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It Happened One Autumn
RECOMMENDED: It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas is $1.99! This is book two in the Wallflowers series and is my favorite of the bunch. I have a weakness for brash meets stuffy pairings!
Four young ladies enter London society with one necessary goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband. So they band together, and a daring husband-hunting scheme is born.
It happened at the ball…
Where beautiful but bold Lillian Bowman quickly learned that her independent American ways weren’t entirely “the thing.” And the most disapproving of all was insufferable, snobbish, and impossible Marcus, Lord Westcliff, London’s most eligible aristocrat.
It happened in the garden…
When Marcus shockingly—and dangerously—swept her into his arms. Lillian was overcome with a consuming passion for a man she didn’t even like. Time stood still; it was as if no one else existed…thank goodness they weren’t caught very nearly in the act!
It happened one autumn…
Marcus was a man in charge of his own emotions, a bedrock of stability. But with Lillian, every touch was exquisite torture, every kiss an enticement for more. Yet how could he consider taking a woman so blatantly unsuitable…as his bride?
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Reckless Girls
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins is $2.99! Usually, Elyse mentions Hawkins’ thrillers on Hide Your Wallet. This one in particular came out in January. What do you think of her thrillers?
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.
When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. She’s also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. The two women say they want to travel off the beaten path. But like Lux, they may have other reasons to be seeking an escape.
Shimmering on the horizon after days at sea, Meroe Island is every bit the paradise the foursome expects, despite a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism, and even rumors of murder. But what they don’t expect is to discover another boat already anchored off Meroe’s sandy beaches. The owners of the Azure Sky, Jake and Eliza, are a true golden couple: gorgeous, laidback, and if their sleek catamaran and well-stocked bar are any indication, rich. Now a party of six, the new friends settle in to experience life on an exotic island, and the serenity of being completely off the grid. Lux hasn’t felt like she truly belonged anywhere in years, yet here on Meroe, with these fellow free spirits, she finally has a sense of peace.
But with the arrival of a skeevy stranger sailing alone in pursuit of a darker kind of good time, the balance of the group is disrupted. Soon, cracks begin to emerge: it seems that Brittany and Amma haven’t been completely honest with Lux about their pasts––and perhaps not even with each other. And though Jake and Eliza seem like the perfect pair, the rocky history of their relationship begins to resurface, and their reasons for sailing to Meroe might not be as innocent as they first appeared.
When it becomes clear that the group is even more cut off from civilization than they initially thought, it starts to feel like the island itself is closing in on them. And when one person goes missing, and another turns up dead, Lux begins to wonder if any of them are going to make it off the island alive.
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Broken
Broken by Jenny Lawson is $3.99! A couple of us here at SBTB have really loved Lawsons’ previous two memoir collections and this is her third, which came out this April. Humor can certainly be subjective. If you’re tempted by this one, but are unsure if her voice will work for you, she has a long-running blog: The Bloggess.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.
As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way.
With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way. And of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor―the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball―is present throughout.
A treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter when we all need it most.
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An Immense World
An Immense World by Ed Yong is $2.99! I believe Aarya mentioned this on a previous Hide Your Wallet and I’ve heard it’s wonderful on audio. Did any of you pick this one up?
Enter a new dimension—the world as it is truly perceived by other animals—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.
“A stunning achievement, steeped in science but suffused with magic.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.
In An Immense World, author and Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.
Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”
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I just finished Reckless Girls and thought it was a lot of fun!
I’ve just ordered a hard copy of An Immense World for a friend. Thanks, Amanda. I would never have noticed this book myself and my friend is guaranteed to enjoy it.
The Kleypas book shows as unavailble on both Amazon and B&N.
I just put An Immense World on reserve at the library, thank you!
For the Kleypas when the kindle version showed up as unavailable, I clicked the audible version then back to the kindle and the kindle version was buyable then.
I enjoyed that Lisa Kleypas book.
‘An Immense World’ was a one-click, thanks for highlighting that!
fyi – Randy Rainbow’s memoir ‘Playing with Myself’ is on sale at AMZ today. 🙂
It happened one Autumn is also my favorite in Kleypas’s Wallflower series. Often authors create brash heroines who are also over the top annoying. here she is believably obstinant yet vulnerable and smart. Marcus the hero is a sexy rule follower and a bit uptight but just as stubborn and controlling but so many is Lillian. I actually found their personalities have more in common than not.
Alexa, I agree. Usually I dislike the Feisty Rebel vs Uptight Aristocrat trope in romances because I can never imagine how their marriages would stay happy. But Kleypas really nails it in AUTUMN.
AN IMMENSE WORLD is FABULOUS. Definitely on my best of 2022 list. I actually think the ways Yong talks about perception and the sensory experience will appeal to a lot of readers here because it is so much about perception, reality, and what we create. Plus Yong is a great writer. Highly recommend.
I am going to be controversial here, but I disliked “It Happened One Autumm”. I find Marcus-as-brother interesting, but couldn’t buy Marcus-as-lover. And that was b4 the scene where Lillian was halfway to drunk that to me reads Dubcon.
Interestingly, when I click to the kindle for the Kleypas, it tells me it’s unavailable and that I own it. When I click to the audible and back to the kindle, it’s now available but doesn’t tell me that I own it. Thanks so much, Amazon.
@WS and possibly relevant for @Maite: that’s because the version of It Happened One Autumn currently for sale on Amazon is the revised edition (released 6/2021), which eliminates the dubcon scene:
I’m grateful that Amazon treats it as a wholly different book because it means I can still download the original text to new devices. And while I can understand why some readers don’t like like it, I thought that scene was an important part of Marcus’s character development.
Thanks Deborah I had NO idea a revised version had been made and this makes such a difference!