Modern Pioneer Cookbook By Mary Bryant Shrader | Lifestyle, Cookbook (August 2023) This cookbook, by the founder and host of the popular YouTube channel “Mary’s Nest,” shows readers how to return to simpler times right from their kitchens. Learn how to make your own bone broth, cultured dairy, sourdough and no-knead bread; how to can, pickle, ferment, and dry food, and more! This book features simple ingredients, traditional techniques, detailed instructions and practical tips, and everything you need to perfect your homestead kitchen.
Dear Dana
By Amy Weinland Daughters | Memoir, Inspirational (May 2022)
When Amy Weinland Daughters reconnects with an old friend, Dana, on Facebook and learns of her friend’s son’s terminal illness, she feels called to write letters with Dana as pen pals. The richness of the experience left Amy wondering: If my life could be so changed by someone I considered “just a Facebook friend,” what would happen if I wrote all my Facebook friends a letter? A staggering 580 handwritten letters later, Amy’s life would never be the same.
Claim Your Swagger
By Jennifer Mrozek Sukalo | Self-Help/Motivational (May 2023)
Jennifer Mrozek Sukalo is a transformational expert, performance coach, and the creator of SWAGGER U, a personal development approach to harnessing your untapped potential and becoming who you were born to be. In Claim Your SWAGGER, Sukalo helps readers discard self-limiting beliefs and enables them to move beyond surviving life so they may instead follow their passions and greater purpose.
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Of White Ashes
By Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto | Historical Fiction (May 2023)
Separated by the Pacific Ocean, two Japanese Americans navigate surviving their tumultuous childhoods after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They face displacement, incarceration, and deadly secrets that put themselves and their families in danger. When destiny brings them together in California, their love for each other is heavily matched by their shared trauma. Inspired by the true events of the authors’ family, this story makes readers marvel at the resilience of humanity… and also the risk of history repeating itself.
Texas Rose Happily Ever After
By Katie Graykowski | Romance, Romantic Comedy (April 2023)
To fulfill her grandmother’s dying wish, Princess Alexandra Louis Eleanor Von Claremont, or A-Lee, must travel to Texas to find the man her grandmother once loved, a lieutenant in the Korean War named Llewellyn Bradford. All is going well, until A-Lee’s car breaks down on the side of the highway. T-Bone, the ranch’s new lead farmer, catches sight of A-Lee and offers to help her on her mission. The two work together to search for clues, digging through the ranch looking for any trace of Lt. Bradford.
