America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines - Gail Collins I Spy a Duke (Covert Heiresses Book 1) - Erica Monroe The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive - Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel J. Siegel The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe - Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado - Holly Bailey The Carousel Painter - Judith McCoy Miller The Van Alen Legacy - Melissa  de la Cruz Revelations - Melissa  de la Cruz Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office - Jen Lancaster

New books this week.

 

Personal Collection:

1. America's Women by Gail Collins

    I have wanted to read this book ever since I read and used (quite extensively) Collins' book on second wave feminism for my final thesis paper for my degree.

 

2. I Spy a Duke (Covert Heiress #1) by Erica Monroe

    Completely a "oh, nice cover and good blurb and it's only 99 cents" impulse choice.

 

Library Loans:

3. The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

    You may see me reading more of these kinds of books since in six weeks my sweet baby boy will enter kindergarten. It is a pretty slim volume, so hopefully I won't get lost reading all the hard science.

 

4. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

     I have been thinking of reading this book since I read Ashley's War by the same author. Lemmon has a way of describing a culture that is very foreign to me without dumbing it down.

 

5. The Carousel Painter by Judith Miller

    I love carousels. That cover. This was such an impulse choice.

 

6. The Mercy of the Sky by Holly Bailey

    I have a thing for non-fiction books about natural disasters. I think it stems from my work in the military (Emergency Management). This one is about the tornadoes that hit Moore, OK in 2013.

 

7. Revelations (Blue Bloods #3) by Melissa de la Cruz

8. The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods #4) by Melissa de la Cruz 

    Trying to get back into the Blue Bloods series. I tend to think about this series only in August and September for some reason, which is why I am only on books 3 and 4.

 

Toss Out:

9. Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster

    I could not stand the humor of this book. I read the prologue and the ending, and decided it wasn't for me. Since I didn't read enough of the book to feel warranted in giving it a DNF, I just deleted it from my shelves.

 

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