My anxiety gets on my nerves lately. How long do I have to be nervous about my life goals, which actually, are not precisely the hardest to get (getting new job, improving my blog, going back to yoga practice, my family life, SOCIAL LIFE!). I hope I’m not overreacting? Waking up in the morning is more like routine than exiting ‘Hello, new day!’. Something blocking me from action like invisible force. So what do I do to feel better? I’m buying books or borrowing some at the local library. That’s right, not new shoes or bags, but books. Well, new cotton tote bags are always a good investment and perfect thing to carry my books. Visit in the library is like instant mental health support. You know the feeling when someone tells you that it’s going to be alright, pat your back, and smiles to you with love? This is what I feel in the library surrounded by all those fantastic shelves. Heaven, my dear readers, Heaven.
These are a few of the books that I bought from my local charity shops (as I mentioned before, I am used books lover) and some of them are from my local library (‘quick pick’ shelve).
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“The pioneer, revolutionaries and geniuses your history teacher forgot to mention.”
“You may think you know the history of modern Britain, but Bloody Brilliant Women will show you otherwise.
In this fresh, opinionated history, Cathy Newman introduces all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn’t. Some names, like Emmeline Pankhurst, Vera Brittain and Marie Stopes, will be familiar. But who remembers engineer and motorbike racer Beatrice Shilling? Or Dorothy Lawrence, the journalist who achieved her ambition to become a First World War correspondent by pretending to be a man?
Through meticulous research, Cathy Newman provides a much-needed alternative account of twentieth and early twenty-first-century Britain, unearthing the lives of indomitable women who defied the odds to alter the course of history.”
(my beloved author, by the way)
“First impressions aren’t always what they seem…
Ruthie Midona is twenty-four (going on ninety-four) and fully committed to her job at a luxury retirement village. Keeping herself busy caring for the eccentric residents means that Ruthie can safely ignore her own life – what little there is of it.
Teddy Prescott is practically allergic to a hard day’s work. When he rocks up as the retirement village’s newest employee, Ruthie is less than impressed. The last thing she needs is a distraction as irritating (and handsome) as this selfish rich kid. Lucky for Ruthie, her favourite pair of mischievous residents need a new assistant to torture, so she hands over Teddy, ready for them to send him running.
Except Teddy may be about to surprise her – not just by surviving the old women’s antics, but by charming Ruthie so much, she starts to remember that there’s more to life than work.
And just maybe, her second first impression will lead to the love of a lifetime…”
“The New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners returns with a hilariously witty and feel-good novel which proves once and for all that while data may be easy to crack, dating isn’t quite so simple… Jess Davis is a numbers genius, but when it comes to love she’s had to accept there is no magic formula. Juggling a career with raising her daughter, it’s not surprising that her love life is… non-existent. When yet another date ends in disaster, she’s prepared to give up on love for good.
But then she hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new matchmaking company that claims to find you the One using a DNA equation. Suddenly, love doesn’t seem quite so far out of reach
Until her test shows an unheard-of 98% compatibility with GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr River Pena. Jess already knows Dr Pena, and this man is 100% not her soulmate. Yet as the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the ultimate ‘Diamond’ pairing that could make GeneticAlly a fortune, Jess begins to realise that there might be more to the scientist – and to the science behind a soulmate – than she thought.”
“MAGIC HAS MADE ITSELF AT HOME.
Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home-until he realizes he has no choice. With its doors slamming shut and locking behind him, Whimbrel House is not about to let Merritt leave. Ever.
Hulda Larkin of the Boston Institute for the Keeping of Enchanted Rooms has been trained in taming such structures in order to preserve their historical and magical significance. She understands the dangers of bespelled homes given to tantrums. She advises that it’s in Merritt’s best interest to make Whimbrel House their ally. To do that, she’ll need to move in, too.
Prepared as she is with augury, a set of magic tools, and a new staff trained in the uncanny, Hulda’s work still proves unexpectedly difficult. She and Merritt grow closer as the investigation progresses, but the house’s secrets run deeper than they anticipated. And the sentient walls aren’t their only concern-something outside is coming for the enchantments of Whimbrel House, and it could be more dangerous than what rattles within.”
“When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year PhD candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is on her way to a happily ever after was always going to be tough; scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting woman, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when he agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire and Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support (and his unyielding abs), their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion.
Olive soon discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.”
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN MEDCALF
“When Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries. What kind of crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a brooding spell? And is her employer, Hannah, an innocent victim, a guilty woman, a lunatic or a witch?”
“An energy burst, an exhilarating joyride and an animal nation trapped in a cycle as old as time.
Narrated by a vivid chorus of animal voices that
unveils the tyranny and ruthlessness required to
uphold absolute power, Glory is the tale of an uprising and a country’s implosion. And at the centre of it all, a young goat named Destiny, returning home to bear witness to a revolution.
Urgent, wild, dazzling with life and an irrepressible wit, Glory is a razor-sharp satire that unpicks power and shows how history can be halted in a moment.”
Yours L.
another pile of books 
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