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(IM)PERFECTLY HAPPY

About (Im)Perfectly Happy

Paperback:  320 pages

Publisher: Kensington (April 28, 2020)

When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had very different goals—but matched each other in ambition. Yet ten years later they can’t help wondering what happened to the hopeful, confident, driven women they used to be—and how to get
them back . . .
 
Radio personality Raina, known as “the black Delilah,” hates the wholesome persona that’s made her a success. Doling out syrupy versions of her grandma’s wisdom feels worlds away from the sarcastic,
tell-it-like-it-is woman Raina really is.

Kara Jones was sure she’d be a master sommelier by thirty. Life and loss interfered with that plan. Now she has one more chance—but it’s taking a toll on her self-esteem and her marriage.

Nikki Grayson hardly recognizes the stay-at-home mom she’s become. When her band signed a record deal, she swapped the limelight for a minivan and a sensible ’do. Now she’s wishing she had followed her heart. Instead, she’s drowning her regret in alcohol.

Public defender Sienna Njeri willingly put her city council aspirations aside to support her fiancé’s bid for office—and now she’s wondering if her loyalty is misplaced.

Longing for the support, advice, and tough love they once shared, all four resolve to start meeting up again. After all, their dreams may still be within reach. But are they worth the price they’ll pay to achieve them?

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About Sharina Harris

Sharina Harris earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgia State University. After college, she pursued a career in digital marketing and public relations. Although her profession required writing, she decided to pursue a career in writing in 2012.

Sharina’s contemporary romance series under the pen name, Rina Gray, was named Book Riot’s 100 Must?Read Romantic Comedies. When Sharina’s not writing, she can be found with her head stuck in a book, rooting for her favorite NBA teams, and spending time with friends and family.

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Instagram tour:

Monday, May 4th: @bookishwithwine

Tuesday, May 5th: @mom_loves_reading

Wednesday, May 6th: @bookapotamus

Wednesday, May 6th: @chroniclesofkayy

Thursday, May 7th: @bookishopinion

Friday, May 8th: @thehireader

Saturday, May 9th: @thereadingchemist

Sunday, May 10th: @djreadsbooks

Monday, May 11th: @falling4romance

Tuesday, May 12th: @never_withouta_book

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About The Summer House

Hardcover: 352 Pages

Publisher: Thomas Nelson (June 2, 2020)

Sometimes it takes losing everything to find yourself again.

Lily Bishop wakes up one morning to find a good-bye note and divorce papers from her husband on the kitchen counter. Having moved to Alabama for his job only weeks before, Lily is devastated, but a flyer at the grocery store for a hair stylist position in a local retirement community provides a refuge while she contemplates her next steps.

Rose Carrigan built the small retirement village of Safe Harbor years ago—just before her husband ran off with his assistant. Now she runs a tight ship, making sure the residents follow her strict rules. Rose keeps everyone at arm’s length, including her own family. But when Lily shows up asking for a job and a place to live, Rose’s cold exterior begins to thaw.

Lily and Rose form an unlikely friendship, and Lily’s salon soon becomes the place where residents share town gossip, as well as a few secrets. Lily soon finds herself drawn to Rose’s nephew, Rawlins—a single dad and shrimper who’s had some practice at starting over—and one of the residents may be carrying a torch for Rose as well.

Neither Lily nor Rose is where she expected to be, but the summer makes them both wonder if there’s more to life and love than what they’ve experienced so far. The Summer House weaves Lauren K. Denton’s inviting Southern charm around a woman’s journey to find herself.

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About Lauren K. Denton

Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, Lauren now lives with her husband and two daughters in Homewood, just outside Birmingham. In addition to her fiction, she writes a monthly newspaper column about life, faith, and how funny (and hard) it is to be a parent. On any given day, she’d rather be at the beach with her family and a stack of books. Her debut novel, THE HIDEAWAY, was a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestseller. Her second novel, HURRICANE SEASON, released in spring of 2018, is a USA Today bestseller. GLORY ROAD will release in March, 2019.

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Lauren K. Denton’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, June 1st: Amy’s Book-et List

Tuesday, June 2nd: Reading Reality

Wednesday, June 3rd: Bewitched Bookworms

Thursday, June 4th: Hallie Reads

Monday, June 8th: Audio Killed the Bookmark and @beritaudiokilledthebookmark

Tuesday, June 9th: All Roads Lead to the Kitchen

Wednesday, June 10th: @bluntscissorsbookreviews

Thursday, June 11th: Leighellen Landskov Photography and @mommaleighellensbooknook

Friday, June 12th: Kritter’s Ramblings

Monday, June 15th: PhDiva Blog and @thephdivabooks

Tuesday, June 16th: Kahakai Kitchen

Wednesday, June 17th: Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

Thursday, June 18th: Buried Under Books

Friday, June 19th: Treestand Book Reviews

Monday, June 22nd: @angelareadsbooks

Wednesday, June 24th: Christian Chick’s Thoughts

Friday, June 26th: Girl Who Reads

Monday, June 29 Running Through the Storms

Friday, July 3rd: View from the Birdhouse

Wednesday, July 22nd: @bibliolau19

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THE STOLEN DAUGHTER

About The Stolen Daughter

Paperback: 256 Pages

Publisher: Dafina (May 26, 2020)

Raised by a widowed mother, Jill Reed has come a long way from her difficult youth. But while she may not have had money, Jill never doubted she was rich in love. Her mother, Connie, made Jill the center of her world. Now, even though she has a young family of her own, it’s Jill’s turn to care for her ailing mother.

When early dementia begins to set in, Connie starts talking about Jill’s “other life.” Jill assumes it’s just rambling confusion. Still, Connie’s stories about Jill’s childhood, and her father’s early death, never quite added up. And when a strange man shows up to Jill’s job bearing news that turns Jill’s life upside down, there’s no denying Connie’s devastating secret.

As Jill sets out to learn more about her past, she’s stunned by what she learns and what it will mean for her future. Now, she must decide what price she’s willing to pay to claim the life that’s rightfully hers.

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About ReShonda Tate Billingsley

I am a former news reporter and anchor, who now writes books full-time. I’m the author of 35-plus books and a mother to three. My sophomore novel, Let the Church Say Amen, has been made into a movie, directed by actress Regina King and produced by Queen Latifah’s Flava Unit, Royal Ties Productions and Bobcat Films. (Oh, and I do make my film debut as well! Look for me in the church scene!)Honored to have won the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Say Amen, Again and been nominated again in 2013. I am also the co-founder of Brown Girls Books, a boutique publishing company with over 20 authors. I’m also a proud University of Texas at Austin graduate. Not only do I love writing, I love reading almost as much!

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Instagram tour:

Monday, June 8th: @pnwbookworm

Monday, June 8th: @shejustlovesbooks

Tuesday, June 9th: @thehireader

Tuesday, June 9th: @bookishwithwine

Wednesday, June 10th: @angelareadsbooks

Thursday, June 11th: @biblio.jojo

Friday, June 12th: @mixed_matched_socks

Saturday, June 13th: @thereadingchemist

Sunday, June 14th: @nurse_bookie

Monday, June 15th: @mom_loves_reading

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ALL OUR SUMMERS

About All Our Summers

Paperback: 352 Pages

Publisher: Kensington (June 30, 2020)

Against the picturesque coastal Maine setting that she evokes so well, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin creates a heartfelt story of family bonds and new beginnings . . .

It came as no surprise to anyone in Yorktide when glamorous Carol Ascher fled the little Maine town for New York City. While Carol found success as an interior designer, her younger sister, Bonnie, stayed behind, embracing marriage and motherhood. She even agreed to take in Carol’s teenage daughter during a tumultuous patch. Now both their girls are grown and Bonnie, recently widowed, is anticipating the day she’ll retire to Ferndean House, the nineteenth-century family home on the rocky Maine coast.

But forty-five years after leaving Yorktide, Carol suddenly announces that she’s moving back—into Ferndean. Bonnie is indignant. She’s the one who kept the homestead in order and tended to their dying mother. Now Carol expects to simply buy her out? As far as Bonnie is concerned, Ferndean is part of their heritage—not just another of Carol’s improvement projects, to be torn apart and remade according to her whim.

The entire Ascher family is in flux, uncovering secrets that upend their relationships. Carol’s longing to be welcomed home is fueled by a painful truth she’s carried for years. It will take an extraordinary summer—in a remarkable place—to lead these women back to each other, buoyed by the tides of friendship and forgiveness.

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About Holly Chamberlin

Holly Chamberlin was born and raised in New York City. After earning a Master’s degree in English Literature from New York University and working as an editor in the publishing industry for ten years, she moved to Boston, married and became a freelance editor and writer. She and her husband now live in downtown Portland, Maine, in a restored mid-nineteenth-century brick townhouse with Betty, the most athletic, beautiful and intelligent cat in the world.

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Monday, June 15th: @readingfortheweekend

Monday, June 15th: @honeynougats.reads

Tuesday, June 16th: @angelareadsbooks

Tuesday, June 16th: @bookishwithwine

Wednesday, June 17th: @nurse_bookie

Wednesday, June 17th: @3heartsandawish

Thursday, June 18th: @pnwbookworm

Friday, June 19th: @shejustlovesbooks

Friday, June 19th: @mom_loves_reading

Monday, June 22nd: @readingmama_reviews

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THE LOST GIRLS OF DEVON

About The Lost Girls of Devon

Paperback: 351 Pages

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (July 14, 2020)

One of Travel + Leisure’s most anticipated books of summer 2020.

From the Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids comes a story of four generations of women grappling with family betrayals and long-buried secrets.

It’s been years since Zoe Fairchild has been to the small Devon village of her birth, but the wounds she suffered there still ache. When she learns that her old friend and grandmother’s caretaker has gone missing, Zoe and her fifteen-year-old daughter return to England to help.

Zoe dreads seeing her estranged mother, who left when Zoe was seven to travel the world. As the four generations of women reunite, the emotional pain of the past is awakened. And to complicate matters further, Zoe must also confront the ex-boyfriend she betrayed many years before.

Anxieties spike when tragedy befalls another woman in the village. As the mystery turns more sinister, new grief melds with old betrayal. Now the four Fairchild women will be tested in ways they couldn’t imagine as they contend with dangers within and without, desperate to heal themselves and their relationships with each other.

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About Barbara O’Neal

Barbara O’Neal is the author of twelve novels of women’s fiction, including The Art of Inheriting Secrets, How to Bake a Perfect Life, and The All You Can Dream Buffet. Her award-winning books have been published in more than a dozen countries, including France, England, Poland, Australia, Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Brazil. She lives in the beautiful city of Colorado Springs with her beloved, a British endurance athlete who vows he’ll never lose his accent.

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Instagram:

Monday, July 13th: @thebookend.diner

Tuesday, July 14th: @tbretc

Tuesday, July 14th: @girlsinbooks

Wednesday, July 15th: @books_with_bethany

Thursday, July 16th: @my_book_journey

Friday, July 17th: @basicbsguide

Sunday, July 19th: @wherethereadergrows

Monday, July 20th: @createexploreread

Tuesday, July 21st: @hothanjama_

Wednesday, July 22nd: @inquisitivebookworm

Thursday, July 23rd: @love_my_dane_dolly_

Friday, July 24th: @readwithjamie

Monday, July 27th: @somekindofalibrary

Tuesday, July 28th: @booklanguage

Wednesday, July 29th: @thebookishglow

Thursday, July 30th: @nurse_bookie

Reviews:

Monday, July 13th: The Bookend Diner

Wednesday, July 15th: Seaside Book Nook

Wednesday, July 15th: @the.caffeinated.reader

Thursday, July 16th: Books and Cats and Coffee and @bookncatsncoffee

Friday, July 17th: Kritter’s Ramblings

Saturday, July 18th: @honeynougats.reads

Monday, July 20th: Erin Evelyn Reads and @erinevelynreads

Monday, July 20th: Books Cooks Looks

Tuesday, July 21st: @biblio.jojo

Tuesday, July 21st: Blunt Scissors Book Reviews and @bluntscissorsbookreviews

Thursday, July 23rd: Really Into This and @reallyintothis

Friday, July 24th: No More Grumpy Bookseller

Friday, July 24th: The Unread Shelf

Monday, July 27th: @readinggirlreviews

Monday, July 27th: Drink. Read. Repeat – author Q&A

Tuesday, July 28th: Drink. Read. Repeat and @drink.read.repeat

Tuesday, July 28th: Eliot’s Eats

Wednesday, July 29th: 5 Minutes for Books

Wednesday, July 29th: @welovebigbooksandwecannotlie

Wednesday, July 29th: The OC Book Girl and @theocbookgirl

Thursday, July 30th: Nurse Bookie

Thursday, July 30th: Barks Beaches Books and @barksbeachesbooks

Friday, July 31st: @my_read_feed

Monday, August 3rd: Audio Killed the Bookmark and @beritaudiokilledthebookmark

Monday, August 3rd: Booked on a Feeling

Tuesday, August 4th: @bookgoalswithkate

Thursday, August 6th: Books with Jams and @bookswithjams

Friday, August 7th: What is That Book About

Friday, August 14th: All Roads Lead to the Kitchen

Monday, August 17th: Read With Wine and @readwithwine

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About Judge’s Girls

Paperback: 320 Pages

Publisher: Kensington (October 27, 2020)

Three very different women. Only one thing in common. But when their family patriarch dies and they must share his estate, the truths they discover will test them–and everything they think they know about each other.

Beloved Georgia judge Joseph Donaldson was known for his unshakable fairness, his hard-won fortune–and a scandalous second marriage to his much-younger white secretary. Now he’s left a will with a stunning provision. In order to collect their inheritance, his lawyer daughter Maya, her stepmother Jeanie, and Jeanie’s teen daughter, Ryder, must live together at the family lake house. Maya and Jeanie don’t exactly get along, but they reluctantly agree to try an uneasy peace for as long as it takes…

But fragile ex-beauty queen Jeanie doesn’t know who she is beyond being a judge’s wife–and drinking away her insecurities has her in a dangerous downward spiral. Fed up with her mother’s humiliating behavior, Ryder tries to become popular at school in all the wrong ways. And when Maya attempts to help, she puts her successful career and her shaky love life at risk. Now with trouble they didn’t see coming–and secrets they can no longer hide–these women must somehow find the courage to admit their mistakes, see each other for who they really are–and slowly, perhaps even joyfully, discover everything they could be.

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About Sharina Harris

Sharina Harris earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgia State University. After college, she pursued a career in digital marketing and public relations. Although her profession required writing, she decided to pursue a career in writing in 2012.

Sharina’s contemporary romance series under the pen name, Rina Gray, was named Book Riot’s 100 Must Read Romantic Comedies. When Sharina’s not writing, she can be found with her head stuck in a book, rooting for her favorite NBA teams, and spending time with friends and family. Sharina resides in Atlanta with her husband and son.

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About Glimmer As You Can

Publisher : Alcove Press (November 10, 2020)

“A timely and beautiful story of female friendship and strength.” –Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Queen’s Fortune

“Martin deftly and exquisitely captures this historical moment.” –Jillian Cantor, USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time

In the glitz and glamor tradition of Beatriz Williams’s Tiny Little Thing and Fiona Davis’s The Chelsea Girls, Danielle Martin’s debut is “a love letter to…women” (Greer Macallister, The Magician’s Lie) that illustrates the courage of women and the strength of sisterhood.

Welcome to the Starlite. Let your true self shine.

1962. In the middle of Brooklyn Heights sits the Starlite: boutique dress shop by day, underground women’s club by night. Started by the shop’s proprietor after her marriage crumbled, Madeline’s social club soon becomes a safe haven for women from all walks of life looking for a respite from their troubled relationships and professional frustrations. These after-hour soirées soon bring two very different women into Madeline’s life–Elaine, a British ex-pat struggling to save her relationship, and Lisa, a young stewardess whose plans for the future are suddenly upended–irrevocably changing all three women’s lives in ways no one could have predicted.

But when Madeline’s ne’er-do-well ex-husband shows up again, the luster of Starlite quickly dampens. As the sisterhood rallies around Madeline, tension begins to eat at the club. When an unspeakable tragedy befalls their sorority, one woman must decide whether to hide the truth from the group or jeopardize her own hopes and dreams. Sure to appeal to readers of Kathleen Tessaro and Suzanne Rindell, Glimmer As You Can captures the heartbeat of an era and the ambitions of a generation of women living in a man’s world–a world threatened by a wave of change.

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About Danielle Martin

Danielle Martin started her professional career as an assistant with the William Morris agency before pursuing a degree in teaching. She previously worked as a special education teacher in New York, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana. Currently she works as a freelance writer near New Orleans. Born in Putnam County, NY and raised by two generations of native Brooklynites, her depictions of the boroughs of New York were informed by her childhood experiences, family accounts, and a love of city history.

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Review tour:

Tuesday, November 10th: @welovebigbooksandwecannotlie

Wednesday, November 11th: @mynovelmenagerie

Thursday, November 12th: @baytownbookie

Friday, November 13th: Amy’s Book-et List and @amysbooketlist

Monday, November 16th: Nurse Bookie and @nurse_bookie

Tuesday, November 17th: Hallie Reads

Wednesday, November 18th: Leighellen Landskov and @mommaleighellensbooknook

Thursday, November 19th: Run Wright and @karen_runwright

Friday, November 20th: @mrsboomreads

Friday, November 20th: @readwithmason

Friday, November 27th: Bookchickdi

Monday, November 30th: @vicireads

Monday, November 30th: Kritter’s Ramblings

Tuesday, December 1st: 100 Pages a Day… Stephanie’s Book Reviews

Thursday, December 3rd: @irishgirliereads

Friday, December 4th: @lyon.brit.andthebookshelf

Monday, December 7th: Girl Who Reads

Tuesday, December 8th: @katieneedsabiggerbookshelf

Wednesday, December 9th: Books Cooks Looks

Thursday, December 10th: Eliot’s Eats

Thursday, December 10th: @suethebookie

Friday, December 11th: What is That Book About

Instagram features:

Friday, November 27th: @booksloveandunderstanding

Saturday, November 28th: @lifeinlit

Sunday, November 29th: @babygotbooks13

Sunday, November 29th: @shobizreads

Monday, November 30th: @sweethoneyandbrei

Tuesday, December 1st: @shesalwayswithabook

Wednesday, December 2nd: @the_unwined

Thursday, December 3rd: @megsbookclub

Friday, December 4th: @suzysbookshelf

Saturday, December 5th: @liferhi_inspired

Sunday, December 6th: @giuliland

Monday, December 7th: @bluntscissorsbookreviews

Monday, December 7th: @books_with_bethany

Tuesday, December 8th: @the.caffeinated.reader

Wednesday, December 9th: @thephdivabooks

Thursday, December 10th: @thebookend.diner

Thursday, December 10th: @readinggirlreviews

Friday, December 11th: @somekindofalibrary

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About I Found Love: True Stories of Discovering Love, Belonging, and Friendship

Hardcover : 256 pages

Publisher : Thomas Nelson (January 12, 2021)

From the influential and ever-growing movement I Am Second, a remarkable collection of stories of people searching for and finding love.

When I Am Second launched in 2008, the organization intended simply to tell stories of lives changed utterly by people placing God first and themselves second. Although the organization has exploded in size and influence since, that original mission has remained the same–and continues to have enormous power and influence today. I Found Love is the highly anticipated new book from I Am Second, gathering together stories of people who searched everywhere for fulfillment and wholeness and found it only when they surrendered to God. People whose stories appear include the following, among others:

• David and Tamela Mann
• Jason Castro
• Sean Lowe
• Stephen Baldwin

Moving, compelling, and profoundly inspiring, the stories found here remind us that our hearts will always be restless until they find their rest in God and always unsatisfied until we find the love of God.

Purchase Links

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-a-million |  Thomas Nelson

About Doug Bender

Doug Bender is an I Am Second writer and small groups coach. He developed many of the small group tools found at iamsecond.com and has coached churches, organizations, and individuals to use I Am Second groups to share the message of Jesus with their friends and family. He also works with I Am Second’s parent organization, e3 Partners, as a church planter and pastor in countries such as Ethiopia, Colombia, and the US. Doug and his wife, Catherine, have four children: Bethany, Samuel, Isabella, and Jesse.

Find out more about Doug Bender and the I Am Second books at iamsecond.com.

Instagram features:

Monday, January 11th: @nurse_bookie

Monday, January 11th: @pattyisbooked

Tuesday, January 12th: @hannah_reads

Wednesday, January 13th: @mommaleighellensbooknook

Thursday, January 14th: @fashionablyfifty

Friday, January 15th: @never_withouta_book

Saturday, January 16th: @iamgeorgiabrown

Sunday, January 17th: @booksloveandunderstanding

Monday, January 18th: @readingwithmegan

Tuesday, January 19th: @melanatedreader

Wednesday, January 20th: @classiccourt12

Thursday, January 21st: @megsbookclub

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