Why Misunderstood feels easy to recommend
Misunderstood sounds shaped for readers who like recommendations with a little more soul, especially when I want reader fit, mood, and recommendation value.
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Misunderstood feels like a good fit for readers who want something dependable
This sounds like a thoughtful n02 biographies & memoirs pick for readers who want a clear recommendation without a sales pitch.
Continue reading →Misunderstood looks like the kind of book I would mention to a friend first
Misunderstood gives off the kind of book-club-ready energy I tend to trust.
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Paper Girl feels like a good fit for readers who want something dependable
This sounds like a thoughtful n02 biographies & memoirs pick for readers who want a clear recommendation without a sales pitch.
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Cat Nap looks like the kind of book I would mention to a friend first
Cat Nap gives off the kind of book-club-ready energy I tend to trust.
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What makes How to Be a Saint sound worth passing along
I can already see the kind of reader I would hand How to Be a Saint to, which is usually a good sign.
Continue reading →Some books don’t shout, they linger
The books I end up recommending most are not always the loudest or most urgent. They are usually the ones that keep returning in quiet flashes.
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Once Around the Sun: Stories, Crafts, and Recipes to Celebrate the Sacred Earth Year
Once Around the Sun educates and celebrates regarding the festivals that revolve around the Sacred Earth Year. Beginning with the [...]
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Tequila Cocktails
Over 40 tequila and mezcal-based drinks from around the world Tequila Cocktails by Jesse Estes is a short book that [...]
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Optimizing Strategy For Results: A Structured Approach to Make Your Business Come Alive
Optimizing Strategy for Results is a concise and action-packed guide for leaders, management consultants, and facilitators intent on developing and [...]
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Earth to Moon: A Memoir
Earth to Moon is the way the author’s mom would command her attention. And, as this memoir tells us, attention [...]
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Plain Jane and the Mermaid
Everyone thinks Jane is plain. After Jane’s family decides to kick Jane out of her own home, she comes up [...]
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Marvelous Magicians
Magic: a word that evokes a sense of wonder, an idea that natural laws can be suspended, and that one [...]
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Deer Run Home
Effie has been deaf since birth, but her family never learned to sign, so there is little communication between them. [...]
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You Can’t Take The Truth
Coming home can be the worst. Jasper is dreading it because she has made decisions about her life and people [...]
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Book Nerd
Bibliophiles will find themselves overjoyed and saying, “That’s me! Yes, I do that?” or “Oh, that’s so true!” as they [...]
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Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Eddie Ahn’s riveting memoir about his family, his service to the nonprofit work, and his environmental justice was very interesting, [...]
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Kalyna the Cutthroat
Radiant Basket of Rainbow Shells is a Loashti scholar living abroad in Quruscan to study. Radiant’s safe and comfortable existence [...]
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Funny Story
Daphne’s life is upended when her fiancé dumps her for his lifelong best friend, Petra. With no place to stay [...]
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Specimen
A rollercoaster ride of a story that readers will find exhilarating and heart-stopping. Towles is a genius at crafting a [...]
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Mysteries of Bowie and Other Oddities
Mysteries of Bowie and Other Oddities by Joseph Raffetto is a collection of stories that merge real characters and events [...]
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Graveyard Shift: A Novella
M.L. Rio wrote one of my all-time favorite novels, If We Were Villains, so I had high expectations for Graveyard [...]
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A Horse Brought Us Here
Readers will fall in love with A Horse Brought Us Here by author Dershie McDevitt. The story focuses on a [...]
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Things that Go Bump in the Day
Halloween is almost here, which means it will get scary and spooky! Most of the time, humans get scared of [...]
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The Maidservant in Cabin Number One
The Maidservant in Cabin Number One takes Chrysteen Braun’s story about a series of cabins near Lake Arrowhead, California, and [...]
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In Between Spaces
I’m a sucker for anthologies. There’s something about getting lost in myriad perspectives on a common theme that scratches some [...]
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Little Poems
Maya Angelou once remarked that if she had had more time to write, she could have made her poetry more [...]
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A Heretic’s Claim
“From wry witticisms to brief morality tales to poignant anecdotes and more, the works collected in David Colin’s A Heretic’s [...]
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Third Wheel by Richard R. Becker
Book Summary: Brady Wilks wished for a new life with a real family in the pre-boomtown years of Las Vegas, [...]
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Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship
Book Summary: Belonging Matters supports the adoption community while creating a conversation with those not directly touched by adoption. The [...]
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Creative Together by Steven Kowalski
If you’re looking for a book that will reignite your passion for creativity, look no further than Creative Together by [...]
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Epicedium – 50 experimental poetic journeys through awakening, alchemy and other worlds by Helene Alexandra Jæger
Book Summary: Exploring the realms of death and dreaming, the occult, the unconscious and the soul, Epicedium is a stream [...]
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A Long Time Dead by T.L. Bequettte
About the Book: A decade ago, it had been unthinkable when Joe Turner’s life-long friend, Owen Prescott, was charged with [...]
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Greenwich Park
Nearing the end of her pregnancy, Helen meets Rachel in her birthing class. Something about Rachel feels off, yet they [...]
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Full Immersion
Magpie is going through severe postpartum depression and turns to a last resort in an immersive virtual reality experience that [...]
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
David Quammen is a brilliant writer. He is the only writer who I can think of who can take me [...]
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Girl, Forgotten: A Novel
Who fathered Emily Vaughn’s baby forty years ago? And who beat her to death? These are the questions confronting US [...]
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The Quiet Part Out Loud
Mia and Alfie were high school sweethearts but are no longer together. Mia is supposed to be in NY when [...]
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Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir
This is a heart-breaking true-life tale of a young girl raised in a cult. Really, “raised” is too strong a [...]
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The Homesick Kitten (Pet Rescue Adventures)
The Homesick Kitten is a story in the Pet Rescue Adventures series by Holly Webb. In this story, Sammy is [...]
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Dear Star Baby
This book is very cute but very sad. Having a baby brother or baby sister is exciting until the unexpected [...]
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Book Buddies: Dazzle Makes a Wish
Book Buddies: Dazzle Makes a Wish is the third book in the Book Buddies series about stuffed animals who live [...]
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Iceberg
Following the death of her father, Hazel’s family is quickly plunged into destitution. The best solution is to send Hazel [...]
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On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn’t Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
On Learning to Heal by Ed Cohen was a very interesting and thought-provoking read. Cohen writes of his personal lifelong [...]
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The Witcher: Ronin (Manga)
Geralt is the Witcher. His job is to hunt yokai and oni for coin. While battling the spirits, demons, and [...]
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Harvest House
Indigenous high-school boy Hughie loves the theater. But when the fall school play is canceled, he sees a new opportunity [...]
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Belittled Women
Belittled Women, by Amanda Sellet, is the story of Little Women with a twist! Actually, it tells the story of [...]
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Everything Is Just Beginning
As a musician, I wanted to love this novel about a budding romance between a yet-to-be-discovered rocker and mysterious, blind, [...]
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Oolichan Moon (Sisters Learn Foods of the Elders)
As two sisters grow up, their family realizes it’s time to teach them all about their traditions and why they [...]
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Standing Dead (A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery)
Welcome to the eighth Timber Creek mystery. Unlike many mystery series, this one has wholesome, kind characters and a super [...]
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All in a Day
The baker is already hard at work when the clock strikes seven in the morning, and residents of this building [...]
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Grumpy Monkey Valentine Gross-Out
Grumpy Monkey thinks everything about Valentine’s day is gross. Everywhere he looks, he sees animals in love and kissing, and [...]
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The Christmas Princess (The Adventures of Little Mariah)
The Christmas Princess is the story of a little girl named Mariah who lives with her mom and pet bird [...]
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Bad Kitty Does NOT Like Valentine’s Day
Bad Kitty Does NOT Like Valentine’s Day is another story of Bad Kitty in the series about her, and this [...]
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Your Best Life: Tactics, Tools and Insights to Create a Life of Fulfillment, Joy and Abundance
Your Best Life is about finding ways to help you reach your goals, dreams, and hidden potential. And unlike other [...]
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Rare Birds
Graham Dodds and his mother have lived in many places, trying to get Mom’s heart fixed. She needs a transplant, [...]
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All the Dangerous Things: A Novel
One year ago, Isabelle Drake’s eighteen-month-old son was kidnapped from his bedroom. She hasn’t slept that entire time. The case [...]
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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
Author Paul Kix was attempting to explain the present day to his children, a world where police violence against African [...]
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Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
Looking not only at the geology but at the history and cultural influences that shaped the city of Oakland, geoscience [...]
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Unlikely Animals: A Novel
When she left home and became a legend of small town Everton, Emma Starling was a local healer off to [...]
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Patient Empowerment 101: More than a book, it’s an adventure!
At times, it seems as though the medical field has been set up to be difficult to navigate. Trying to [...]
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Nine Days
Sara Austin struggles with a job she no longer enjoys when she learns her mother is ill. Genevieve Austin was [...]
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The Movement (Time Corrector Series Book 2)
The Movement, the second book in Avi Datta’s action-packed Time Corrector series, opens in dramatic fashion in April 2027 as [...]
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Afro Samurai Vol.2 (Graphic Novel)
Japan’s assassins, warriors, and warlords live in a world steeped in the traditions of the past and the technologies of [...]
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A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower
Based on the life of a real woman, A Noble Cunning tells the story of a Scottish countess’s desperate gamble to save [...]
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Coming Full Circle: Healing Trauma Using Psychedelics
Having never used psychedelics myself, I’ve been incredibly curious about their potential mental health benefits, especially after people like Neal [...]
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Book Summary: Amateur journalist Greg travels to a remote mountain area to investigate rumors of a sinister building only to [...]
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Humongous (& Cool) Words For Kids by SB Hilarion
Book Summary: After immersing themselves in mantras in I AM Manifesto, young siblings Hao Finley and Sabine Yi Lee are [...]
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I AM Manifesto by SB Hilarion
Book Summary: A book of 366 mantras or affirmations to raise and encourage the self-esteem and self-belief of children (plus [...]
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Gift Guide Book Suggestion #2 Book Summary: Gravedigger Volke Savan wants nothing more than to be like his hero, the [...]
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Gift Guide Book Suggestion #4 Book Summary: Success is not reserved for the smartest or most talented—it’s earned by those [...]
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Gift Guide Book Suggestion #5 Book Summary: By turns thoughtful and hilarious (even, inexplicably, both at the same time), this [...]
Continue reading →Aye-Aye Gets Lucky – Endangered & Misunderstood Book 1 by Terri Tatchell
Gift Guide Book Suggestion #6 Book Summary: Join endangered and misunderstood AYE-AYE on his quest to win back the hearts [...]
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Book Summary: In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape [...]
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Book Summary: In The Parlay Effect: How Female Connection Can Change the World, Anne Devereux-Mills uses her insights as Founder [...]
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Book Summary In 2005, I was arrested by agents from both the US Postal Service and the Food and Drug [...]
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Gideon: The Sound and The Glory
Story Summary: Unsung heroes and murderous villains, hidden forever in ancient shadows, now leap to life – blazing onto the [...]
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5 Stars From San Francisco Book Review – https://sanfranciscobookreview.com/product/she-came-from-afar/ Each family is different, and this is especially true for families who [...]
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Book Summary Do you think of yourself as a leader? Leadership starts with a mindset, not a title. Leaders influence. [...]
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Gringo By Dan “Tito” Davis
Story Summary: Dan “Tito” Davis comes from a town in South Dakota that’s so small everyone knows their neighbor’s cat’s [...]
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Harold Hardscrabble, by G. D. Dess, captures the feelings of frustration and helplessness that many of us experience in our [...]
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Story Summary: The Hunter: Awakening, is the first of a series of novels that will explore the nature of good [...]
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Rage and Mercy: Part One by Scott Dresden
Story Summary “This thrilling book delivers a violent tale that is ultimately as surprising as it is gruesome.” Kirkus Review [...]
Continue reading →The Salad Oil King–by author M.G. Crisci
Reviewed by the San Francisco Book Review, getting 5 stars From the review: The story of Alfonso “Fonso” Gravanese has [...]
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Hunger Saint is about Ntoni, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily’s sulfur mines to support his family after [...]
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The Device Trial got a 5 star review from San Francisco Book Review here – http://sanfranciscobookreview.com/product/the-device-trial/ From the review: The [...]
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