Looking for some new biography and memoir books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new novels from Ramin Setoodeh, Lori Gottlieb, Ruth Reichl, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
What can you tell us about your new release, Fairmont Finds a Body?
Fairmont Finds a Body is a small town cozy mystery, but even more it's a story about a woman making a new life for herself and the dog who adores her.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I've always loved stories. I studied German literature (a very long time ago) but eventually followed a different path first studying business, then law, and eventually becoming an attorney. Lori Ryan, a very dear friend, started her own writing career a year before I wrote my first book, and she both convinced me to try novel writing and helped me along the way. I'll be forever grateful for her support.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
I refuse to be pinned down...but only because I can't decide. 🙂 Julia Quinn is one of my favorite writers. Her characters have a kindness that's touching and real. I also adore hockey romance and have become a rabid hockey fan. But I grew up reading the Mrs. Pollifax books, Margery Allingham, Lilian Jackson Braun, Dorothy Sayers, and so many other wonderful mystery writers. I"m sure they're why I love writing cozy mysteries!
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Julia Quinn. After recovering from my fangirl faint, I would ask her how she crafts such amazing characters. I'm completely in love with the Bridgertons, as are millions of other readers.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
That every story has an end, but also opens up a huge world of possibilities. That I can make up new worlds and populate them with all of my favorite people. That I can use my imagination to entertain others. I'm really not good at picking favorites!
What is a typical day like for you?
I write early in the morning. Once I've reached my daily word count or editing goal, I workout, either jogging or lifting at the gym. My sweet little German Shorthaired Pointer always votes for the jog! Since writing is such a sedentary occupation, even more so than working in an office (which I've also done), I've had to make a serious commitment to staying fit or my writing suffers. I spend the afternoon doing admin and the evening marketing. But I definitely take hockey game evenings off!
What scene in Fairmont Finds a Body was your favorite to write?
Actually, the dedication. I wrote this story a few months after my dog Vegas passed. Fairmont Finds a Body was my way of remembering all of the very best things about him, and the dedication brought all of those great memories into sharper focus.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
I don't, not exactly, but I do pick a goal or theme for each year. Last year was "life is my job," since it was becoming obvious to me that de-prioritizing my health was having a negative impact on my writing. This year is about some financial goals that I have related to sustaining my writing career long-term. I want to keep writing stories well into the future!
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What can you tell us about your new release, Nothing But Trouble?
Nothing But Trouble kicks off a brand new New Adult series set in Malibu University and features the sexy championship winning men’s water polo team. Each book in the Malibu University Series is a standalone novel and focuses on one of the players on the team and the young woman he falls for.
What books are currently on your night stand?
Since I primarily read on my Kindle these days, I have a tidy nightstand. However, I’m currently reading K.A Tucker’s One Tiny Lie.
What advice would you give your teenage self?
If I could give my teenage self a bit of advice, it would have to be––go easier on yourself. I think girls have a tendency to be too hard on themselves.
If you had an extra hour each day, how would you spend it?
If I had an extra hour each day, I would try to cram two extra hours worth of life i.e. reading, exercising, sleeping. That would be the plan. And then I would inevitably end up writing.
What makes your world go round? Why does it bring you joy?
What brings me joy is hanging out with my furry friends––my dogs and my horse––and writing.
What scene in Nothing But Trouble was your favorite to write?
Our hero, Reagan Reynolds, spends a fair amount of time trying to convince our heroine, Alice Bailey, that he genuinely wants to help her after he almost runs her over with his car. As you can imagine, she’s not immediately fond of the idea and lots of fun banter ensues during those scenes.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Pleasant Day?
I can tell you that the book got started from an article I read online. The article was about a body being discovered in a box spring. There was hardly a pause before I started the first chapter of Pleasant Day and then it just took off. The characters seemed to be right there in my head just waiting to be written. I thought it was bizarre about the body in the box spring so I knew my novel had to be somewhat bizarre but based on the horrible truth, one of the problem we have with kids today - bullying.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I was inspired to become an author by the books I was reading at a pretty young age. They were books like A Stone for Danny Fisher, Atlas Shrugged, 79 Park Avenue, The Brother’s Karamazov, The Red and the Black, to name a few. And of course there were those books I was assigned to read in school like A Tale of Two Cities, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Jane Eyre, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, to name but a few. I loved to read and I loved the way authors weaved a whole new world for me, characters that I loved and situations that kept me involved for hours. Other authors have always been my inspiration.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
I’d say that right at this moment the best 5 books I’ve ever read are The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski, A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
I would interview Charlotte and Emily Bronte. I’d want to know what it was like being alive during that time in History and living in the Moors in England. Where did their ideas come from? What inspired their imagination? Where did the idea come from for their books and were their characters based on people they knew? Was it hard to be alive then in terms of being a woman or did their isolation protect them from that? Were they surprised when their books were published?
What's your favorite thing about writing?
My favorite thing about writing is finishing a novel. I love to work with words because I think the English language is beautiful and I love developing characters and putting them in situations and writing the most descriptive sentences I can.
What is a typical day like for you?
A typical day writing for me is getting to it as early as possible. My energy is high in the mornings, as well as my imagination and concentration. I write and I rewrite, often going over the whole book several times, editing and re-editing.
What scene in Pleasant Day was your favorite to write?
My favorite scene in Pleasant Day to write was the very last scene with Angus on Piper Hill after she has visited Millie’s grave. I know this is the last scene in the book and all the characters were a joy to write but this last one is real insight into Pleasant, both her past and her present,as well as her future.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
“Act well your part for there all honor lies.”
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We wanted to share with you some of our favorite audiobooks we’ve been listening to in March. Our playlist includes a little something for everyone, from mystery, literary fiction, science fiction, and romance. Grab your headphones and happy listening!
Release Date: March 26, 2019
We are huge fans of the Masie Dobbs series and just had to listen to the latest mystery by Jacqueline Winspear... An American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe has been found dead in London. But her murder has been concealed by the British authorities. Robert McFarlane is the linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, but he needs the help of Maisie Dobbs.
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Release Date: March 1, 2019
We were in the mood for a historical literary fiction audiobook, so couldn't pass up the popular novel, What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon... Anne Gallagher was always enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. After his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. She never expected to be pulled into another time… She now finds herself in 1921, with Ireland on the brink of war.
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The fourth book in the bestselling Diamonds in the Rough series by Sophie Barnes... Viola Cartwright was branded a money-hungry con artist after she married the elderly Duke of Tremaine just days before his death. She has now found refuge in her work at St. Agatha’s Hospital, where she is steering clear of attachment. That was until Henry Lowell.
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Release Date: February 26, 2019
Once we started the exciting science fiction audiobook, Winter World, we couldn't stop... A new ice age is freezing the world. Billions of people have fled the glaciers and crowding the last remaining habitable zones. They can do their best to run from the ice but they can't escape the incoming war.
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The 25th book in the Dirk Pitt Adventure by New York Times Bestselling Author Clive Cussler... The murder of a team of United Nations scientists, a deadly collision in the waterways of Detroit, and an attack on an archeological site on the banks of the Nile. Is there a link between them all?
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Release Date: March 5, 2019
The New York Times Bestselling Author of Girl, Wash Your Face is back with a new audiobook: Girl, Stop Apologizing... Hollis issues a challenge to women around the world to stop talking themselves out of their dreams.
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The month of March was an amazing time for readers with a host of exciting releases from bestselling authors. There were so many page-turning novels that captivated us from cover to cover this month. If you want to catch up on the books everyone was talking about, here are our choices for the buzziest books of March. Happy reading!
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Everything is perfect for Stella McKinney. She has a doting husband, a beach house, and a successful business. But then her beloved husband suddenly started to behave out of character. Suddenly Stella is starting to question his fidelity and her quest to uncover the truth turns into a sick obsession. The last thing she expected was a perfect stranger to appear at her door. A woman who knows all the intimate details about Stella and Grant.
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Broke and dumped, 38-year old Marley has to return home to the town she was forced to escape twenty years ago. Not much has changed. Desperate for a fresh start, she accepts a temporary teaching job. Can the girl once banned from Culpepper High homecoming turn their soccer team around? Maybe with some help from former high school bad boy turned sexy good guy, Jake Weston.
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Daisy Jones is a girl coming of age in the late sixties. She is sneaking into clubs in L.A., sleeping with rock stars, and dreams of one day singing herself. A life of sex and drugs is exciting, but she really loves the rock n' roll. When she turns 20, her voice is starting to get noticed.
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Gothel has been punished for the actions of her mother. She must stand guard over Princess Rapunzel or die. Now she must protect an imprisoned princess who is bedridden by hair so long and heavy that it is driving her insane. Gothel’s life soon becomes one on imprisonment and solitude as well. That is until a prince and his squire show up at the tower.
Release Date: March 19, 2019
A perfect family has lost a daughter. She had an abusive boyfriend and was addicted to drugs. She made it very clear that she doesn't want to be found... Then she is discovered playing guitar in Central Park. But she isn't the same girl as they remember. She is frightened and clearly in trouble. Then she runs.
Release Date: March 5, 2019
At the onset of his golden years, Lyle Hovde is living a content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, daughter, and grandson. While Lyle is excited to have his whole family reunited, his daughter Shiloh has become deeply involved in an extremist church. He soon becomes torn between his unease about the church and keeping his daughter and grandson in his life.
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Good Talk is a bold memoir about American identity by Mira Jacobs... Mira's six-year-old half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has many questions. At first, his questions were innocuous but as tensions started to rise from the 2016 election, the questions became much more complicated. She tries her best to answer him but first, she has to think about how and where she got her answers. Take a journey with Mira as she looks back on her formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and love.
Release Date: March 17, 2019
The second book in the bestselling The Princess of Nature series by Cassandra Finnerty… The princess and the prince have been completing secret missions across the globe. Aisling’s magical powers are continually increasing but it seems dark forces are out to destroy her. It is up to the Prince to protect her at all costs.
Take a look at this month’s selection of bestsellers now in paperback! March had a great selection of bestselling books to check out from thrilling mysteries to enthralling literary reads, and insightful biographies. Pick up these latest paperback books by bestselling authors John Sandford, Clive Cussler, Iris Johansen, A.J. Finn, Amor Towles, Fredrik Backman, John Scalzi, and many more!
Have you been searching for a new fantasy novel of epic proportions? There have been so many amazing epic fantasy books released recently and we thought we'd share some of our favorites with you. Our list includes new novels from Cassandra Finnerty, Jeff Wheeler, Samantha Shannon, D.K. Holmberg, Stephen R. Lawhead, and K.A. Doore. Enjoy your new epic fantasy books!
Release Date: March 17, 2019
The second book in the bestselling The Princess of Nature series by Cassandra Finnerty... The princess and the prince have been completing secret missions across the globe. Aisling's magical powers are continually increasing but it seems dark forces are out to destroy her. It is up to the Prince to protect her at all costs.
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The fourth book in the Harbinger series by bestselling author Jeff Wheeler... After the assassination of the emperor, Sera Fitzempress is the most likely to inherit the empire. Her upcoming marriage to the prince would only solidify her position. She is also the only hope to hold off a war between the worlds of Kingfountain and Muirwood. But there is a secret that stands between her and her enemies.
Release Date: February 26, 2019
For a thousand years, the House of Berethnet has ruled Inys. Queen Sabran the Ninth is still not married and must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction. But assassins are closing in... Ead Duryan is an outsider. Despite rising to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a secret society of mages. She is keeping a watchful eye on Sabran.
Release Date: March 15, 2019
The third novel in The Elder Stones Saga by New York Times Bestselling Author D.K. Holmberg... Haern's father is likely dead. So he must train to face the Ai'thol. He will have to use every ability he has to defeat them. But a chance encounter is about to change everything.
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The Eirlandia series continues with In the Land of the Everliving... The barbarian Scalda threaten to overrun Eirlandia. Conor and his companions must leave the safety of the Faery kingdom and fight for their people's survival. Conor soon discovers that many clan leaders have betrayed their nation in helping the Scalda. Now Conor and his men must become outcasts and leave the clan.
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Amastan has been taught that divine justice is written in blood. But this new assassin is already having second thoughts about taking a life. A scarcity of contracts is just what he needs. That was until Amastan finds a body of an important drum chief. He has been ordered to solve the murder before the family gets blamed. Now he must find the perfect assassin before becoming a target.
Are you looking to add some new love stories to your library? Whether you're searching for sweet, steamy, historical or suspenseful; we've found something for everybody. Don't miss these exciting new romance novels from bestselling authors J.T. Geissinger, Danielle Norman, C.M. Albert, Sophie Barnes, Cassia Leo, and J. Saman. Enjoy falling for these new books to read if you like love stories!
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This new job seems to easy for former Special Ops military man and bodyguard, Nasir. All he has to do is trail a Russian mobster's runaway wife in Mexico and report on what he finds. There's only one rule... do not get too close. But Naz finds it hard to resist when he has to watch the alluring dancer's every move.
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Holland Kelly is not a people person. Well, that's not really true. She's just not one particular man person. The man in question is her next-door neighbor Reid Brooks. Everything in her life would be perfect if she never had to interact with him again. But life isn't perfect. It turns out she has to spend hours with him trying to save their homes. Has he always been this good looking?
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Creslyn Knight ha an audition for the role of a lifetime. But in order for her to land the job, she will have to prove herself to the casting director. She will have to make him believe she can surrender to a harem of men. or he can't justify giving her the role. She is determined to prove him wrong. But soon the line between script and reality starts to blur.
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Viola Cartwright was branded a money-hungry con artist after she married the elderly Duke of Tremaine just days before his death. She has now found refuge in her work at St. Agatha's Hospital, where she is steering clear of attachment. That was until Henry Lowell. The heir of the Viscount Armswell landed on her operating table after a duel. He is charming and wickedly handsome. And may not be the scoundrel people say he is.
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Isabel "Izzy" Lake is down on her luck in Las Vegas. When she turns to the regulated prostitution industry, her first day on the job ends when one of her clients dies and she finds over a million dollars in his suitcase. Izzy takes the money and sets off for a small town on the other side of the country. Her new neighbor, Kingston Jameson, is all too eager to help her around the house. But is he really the sweet-talking country boy he claims to be?
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Weston Kincaid was my first. But I should have listened to the warnings about my brother's best friend. He was the star quarterback and I was the loner geek. I fell hard and then he left. I was forced to pick up the pieces of my heart all those years ago. Now a decade later he is back and is the sexy, irresistible surgeon that saved my friend's life.
What can you tell us about your new release, Nothing Is What It Appears To Be?
Nothing Is what Is Appears To Be is my life story. I dealt with being bothered, fondled, molested, harassed, and much more by beings I could not see. Many people refer to them as spirits, demons, or ghost. For a long time my mother and I could not figure out what was going on with me. Most of the time these attacks would happen while I was asleep. Something would put me in a vegetable state which felt like sleep paralysis and then have its way with me. It made my childhood very difficult to deal with. Eventually my mother turned to a spiritual reader for help. This women took advantage of us and when I got old enough to take my fate into my own hands, I went on a long and hard journey trying to figure out what was happening to me.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
When I finally found answers and was able to live my life peacefully I had a certainty in my heart that there are people out in the world that need to know my story because they could benefit from it. I wish I had someone like me to write their story down and share it with me, I could have benefitted from it. There are many people out on in the world that suffer with what I suffered with in silence because of the fear of being outcasted, ridiculed, or not believed. Spiritual fights with the unseen is very real and it's time to get the conversation going.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
Roots by Alex Hailey, There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman, and Master of the Jinn by Irving Karchmar
Say you’re the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Roots by Alex Hailey, There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman, and Master of the Jinn by Irving Karchmar
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Roots by Alex Hailey, There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman, and Master of the Jinn by Irving Karchmar
What is a typical day like for you?
I am a U.S. History teacher, so my typical day is busy with teaching, grading, and classroom management, however, the best part of my day is when I come home and am able to write for at least an hour. I imagine who I could support with my words.
What scene in Nothing Is What It Appears To Be was your favorite to write?
Oh my God, there are so many. I did my best to make it as interesting as possible so any and everyone who reads it will get the most out of it. If I had to choose one it would be when I went to the Dominican Republic to be "initiated" into a religion called Spirituse. I ended up getting emotional because I was so tired of being confused I just started cursing at God at the top of my lungs until it felt like something hit me and I passed out. In my mind I was supposed to understand what was happening to me and why I was being harassed by things I couldn't see but the problem didn't go away and the sleep attacks kept happening. I was at my wits end because I had did so much by that point to find answers but was still confused.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Yes the quote that's on the back of my book: "I just want the truth to be known on what's intentionally hidden, not talked about, and misunderstood"
Shanaya Hassan Ali is the author of the new book Nothing Is What It Appears To Be
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