the late 19th century. The novel explores the complex and often tragic e...

"The Problem with Falling" by Brittainy Cherry is a 2024 contemporary romance novel available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aOROvs Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story centers on Willow , a free-spirited woman, and Theo , a reclusive man, as they navigate themes of love, loss, personal growth, and healing . It explores the complexities of relationships, highlighti...

The House of Echoes by Alexandra Walsh is a dual timeline historical mystery novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gtS9Fi Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story weaves together the present-day life of Caroline Harvey, granddaughter of a famous reclusive author, and the 16th-century experiences of Anne Brandon, a woman navigating the treache...

House Rules , by Emma Beryl Kemper , is a home decor reference manual and handbook . It is scheduled to be published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42MFPN0 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This book serves as a guide for readers to create a home that suits their needs, offering interior design best practices based on the author's education and experience...

Matched with the Doctor by Chrissy George is a sweet small-town romance novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aN3wqm Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around Colleen, who unexpectedly encounters her ex-boyfriend, Ben , now a handsome doctor, during a "well women" exam. Ben, having returned to their small town of Cedar Creek, s...

"The Crash" by Freida McFadden , published in 2025 is a thriller novel that delves into themes of trauma, deception, and survival available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4guFjX9 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. Here's a brief summary: Tegan Werner , a pregnant 23-year-old , finds herself in a terrifying situation after a car accident during a snowstorm. Rescued by Hank ,...

The Hidden Face by M.I. Verras is a fantasy novel published in 2023 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42MzyBa Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story follows a protagonist who navigates a mysterious world full of earthly and metaphysical symbolism. Here are some key themes and elements: Adventure Eerie fantasy Cliffhanging mystery Vivid characters conveying mean...

"The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order From the Nineteenth Century to the Cold War" by Carl J. Strikwerda is a history book published in 2024 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40KLZLa Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. It explores the development of the global order from the late 19th century through the Cold War. The book examines the interplay between econom...

Flow by Samantha Redgrave is a self-help book published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gperba Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. It explores the concept of cyclical living, inviting readers to align with the natural rhythms of life. The book is divided into four parts, each focusing on a different cycle: the life cycle, seasonal cycle, lunar cycle, and me...

Momentum: 13 Ways to Unlock Your Potential by Lee Chambers is a self-help/personal development book published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42IDnas Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book provides 13 lessons offering insights and practical advice on how to achieve goals and maintain momentum in a fast-paced, ever-changing world. Chambers draws on his...

"The One Before the One" by Emma Cooper is a fiction novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hNk0Bp Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story centers on a woman who, on her wedding day to her first love's brother, begins experiencing time slips into the past. She finds herself six days before her first love disappeared, and tries to change the e...