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Home Work
Home Work by Julie Andres is $2.99! This is Andrews’ second memoir and while it has positive reviews, I’ve also seen comments that it isn’t as good as her first one. I also have a feeling this would be fantastic on audio!
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Home, the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences, and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria and many others.
In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage. In her new memoir, Home Work, Julie picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her astonishing rise to fame as two of her early films — Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music — brought her instant and enormous success, including an Oscar. It was the beginning of a career that would make Julie Andrews an icon to millions the world over.
In Home Work, Julie describes her years in Hollywood-from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she detail her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television; she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, moving on from her first marriage, embracing two step-children, adopting two more children, and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films, culminating in Victor/Victoria, the gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations.
Told with her trademark charm and candor, Home Work takes us on a rare and intimate journey into an astonishing life that is funny, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
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Rise of the Rocket Girls
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt is $2.99! Readers say this book is a great companion to Hidden Figures and that they loved the author’s writing. However, if you’re buying the ebook, the images featured aren’t of the greatest quality (unless some edits have been made last time we featured this one on sale).
The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn’t turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.
For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women–known as “human computers”–who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we’ve been, and the far reaches of space to which we’re heading.
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Horrorstor
RECOMMENDED: Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix is $2.99! This is a dark comedy/horror novel about a haunted IKEA-esque store. Carrie reviewed the book and gave it an A:
Even in the darkest moments, the absurdity of the situation adds some sardonic humor. It’s hard not to giggle at a line like “They nailed me inside a Liripip” or a scenario in which someone’s survival depends on disassembling cheap furniture with one of those weird Allen wrench things.
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes, shattered Brooka glassware, and vandalized Liripip sofa beds – clearly someone, or something, is up to no good. To unravel the mystery, five young employees volunteer for a long dusk-till-dawn shift and encounter horrors that defy imagination. Along the way, author Grady Hendrix infuses sly social commentary on the nature of work in the new twenty-first-century economy.
A traditional haunted house story in a contemporary setting, and full of current fears, Horrorstör delivers a high-concept premise in a unique style.
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The Secret Heart
The Secret Heart by Erin Satie is FREE! This is the first book in the No Better Angels series. If you’re curious about Satie’s romances, this is a great opportunity to start! Have you tried Satie’s romances?
She’s a fortune-hunter. He’s nobody’s prey.
Adam, Earl of Bexley, lives to work. His only relief is the sordid savagery of bare-knuckle boxing. Not women, and definitely not a disreputable, scheming woman who dances in secret with such passion…
Caro Small is desperate to escape her selfish family. Her only chance is a good marriage, and she intends to marry Adam—whether he likes it or not. But the more she schemes to entrap him, the more she risks trapping her own heart.
Adam won’t be caught by a fortune-hunter’s ambitious schemes. But the vulnerable, passionate woman underneath the plots might just bring him to his knees.
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Ooh, got me some Rocket Girls!
It looks like Julie Andrews’ first memoir Home is on sale for $1.99! I picked both up – thanks 🙂
I love what I’ve read of Erin Satie, enough to buy all her books, she writes beautifully. But I feel terrible about how many are still buried in my TBR pile.
The Satie sounded interesting… and apparently I thought the same thing seven years ago.
The “hey, you already own that dumbass” message is definitely a plus for ebooks.
Love Erin Satie’s books. I wish there were more.
I clicked on the Satie book and got this message:
“You purchased this item on August 29, 2015.
View this order | You can find this title on your Amazon Kindle apps and devices, or the Manage Your Content and Devices page.”
Do I remember this purchase? I absolutely do not.
I really enjoyed both Home and Homework by Julie Andrews. I highly recommend both on audio if you can get it. She narrates both books and my favorite parts were listening to her read excerpts taken from journals she kept. Her writing is just as lovely as you would expect.
*raises hand – I too have already purchased that Erin Satie. And I agree heartily with @Lostshadows that the dumbass message is sooo useful 🙂
Add me to the list of people who’d already acquired the Satie (in 2015, no less!). Oops! Guess I need to get reading, LOL…
I bought the Satie in November 2016: haven’t read it, didn’t remember ever seeing it, never mind buying it.
I try not to calculate how many of my ebooks fit in that category.
@Rikki: yes, my purchase was the same day!
I definitely liked the first volume of the Julie Andrews memoir better than the second. Her life is very interesting but I thought the second book was an exhausting chronicle of her very busy career, travel, and life.
I am _here for_ “Rocket Girls” and Julie Andrews’s memoirs. (My fiancee and I saw “Mary Poppins” at the hipster drive-in on our second date. It was freezing, we kept losing the sound, and we were starving halfway through. But wondering whether the “Step in Time” would _ever_ end bonded us and we’re getting married next year.)
But Grady Hendrix is…well, YMMV. I’ve tried several of his novels and the way he writes women may very well grate on you.
@emilyc
One of my favorite kids books is “Mandy”. She wrote it as Julie Edwards but I think it may now be marketed as Julie Andrews Edwards