THE PINK DRESS: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen By Jane Little Botkin Memoir Publisher: She Writes Press Pages: 304 Publication Date: 9/10/24 Synopsis Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in […]
Synopsis When Laurel’s fourteen-year-old daughter experiences a life-altering event, her entire world is upended overnight. Faced with her child’s precarious fight to survive and the daunting road of rehabilitation ahead, Laurel discovers fountains of courage and devotion she didn’t know she possessed. Despite the hardships and her own private grief, Laurel tackles each […]
Synopsis And She Was Never the Same Again is about you. It is about your family and your friends, everyone you’ve ever met, and all the strangers you have yet to meet. It takes you on a journey of gains and losses that stretch generations, cultures, identities, and decades of time. It awakens […]
Synopsis Having spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Glacier National Park, part of her doctoral fieldwork for a PhD in Native American Art History, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as her healing place. When she moves to “Big Sky Country” from the East Coast in a quest to reset her […]
Synopsis Fast, easy, delicious deals with desserts at the front. In 2020, when the world was hit with a pandemic, Elise Thomas used her own small kitchen oven to begin baking her signature gourmet cookies. Selling them first out of her garage, her business quickly skyrocketed into a successful chain of bakeries—Cookie Co.—and earned […]
BOUND IN SILENCE: by Christena Stephens True Crime / Texas History / Nonfiction Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Page Count: 286 pages Publication Date: February 26, 2024 Scroll down for a giveaway! Synopsis On a nearly moonless night in October 1943, a single gunshot rang out in Littlefield, Texas. A prominent […]
Synopsis Julien Martinson’s life has an unwavering passion for aviation. From his early days as a flight attendant to his diverse roles in airside security, ground operations, and terminal management, aviation has been the constant thread weaving through his career. Driven by a thirst for knowledge and a desire to excel, Julien Martinson pursued […]
SECOND LIVES: The Journey of Brain-Injury Survivors and Their Healers By Ralph B. Lilly, MD & Diane F. Kramer with Joyce Stamp Lilly Audiobook / Biography / Medical Professionals / Neuroscience Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Listening Length: 6 hours and 21 minutes Publication Date: February 28, 2024 Synopsis “Discharged from a […]
THIS FAMILIAR HEART: AN IMPROBABLE LOVE STORY by Babette Fraser Hale Memoir / Relationships / Aging / Grief Publisher: Winedale Publishing Date of Publication: April 2, 2024 Number of Pages: 312 pages In this intimate rendering of a relationship, we learn how deceptive surface […]
Synopsis When Jan moves to Guatemala with her young daughter to run a medical clinic on the heels of her divorce, she knows the experience will be difficult and life-changing. But she doesn’t anticipate all the ways she will change. To make sense of her professional, personal, and parenting turmoil in a country […]