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If you know a wine-lover who is also a parent, this book is for them! It was so fun gifting this to my sister on her daughter’s first birthday. The book takes wine terms and relates them to ‘whine’ terms and has useful parenting tips and advice. It is more than just a fun read, it is resourceful for parents. Parenting books just became entertaining to read.

Book syopsis:

A Wine Lover’s Guide To Parenting is a satirical book written in the style of classic children’s rhyming bedtime stories but geared towards parents. The 11 key lessons not only teach you how to raise your child right – all related to wine – but will also educate the reader on key wine terminology. Lessons include not letting your kid whine to get their way, teaching them to look at life through rosé colored glasses and giving your child a nice punt (depth).

After several years in Hollywood, the Author, Danielle Frank, traded in red carpets for red wine, transitioning into the world of wine and spirits — an industry where she has built a distinguished career spanning more than 21 years. Though not a parent herself, Frank is a proud aunt and a keen observer of parenthood’s comedy of errors — finding uncanny parallels between swirling a glass of Bordeaux and surviving bedtime meltdowns. 

Buy the book – Amazon.

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

In this book, written by Daniel Knowles, the Author combines history, economics, and reportage as he traces the forces and decisions that normalized cars and cemented our reliance on them. From smog, accidents and all the bad things a car brings despite its best intentions, we look at communities around the world who thrive despite few people owning cars. Some chapter titles in this book are – Detroit Breakdown, Why You Can’t Beat Traffic, Gas Guzzler Nation, Go East: Lessons from Japan and more!

Available on Amazon – publish date March 28, 2023

Drawing the Vote: A Graphic Novel History for Future Voters

In Drawing the Vote, written by Tommy Jenkins, we look at the history of voting rights in the United States and how it affects the way we vote today. It looks at our last results of the 2020 presidential election and the factors that shaped it, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the January 6 insurrection. It is a comic style book for middle school and up.

Available on Amazon – publish revised date August 30, 2022

War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

In this book, written by David Nott, A frontline trauma surgeon tells his “riveting” true story of operating in the world’s most dangerous war zones (The Times). From Sarajevo under siege in 1993 to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out lifesaving operations in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major metropolitan hospital. Some Chapter titles of this book include – The Bomb Factory, Damage Control, Trauma School, Sniper City and more.

Available on Amazon – publish date March 3, 2020

New with Chronicle Books Publishing is Free Throws, Friendship, and Other Things We Fouled Up by Jenn Bishop. This is a great book for young athletes or all tween/teen readers. Young readers will get real emotions, family struggles, and insecurities driven by the tension of middle school sports in this book

Synopsis

Cincinnati, Ohio, lives and dies by college basketball, with two elite Division I rivals separated by a mere three miles. Rory’s dad just secured a new coaching gig at the University of Cincinnati, so it means yet another school and move for her, only this time to her dad’s hometown. Rory’s life revolves around basketball; she’s never had a close friend outside of it. Could this be a chance for a fresh start?

Abby has always lived in Cincinnati, where her dad grew up playing ball and now coaches at Xavier University. But Abby has recently retreated from basketball after a frustrating season that left her confidence in shambles. This year, she finds herself on the outside looking in when it comes to her former teammates, and she could seriously use a new friend.    

The coaches’ daughters connect over their shared love of the game when Abby chaperones Rory on her first day of school. But when Abby’s dad practically forbids their friendship because of something that happened between him and Rory’s dad when they were younger, Abby and Rory have no choice but to move their budding friendship underground.

Can the two of them get to the bottom of what went down between their dads in the 1990s before history repeats itself?

Available for pre-order today on Amazon! Release date is October 24, 2023.