It's Murder, You Betcha! by Jeanne Cooney / Cozy Mystery

Drop: Making Great Decisions by Dr Helen McKibben / Non-Fiction

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2065243/open_sms] Continuing with Non-Fiction Week! Ways to tap into the beautiful thing that is your brain - what a fun topic to discuss. with Dr Helen McKibben, the author of Drop: Making Great Decisions. Just listening to her talk. about how we all can simply be better mentally and physically is pretty much what we all need right now.  About the book: Your brain is already equipped with everything you need to identify and make excellent decisions for yourself. If only you’ll learn how to let it. In Drop: Making Great Decisions, Dr. Helen McKibben teaches us how to use science to do just that. With over 35 years of experience as a seasoned clinical therapist specializing in techniques using neuroscience, Dr. McKibben’s approach combines the study of the body, the brain, and the interaction between emotion and memory. Drop: Making Great Decisionsdraws on her research to help us tap into the biomechanics of emotions, resolve triggered feelings, and make better life choices. To connect: Author's site [https://helenmckibben.com] https://www.amazon.com/Ridiculous-Book-1/dp/B0C79L7S76 Want to talk/support the show? email: tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast@gmail.com IG: @tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast IG: @oakylovesbooksandtacos IG: @bookscatspodcast Support: buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast]

One More Mountain: Fleeing Iran for America by Mansur Nurdel / Autobiography

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2065243/open_sms] Welcome to Non-Fiction Week! An incredible journey has been told in Mansur Nurdel's book One More Mountain and I was honored to discuss the book with him in our episode. And what a journey he'd endured, as well as the journey of writing the book. Definitely an autobiography to check out! About the book: This book is the inspirational true story of young man willing to risk it all. Since the Islamic Revolution began in 1979, millions of Iranians have fled to Turkey seeking refuge from religious and political persecution. In 1988, I was one of them. My family are followers of the Baha'i Faith, a religion founded in Iran and practiced by millions of people worldwide today. Muslims in Iran consider it a blasphemous, illegitimate religion. For more than four decades, Baha'is in Iran have been stripped of all human rights. We are routinely arrested, detained, tortured, imprisoned, and executed without cause. This is my story about what life was like living under Islamic rule. It's a story about determination, perseverance, and Faith. I was 25 when I fled Iran with two friends. We crossed the forbidding Zagros Mountains in the height of winter, seeking asylum in Turkey. More than a year later, I arrived in America, speaking little English, knowing no one, and understanding little about the country except what I gleaned from television. One More Mountain provides a never-before-seen look at what life in Iran is still like for those who have no power, no voice, and no freedoms. To connect: Author's site [https://onemoremountain.com/book/] https://www.amazon.com/Ridiculous-Book-1/dp/B0C79L7S76 Want to talk/support the show? email: tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast@gmail.com IG: @tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast IG: @oakylovesbooksandtacos IG: @bookscatspodcast Support: buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast]

Desert Hills Trilogy by Deborah Swenson / Western Romance

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2065243/open_sms] Continuing with Women in Fiction Week! Author Deborah Swenson not only writes a romance, there's also time travel in her Desert Hills Trilogy. Yes, you read that right, time travel! Yet she is able to capture those two. tropes into a great Western Romance trilogy. We discussed her shift from writing nonfiction to the series full of great characters.  About Till My Last Day, Book Two of the trilogy: Rebecca Young Ackerman was raised to be a prominent lady in Boston society in the late 1800s. Being the dutiful daughter, albeit young and naive, she always did as her father said. When he marries her off to a man of his choosing, she realizes how fast dreams of marital bliss can fall apart. Fearing for her life, an unexpected telegram regarding her brother gives her the opportunity she needs to take her boys and flee from her narcissistic husband. Always looking over her shoulder, her fear is real. Traveling across the country, a chance encounter with a certain gentleman finds herself wishing for a better life. To connect: Author's site [https://deborahswenson.com] https://www.amazon.com/Ridiculous-Book-1/dp/B0C79L7S76 Want to talk/support the show? email: tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast@gmail.com IG: @tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast IG: @oakylovesbooksandtacos IG: @bookscatspodcast Support: buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast]

It's Murder, You Betcha! by Jeanne Cooney / Cozy Mystery

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2065243/open_sms] Welcome to another Women in Fiction Week! Calling herself an accidental author, Jeanne Cooney has been penning out two different cozy mystery series and nothing is stopping her for doing more and more! We discussed her journey to writing and some tips for new authors.  About the book: Retired farmer Doris Day Anderson Connor and her quirky friends and relatives are solving crime in the Scandinavian-Lutheran farming community of Hallock, in the northwest corner of Minnesota.  This book, the second installment in the It’ s Murder series, has Doris and her sister, Grace KellyAnderson, the owner of the local café , taking ninety-year-old Rose O’ Brien ice fishing. The day ends, however, with nothing to show for their efforts except a dead body. With Rose distressed over the crime, Doris feels compelled to make inquiries in an effort to move the murder investigation along, much to the chagrin of the sheriff, an old boyfriend and a current puzzle. While in the café , at a funeral, and during a gender-reveal-party blizzard, she uncovers answers, but she also learns secrets and lies that lead her to wonder if she truly knows the residents of her hometown. After all, at least one of them is a killer. To connect: Author's site [https://jeannecooney.com] https://www.amazon.com/Ridiculous-Book-1/dp/B0C79L7S76 Want to talk/support the show? email: tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast@gmail.com IG: @tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast IG: @oakylovesbooksandtacos IG: @bookscatspodcast Support: buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast]

Sister Lumberjack by Candace Simar / Historical Fiction

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2065243/open_sms] Continuing with Women in Fiction Week! Author Candace Simar expertly weaves a fictional story into actual historical events and I'm so excited for you listeners to get to know her work! With her Abercrombie series and Sister Lumberjack being the fifth book, Candace discusses her start in writing and her future works.  About the book: Bottle fever has Nels Jensen by the throat. Swindled out of his summer’ s pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his innocence.  Widow Solveig Rognaldson is left alone with heartache and a mortgage. Without a well-paying job, she will lose her Foxhome farm. Her son marries and moves away. Though she feels too old, she musters courage to strike out on her own. She has to save the farm by herself. She has no one else. Trouble follows Sister Magdalena, a jolly nun who struggles with rules. A giant of a woman, she is sent to sell hospital tickets to lumberjacks working the forests of Minnesota. It is dangerous work, and those with a ticket receive free health care if they are injured. She travels alone to isolated logging camps in the dead of winter, sometimes by snowshoes. The jacks call her Sister Lumberjack.  These three lives intersect at Starkweather Timber, a haywire logging camp, where everything goes wrong. Their unique friendship turns their lives in unexpected directions. To connect: Author's site [https://candacesimar.com] https://www.amazon.com/Ridiculous-Book-1/dp/B0C79L7S76 Want to talk/support the show? email: tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast@gmail.com IG: @tellmeaboutyourbookpodcast IG: @oakylovesbooksandtacos IG: @bookscatspodcast Support: buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tellmepodcast]