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Books on Sale: Contemporary Bestsellers from Cabot, Shalvis and Macomber, Plus a Nonfic Audiobook

 Book Size 12 is Not FatSize 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot is $1.99 digitally pretty much everywhere today. If you like Cabot (I do!) you'll probably like this book. It's the first book in Cabot's Heather Wells series about a former pop star – and the books are a mix of contemporary romance, light mystery and comedy.

 Heather Wells Rocks!

Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two — and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen — not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives — even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!

But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .

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Book Simply Irresistible - Jill Shalvis

RECOMMENDED: Simply Irresistible is the first book in Jill Shalvis' Lucky Harbor series, and it's currently 63% off at $2.99. 

Maddie Moore's whole life needs a makeover.

In one fell swoop, Maddie loses her boyfriend (her decision) and her job (so not her decision). But rather than drowning her sorrows in bags of potato chips, Maddie leaves L.A. to claim the inheritance left by her free-spirited mother-a ramshackle inn nestled in the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington. Starting over won't be easy.

Yet Maddie sees the potential for a new home and a new career-if only she can convince her two half-sisters to join her in the adventure. But convincing Tara and Chloe will be difficult because the inn needs a big makeover too. The contractor Maddie hires is a tall, dark-haired hottie whose eyes-and mouth-are making it hard for her to remember that she's sworn off men.

Even harder will be Maddie's struggles to overcome the past, though she's about to discover that there's no better place to call home than Lucky Harbor.

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 Book Someday SoonSomeday Soon by Debbie Macomber is $2.99 and boy howdy, that cover does not match the contents. This is a contemporary romance about a mercenary hero and a widow, and from the reviews it sounds much darker than standard Macomber.

 Cain McClellan had chosen his lifestyle. He thrived on the challenge, the rush that came with putting his life in incredible danger. No woman, he told himself, could make him feel the way he did after a successful mission—no matter how beautiful she was. So why was he standing on a cold pier like a lovelorn teenager, hoping for a glimpse of Linette Collins?

But then he saw her, and the sight of her took his breath away. The wind whipped her lustrous dark hair about her face, and she lifted a finger to wrap a thick strand behind her ear. The smart thing to do was turn around and walk away as fast as his feet would carry him. He'd gotten what he wanted. One last look at her. His curiosity should be satisfied.

But even as his mind formulated the thought, Cain knew that just seeing Linette again could never be enough.

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 Book Between Sisters

Between Sisters by Kristen Hannah is .99c right now. This isn't quite romance — I'd probably call it more of an ugly-cry family saga. If you're into that type of story, this one has a 3.99 average on GoodReads. Not bad!

 Meghann Dontess is a woman haunted by heartbreak. Twenty-five years ago she was forced to make a terrible choice, one that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a hotshot divorce attorney who doesn’t believe in intimacy–-until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her harsh, judgmental older sister and their self-absorbed mother. It is the first time they have been together in more than two decades. Over the course of a hot Pacific Northwest summer, these three women who believe they have nothing in common will try to become what they never were: a family.

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 Book The Happiness Hypothesis

 

The Happiness Hypothesis by psychologist Johnathan Haidt is today's Audible Daily Deal at $3.95. It's unabridged and runs 11 hours, 47 minutes. This is nonfiction that explores the moral and religious underpinnings to how human happiness works. I'm fascinated by the reviews and already bought it. I particularly liked this review from Chris:

When pitching Jonathan Haidt's “Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom” to friends, I often find myself explaining away the title — no, it's not another self-help book and yes, it's about more than just plastering a silly smile on your face. With that said, the title is appropriate; Haidt is chiefly concerned with what's responsible for making humans happy.

The title fails, however, to convey the breadth and depth of Haidt's search, which touches on philosophy, psychology, economics, evolution, and cognitive science, and skips effortlessly across the centuries, from the Stoics' philosophical minimalism to Ben Franklin's pragmatism to Robert Cialdini's work on Influence.

 

 In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world’s philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger-can enrich and even transform our lives.

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  1. SAO says:

    On what planet is size 12 “portly”? Maybe if the woman is barely five feet tall and should be size 2, but my bet is that she’s going to be a normal height, normal sized woman carrying what? 10 extra pounds? If that’s a conflict, the book’s doing more to perpetuate weight issues than deal with them.

  2. Miranda says:

    I haven’t read the book, but in the planet of the entertainment industry, particularly television, size 12 is seen as fat. If she came out of that environment, I could see her still thinking that.

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