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1 day ago | 
authorlink.com | Cindy A. Matthews |Doris Booth |Kate Padilla |Ellen Birkett Morris
New York, NY (May 13, 2025) – Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, is resuming grantmaking this year. Furthermore offers grants to support the publication of nonfiction books that concern the arts, history, and the natural and built environments. The program is re-opening thanks in part to additional support provided by Hawthornden Foundation. “We are thrilled to re-start Furthermore,” said Julia Bator, Executive Director of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
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3 days ago | 
authorlink.com | Cindy A. Matthews |Doris Booth |Kate Padilla |Ellen Birkett Morris
The Indie Bestsellers ListPublished Wednesday, May 7, 2025 (for the sales week ended Sunday, May 4, 2025). Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit IndieBound.org.
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1 week ago | 
authorlink.com | Cindy A. Matthews |Doris Booth |Kate Padilla |Ellen Birkett Morris
The SafariJaclyn GoldisEmily Bestler BooksThe Babel brand of fashionable sustainable clothing is renowned worldwide. Now its CEO Odelia Babel has returned to one of her favorite places on Earth, the Leopard Sands safari park in South Africa, to get married. Even though her fiance, fashion designer Asher Bach is twenty-five years Odelia’s junior, he’s deeply in love with her. She has summoned her family around her to witness the ceremony.
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1 week ago | 
authorlink.com | Cindy A. Matthews |Doris Booth |Kate Padilla |Ellen Birkett Morris
Author: Annabel Earp Summary Synopsis – A family of four A family of four is a romantic dark thriller novel featuring the Protagonist’s; Henry Pickering (A working class man) and Giselle Le’Grand (An upper-class woman) who grew up together in Switzerland on the edge of Lake Geneva. Henry’s mother is an Au Pair to the family who is shortly dismissed back to Stourbridge after Giselle leaves the family home for an Education in the UK at a boarding school.
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2 weeks ago | 
authorlink.com | Cindy A. Matthews |Doris Booth |Kate Padilla |Ellen Birkett Morris
Captain KiddA True Story of Treasure and BetrayalBy Samuel MarquisA breakneck adventure of war, romance, and politics in the golden age of piracy. Captain William Kidd stands as one of the most notorious “pirate” outlaws ever, but his legend is tainted by a bed of lies. Having captivated imaginations for more than three hundred years and inspired many stories about pirates, troubling questions remain.
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2 weeks ago | 
authorlink.com | Cindy A. Matthews |Doris Booth |Kate Padilla |Ellen Birkett Morris
Letters From The DeadIsabella ValeriThis addictive debut novel takes us into an intoxicating world of old money, privilege, and family intrigue as a young heiress must return home from a decade-long exile to face the powerful enemies arrayed against her, including those within her own family. For the first eleven years of her life, the precocious daughter of a great European family tracing its roots back more than fifteen generations, never set foot on land that her family didn’t own.
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2 weeks ago | 
authorlink.com | Doris Booth |Cindy A. Matthews |Kate Padilla |Ellen Birkett Morris
(SourceBooks, 5.20.25)She came from a lineage known for good fortune…by those who don’t know the whole story. A captivating tale of resilience and hope, The Girls of Good Fortune explores the complexity of family and identity, the importance of stories that echo through generations, and the power of strength found beneath the surface. Oregon, 1888. Amid the subterranean labyrinth of the notorious Shanghai Tunnels, a woman awakens in an underground cell, drugged and disguised.
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2 weeks ago | 
authorlink.com | Anna Roins |Cindy A. Matthews |Doris Booth |Kate Padilla
The Road to Yesterday: A Memoirby Maryellen Donovan(She Writes Press, 9 September 2025)For readers who found comfort in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, a 9/11 widow’s memoir of rediscovering joy and finding love again after the violent loss of her husband. One sunny Tuesday morning, Maryellen Donovan’s beloved husband, Steve Cherry, lost his life in the 9/11 attacks—rocking her to her core, and changing her family forever.
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2 weeks ago | 
authorlink.com | Doris Booth |Cindy A. Matthews |Kate Padilla |Ellen Birkett Morris
How do you find time to write? Writing requires discipline and total focus. Set an hour or two every day where you give yourself over completely to sitting in front of the page. No text messages. No phone calls. No waving at the neighbors. When you feel the urge to check your phone or click on an ad, will yourself back to the page. It matters not that during that hour, whether you write three words or or a thousand.
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2 weeks ago | 
authorlink.com | Diane Slocum |Cindy A. Matthews |Doris Booth |Kate Padilla
JunieBy Erin Crosby Eckstine(Ballantine Books)Interview by Diane SlocumTeenage Junie is a maid in an antebellum Alabama plantation. She is haunted by guilt believing that she was responsible for her sister’s death – but then she is literally haunted by her sister’s ghost. Minnie demands that Junie perform tasks for her so she can move on from the ghostly existence. The tasks put Junie at risk, but her guilt compels her to attempt them. As this takes place, all is not well at the plantation either.
