Yellow Shelf Podcast

The Water Takes #author Sarah Walker

Pam is in her mid-seventies, widowed and hiding from the world behind a caustic sense of humour. Her health is declining, and she’s afraid of dying alone, but her most pressing concern is complaining to the council about her waterlogged garden. When Pam’s ten-year-old neighbour, Charlotte, is foisted upon her, a tentative friendship begins to unfurl, cracking open Pam’s hard exterior. But the puddles in the garden become pools, and then sinkholes. Nowhere seems safe. With no help coming, Pam and Charlotte can only shelter in place for so long – eventually, they know they must attempt to navigate a catastrophically altered world. The Water Takes is a work of astonishing literary imagination with the urgent page-turning propulsion of a thriller. Full of surprises and revelations, with a sense of humanity that is never clichéd or sentimental, The Water Takes will make you laugh and cry – and it will stay with you forever. To connect with Sarah ... https://sarahwalker.work/ https://www.instagram.com/sarahtakesphotos https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Water-Takes/Sarah-Walker/9781761633324

Dhrasti! The Perception #author Pratiqk Jaani

Dhrasti! The Perception A book focused on ... resetting your outlook to reduce the stress, conflict and complexity in your life.  Dhrasti! The Perception is a practical, perspective-shifting guide to seeing life beyond conditioning-so you stop reacting from old programming and start responding from clarity. You'll learn how the mind gets shaped by childhood patterns, social influence, status culture, and modern media-until your default state becomes tension, comparison, and chasing. Then you'll be shown a different possibility: the observer state-where you can witness thoughts and emotions without being dragged by them. This isn't theory. It's a reset.  Not just another self-help guide, DHRASTI! The Perception is a quieter and more radical way to experience life that will clarify your work, relationships, self-worth, emotional pain and everyday decision-making.  As Pratiqk points out: “Life can feel like a contract that you never signed up for resulting in the endless pursuit of money, social influence and status. As a result, your default state becomes exhaustion, tension, comparison, and chasing. The solution is about letting go.” To connect with Pratiqk ...

Isadora: A Duke's Obsession #author DG Rampton

Isadora: A Duke's Obsession (Book Series) Isadora's Story. In the 2nd instalment of the Taming of the Dukes series from bestselling humorous historical romance author DG Rampton, London's ballrooms are left behind for a sweeping adventure across the high seas. Beautiful, clever, and rich, Miss Isadora Jones was the reigning belle of London society until a spurned suitor’s lies turned her from "Incomparable" to "Ineligible" overnight. With her reputation hanging by a thread and the ton whispering behind their fans, her parents pack her off to India. Much to her delight! But freedom comes with a catch ... a rather large, annoyingly attractive one. And soon, Isadora finds herself under the obsessively watchful eye of a brooding war hero (and secret Duke), who always seems to be on hand to extract her from the calamities that come her way with regrettable frequency. Through a series of adventures – and a fake marriage she never realised was fake! – Isadora discovers that her greatest challenge isn't a stalking tiger, a storm at sea, or an Ottoman slave trader. It’s the infuriating man tasked with keeping her safe, and his refusal to admit his feelings for her. To connect with DG Rampton ... https://dgrampton.com/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/DG-Rampton/author

The Staple Store Cookbook vol 01, #author Catie Gett

These recipes have been tested in real kitchens with blunt knives, crying toddlers, and zero mental bandwidth — and they still work. Over 200 pages, 90 recipes and more than 100 photos. Printed in Naarm by a certified carbon neutral printer, on responsibly sourced and recycled paper with vegetable-based, toxin-free inks. Author Catie Gett wrote this cookbook four times. Each draft, it got simpler — shorter steps, more accessible ingredients, a shrinking equipment list. By the final version, I had a book of recipes that actually work: not curated to impress, not pretending to be more than they are. Because that's how real people cook — with kids hanging off them, on tight budgets, with bandwidth that can't stretch to complicated meals that fall flat. Gett a naturopath with 15 years of practice, from a food family, with years of professional kitchen experience behind me. For over a decade I ran The Staple Store — a health food shop that became a little institution built on minimal waste, whole food, and good people. When the cost-of-living crisis hit, instead of holding onto our commercial recipes, I started giving them away. The response told me everything. People were hungry for Good, Simple, Clever. STAPLE VOL 01 brings together the most celebrated recipes from The Staple Store archives alongside real-life health food hacks from this tired mama's kitchen to yours. This cookbook is my love letter to food that nourishes without fuss. Health food that's just good food. Forgiving. Almost impossible to f*** up. To connect with Catie ..... https://www.instagram.com/thestaplestore/ https://thestaplestore.com.au/ https://thestaplestore.com.au/products/the-staple-store-cookbook-vol-01-early-bird https://www.instagram.com/catie_gett/?hl=en

Lost Evidence: Lost & Found Department (series) #author Frank Racioppi

Lost Evidence: Lost & Found Department: Book 2 (in series) Nathan Jameson and Heather Sandberg, who co-own Lost & Found Investigations, take on separate cases for the first time. Heather is hired by Jersey Mike’d, a popular South Jersey DJ on 101.4, WLKW, a talk news format. Jersey Mike’d is running for the Republican nomination to be New Jersey's governor. He wants Heather to find his ex-wife because he’s afraid she will reveal specific facts about him that would hurt his chances in the election. Nathan is hired by a woman who lives in the Birches section of Washington Township. A $50,000 heirloom ring is missing from her closet safe. She doesn’t want the police involved. She wants Nathan to find it and return it. The woman suspects her husband has stolen it to pay off gambling debts. As Nathan investigates, he finds that his client’s 20-year-old son is planning to buy Fentanyl in Philadelphia and then sell it in his town; his client's 18-year-old daughter is posting videos of herself on a porn site; and his client is having multiple affairs – one with her boss at a medical device company, and the other with a cardiologist. After there is a brutal murder, Nathan and Heather discover that their cases are connected, and that Nathan’s secret past is jeopardizing his life and those closest to him. Frank Racioppi is a South Jersey-based author who publishes his daily podcast e-publication Ear Worthy. To connect with Frank ... https://www.frankracioppi.com/ https://podalization.substack.com/s/frankracioppi https://podalization.substack.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-racioppi-6072697/ https://www.instagram.com/earworthy141 https://medium.com/ear-worthy