Daily Deals: Heroines, both contemporary and historical
The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore. $ .99 AMZN | Google Play
From the Jacket Copy:
An exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors, The Heroine’s Bookshelf shows today’s women how to tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence and grace.
Jo March, Scarlett O’Hara, Scout Finch—the literary canon is brimming with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines and celebrated female authors. Like today’s women, they placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When they were up against the wall, authors like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott fought back—sometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions. In this witty, informative, and inspiring read, their stories offer much-needed literary intervention to modern women.
Full of beloved heroines and the remarkable writers who created them, The Heroine’s Bookshelf explores how the pluck and dignity of literary characters such as Jane Eyre and Lizzy Bennet can encourage women today.
Each legendary character is paired with her central quality—Anne Shirley is associated with irrepressible “Happiness,” while Scarlett O’Hara personifies “Fight”—along with insights into her author’s extraordinary life. From Zora Neale Hurston to Colette, Laura Ingalls Wilder to Charlotte Brontë, Harper Lee to Alice Walker, here are authors and characters whose spirited stories are more inspiring today than ever.
Most of the reviews talked about how much they enjoyed the book, how they recognized many of the topics the author wrote about and that it enhanced their appreciation for these much beloved literary heroines.
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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. $ 2.99
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Chabon’s extraordinary story of one turbulent weekend in the life of a struggling writer, a satire of the permanent adolescence of the creative class
A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn’t grown up. He’s now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, Tripp must finally confront the wreckage made of his past decisions. Mordant but humane, Wonder Boys features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction. This ebook features a biography of the author.
In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work–the story of the friendship between the eponymous “wonder boys”–Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Tripp, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.
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Sultry with a Twist by Macy Beckett. $ .99
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Welcome to Sultry Springs, Texas: where first loves find second chances…
Nine years after June Augustine hightailed it out of Sultry Springs with her heart in pieces, one thing stands between her and her dream of opening an upscale martini bar: a bogus warrant from her tiny Texas hometown. Now she’s stuck in the sticks for a month of community service under the supervision of the devilishly sexy Luke Gallagher, her first love and ex-best friend.
If Texas wasn’t already hot enough, working side-by-side with June would make any man melt. Luke wants nothing more than to strip her down and throw her in the lake-the same lake where they were found buck naked and guilty as sin all those years ago. In their heads, they’re older and wise. But their hearts tell a different story…
“The small Texas town of Sultry Springs is well drawn, full of interesting and sometimes eccentric people. It has a strong church presence and lots of interfering gossips. I didn’t get the same sense of glorification of the small town as I have in other books, as if life in Sultry Springs was qualitatively better than a life in Austin. Instead, life in Sultry Springs was what suited Luke the most and June was determined that Luke received the measure of happiness that he didn’t think he deserved. June’s sacrifice becomes obvious early on and while I wished for something more surprising, in the end, I had been well prepared for the results. “
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For the Love of Pete by Elizabeth Hoyt. $ 1.99.
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ante Torelli is an undercover FBI agent assigned to protect a mob informant and his family. But when the informant’s hiding place is blown, a baby girl is snatched by a ruthless hitman. Now, Dante must save the toddler, uncover the traitor in his department, evade various bad guys, and deal with the toddler’s sexy aunt, all before the biggest mob trial in Chicago history, set to begin in just three days.
When Zoe Adler’s stepsister went into the witness protection program because of her sleazeball boyfriend, she wasn’t supposed to tell anyone. Except the two sisters have always been close, and Zoe has been babysitting her niece, Pete, since her birth. What harm could it be to secretly get Zoe an apartment in the same building where the FBI is keeping the family under protection? So when someone inside the FBI turns and a hitman snatches Pete, Zoe is right there. During the shootout, she jumps into a sexy, uptight FBI agent’s car and hangs on as he pursues the hitman. No matter what it takes, Zoe is going to bring her niece back.
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The Julia Harper voice is very different from the Elizabeth Hoyt voice, but I thoroughly enjoyed For the Love of Pete. It’s full of action and humor. Well worth this price.
why do authors use different names, but then still use the old name anyway?