Showcase - Nuestra América My Family in the Vertigo of Translation by CLAUDIO LOMNITZ Other Press

Today I'm showcasing another riveting memoir from my favorite indie publishers, Other Press. This book follows eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz's family from Eastern Europe to South America.
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ISBN-13:  978-1-63542-070-8
Publisher: Other Press
Release Date: 02-09-2021
Length: 464pp
Buy It: Amazon/ B&N/ IndieBound

Overview:

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

A riveting study of the intersections between Jewish and Latin American culture, this immigrant family memoir recounts history with psychological insight and the immediacy of a thriller.

In Nuestra América, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same time, the book is a pretext to explain and analyze the worldview, culture, and spirit of countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile, from the perspective of educated Jewish emigrants imbued with the hope and determination typical of those who escaped Europe in the 1920s.

Lomnitz’s grandparents, who were both trained to defy ghetto life with the pioneering spirit of the early Zionist movement, became intensely involved in the Peruvian leftist intellectual milieu and its practice of connecting Peru’s indigenous past to an emancipatory internationalism that included Jewish culture and thought. After being thrown into prison supposedly for their socialist leanings, Lomnitz’s grandparents were exiled to Colombia, where they were subject to its scandals, its class system, its political life. Through this lens, Lomnitz explores the almost negligible attention and esteem that South America holds in US public opinion. The story then continues to Chile during World War II, Israel in the 1950s, and finally to Claudio’s youth, living with his parents in Berkeley, California, and Mexico City.

Showcase - The Vineyard at Painted Moon by Susan Mallery Harlequin

I am so excited to be bringing you Susan Mallery's latest stand alone, The Vineyard at Painted Moon. A poignant story about starting over. I can't wait to read this and I know once you read about it you will too.
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ISBN-13:9781335912794
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date: 2-09-2021
Length: 400pp
Buy It: HQN/ Amazon/ B&N/ IndieBound

Overview:

"Mallery is an expert at writing about strong women, their friendships, and their romances."—Booklist on The Vineyard at Painted Moon

Step into the vineyard with Susan Mallery’s most irresistible novel yet, as one woman searches for the perfect blend of love, family and wine.

Mackenzie Dienes seems to have it all—a beautiful home, close friends and a successful career as an elite winemaker with the family winery. There’s just one problem—it’s not her family, it’s her husband’s. In fact, everything in her life is tied to him—his mother is the closest thing to a mom that she’s ever had, their home is on the family compound, his sister is her best friend. So when she and her husband admit their marriage is over, her pain goes beyond heartbreak. She’s on the brink of losing everything. Her job, her home, her friends and, worst of all, her family.

Staying is an option. She can continue to work at the winery, be friends with her mother-in-law, hug her nieces and nephews—but as an employee, nothing more. Or she can surrender every piece of her heart in order to build a legacy of her own. If she can dare to let go of the life she thought she wanted, she might discover something even more beautiful waiting for her beneath a painted moon.

Showcase- The Ruthless by David Putnam Oceanview Publishing

Today I'm showcasing David Putnam's latest in his series staring Sheriff Bruno Johnson, The Ruthless.
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ISBN-13: 978-1608094066
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Release Date: 02/02/2021
Length: 336pp
Bruno Johnson #8
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Overview:

Bruno Johnson, shaken to his core, but still a formidable force—an unrelenting focus on doing the right thing—unwilling to let anyone or anything stand in his way

Pushed to his emotional limit, Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Bruno Johnson struggles to hold his family together while immersed in his unrelenting career. His daughter, Olivia, is a teen mom to twin toddlers; her common-law husband, Derek Sams, is a thug; and one of their little boys has disappeared under his care.

The overwhelming intensity demanded of Bruno on this personal level is compounded by the brutal shotgun murder of a superior court judge and his wife, both friends of his. Bruno cannot ignore these violent crimes even though he’s supposedly off the law enforcement grid—undercover—working an illegal gun sting.

Tragedy strikes Bruno’s life on all fronts: family, friends, and professional—however, none of these colossal forces can match the unthinkable catastrophe that will forever dominate Bruno’s life.

Perfect for fans of Robert Crais and Michael Connelly

#GIVEAWAY #AudioBlitz Shattered Lies by Winter Paige Caffeinated PR

Today we are celebrating the release of Shattered Lies, the first audiobook in the Devastation Duet series by Winter Paige. You won’t to miss this romance narrated by Connor Crais and Eva Glade.

Showcase: Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb

There is no other author as prolific as J.D. Robb aka Nora Roberts and one reason is her Eve Dallas series and unbelievably Faithless in Death is #52 in this series. I have this on my shelf so check back later for my review too!
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ISBN-13: 9781250272751
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: 2-09-2021
Length: 416pp
In Death #52
Pre-order: Amazon/B&N/IndieBound

Overview:

In the new Eve Dallas police thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb, what looked like a lover’s quarrel turned fatal has larger—and more terrifying—motives behind it…

The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don’t add up. Gwen Huffman is wealthy, elegant, comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over the trauma of finding the body—but why did it take an hour to report it? And why is she lying about little things?

As Eve and her team look into Gwen, her past, and the people around her, they find that the lies are about more than murder. As with sculpture, they need to chip away at the layers of deception to find the shape within—and soon they’re getting the FBI involved in a case that involves a sinister, fanatical group and a stunning criminal conspiracy.

Sophia Rose Reviews: First Fate by Kendall Talbot

Today Sophia Rose is reviewing the first in a new post apocalyptic series, First Fate, Wave of Fate #1.
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First Fate by Kendall Talbot

#1 Wave of Fate

Post-Apocalyptic Adventure

Publisher:  Self

Published: 1.21.21

Pages:  372

ASIN:  B08HYDT1WC

Format: eARC

Source:  Author

Sellers:  Amazon

#MacmillanAudio review of The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah narrated by Julia Whelan

Kristin Hannah has written some unforgettable novels but she may just have outdone herself with her latest historical masterpiece, The Four Winds. Devastation yet hope, humiliation yet determination is what the audience will find in this incredible novel set during yet another trying time in America, the dust bowl and the depression.
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ISBN-13: 9781250317247
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: 2-02-2021
Length: 15 hrs-2 mins
Source: from publisher for review
Buy It: Audible/Libro.fm

Overview:

Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.

By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive.

In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.

The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it—the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.