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This Is Just My Face
RECOMMENDED: This is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe is $2.99! Redheadedgirl enjoyed this one and gave it an A:
This is a really interesting memoir by someone who I didn’t know much about. She’s got a complicated life story, and a great attitude as she sashays her way through her life. She’s funny, and touching. And, as ever, the inner lives of Black women are still not something that receives nearly enough attention.
The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir—wise, complex, smart, funny—a version of the American experience different from anything we’ve read
Gabourey Sidibe—“Gabby” to her legion of fans—skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels’s acclaimed movie Precious. In This is Just My Face, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she’s played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex “talker.” And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongside “a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom’s apartment.”
Sidibe’s memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight (“If I could just get the world to see me the way I see myself,” she writes, “would my body still be a thing you walked away thinking about?”). Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional, This Is Just My Face takes its place and fills a void on the shelf of writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Ready to Run
Ready to Run by Lauren Layne is $1.99 at Amazon! This is the first book in the I Do, I Don’t series. I can testify that Layne writes some great romantic comedies. However, some readers found this one repetitive in a lot of ways. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
The Bachelor meets The Runaway Bride in this addictive romance novel about a reality TV producer falling for her would-be star: a Montana heartthrob who wants nothing to do with the show.
Jordan Carpenter thinks she’s finally found the perfect candidate for Jilted, a new dating show about runaway grooms: firefighter Luke Elliott, a known player who’s left not one but three brides at the altar. The only problem? Luke refuses to answer Jordan’s emails or return her calls. Which is how she ends up on a flight to Montana to recruit him in person. It’s not Manhattan, but at least the locals in Lucky Hollow seem friendly . . . except for Luke, who’s more intense—and way hotter—than the slick womanizer Jordan expected.
Eager to put the past behind him, Luke has zero intention of following this gorgeous, fast-talking city girl back to New York. But before he can send her packing, Jordan’s everywhere: at his favorite bar, the county fair, even his exes’ book club. Annoyingly, everyone in Lucky Hollow seems to like her—and deep down, she’s starting to grow on him too. But the more he fights her constant pestering, the more Luke finds himself wishing that Jordan would kick off her high heels and make herself comfortable in his arms.
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The Marquess of Cake
The Marquess of Cake by Heather Hiestand is $1.99! This is a Victorian historical romance about a young woman who works in her father’s shop, and – yes – a hyperglycemic marquess who is smitten with her fine sugary skills. It’s also the first book in The Redcakes series, and it looks like more of them are also on sale. Some readers thought the dudes in this book were major jerks, while others warn not to read this while hungry!
Coffee…tea…or a pastry chef sweeter than any confection…
Scotch trifle fit for Queen Victoria, scones with clotted cream…Alys Redcake knows the way to a man’s heart. Yet she is unaware that with each morsel—and flash of ankle—she is seducing the handsome marquess frequenting her father’s tea shop. Unmarried at twenty-six, Alys’s first love is the family business. But thoughts of the gentleman’s touch are driving her to distraction…
With his weakness for sugar, the Marquess of Hatbrook can imagine no more desirable woman than one scented with cake and spice. Mistaking Alys for a mere waitress, he has no doubt she would make a most delicious mistress. And when he finds himself in need of an heir, he plans to make her his convenient bride. Yet as they satisfy their craving for one another, business and pleasure suddenly collide. Will Hatbrook’s passion for sweets—and for Alys—be his heart’s undoing?
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Men of Haven Collection: Volume 1
Men of Haven: Volume 1 by Rhenna Morgan is $1.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals and is being price-matched. This collection features the first three books in the Men of Haven series. The books are also full-length, so this is a pretty good deal!
The first three books in Rhenna Morgan’s irresistible Men of Haven series, available now!
Live hard, love harder, and make your own rules. Those are the cornerstones the Men of Haven bleed by. Heaven help the poor bastards who get between them and the women they’ve claimed as their own.
Rough & Tumble
Jace Kennedy lives for the challenge. He sees Vivienne Moore’s hidden wild side and knows she’s his perfect match, if only he can break it free. Earning her trust is a task unlike any he’s faced so far, but Jace didn’t get where he is by giving up.
Jace is everything Vivienne swore she never wanted, but he loves just as fiercely as he fights. He’s proud of who he is and where he came from, and he’ll be damned if he lets Vivienne go before showing her the safest place of all is in his arms.
Wild & Sweet
Zeke Dugan may have sworn an oath as a trauma doc, but he has zero problem leveraging his medical skills if it means giving his family an advantage. Blood before business.
All that changes when shy Gabrielle Parker stumbles into his life.
Zeke doesn’t play by the rules, but he’s exactly what Gabrielle needs in her life. He’ll show her the fierce protection that comes from belonging to a man like him.
No one will hurt his woman, even if it means putting the very men who saved his own life at risk.
Claim & Protect
Trevor Raines lives on the edge of legal. A good guy doing bad things to save lives, the only rules he follows are his own, and there’s nothing in the world that will change that. Until Natalie Jordan walks into his life…
Trevor had no interest in settling down, but there’s something entirely too appealing about the woman he can’t stay away from. There’s only one thing to do—change his plans…and hers. When Natalie’s ex resurfaces to threaten her new life, Trevor will move heaven and earth to make sure the bastard can’t hurt her again. Except saving Natalie means outing his own secrets—and it could mean losing her forever…
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As much as I am intrigued by a romance set in a bakery, I’m a little tired of Victorian heroes offering the heroine the opportunity to become their mistress when WE ALL KNOW he’s going to marry her in the end.
FWIW, I think I would have been a great Victorian mistress, but only because all of my vocational choices would have sucked anyway.
I keep wanting to read romances between dudes and their mistresses where she stays his mistress (because either she doesn’t want to marry him or it just doesn’t make sense for them to marry), but they’re still very happy.
It annoys me that the Marquess of Cake is pictured with only bread behind him … also, he looks like he’s going to flash his nip at any second!
Still, baking heroine is going to make me see if the library has this one!
I have been thinking about the same thing Anonymous! All of the books with a Duke marrying a scullery maid are so historically inaccurate. I’m interested in complicated stories. I guess staying a mistress might stray into cheating territory which I know is sort of off limits in romance land. But I think it could be a really interesting, difficult story. What happens when you’re in love but the truth is that love doesn’t conquor all? Historically there were multiple aristocrats who were with their mistresses longer than their wives and had more children. It’s interesting territory to me.
Anybody read that Men of Haven set?