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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & other lessons from the crematory is a collection of personal stories and lessons learned by Caitlin Doughty, a current mortician, writing about her time as a crematory operator in California. It sounds pretty morbid, and at times it is, but it’s also entertaining, funny at times, and refreshingly honest. I learned a lot about the death industry and what happens behind the curtains. I’m sure I’m not the only one to wonder.

As a follow-up to her successful 2018 book Girl, Wash Your Face author, motivational speaker and blogger Rachel Hollis has published another best seller, Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals.  

I have the perfect summertime book for you.   Ripe: a fresh, colorful approach to fruits and vegetables, by Cheryl Sternman Rule, photography by Paulette Philpot, definitely rates as one of my favorite books. I know what you’re thinking—it’s a cookbook. Yes. It is. This book is beautiful, informative, fun and very useful. Every page is gorgeous. The photographs are simply stunning and a pleasure to read.

Giver of Stars, by Jojo Moyes

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson

In the Woods, the first title of the Dublin Murder Squad series, introduces Rob Ryan, a Dublin detective who survived a horrib

Have you read the modernized Cinderella adaptation yet? If not, the sequel ‘The Princess and the Fangirl’ recently came out, so you may want to pick it up.

Haunting.

Heroine by Mindy McGinnis opens near the end, “When I wake up, all my friends are dead.“

Jane McKeene is a black young woman living in a post-Civil War world; a post-Civil War world that is being overrun by the undead. In Dread Nation‘s version of history the war ended because the dead rose up and started killing people and turning them and the Native and Negro Reeducation Act required that children like Jane be sent to special schools that educate them in the arts of proper society as well as in how to fight and kill the shamblers (zombies).

Leigh’s mother recently took her own life. Since then Leigh has had mysterious encounters with a red bird that she is convinced is her mom.  This leads her and her father to Tawain and grandparents Leigh has never met and a family history Leigh has never been told.

Grace is new in Prescott and plans to stay under the radar, but when she discovers the former occupant of her room, Lucy, was run out of town after accusing several (popular) boys at school of rape she’s finding it hard to stay quiet.

Rosina and Erin are the token freaks of school. Rosina is bogged down by responsibilities and expectations from her family and dealing with her crush on a cute cheerleader. Erin has Asperger’s  and is trying to compartmentalize her own past traumatic events.

Wolf by Wolf is an alternative history set in Europe (partially) in 1956. What if the Third Reich and Imperial Japan won World War II? What if the medical experiments performed on prisoners in death camps produced something almost supernatural?