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Dad’s Girlfriend and Other Anxieties by Kellye Crocker

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Dad’s Girlfriend and Other Anxieties by Kellye Crocker

Genre: Middle Grade Contemporary

Publishing Date: To Be Announced

Synopsis:

Since Ava’s mom died, Ava has relied on her consistent routines, predictable schedules,
and exhaustive risk assessment to keep herself safe from uncertainty. For the most part, her life in small-town Iowa has been stable. That is, until now.

As soon as sixth grade ends, Dad is whisking Ava away to meet his girlfriend and her daughter in terrifying Colorado, where even the ground squirrels can be deadly. Managing her anxiety, avoiding altitude sickness, and surviving the mountains might take all Ava’s strength.

Can she stay in control when everything around her is changing so quickly?

Content Warning: panic attack

Book Links

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60373276-dad-s-girlfriend-and-other-anxieties

Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0807514217/

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dads-girlfriend-and-other-anxieties-kellye-crocker/1140957581

Book Depository: https://www.bookdepository.com/Dads-Girlfriend-Other-Anxieties-KELLYE-CROCKER/9780807514214

Indigo: https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/dads-girlfriend-and-other-anxieties/9780807514214-item.html

IndieBound: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780807514214

About the Author

Kellye Crocker is a journalist who has written for Better Homes and Gardens, Parents, and Glamour. She holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a bachelor’s degree in news-editorial from the Missouri School of Journalism. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

Author Links

Website: https://www.kellyecrocker.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kelcrocker

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellyecrocker/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22220465.Kellye_Crocker

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Santiago by Eduardo Rios Lasso Book Tour Post-Spotlight

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Fresh out of college, 26-year-old Santiago has always longed to see the world, but his anxiety gets in the way. How can he possibly travel abroad if he feels sometimes heart-pounding pressure by simply riding a bus? But one day, after years of saving, Santiago courageously buys a ticket around the world. His parents think he’s crazy, but he takes a leap of faith and sets out alone. However, the world he had imagined was far from reality.
Meanwhile, Santiago finds out his best friend Laura, who could not join him on the trip, battles a recently diagnosed autoimmune disease. Will he regret his decision to leave her behind? Will their friendship survive or blossom into something more? On his journeys from New York to Lisbon, Paris to Sarajevo, and Istanbul to Bali, Santiago must overcome his shyness and open up his heart despite facing challenges, such as scams, and confronting complex issues like human trafficking. Join Santiago on a journey of self-discovery and adventure like no other.

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Eduardo Rios Lasso emerged as a writer during his career as a medical doctor. Born and raised in Panama City, Panama, his journey has taken him around the globe to dozens of countries.
Along the way, he found a passion for travel writing that seeks out positive life experiences while also sharing the common interests and challenges that bring different cultures together. Eduardo currently resides in Germany, where he is completing his training in Internal Medicine.

SANTIAGO – Chronicles of a Young Traveler is his first book.
Website: http://www.zibarna.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/e.rioslasso

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Wake up the Night by Kenneth A. Silver Spotlight Post

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This is a collection of stories, of words and ideas that flow like a dream, but is there anything less predictable or quite so fickle as a dream? Ken Silver creates narratives that are decidedly daring, and he is never afraid to reach, but never beyond the point at which (with lawyerly precision) he is unable to support his conclusions, scientifically or otherwise. Make no mistake though, it is hardly a tame piece of writing, but a rich harvest of beautifully imagined and thoroughly engrossing tales conceived by an original thinker who refuses to be shackled to curatorial conventions. Accordingly, each and every story, and the novel that follows, has a mind of their own.

The novel itself could only have been written by someone who had actually been there. It took more than research. It took a fashion designer, lawyer, and rainforest radical, but, most of all, it took a poet. Sip it slowly. It is a bold and complex selection and wants to be savored.

Author Information

Kenneth A. Silver is a law student who pursued a career in fashion design. He created and built a chain of clothing stores in Canada that featured his own exclusive products. Following his return to the States, he became an active partner in large-scale real estate projects in and around NYC. While doing so, he exhibited his photography in venues throughout the US.

Despite the rigors of an active and varied career and an extensive travel schedule, Kenneth has always made time for his writing and is quick to trivialize his impressive resume. He considers himself a writer first and foremost, and has done little else since 2004. Kenneth lives with his wife in Manhattan and Woodstock (NY), and has three children.  Currently, he is completing the novelization of Songs for the Deaf, one of his optioned screenplays.

The Last Queen: Elizabeth II’s Seventy Year Battle to Save the House of Windsor by Clive Irving Spotlight

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Clive Irving has had a long and career in journalism on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been managing editor of the Sunday Times in London, he was director of current affairs programming for London Weekend Television, and a consulting editor for Newsday in New York. He was the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveler, where he is still Editor Emeritus, and is a regular columnist for the Daily Beast. Most recently, he was a key contributor to the acclaimed two-part BBC documentary, Margaret: The Rebel Princess, which was broadcast on PBS in America. Irving lives in Sag Harbor, NY.

Book Description

Clive Irving’s stunning new narrative biography The Last Queen: Elizabeth II’s Seventy Year Battle to Save the House of Windsor (Pegasus –January 5, 2021), probes the question of the British monarchy’s longevity. In 2020, Queen Elizabeth II finally appears to be at ease in the modern world, helped by the new generation of Windsors. Through Irving’s unique insight there emerges a more fragile institution, whose extraordinarily dutiful matriarch has managed to persevere with dignity.  Yet in doing so made a Faustian pact with the media—something that we’re seeing with the new season of The Crown just about to launch and the introduction of Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher to the narrative.

The Last Queen is not a conventional biography—instead, it follows Elizabeth and her family’s struggle to survive in the face of unprecedented changes within the monarchy and Britain.  As well as the world’s increased fascination with the royal family.  “Royal journalism became the most profitable stream of celebrity journalism, and the royal family assumed the role of a compulsively viewable soap opera.”

Therefore, it became impossible to see the lives of the Queen and her family “clearly and fairly because of the way it was always conveyed in the terms and language of the tabloid circus that now always follows the family.”  Irving masterfully details the truth behind England’s longest reigning monarch with the added perspective of his own first-hand, personal insight as a journalist whose career has paralleled Elizabeth’s reign.