Celebrate July 4th in the Hamptons with These Great Reads!

Becoming HER: Straight Talk for Healing, Embodying, and Radiating as Your Most Powerful Self by Monica Yates

“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:

• Heal the trauma and societal conditioning that hold you back.
• Embody the woman you’re born to be, who balances her career, relationships, and personal well-being with ease.
• Radiate confidence and authenticity, creating a life of fulfillment and joy.

Packed with science-backed insights, raw personal stories, and actionable tools, Becoming HER explores:

• Why modern expectations are burning women out—and how to break free.
• The power of embracing your feminine energy and healing your relationship with men.
• How polarity in relationships creates deep intimacy and satisfaction.
• The secrets to aligning your inner and outer worlds for lasting success and happiness.

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:

• Synthesize influences, metaphors, and life lessons into a style of leadership
• Build a mentoring culture that coaches and supports rising leaders
• Protect executive time for creative work
• Drive consistent growth through up and down economic cycles
• Find your formula for greatness and deploy it to attract, keep, and expand business
• Implement succession strategies that stick

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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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?
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A compelling story of the battle between war and love, the past and the present, duty and grace, journey with Merridith to a destination unknown, and click the "BUY NOW" option today.

Wounded hearts can mend. Unconditional love can heal. But it takes the power of two to soar.

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 Rollands unites two women from different worlds who share much in common.
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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.
 

Whirlaway by Robert Wintner

Whirlaway is literary fiction, a high seas romp drawn on real time in a delusional era. What happens when two young entrepreneurs inherit nothing and decide to rob a bank the modern way, with lies on paper to finance a sailing yacht? On signatures and handshakes, the future brightens with enough drugs to suspend the NFL, enough liquor to make sagebrush soggy and women with no bones. The only thing missing is reality, but not for long. Here is the action and drama of tropical delusion. Martin and Jack reach the nitty gritty, learning the rule of the sea and the real low down on a tropical dreamscape. As a Maui County Library Hot Pick and Beach Book of the Month Club Main Selection, Whirlaway resounds among charter crews. “Whirlaway is a Maui classic!”—The South Maui Times “A relent, fascinating parable of a free-booting era.”—Michael Gregory, author, Song of the Beast “A daring look behind the scenes of tourism in Hawaii. Passages depicting open-sea crossings are vivd, and the cameos of mainland tourists are dead on.”—Publisher’s Weekly

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.
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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.

Hey Dad…: Everything You Should've Learned About Life (But Didn't) by Rob Finlay 

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Hey Dad… is the book I wish I had when I stepped into adulthood—and the one I wrote after years of getting calls from my kids that started with:

• “Hey Dad…how do I do my taxes?”
• “Hey Dad…what’s a deductible?”
• “Hey Dad…why is my car smoking?”

Adulthood doesn’t come with a manual, but this comes close.

I didn’t write this just as a dad of four—I wrote it as someone who’s learned (often the hard way) how to manage money, land jobs, rent apartments, fix things, and stay sane in the process. I also talked to 30+ experts—financial advisors, career coaches, entrepreneurs, even a NASCAR driver and Navy SEAL—to help bring their best real-world advice to the table.

This book is packed with practical tools, funny stories, and honest lessons about:

• Getting your first job (and keeping it)
• Budgeting like a pro—even if you hate spreadsheets
• Finding your first place without getting ripped off
• Navigating credit, cars, and career moves
• Building independence with confidence (and maybe fewer 2 a.m. Google searches)

Hey Dad… isn’t just a guide. It’s a conversation. A pep talk. A toolkit. And a reminder that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Start with a question.
Stay curious.
Learn from your mistakes.
And when in doubt—remember that asking for help is a strength, not a weakness.
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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.

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.

Bella's Big Girl Bed: The Bella Lucia Series, Book 1 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 in the category of Parenting.
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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.