A Bookish Guide to Mother’s Day Gifts

Game guide Alexandra Carnell-Ellis is principled, doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and generally isn’t too fond of ordinary people either. When she’s fired from The Plains, a commercial ‘Ferrari Safari’-type game reserve in the Karoo, for being rude to guests, she’s determined to make a fresh start.

Alex lands a dream job at an exclusive game reserve in Mpumalanga, but her new beginning appears to be doomed from the start as she arrives at the lodge with attitude, a few facts about her that aren’t strictly true, and a stolen dog in tow who she says she rescued. Alex struggles to control her unruly tongue around guests and staff, and almost immediately makes enemies with the camp manager and the owner’s terrifyingly scary girlfriend, who can’t wait to expose Alex’s deepest, darkest secrets.

She finds love in the form of the level-headed and attractive head guide, but it’s not long before everything goes wrong. After an impulsive but well-intentioned act of compassion towards a baby animal, a storm breaks over her head and she flees the reserve. Will she ever be able to find her way back?

Maybe having a few enemies on the school run means you’re doing something right…

Florence knows all about failure. After a dismal end to her 2000s girlband career, she’s moping around West London, single, broke and unfulfilled. The only things she’s proud of are her increasingly elaborate nail art choices – and her ten-year-old son, Dylan.

But when Alfie Risby, Dylan’s bitter class rival and the child heir to a frozen foods empire, mysteriously vanishes on a school trip, Dylan becomes a prime suspect. Florence has to get her act together, find the missing boy and clear her son’s name or risk losing him forever. The only problem? She doesn’t have any detective skills, she’s not exactly popular at the school gates and she’s just found Alfie’s backpack hidden under Dylan’s bed…

All the Other Mothers Hate Me is an irresistibly witty novel about fitting in, starting over and the lengths we’ll go to for the people we love.

Life can begin with a single story. You just have to Bring Your Own Book…

For three decades, Grace supported her husband Frank’s passion for books, despite not being a reader herself. Since his passing, their shelves echo longingly, and Grace’s heartache has only grown.

When Grace’s grandson suggests joining Frank’s old book club to feel closer to him again, Grace reluctantly agrees. Yet, upon arrival, she discovers this isn’t a typical book club: here, members settle in for an hour of reading… in silence.

Disappointed by the sparse attendance and confused by the lack of chatter, Grace flees. But when fellow member, Annie, convinces her to stay, Grace is determined to ensure that neither Frank – nor his beloved book club – are forgotten.

And as she breathes new life into the group, Grace might just find this is where she truly belongs. Because this next chapter of life could just be the beginning of her story…

The perfect story for book lovers everywhere. Ideal for fans of Sally Page and Evie Woods.

The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different.

Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever.

Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she’s been working as a bouncer in LA – until a reckless act one night threatens to drive her out of the city.

And Lucky, the rebellious youngest, is a model in Paris whose hard-partying ways are finally catching up with her.

Then there was Nicky, the beloved fourth sister, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling.

When, a year later, the three of them must reunite in New York to stop the sale of their childhood home, they find that it’s only by returning to each other that they can navigate their grief, addiction and heartbreak and learn to fall in love with life again.

Can she escape the darkness of her past in the City of Light?

It’s 1959 and time for eighteen-year-old Sophie’s real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father and his frustrated wife is suffocating.

She dreams of escape to Paris, the wartime home her French mother fled before her birth. Getting there will take spirit and ingenuity, but it will be her chance to uncover the mystery of her family background, and, perhaps, to find a place where she can finally belong.

When Sophie eventually arrives in the Paris arising from the ashes of the war, it’s both everything she imagined, and not at all what she expected…

By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman’s dream. She has a husband, three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia–one of Northern Virginia’s most exclusive and picturesque suburbs. She has a standing invitation to the neighborhood coffee klatch, and now, thanks to her husband, a new subscription to A Woman’s Place–a magazine that tells housewives like Margaret exactly who to be and what to buy. On paper, she has it all. So why doesn’t that feel like enough?

Margaret is thrown for a loop when she first meets Charlotte Gustafson, Concordia’s newest and most intriguing resident. As an excuse to be in the mysterious Charlotte’s orbit, Margaret concocts a book club get-together and invites two other neighborhood women–Bitsy and Viv–to the inaugural meeting. As the women share secrets, cocktails, and their honest reactions to the controversial bestseller The Feminine Mystique, they begin to discover that the American dream they’d been sold isn’t all roses and sunshine–and that their secret longing for more is something they share. Nicknaming themselves the Bettys, after Betty Friedan, these four friends have no idea their impromptu club and the books they read together will become the glue that helps them hold fast through tears, triumphs, angst, and arguments–and what will prove to be the most consequential and freeing year of their lives.

The Book Club for Troublesome Women is a humorous, thought provoking, and nostalgic romp through one pivotal and tumultuous American year–as well as an ode to self-discovery, persistence, and the power of sisterhood.

To understand the icons Beyoncé, Solange and Kelly, you have to understand where they came from… A deeply personal and revelatory memoir by Ms Tina Knowles – as you’ve never seen her before.

Tina Knowles, the mother of icons Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, is known the world over as a Matriarch with a capital M: the woman who raised and inspired some of the great artists of our time. But this story is about so much more than that.

For the first time ever, Tina Knowles shares her remarkable story in Matriarch. A life of grief and tragedy, love and heartbreak, the nurturing of her superstar daughters – and the perseverance and audacity it takes for a girl from Galveston, Texas to change the world.

This intimate and revealing memoir is a multigenerational family saga and a celebration of the wisdom that women, mothers and daughters pass on to each other across generations.

A glorious chronicle of a life like none other and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.

An adventure story, love story, travelogue, naturalist memoir, and spiritual guide, Craig Foster’s Amphibious Soul is a scientist and adventurer’s perspective on “rewilding”―developing a deep connection to our animal selves that can reinvigorate our lives. Told in Craig’s warm and passionate voice, this extraordinary book will change not only the way we interact with the natural world, but the way we fundamentally see ourselves.

A decade ago, living in a city and feeling exhausted and empty, Craig decided to return to his birthplace―the Cape of Good Hope―and dive into the great African Sea forest each day. His daily oceanic adventures not only helped him “rewild”, but helped him come to see his own “amphibious soul” as a powerful metaphor for the human condition. We homo sapiens are by nature wild animals attempting to exist in a docile world. So how can we reclaim our wildness in a world that wants us to stay so tamed?

An extraordinary literary work, Amphibious Soul is a riveting narrative filled with meticulous descriptions of an adventure in the natural world that speaks to readers on an intimate level, challenging us to consider our personal relationship to nature, and inspiring us to realign our daily practices to help save the global ecosystem. Whether we live close to nature or in an urban jungle, Craig shows us how to nurture our individual wildness, tap into our empathy, and deepen our love for all living things. He teaches us to track the wild around us, and by doing so become present in the moment and revel in being wondrously alive.

Featuring breathtaking original photos and QR codes that access mini-videos of never-seen-before animal interactions, Amphibious Soul is a remarkable experience that will transform us and ultimately our world.

How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland – ”Motherland”, in Afrikaans – Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country”s turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family”s charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.

KROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company

ANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society

ELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15

ANNA, mistress of the Cape”s grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband

MARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikaner farmer, resists the abolition of slavery

ANNA loads her family on an ox-wagon and treks into the interior to elude the British

ISIE survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africa”s Prime Minister and ”Mother of the Nation”

CATO escapes to England and the Quakers as white supremacy mutates into apartheid

PETRONELLA, returning to the Motherland, falls in love across the colour bar and risks everything to fight the system her grandfather set in motion.

Confidence is at the foundation of everything we do. It’s the invisible power that propels you to dream bigger, take bold risks, and create a life you truly love. But for too many of us, it feels out of reach – reserved for those who seem to have it all together.

In this brand-new guide, globally acclaimed self-development coach Roxie Nafousi teaches us that confidence isn’t something you’re born with – it’s a skill you can build. With her trademark warmth, wisdom and research-backed insights, Roxie will teach you how to transform your mindset and step into your most empowered self.

In Confidence, you”ll learn how to:

1. MASTER YOUR THOUGHTS
2. ACT WITH INTENTION
3. STOP TRYING TO BE LIKED BY EVERYBODY
4. BREAK FREE FROM COMPARISON
5. CELEBRATE YOURSELF
6. DO HARD THINGS
7. BE OF SERVICE TO OTHERS
8. SHOW UP AS YOUR BEST SELF

Confidence isn’t just a feeling – it’s a way of being. Whether you’re struggling with self-doubt, navigating tough times or simply ready to unleash your potential, Confidence is your roadmap to knowing your worth and living as your boldest, most authentic self.

Your Soul Purpose: Manifest a Life You Love is a practical and engaging guide to manifesting your dream life, taking you on a journey from conception to reality.

Have you ever felt like you were meant for more? Or wanted to make your dreams a reality but felt like something was holding you back? InYour Soul Purpose, certified life and success coach Aubrey Daquinag guides you through the process ofnavigating your inner world to manifest your dreams.

Using self-discovery exercises and techniques, learn how to tap into the power of your subconscious mind, connect with the deeper meaning behind your desires, trust your intuition, and set clear intentions to create soul-aligned success. Along the way, Aubrey shares relatable stories and deep-dives into psychology and neuroscience to help you get out of your own way and create a life that makes you truly feel alive.

Whether you’re moving to a new city, calling in your soulmate, seeking a more fulfilling career, or you simply want to feel more confident, Your Soul Purpose is full of insights on how to stop wondering and start walking on a new, and more meaningful, life path.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen shares his best wisdom on the simple choices we can make to live life to the fullest.

What if a healthy, abundant, joyful, faith-filled life is within reach? What if you could increase your energy, vitality, and happiness, and stop dragging through the day, being depressed, and settling for less than the life you want?

In 15 Ways to Live Longer and Healthier, Joel Osteen, with his trademark wisdom and encouragement, helps you to discover greater success, stronger relationships, tame stress, and find real happiness. He shows that the key to good health, longevity, and abundance is to keep your soul healthy by focusing on your attitude, your thoughts, and your emotional well-being. In this book, he shows you how to:

·Stay positive toward yourself;
·Deal with difficult people;
·Let go of control;
·Choose to be happy;
·Unclutter your mind;
·Live in the present;
·Tame the tongue; and
·Take care of yourself.

Start today to make a real change that lasts. Not just for a week, a month, or a year-but for the rest of your life.

EXPERT-DRIVEN, GIRLFRIEND-APPROVED – The menopause manual that cuts through the chaos so you can take back control of your body, your confidence, and your life, from Emmy award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and social media powerhouse Tamsen Fadal.

What”s happening to me? Is anyone else feeling this way? Why did no one tell me about this?

If you”re ready to feel like yourself again, this book is “the talk” you never had.

How To Menopause is packed with actionable steps and evidence-based tools from a team of 42 experts including neuroscientists, menopause-certified physicians, sex and relationship therapists, sleep doctors, and a variety of lifestyle mentors.

Synthesizing research, stories, and strategies in a way that only an investigative journalist can, Tamsen Fadal helps you

– be your best advocate in a medical system not designed to treat women in midlife,
– understand the options that tame your symptoms, whether it”s hormone therapy, supplements, or lifestyle changes,
– have science-backed strategies to get the best sleep of your life,
– be able to talk to your partner about sex, low libido, painful intercourse, or how your hormones might be impacting your relationship,
– update your style (hair, makeup, clothes) to match your changing body,
– learn simple workouts, skincare tips, and delicious recipes to deal with belly fat, dry skin, and hair loss (and don”t worry, it”s not all kale salads)–and much, much more.

How to Menopause answers all the questions you”ve been too nervous to ask, and brings you into a conversation with millions of other women. Together, we can embrace a stronger, sexier self at every stage of midlife-from perimenopause through menopause and into our “bolden” years.

Real motherhood support for real mothers. Uplift and support yourself each day in three minutes or less with these short, easy-to-use entries designed to give you the motivation you need to feel empowered in motherhood.

Three Minutes for Mom is an engaging collection of daily entries that will shift your mindset to help you see your strengths and growth as a mother and to remind you that even when you’re questioning yourself, you’re getting motherhood right way more than you’re getting it wrong. Motherhood can be rewarding and tough and this book is here to remind you that you can make small shifts each day to create a more confident, comfortable, and calm parenting experience.

With Three Minutes for Mom, you’ll feel more confident in your abilities as a parent and discover moments of rest for yourself—all in three minutes or less. Use minute one to learn the theme of the day, minute two to explore how that theme is important to motherhood, and minute three to complete a question or activity that you can carry with you throughout the day for that extra boost of good energy. In just three minutes, you’ll find the tools you need to be the best parent you can be (for both your child and yourself).

No matter how busy your schedule, how old your children, or how tired you are, Three Minutes for Mom makes it easy to find the encouragement, support, and joy you need.

Learn how to make bread simply and deliciously with three easy-to-master doughs for SANDWICH BREAD, FOCACCIA and PIZZA from the queen of dough behind your favourite viral bread-making videos on social media, Lacey Ostermann (@_lacebakes_).

Lacey presents 20 creative yet easily achievable recipes for each dough, whether you’re baking, topping, using up leftover bread or reworking the doughs into a variety of bread products. Every dough also has practical step-by-step instructions, detailed photography and QR codes to video tutorials that will fill you with confidence as you learn to make bread.

* Focaccia dough can be baked into flavourful Chimichurri Focaccia, or turned into Cinnamon Raisin Bread or Roman-style Pizza. Any leftover focaccia can be turned into a Panzanella Salad.

* Sandwich Bread chapter teaches you how to make the perfect White or Wholewheat Sandwich Bread to top with Grilled Nectarine, Burrata and Hot Honey. Try rolling the dough into Cheesy Garlic Swirls or Cinnamon Caramel Monkey Bread for a fun twist.

* Pizza dough is prime time for topping creativity – make sure to try Lacey’s Roasted Pumpkin Pizza with Fresh Basil Pesto and use any leftover dough to make Flatbreads with Creamy Tzatziki Dip or fluffy Doughnuts.

Bonus recipes for toppings, dips and sauces are included within the recipes to elevate your bakes – Hot Honey, Pink Pickled Onions, Homemade Ranch Dressing, Everything Bagel Seasoning and One-Minute Pizza Sauce are a few flavourful highlights.

Lacey has taken her most-asked questions and feedback from home bakers and streamlined techniques to give you confidence and excitement about making and baking dough. There are even timelines to make sure you know how to make the bread work for you, so you don’t have to work for the bread.

Whether you’re a newbie to breadmaking or a seasoned pro, grab a bag of flour, pop on an apron and let’s dough!

Skip the pricey restaurant bill and recreate your favorite dishes right at home with these 200 fast, easy-to-follow recipes that are so good people will think it’s takeout!

Visit your favorite restaurants…without waiting for a table or paying inflated prices for your meal! With 200 fast, easy, and delicious recipes, you can now recreate your favorite restaurant dishes without having to leave your house. You’ll find iconic recipes for every meal of the day, including:
-IHOP’s Original Buttermilk Pancakes
-Olive Garden’s Bread Sticks
-In-n-Out’s Double-Double Burger
-Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Crust Pizza
-Crumbl’s Classic Pink Sugar Cookie
-Southwestern Eggrolls from Chili’s
-The Pink Drink from Starbucks
-And more!

With these tried-and-true recipes, The Everything Restaurant Copycat Recipes Cookbook allows you to recreate popular restaurant meals as closely as possible—while still receiving the same rave reviews as the real thing—on a much smaller tab per serving.

There’s nothing better than a home-cooked meal. Whether you’re looking for no-fuss weeknight dinners or recipes to wow everyone at the table, this cookbook is bursting with over 300 quick, easy, and delicious recipes.

Say goodbye to dinnertime stress–these recipes will satisfy the pickiest eaters and the most adventurous foodies. From quick weeknight meals to family-favorite comfort foods and special Sunday roasts, there’s something for every occasion. Reduce stress with Slow-Cooker Bolognese, keep the mess at a minimum with Honey Mustard Chicken, and enjoy a healthy midweek pick-me-up with Garlic Broccoli Shrimp Stir-Fry. With minimal prep time and maximum flavor, you can put homecooked meals on the table on even the most hectic days.

This cookbook:

• Includes 300+ hassle-free weeknight meals
• Uses ingredients that are both accessible and affordable
• Provides suggestions for repurposing leftovers

From one-sheet wonders to 30-minute meals, these dishes are as easy as they are delicious. Forget takeout–it’s time to embrace the joy of home cooking! Make weekday meals a joy, not a chore with Family Dinners: The Ultimate Cookbook.

The Cocktail Garden offers cocktail recipes focused on the flavours and produce found throughout the seasons, all stunningly illustrated by internationally renowned artist Adriana Picker.

The more than 80 cocktail recipes include everything from summery raspberries and rich figs to citrus and white peaches, apples and pineapples to infusions using a bounty of herbs – basil and thyme, sage and lavender, and other flavours found in the garden. There are drinks for long, hot summer afternoons spent among flowers in the garden; wine spritzers for breezy evenings on the back porch; champagne cocktails for celebrations under the apple tree; nightcaps for wintry nights by the fireside; and fruity party punches for garden party gatherings with style.

Showcasing the riot of botanicals found in the garden, The Cocktail Garden will inspire you to get mixing.

An invigorating guide for tasting, naming, and visualizing the chromatic diversity of wine

While smell and taste dominate the experience of sipping wine, Florence de La Riviére turns our eyes to its color, instead inspiring an artistic and visual approach to wine tasting. Throughout The Look of Wine, readers will meet winegrowers, oenologists, sommeliers, and scientists to weave a canvas of universal words representing the chromatic palette of wines. Alongside this descriptive vocabulary, original photography captures the authenticity of color while leaving room for interpretation. Each family of color is visually represented by a wine, with a description of its hues and the natural and human processes that contributed to creating it. Neither a directory of the colors of wine nor a technical encyclopedia, The Look of Wine is a living tribute to oenology’s chromatic diversity, with a focus on still, unmutated whites and reds, as well as rosés.

This clever collection of quotes from the Emmy Award-winning series allows fans to bask in the sometimes-savory, sometimes-sweet insights of The White Lotus hotel’s iconic guests and unforgettable employees.

A stunning, compact gift book, The White Lotus: Iconic Quotes Heard Around the Resort explores romance, money, family, and other themes through the brightly funny framework of the limited-series turned anthology mega-hit. Within these vividly designed pages, fans can revisit the high-glam lifestyles and sharply drawn perspectives of The White Lotus’s picture-perfect characters in their own words. And if any takeaways resonate, well, “it’s not stealing when you think everything’s already yours…”

ONE OF A KIND: It’s the only officially.licensed quote book made in partnership with the studio behind the award-winning series.

EXPANSIVE CONTENT: Including the best quotes from fan-favorite characters across seasons, including Tanya McQuoid, Harper Spiller, Bert Di Grasson, and more.

GIFTABLE: With a thoughtful, compact design to put fan-favorite moments right in their hands.