Wolf ~ Herbert J Stern and Alan A. Winter
Hardcover: 552 pages
• Publisher: Skyhorse (February 11, 2020)
Synopsis (from the publisher):
In the Great Tradition of Herman Wouk, Author of Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Wolf is a Thoroughly Researched and Illustrated Historical Novel about a Man who is Not Yet a Monster . . . but Will Soon Become the Ultimate One: Adolf Hitler.
Perhaps no man on Earth is more controversial, more hated, or more studied than Adolf Hitler. His exploits and every move are well-documented, from the time he first became chancellor and then dictator of Germany to starting World War II to the systematic killing of millions of Jews. But how did he achieve power, and what was the makeup of the mind of a man who would deliberately inflict unimaginable horrors on millions of people?
Meet Friedrich Richard, an amnesiac soldier who, in 1918, encounters Hitler in the mental ward at Pasewalk Hospital. Hitler, then a corporal, diagnosed as a psychopath and helpless, suffering from hysterical blindness, introduces himself as Wolf to Friedrich and becomes dependent upon Friedrich for assistance, forming an unbreakable bond between the two men.
Follow Friedich—our protagonist—who interacts with real people, places, and events, through the fifteen-year friendship that witnesses Hitler turn from a quiet painter into a megalomaniacal dictator. Using brand-new historical research to construct a realistic portrait of the evolving Hitler, Wolf will satisfy, by turns, history buffs and fiction fans alike. And as this complex story is masterfully presented, it answers the question of how a nondescript man became the world’s greatest monster.
Review:
When I was young, I was fascinated by World War II.
Not the sensationalism of the Pacific Theater.
Not the strategy of The Allies.
Not the horrific tragedy of The Holocaust.
But the intense psychological HOW of the most notorious villain of the time.
I was raised Jewish by three Navy-made granddads, so there was much discussion of the rise of The Great Evil, obviously. But it wasn’t the pure horror of it, it was the very thing that drew me to Social Work as an adult.
Wolf seeks to tackle what may have happened between Hitler’s unlikely childhood, through his darker personal days, to the making of a monster.
Thrilling and horrifying, Wolf satisfies both my history buff side and my psych nerd side.
About Herbert J. Stein
Herbert J. Stern, formerly US attorney for the District of New Jersey, who prosecuted the mayors of Newark, Jersey City and Atlantic City, and served as judge of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, is a trial lawyer. He also served as judge of the United States Court for Berlin. There he presided over a hijacking trial in the occupied American Sector of West Berlin. His book about the case, Judgment in Berlin, won the 1974 Freedom Foundation Award and became a film starring Martin Sheen and Sean Penn. He also wrote Diary of a DA: The True Story of the Prosecutor Who Took on the Mob, Fought Corruption, and Won, as well as the multi-volume legal work Trying Cases to Win.
About Alan A. Winters
Alan A. Winter is the author of four novels, including Island Bluffs, Snowflakes in the Sahara, Someone Else’s Son, and Savior’s Day, which Kirkus selected as a Best Book of 2013. Winter graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in history and has professional degrees from both New York University and Columbia, where he was an associate professor for many years. He edited an award-winning journal and has published more than twenty professional articles. Alan studied creative writing at Columbia’s Graduate School of General Studies. His screenplay, Polly, received honorable mention in the Austin Film Festival, and became the basis for Island Bluffs.
Don’t forget to check out the other TLC Book Tour stops!
Thursday, January 30th: Write – Read – Life
Tuesday, February 4th: Bewitched Bookworms
Wednesday, February 5th: Instagram: @barkingaboutbooks
Friday, February 7th: Diary of a Stay at Home Mom
Monday, February 10th: Instagram: @jenabrownwrites
Tuesday, February 11th: Man of La Book
Wednesday, February 12th: Lit and Life
Tuesday, February 18th: Booked J
Thursday, February 20th: Laura’s Reviews
Friday, February 21st: Instagram: @readingmama_reviews
TBD: Thursday, February 6th: Iwriteinbooks’s blog
TLC Book Tour: The Insurrection ~ Chris Babu
About The Insurrection
• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Permuted Press (February 18, 2020)
They are protected by lies. He is armed with the truth.
Having survived the Initiation and expedition, one battle remains: the fight for the heart and soul of New America.
Drayden and his friends, enlisting the help of Professor Worth, must find a way back to New America before the Guardians imperil their return. But for these teens, their problems are only beginning. The Bureau, which never expected them to survive the expedition, will do everything in their power to prevent New America’s darkest secrets from getting out.
Drayden’s only hope is the insurrection led by ally Kim Craig. The David versus Goliath battle between good and evil, between truth and lies, will push Drayden to his breaking point and require bravery, self-acceptance, and above all, belief in himself. Backed by the will of the citizens, he’ll need to engineer an ingenious strategy to defeat the all-powerful authoritarians. The question is, will it be enough?
Review:
Man, oh, man. Y’all, this series is so intense. I had to reread the first two books before I took this one in and I’m glad I did. They really could be read in one, fiery gulp because the plot builds impressively as the story hurdles from one volume to the next.
It’s been a long time since I’ve read something that held my interest the same way Babu’s books do. Reminiscent of The Maze Runner and The Hunger Games, Insurrection caps off this three volume series Whit Ha world wide whirlwind that made this fiction-loving, former polisci Major very satisfied.
Purchase Links
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million
About Chris Babu
Chris Babu is a lifelong math and science geek, with a math degree from MIT. For nineteen years, he worked as a bond trader on Wall Street. Now he writes full-time, indulging his love of young adult books. He splits his time between New York City and the east end of Long Island, where he lives with his wife Michelle, daughter Lily, and Great Dane Buddy. He’s the author of The Initiation and The Expedition, and can be found at chrisbabu.com.
Connect with Chris on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
As always, don’t just take my word for it! Make sure you check out the rest of the TLC Book Tour stops, below:
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Monday, February 10th: Instagram: @thecityofdarkclockwork
Tuesday, February 11th: Instagram: @thatgirlrunswithbluntscissors
Wednesday, February 12th: Instagram: @buttermybooks
Thursday, February 13th: Instagram: @theshybooks
Friday, February 14th: Instagram: @my_book_journey_
Sunday, February 16th: Instagram: @createexploreread
Monday, February 17th: Instagram: @sweetbookobsession
Tuesday, February 18th: Instagram: @bibliovirgo
Wednesday, February 19th: Instagram: @bookishly_tiff
Thursday, February 20th: Instagram: @books_with_bethany
Friday, February 21st: Instagram: @dropandgivemenerdy
Saturday, February 22nd: Instagram: @novelknight
Review Stops
Monday, February 3rd: Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers
Tuesday, February 4th: Write – Read – Life
Wednesday, February 5th: Iwriteinbooks’s blog
Monday, February 10th: Instagram: @bookcrazyblogger
Tuesday, February 11th: Jathan & Heather
Wednesday, February 12th: Instagram: @sjthroughthelookingglass
Thursday, February 13th: The Loyal Book
Friday, February 14th: Instagram: the.magicalpages
Monday, February 17th: Openly Bookish
Tuesday, February 18th: Instagram: @pink.dove.reads
Wednesday, February 19th: PNW Pixie
Thursday, February 20th: Comfy Reading
Friday, February 21st: jenabrownwrites
Monday, February 24th: Shelf-Rated
Tuesday, February 25th: Instagram: @jennblogsbooks
Thursday, February 27th: Buried Under Books
Monday, March 16th: My Guilty Obsession
Tuesday, March 17th: Sincerely Karen Jo
The Winterwood ~ Shea Ernshaw
Ok, I thought I loved Ernshaw’s first book. I mean, I did.
But, oh, it completely pales in comparison to her sophomore story. I’ll be honest. I haven’t really jumped on the whole Witch bandwagon. But this entire thing drew me in.
Winterwood follows the last manifestation of a long line of powerful, magical women, culminating in a teenager whose powers have never really manifested. She lives alone, her mom constantly jetting around, leaving her to her own devices.
She’s a bit of an outcast at school but it doesn’t bother her much. She wanders the woods, living quietly and staying out of everyone’s way.
Then, one winter night, she finds a boy who has gone missing from the “correctional camp” across the lake. According to the news stories, he’s been missing for weeks but she drags him back to her cabin and nurses him back to health.
And so begins the magical run through a deep, dark woods. Woods that don’t particularly enjoy having boys or girls trespassing in their grounds.
Filled with mystery and beauty, chills and suspense, Winterwood is almost entirely impossible to capture in a recap without leaking spoilers.
Just trust me when I say this book is delightful and hauntingly gorgeous. Ernshaw nailed it, again, and then exceeded the bar.
The Wicked Red Head ~ Beatriz Williams
• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 10, 2019)
“The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing voice and indomitable spirit to another Jazz Age tale of rumrunners, double crosses, and true love, spanning the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Long Island to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1924. Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, having fled south to safety in the company of disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But paradise is short-lived. Marshall is reinstated to the agency with suspicious haste and put to work patrolling for rumrunners on the high seas, from which he promptly disappears. Gin hurries north to rescue him, only to be trapped in an agonizing moral quandary by Marshall’s desperate mother.
1998. Ella Dommerich has finally settled into her new life in Greenwich Village, inside the same apartment where a certain redheaded flapper lived long ago…and continues to make her presence known. Having quit her ethically problematic job at an accounting firm, cut ties with her unfaithful ex-husband, and begun an epic love affair with Hector, her musician neighbor, Ella’s eager to piece together the history of the mysterious Gin Kelly, whose only physical trace is a series of rare vintage photograph cards for which she modeled before she disappeared.
Two women, two generations, two urgent quests. But as Ginger and Ella track down their separate quarries with increasing desperation, the mysteries consuming them take on unsettling echoes of each other, and both women will require all their strength and ingenuity to outwit a conspiracy spanning decades.“
My thoughts:
Phew! This was a wild ride. I adored the first book in the series. Split between two separate decades, two separate, yet intrinsically linked lives, two women race against time to track down their own goals. It’s fitting that I was reading this coming in to the “new 20’s”.
I often find stories like this tedious and hard to follow but Williams has a gorgeous storytelling voice, weaving in and out of two different timelines seamlessly.
Amanda Suanne Photography
About Beatriz Williams
A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz Williams spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a communications strategy consultant, and then as an at-home producer of small persons, before her career as a writer took off. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore.
Find out more about Beatriz at her website, and connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
As always, don’t just take my word for it! Check out the other tour stops on this TLC Tour:
Instagram Features
Tuesday, December 10th: Instagram: @owlslittlelibrary
Tuesday, December 10th: Instagram: @jessicamap
Wednesday, December 11th: Instagram: @book.hang.o.ver
Friday, December 13th: Instagram: @downtogetthefictionon
Saturday, December 14th: Instagram: @lavieestbooks
Sunday, December 15th: Instagram: @wherethereadergrows
Monday, December 16th: Instagram: @tarheelreader
Tuesday, December 17th: Instagram: @bookishblissandbeauty
Wednesday, December 18th: Instagram: @thephdivabooks
Sunday, December 22nd: Instagram: @girlwithnoselfie
Review Stops
Tuesday, December 10th: The Pages In-Between
Wednesday, December 11th: Jessicamap Reviews
Thursday, December 12th: Instagram: @lauralovestoread
Friday, December 13th: Reading Reality
Friday, December 13th: View from the Birdhouse
Sunday, December 15th: Girl Who Reads
Monday, December 16th: bookchickdi
Tuesday, December 17th: Broken Teepee
Wednesday, December 18th: The Reading Corner For All
Thursday, December 19th: A Chick Who Reads
Friday, December 20th: 100 Pages a Day…Stephanie’s Book Reviews
Monday, December 23rd: Always With a Book
Friday, December 27th: Instagram: @beritaudiokilledthebookmark
Monday, December 30th: Instagram: @babygotbooks13
Tuesday, December 31st: Instagram: @libraryinprogress
Thursday, January 2nd: Instagram: @kraysbookclub
Friday, January 3rd: Iwriteinbooks’s blog
Monday, January 6th: Instagram: @shereadswithcats
A Trace of Deceit ~ Karen Odden
About A Trace of Deceit
• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 17, 2019)
Odden is back at her brilliant mysteries (beginning in A Dangerous Duet), diving into the underworld of Victorian suspense.
The subject of this round is a young painter, Annabel Rowe, is hard at work studying her craft at the Slade School of Fine Art. (Which, by the way,,if you have never seen the place, look it up because it’s gorgeous and my inner artist heart fell madly in love with the aesthetic.)
But it’s not all gorgeous interiors and sweet brushstrokes for our featured artist. Annabel is in for a shock when Inspector Matthew Hallam (of the famed Scotland Yard) shows up at her doorstep, carrying the weighty news that her brother has been brutally murdered.
Her late brother, Edwin, was an art lover in his own way but his craft was more along the lines of the sinister and frowned upon forgery field. He’s always been wrapped up in some dark scandal which leaves Annabel less than surprised by his untimely end.
Working in breadcrumbs alone (Annabel suspects that one his missing paintings points to his murderer), Annabel and Matthew race through dimly lit haunts and politically charged art houses, desperate to come up with answers that elude them at every turn.
A Trace of Deceit is the perfect thriller for any art fan but it also holds up for non-artists who simply want a gorgeous, fast paced mystery. I have newly committed myself to getting my behind over to Slade and, perhaps, drawing a bit more again. Though I’ll stay away from the art black market, thank you very much!
About Karen Odden
KAREN ODDEN received her PhD in English literature from New York University and has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She currently serves as an assistant editor for the academic journal Victorian Literature and Culture. Her debut novel, A Lady in the Smoke, was a USA Today bestseller.
Find out more about Karen at her website, and connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Thank you to TLC Boo tours for adding me as a stop. And as always, don’t forget to check out the other blood posts on the tour!
Instagram Features
Tuesday, December 17th: Instagram: @crystals_library
Tuesday, December 17th: Instagram: @jessicamap
Thursday, December 19th: Instagram: @amberafterglowreads
Friday, December 20th: Instagram: @megsbookclub
Saturday, December 21st: The Reading Corner For All
Sunday, December 22nd: Instagram: @beritaudiokilledthebookmark
Monday, December 23rd: Instagram: @somekindofalibrary
Friday, December 27th: Instagram: @reallyintothis
TBD: Wednesday, December 18th: Instagram: @_ebl_inc_
Review Stops
Tuesday, December 17th: A Pint-Sized Life
Tuesday, December 17th: Instagram: @theunreadshelf
Wednesday, December 18th: Jessicamap Reviews
Friday, December 20th: Reading Reality
Monday, December 23rd: PhDiva
Friday, December 27th: Broken Teepee
Monday, December 30th: Instagram: @storied.adventures
Tuesday, December 31st: Instagram: @rendezvous_with_reading
Thursday, January 2nd: Unabridged Chick
Thursday, January 2nd: Booked J
Friday, January 3rd: Jathan & Heather
TBD: Thursday, December 19th: Iwriteinbooks’s blog
Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood ~ Maureen Stanton
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 16, 2019)
What a wild life!
Born to strict catholic parents who often threatened to throw their children into the nearby maximum security prison if they stepped out of line, Maureen grew up attempting to fit into a very straight and narrow mold.
That all began to crumble when her parents went through a divorce, forcing her once perfect (at least in image) mother to make drastic changes to her own moral code in order to keep up the life style she believed she and her children deserved.
Shoplifting, larceny, and other desperate measures sent the then imperiled family down a rather rocky road. Along that road, Maureen falls into a hole of angel dust and her own desperate measures.
At once intriguing and heartbreaking, this is one family’s story of reacting to life on life’s terms and while it makes for a very interesting read, it made my social worker heart break at points. I am so proud of Maureen for coming out on the other side of her childhood and living to tell the tale.
Photo by Heather Perry
About Maureen Stanton
Maureen Stanton is an award-winning nonfiction writer, and author of “BodyLeaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood,” a People Magazine “Best New Books” pick, and “Killer Stuff and Tons of Money,” winner of the 2012 Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction. Her essays and memoirs have been published in many literary journals, including Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, The Florida Review, New England Review, and River Teeth, among others. She has received the Iowa Review Prize, the American Literary Review Prize, Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowships. She has an M.F.A. from Ohio State University, and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Find out more about Maureen at her website, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
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Instagram Features
Sunday, November 3rd: Instagram: @mrsboomreads
Monday, November 4th: Instagram: @ohthebooksshewillread
Tuesday, November 5th: Instagram: @gatticus_finch
Wednesday, November 6th: Instagram: @libraryinprogress
Thursday, November 7th: Instagram: @inquisitivebookworm
Friday, November 8th: Instagram: @orangecountyreads
Saturday, November 9th: Instagram: @crystals_library
Review Stops
Monday, November 4th: Tabi Thoughts
Wednesday, November 6th: seasaltdaydreams
Thursday, November 7th: bookchickdi
Monday, November 11th: The Sketchy Reader
Tuesday, November 12th: PhDiva
Thursday, November 14th: Instagram: @books_and_broadway_
Saturday, November 16th: Instagram: @shelovesthepages
Monday, November 18th: Helen’s Book Blog
Wednesday, November 20th: Mockingbird Hill Cottage
Friday, November 22nd: Blunt Scissors Book Reviews
Wednesday, November 27th: Iwriteinbooks’s blog
Monday, December 2nd: Instagram: @quietmountainreader
Tuesday, December 3rd: Comfy Reading
Wednesday, December 4th: Booksie’s Blog
Thursday, December 5th: Thoughts On This ‘n That
Friday, December 6th: Lit and Life
Friday, December 13th: Openly Bookish
Zappata ~ Harper McDavid
Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing (September 25, 2019)
Avery McAndrews is just an engineer but she’s determined to rise above her station. When she’s called for a rather unorthodox mission, she jumps at the chance to make her mark.
The problem is that she has to venture into some terrifying territory, leading her straight into cartels and gunfire.
Alejandro DeLeon is the cartel’s attorney which, one might imagine, takes a certain kind of backbone and questionable morals. But he soon finds himself caught up in another cause: Avery.
When the two band together to break away from the cartel, it’s a race against time and a race for their lives.
Somewhere between Breaking Bad and Blow, this story is definitely something I had an impossible time putting down. It’s written at a breakneck, post apocalyptic pace and has a sizzling energy.
Definitely check it out if you get a chance!
Purchase Links
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound
About Harper McDavid
As a child, Harper McDavid watched her mother ride the rollercoaster of writing books, swearing she’d never do it herself. But some things are just hardwired, and luckily for Harper the world has moved on beyond typewriters and ten-pound manuscripts.
Harper’s gritty romantic suspense incorporates her own background in science and engineering and work experience along the border. The result is a collection of brainy hard hat-wearing heroines that occasionally swap out their coveralls for the little black dress.
Harper is the mother of three daughters and lives in the foothills of Colorado with her husband, two dogs, and a fat cat. Her free time is spent traveling the world in search of that next story and perusing her local library for funny book covers.
Find out more about Harper at her website, and connect with her on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
And as always, don’t forget to check out the other TLC Tour Stops!
Monday, November 11th: Living My Best Book Life
Tuesday, November 12th: Blunt Scissors Book Reviews
Thursday, November 14th: The Sassy Bookster
Saturday, November 16th: Stranded in Chaos
Monday, November 18th: Bewitched Bookworms
Tuesday, November 19th: Jathan & Heather
Wednesday, November 20th: Write – Read – Life
Monday, November 25th: Romance Schmomance
Tuesday, November 26th: Shelf-Rated
Wednesday, November 27th: The Eclectic Review
Monday, December 2nd: Sincerely Karen Jo
Tuesday, December 3rd: The Graduated Bookworm Blogger
Wednesday, December 4th: Instagram: @beritaudiokilledthebookmark
Thursday, December 5th: Books and Bindings
Friday, December 6th: Instagram: @lesa_cap
TBD: Thursday, November 21st: Diary of a Stay at Home Mom
TBD: Friday, November 22nd: Iwriteinbooks’s blog
Family Trust ~ Kathy Wang
Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (October 29, 2019)
Stanley Huang is a bit of an enigma. He is the self proclaimed patriarch of a small but intense little family with two kids, and as many marriages under his belt. He has long claimed that they will all be well rewarded at the end of his life but as that end approaches, his legacy begins to crumble. He is grappling with a recent cancer diagnosis and that eviction notice has sent his family network into a tailspin.
His son Fred has fallen on disappointing days. Nothing has turned out the way he imagined. He is the proverbial gifted kid for whom life has just not planned out. Harvard Business School didn’t exactly land him the life he had planned and he is not banking on his father’s rumored legacy to save him from himself.
Meanwhile, Fred’s sister Kate has it all. Or at least it looks that way. Working in roaringly successful Silicon Valley, multiple degrees and accolades, a perfect family, she seemingly has everything together. But we all know what that means. Nothing is ever as together as it looks from the outside.
Mary, Stanley’s devoted wife (almost three decades younger than he) is regretting her decision to get involved with a man so many years older than she is. As she navigates the road of caretaking a declining husband, their relationship hits bumps and snags she never saw coming.
Linda Liang, Stanley’s wife is the one person who knows him for who he truly is, though she walked away from his chaos years ago. She has spent many years proving her life back together to give her children the life she knows they deserve. But she is trying desperately to make herself a life that she finds fulfilling, a little difficult when she is getting on in years.
The entire family constellation swirls into chaos and contemplation as Stanley approaches his last days. Family Trust is both deep and hilarious on many levels, working in humor and intense family dynamics into one small volume. It was a great read for someone who navigates family functioning for work and for someone who has her own family to analyze.
Photo by Nina Subin
About Kathy Wang
Kathy Wang grew up in Northern California and holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children.
Visit Kathy’s website and connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
And, as always, don’t forget to check out the other TLC Tour stops!
Instagram Feature
Tuesday, October 29th: Instagram: @lauralovestoread
Wednesday, October 30th: Instagram: @never_withouta_book
Thursday, October 31st: Instagram: @jennsbookvibes
Friday, November 1st: Instagram: @happiestwhenreading
Saturday, November 2nd: Instagram: @oddandbookish
Sunday, November 3rd: Instagram: @bookapotamus
Monday, November 4th: Instagram: @thepagesinbetween
Review Stops
Wednesday, October 30th: Instagram: @owlslittlelibrary
Thursday, October 31st: Instagram: @book.hang.o.ver
Friday, November 1st: Comfy Reading
Monday, November 4th: bookish bliss and beauty
Tuesday, November 5th: Booked J
Wednesday, November 6th: A Pint-Sized Life
Wednesday, November 6th: Instagram: @lavieestbooks
Friday, November 8th: Literary Quicksand
Tuesday, November 12th: Instagram: @sixminutesforme
Wednesday, November 13th: Iwriteinbooks’s blog
Thursday, November 14th: Audio Killed the Bookmark
The Source ~ Tara Swart, MD, PhD
Genre: Nonfiction, Psychology
Published: October 15, 2019
Pages: 288
Oh, the mind-body connection. It’s something I know well, using DBT and cognitive therapy in both my professional and personal life.
The Source dives in to this very connection in both psychotherapy and neuroscience capacities. There is a deep connection in the way we think and the way we act, and The Source gets to the root of all of it.
The way we think has a lot to do with the way we both behave and the way things actually turn out, reframing intention and interaction in a completely new light.
Tara Swart shares her personal story of coming to a place of desperation and making a change. Her backstory of hitting her ultimate low, resonated with me, though her bottom was the catalyst for a huge breakthrough.
That breakthrough lead to advances in brain scan technology and clinical practice, exploring the imaging of our darkest and deepest thoughts. Naming emotions, recognizing feelings, and actually putting action plans in to place all come together to make a tapestry of forward positivity for the road ahead.
She ropes in modern film and current events to pave a path even the greatest skeptic can follow.
More than a self help book and more complex than a simply instruction manual, The Source is the every-person’s guide to loving a better life.
About Tara Swart
DR. TARA SWART is a neuroscientist and former psychiatric doctor. She is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan and visiting senior lecturer at Kings College, London, and an executive advisor to some of the world’s most respected leaders in media and business. She is lead author of the award-winning Neuroscience for Leadership and in 2016 she was named the world’s first Neuroscientist in Residence at Corinthia Hotel, London. She is passionate about teaching others how to apply lessons from cognitive science to enhance everyday lives.
Find out more about Tara at her website, and follower her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Instagram Features
Tuesday, October 15th: Instagram: @_ebl_inc_
Wednesday, October 16th: Instagram: @tbretc
Thursday, October 17th: Instagram: @readforevermore
Friday, October 18th: Instagram: @gatticus_finch
Saturday, October 19th: Instagram: @book_girl_magic
Monday, October 21st: Instagram: @thriftybibliophile
Wednesday, October 23rd: Instagram: @bluntscissorsbookreviews
Review Stops
Tuesday, October 15th: Openly Bookish
Friday, October 18th: I’d Rather Be At The Beach
Monday, October 21st: Tabi Thoughts
Thursday, October 24th: Instagram: @books_and_broadway_
Friday, October 25th: From the TBR Pile
Monday, October 28th: Living My Best Book Life
Thursday, October 31st: Orange County Readers
Monday, November 4th: Instagram: @kimberleewilliams_realestate
Wednesday, November 13th: Diary of a Stay at Home Mom
Wednesday, November 13th: Iwriteinbooks’s blog
TBD: Wednesday, October 23rd: The Desert Bibliophile
November Road ~ Lou Berney
About November Road
• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (October 22, 2019)
Frank Guidry’s luck has finally run out.
Frank Guidry is the street hand of New Orleans’ mob boss Carlos Marcello and it is about to be his ultimate downfall.
He’s watched as his cohort has dropped like flies over secrets they kept but should never have known. The tables finally turn on his own karmic welfare when he comes into info involving THE murder of the century. None other than JFK.
By the day’s end, everyone connected with Kennedy’s demise has also gone belly up, sparking terror in Guidry’s heart. He is so freaked out, in fact, that he high tails it for Vegas, leaning on a man he hates in the interest of self preservation.
In an epic murder-turned-escape-turned-love story, November Road is at once historical fiction and action packed. There is adventure, suspense, and a whole lot of heart packed into these pages and, as a history geek, it totally caught me right in the feels.
Kennedy’s demise was my parents’ story but I grew up with the emotions still lingering. It was incredibly cool to read through one imagining of what could have gone down that day (and those after).
Thank you to TLC for including me on this tour!
© Brandon Michael Smith
About Lou Berney
Lou Berney is the author of three previous novels, Gutshot Straight, Whiplash River, and multiple prize-winning The Long and Faraway Gone. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Find out more about Lou at his website, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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Instagram Features
Tuesday, October 22nd: Instagram: @lavieestbooks
Tuesday, October 22nd: Instagram: @jessicamap
Wednesday, October 23rd: Instagram: @megsbookclub
Thursday, October 24th: Instagram: @sarahandherbookshelves
Friday, October 25th: Instagram: @simplykelina
Saturday, October 26th: Instagram: @reallyintothis
Sunday, October 27th: Instagram: @jenabrownwrites
Monday, October 28th: Instagram: @readforevermore
Tuesday, October 29th: Instagram: @giuliland
Review Stops
Tuesday, October 22nd: Stacy’s Books
Wednesday, October 23rd: Jessicamap Reviews
Thursday, October 24th: Caryn, The Book Whisperer
Monday, October 28th: Instagram: @rendezvous_with_reading
Wednesday, October 30th: Helen’s Book Blog
Thursday, October 31st: Instagram: @crystals_library
Monday, November 4th: The Reading Corner For All
Tuesday, November 5th: Girl Who Reads
Wednesday, November 6th: Iwriteinbooks’s blog
Thursday, November 7th: Audio Killed the Bookmark
Friday, November 8th: Always With a Book
Tuesday, November 12th: she treads softly
Wednesday, November 13th: A Soccer Mom’s Book Blog
Thursday, November 14th: Diary of a Stay at Home Mom
Monday, November 18th: Kritters Ramblings
Friday, November 22nd: Amy’s Book-et List
Iwriteinbooks's Blog 