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Your Hidden Genius by Betsy Wills and Alex Ellison, is a self-help book published in January 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42BXJ59 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This book aims to help readers discover their natural talents, or "hidden genius," by assessing their aptitudes, interests, and personality traits. It introduces the concept of aptitudes as inbo...

Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity , is written by Manu S. Pillai , and published in 2024 by Penguin Books. It is a work of historical analysis available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WKt1mu Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book explores the evolution of Hindu identity, focusing on a period of approximately 400 years, during which i...

Menopause is Hot by Mariella Frostrup and Alice Smellie is a non-fiction book about menopause, published in January 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40IhmG3 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book provides a comprehensive look at menopause, combining biological facts, scientific research, humor, and a sense of camaraderie . It seeks to rebrand menopause fro...

In My Jewish State , by Elana Sztokman , is a memoir published in 2024 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Q0E9rN Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. It is a personal account of the author's journey from a religious Zionist upbringing to a more critical perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sztokman, who is an anthropologist, interweaves her personal history...

Anything For You by Sophie McKenzie is a psychological thriller published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Cqa01Z Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around Alison, who discovers her teenage daughter, Lola, is in a relationship with Brendan, a man from Alison's past who she has a dark history with. When Brendan is murdered, Lola becomes th...

"The Inclusion Equation: Leveraging Data & AI for Organizational Diversity and Well-being" by Dr. Serena H. Huang, is a non-fiction work published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gtzyZY Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This book serves as a guide for business leaders, HR professionals, data scientists, and AI professionals, focusing on using data and...

The Power Pause: How to Plan a Career Break After Kids—and Come Back Stronger Than Ever by Neha Ruch is a non-fiction book, set to be published in January 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WL44aO Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This book serves as a guide for mothers who are considering taking a career break to focus on their children and household. It offer...

Reckless Love by Willow Aster is the third book in The Single Dad Playbook Series , a contemporary romance novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hjAbXl Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book delves into the complex relationship between Elle and Rhodes , who have been best friends for years. The story includes: A prologue that details the ins...

Positive Health: The Basics by Jolanta Burke, Pádraic J. Dunne, Elaine Byrne, and Ciaran A. O’Boyle is a guidebook in "The Basics" series , published in 2025 available in Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jKqVgs Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This book introduces the new field of Positive Health , which combines lifestyle medicine and positive psychology to promote overall w...

Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood is a cozy crime mystery novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40BC8a8 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around a murder that occurs on a vintage pleasure cruiser called the Marlow Belle . The victim, Oliver Beresford, is found dead after a boat trip with members of the Marlow Amate...

Boudicca by P.C. Cast is a historical fiction novel, published in January 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jMmLED Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book tells the story of Boudicca, the queen of the Iceni tribe in ancient Britannia, during the Roman invasion. The narrative follows Boudicca as she navigates the political landscape, deals with personal trag...

The book, Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone: The Surprising Psychology of Resilience, Growth, and Well-Being, is by D. Christopher Kayes. It is a leadership and management book published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40BCy0c Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This book provides a framework for leaders to learn and grow from experience when facing adversit...

Save Our Souls by Matthew Pearl is a historical fiction novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40KPOQb Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book recounts the story of the Wandering Minstrel , a schooner that wrecked on a coral reef in the North Pacific Ocean in 1888. The family and crew of the Wandering Minstrel are shipwrecked on a remote island...

Submission by Lisa Lang Blakeney is the second book in The Middleton Series , a dark, age-gap, romantic suspense trilogy set in Los Angeles. It was published in 2024 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aIZVcS Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story centers on Megan, who is in a relationship with the dangerous billionaire, Hunter Middleton. Megan is trying to move...

Smart Thinking: How to Live and Work Even Better by Jo Owen is a self-help book published in 2024 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3CqPdLH Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This book provides practical advice and techniques to enhance decision-making, critical thinking, and overall life management. It aims to help readers navigate challenges and improve their think...

Redeeming Meg , by Misty Evans & Nolan Evans , is a romantic thriller published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hD90WU Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This book is the first in the Black Swan Division series, and it centers on Meg Carson, a fearless undercover operative, and her enigmatic second-in-command, Declan Reid. They lead an elite CIA team t...

Forget by Nicola Marsh is a contemporary romance novel, first published in 2019 as One Wicked Week , with world English rights copyright in 2019. It was published by Parlance Press in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3EnU40K Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around Jayda York, who seeks the help of tech genius Brock Olsen to launch her onlin...

The Pause Principle: How to Keep Your Cool in Tough Situations by Cynthia Kane, is a self-help book published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4jGAPQ5 "Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create." The book focuses on how to pause in difficult conversations by using the SOFTEN principle, which involves practices based on mindfulness. The book emphasizes that communica...

The Perfect Plan by Caitlin Weaver is a work of fiction published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aJyyj0 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story revolves around three friends, Liz, Fabiola, and Alice. Liz is trying to choose a surrogate to carry her baby. Fabiola is married with three children, and is also a business owner who helps people organize th...

The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami is a historical fiction novel published in 2014 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hj3Mjq Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story is a fictionalized account of the Narváez expedition to La Florida in the 16th century, told from the perspective of Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Abdussalam al-Zamori , a Moroccan slave, also known as Es...

Infernos by Barbara Winkes is a crime drama and romantic suspense novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Eo73Q0 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The book follows Lieutenant Simone Daniels, along with detectives Ellie Harding and Jordan Carpenter, as they navigate a series of interconnected crises. The story begins with a peaceful family breakfas...

Eat Your Age by Ian K. Smith, M.D. It is a health and wellness guide, published in January 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hlVWWo "Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create." This book provides a framework for preventing, combating, and slowing the physical, mental, and spiritual decline associated with aging. It emphasizes that a significant portion of how one ages...

All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall is a 2025 novel available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40BEZjy Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This work of fiction tells the story of a young woman named Nonie who has a special connection to water. The story takes place after a series of environmental disasters, including a hypercane that floods New York City, where Nonie a...

A Dangerous Game by Mandy Robotham is a historical fiction novel published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gqrJ79 Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. The story follows Inspektor Harri Schroder, a German police officer, who is sent to London on secondment. There, he becomes entangled in a dangerous mission to track down his former colleague, Helmut Praxer, a...

How to Be Resilient by Gail Gazelle, MD is a self-help book that was originally published as Everyday Resilience: A Practical Guide to Build Inner Strength and Weather Life's Challenges in 2020, with this edition published in 2025 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3EybZlb Using our affiliate links helps support the content we create. This book serves as a guide to help readers access and cultiv...