Bedside Reading Summer Books 2025
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Becoming HER: Straight Talk for Healing, Embodying, and Radiating as Your Most Powerful Self by Monica Yates by Monica Yates
A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER Becoming HER: Straight Talk for Healing, Embodying, and Radiating as Your Most Powerful Self “This book is for those women who don’t want to be thrown into the box of being a perfect wife, mother, and housekeeper, and they don’t want to be thrown into competition with other women for success, money, or getting to the ‘top.’ What I’ve seen in my work is that a lot of modern women want to be somewhere in the middle. They want to be able to have a career and purpose and be a mum, wife, and great lover. They want to have the safety of knowing they can pursue an incredible career opportunity, and be cherished, adored, and devoured by their man.” ~Monica Yates Picture HER: a woman who moves through life with ease, grace, and confidence. She isn’t caught up in the chaos of modern life. Instead, she exudes strength, radiates authenticity, and cultivates relationships that uplift her. Becoming HER is about healing your past, embodying your truest self, and radiating as the feminine woman you were born to be. In this groundbreaking book, Monica Yates, a celebrated coach and top 0.5% podcast host, shares her powerful H-E-R FrameworkTM:
Packed with science-backed insights, raw personal stories, and actionable tools, Becoming HER explores:
If you’re ready to heal, grow, and glow, Becoming HER is your ultimate guide. |
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Layered Leadership: Drive Double-Digit Growth and Dominate Your Competition with Creative Strategies and Execution by Lawrence R. Armstrong
New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller From one of the world’s most successful global leaders in architecture and design, discover a holistic, humanist approach to leadership centering on an unwavering commitment to developing well-rounded leaders within any organization. Lawrence Armstrong’s vision for competitive excellence is animated by investing in and caring about the development of the whole person and their surrounding community. Under his creative, layer-based approach, Ware Malcomb has become a global leader in the industrial building sector—one of the world’s most successful and admired businesses of its kind. Now, in Layered Leadership, Lawrence distills the secrets and internal processes of Ware Malcomb’s “whole brain leadership” culture and its fearless Strategic Growth strategy, teaching companies of all kinds how to:
When people can bring their whole selves to work, cultivate their diverse capabilities, and identify their best career opportunities, they’re on the path to becoming great leaders—and building a surrounding culture of success. An accessible handbook featuring illustrations by Larry, also an accomplished artist, Layered Leadership is an evidence-based guide to raising leaders who will prove instrumental to all kinds of companies’ success. |
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King Of The Groove by John JR Robinson
King of the Groove by Grammy winner, John JR Robinson brings us the behind-closed-doors stories as he reveals how a five-year-old, small-town boy just knew he would be playing (all over the world) along-side the living legends of the music industry for his entire career. His groove played a part in over 50 Grammy winning songs, over 200 US Billboard Hot 100 songs as well as more than ½ billion units sold, earning him a permanent spot in Rolling Stone Magazine’s, “The Top 100 Drummers of All Time” list. JR gracefully uses his quick wit with his entertaining personality to share lessons of struggle, triumph and the power of believing in yourself to make your dreams come alive. His musicianship has helped define the pop, R&B and Jazz era for the last half century, making him the most recorded drummer in history. No one will forget JR’s landmark “drum fill” which opens the iconic song, “Rock With You,” (from Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall) which is and will always be an essential piece of pop music lore. From stories of the making of one of the highest grossing songs of all time, “We Are the World”, to the first time he met Quincy Jones, (who provides the foreword), to touring with Peter Frampton, working with Usher, Daft Punk, a heart-breaking story with Barbra Streisand, plus 60 more A-list musicians and producers’ stories. King of the Groove is a highly enlightening book that will delight and inform musicians, music fans and entrepreneurs alike. A tour de force experience from beginning to end. |
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The Rancher Before Stilettos by Marcia Williams Cromer
“The Rancher in Stilettos” captivated readers across a course of three novels, featuring Texas-born rancher Zaide Grace and her close-knit group of friends known as “the Dreamers.” Fans of the series and new readers alike will delight in “The Rancher Before Stilettos,” a prequel that delves into the backstory of this enduring sisterhood, centered around Zaide, the group’s linchpin. Discover the roots of fellowship, solidarity, controversy, and conflict as we follow this camaraderie and Zaide’s journey from cowboy boots to mile-high heels. A move from Texas to New York City, plus a challenging job opportunity and a new best friend in corporate HR manager, Sasha Rollins, unites two women from different worlds who share much in common. The pair discovers a “magical middle” during weekend outings and shopping excursions around the metropolis, a backdrop for the healing and joy of sharing their stories. With birthdays just a day apart, the two quickly become “Virgo siblings” and confidantes, as Zaide’s life reaches the next level, while inquisitive Sasha helps to reveal and inform the journey that brought her there. Dive into the men in Zaide’s life, too, where romance and chemistry abound. Pick a favorite, if you can, when sparks fly and set hearts afire. Rugged appeal, vibrant chemistry, deep understanding and passion all get points for effort, but let’s see whose fire burns brightest. This is “The Rancher Before Stilettos,” not just a “coming of age” tale, but the story of a “coming of Grace.” |
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Singing in The Cornfield: Joy Comes in the Morning (The Virtues of Love Collection) by BETHANY M. JONES
A soldier's son. A miller's daughter. A journey into joy.For a military man, there is no greater calling than the sacrifice of the soldier… but one pivotal encounter has Eli Lewis yearn for a love that fulfills his mind, body, and soul. As a fact, he knows one thing well – how to fight for freedom and sacrifice for his fellow countrymen. War opened his eyes to the horrors of mankind and the loss of all the joy and peace that he once had in his youth. That is, until Meredith Evans swoops back into his life. Though suffering may fill the world, Meredith has never let despair come between her faith or her unyielding sense of hope and joy in a brighter future. And for Eli, Meredith has always been like a glimpse of walking sunshine, as her laughter, wit, and song were enough to warm the hearts of everyone around her. Her summer stay at her brother's homestead provides a visit that neither of them expected, but each of them welcomed. As Eli battles with his deepening feelings for Merridith, daring to hope there might be room for joy in his future again, Merridith, who is now grown into a woman of grace and beauty, is confronted with a sense of wonder and longing for a forever love and a family of her own that has eluded her heart until now. But Eli knows he still has a promise to uphold, a sacred oath once made on the battlefield that he must honor. Will keeping his word mean sacrificing the woman who has captured his heart? Wounded hearts can mend. Unconditional love can heal. But it takes the power of two to soar. |
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Naked Girl by Janna Brooke Wallack
Naked Girl by Janna Brooke Wallack has been listed in the top 100 Best Sellers in three of Amazon's categories and has won several indie book awards including the: Indie B.R.A.G. Medallian, Silver CIPA EVVY Award, Book Viral's Golden Quill, and Reader's Favorite Five Star Medal. Growing up motherless in 1980's Miami Beach, Sienna and her little brother Siddhartha get by with their charismatic and capricious father, Jackson Jones. When a small windfall relocates them to a condemned mansion on the water, the siblings are forbidden traditional schooling and left to live off the land. As Jackson uses their new home to create a communal cult, the siblings are forced to raise themselves in a carefree, chaotic oasis. Living amidst the vagrant seekers who take up residence in Jackson's utopia, Sienna and Siddhartha strive to protect their unconventional family. Janna Brooke Wallack writes with warmth, compassion and comic brilliance in Naked Girl, an enthralling debut novel brimming with the adventure, resilience, humor and heartbreak of growing up on the fringe of decency and longing for the unattainable comfort of home. |
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Tales of a Pet Vet: Stories from the Clinic and House Calls by Dr. Dawn Filos
In stories tailor-made for pet lovers, a seasoned veterinarian shares her good, bad, and messy days on the job—and highlights the undeniable magic of the human-animal bond. Dr. Dawn Filos has always had a passion for animals—and with a lot of hard work and perseverance, she turned that passion into a career. Here, with emotional honesty, Dr. Dawn shares her colorful, memorable journey from nervous novice to seasoned, self-assured doctor. This modern-day James Herriot ultimately finds her niche as a house-call vet, where she creates a way to practice on her own terms with the privilege of unique, intimate access into the homes and lives of her beloved patients and their human families. Sometimes heartwarming, sometimes sad, and often hilarious, Tales of a Pet Vet will resonate deeply with pet lovers everywhere. |
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Whirlaway: the rule of the sea by Robert Wintner
Whirlaway is mind and body adventure of the double-edge 80s, a time of growth, beyond idealism and self-absorption of the 60s and 70s. Bolder reaching for the gold ring made success seem attainable. Many young folk enjoyed cocaine as a cultural stimulant, for encouragement, confidence and assurance, while it lasted. It cost a bit and a bit more but beat depression. The 80s also marked the beginning of the end for nature on Earth. Human population, doubling since the 50s, generated trash. The piles doubled, too, along with traffic and indiscriminate destruction. Free love or sex was still in, as pesky new diseases arrived. On the bright and risky side, the 80s held potential for those in need. A bold player could float a loan at a bank, of all places, with an application form. Most banks had loan apps on hand, easily submitted with personal tax returns. The P.O. had racks of blank tax returns. Natcherly, the numbers had to make sense. No problema, with alignment available at friendly accounting services. Freebooting and fun-loving, 80s life was for the spirited, high lifers to down and outers, whoever could reach to grasp and bring the prize home! |
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Bella’s Big Girl Bed: The Bella Lucia Series, Book 1 (The Bella Lucia Book Series)
by Kristina Lucia Pezza Winner! The Purple Dragonfly Book Award! Bella’s Big Girl Bed has received a First Place award for Picture Books and an honorable mention for the category of Parenting. Bella the Elephant is feeling uneasy. Her parents say that she is ready for a big girl bed, but she is worried about leaving her beloved crib. Thanks to a special gift, and the love and patience from her mom and dad, Bella learns to overcome her own fears and even help a friend with a similar problem. |
