This Needs To Be Said...

Mrs. TNTBS hosts This Needs To Be Read featuring Author Camille Baker. She has more good summer reading coming your way.

About the author:  Camille Baker is the author of Have We Met? She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the Ohio State University. There, she took sign language classes for fun, and during business classes that didn’t hold her interest, she wrote stories. After graduating, she completed the Interpreter Training Program at San Antonio College. Camille now resides, interprets, and writes in South Chicago. For more information, visit www.camillebaker.com.

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Mrs. TNTBS hosts Amazon editor Erin Kodicek (2nd year in a row, geeked!)

What have you read so far this year?  Everyone loves a top ten list!  Especially if it includes a great summer reading list!  The Amazon Books Editors, Lindsay Powers and Erin Kodicek, have compiled the Best Books of the Year So Far in 2022…and are ready to discuss all of the Top 20 to read by the pool or listen to on summer road trips…as well as the top books in other categories too – including children’s/young adult, mystery and thriller, literature & fiction, biography, and more!

Erin Kodicek (she/her), Books Editor - Before Erin was born, her mother worried that she’d be the only Kodicek to take pleasure in reading anything more substantial than a take-out menu. Erin has been happily hawking books for 20+ years. She enjoys literary fiction, narrative-driven nonfiction, and a well-written menu. Erin regularly writes for the Amazon Book Review. (https://www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview)

Mrs. TNTBS hosts author M.P. Woodward in his first book in a new series. 

In THE HANDLER, Meredith Morris-Dale is a CIA case officer and a damn good one...even if this last mission did go terribly wrong. Now she has been summoned back to Langley where she expects to be fired. Instead, she is met by the Deputy Director with stunning news.

A single well-placed CIA mole in Iran’s uranium enrichment program has kept the terrorist nation from building a bomb by sabotaging the performance of their covert centrifuge arrays. But after losing his daughter in an airliner shootdown, the mole wants out—leaving the world on the brink. His one demand: a reunion with the only handler he ever trusted, John Dale—Meredith's disgraced, fired, wayward ex-husband. As Meredith and John struggle through their fraught relationship, a craven CIA political hierarchy, Russian interference, and the rogue spy’s manipulation, they must reach deep within their shared connection to maintain, recover, or kill the asset.

As a naval intelligence officer with the US Pacific Command—in multiple deployments to the Persian Gulf and Far East—Woodward worked alongside U.S. Special Forces, CIA, and NSA. He is extremely knowledgeable of the subjects he writes about and brings incredible authenticity to the novel.

While this is an intelligence thriller with action, suspense, and geopolitics, the characters are really the story. THE HANDLER features heroic men and women of the U.S. intelligence community at work amid all of life’s messiness—mortgages, divorces, kids, personal shortcomings. New York Times bestselling author Marc Cameron raves THE HANDLER is “a spectacular tale, brimming with intrigue, suspense, and richly-drawn characters. Fantastic storytelling.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M. P. Woodward is a veteran of both US intelligence ops and the entertainment industry. As a naval intelligence officer with the US Pacific Command, he scripted scenario moves and countermoves for US war game exercises in the Middle East. In multiple deployments to the Persian Gulf and Far East, he worked alongside US Special Forces, CIA, and NSA. Today, Woodward runs international distribution marketing for Amazon Prime Video, having launched Amazon’s original video content in more than forty countries through more than one hundred cable, wireless, and broadband partnerships. He collaborates closely with content creators and distributors in driving viewer awareness and engagement. He is currently developing the international distribution strategy for the upcoming serial adaptation of The Lord of The Rings.

Mrs. TNTBS hosts Author/Cartoonist Matthew Diffee

The Best of the Rejection Collection

297 Cartoons That Were Too Dark, Too Weird, or Too Dirty for The New Yorker

Rescued by MATTHEW DIFFEE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Matthew Diffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999, and to date has had more than 300 cartoons published in the magazine. He is the author of The Rejection Collection, The Rejection Collection, Vol. 2, and Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People. Matthew’s website: http://www.matthewdiffee.com/, Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewDiffee

Mrs. TNTBS hosts This Needs To Be Read with Garden Enthusiast Marcus Bridgewater. 

After grabbing a copy of this book for yourself, follow him on Instagram and see the Mission Impossible Frog and the cute doggies that add to the garden adventures he takes his followers on.

About the author: MARCUS BRIDGEWATER is a creator, educator, motivational speaker, and plant enthusiast. He is the personality behind Garden Marcus on social media, which demonstrates that a positive, knowledgeable approach to nurturing plants also helps us grow as people. He is the Founder & CEO of Choice Forward, a company that offers life coaching, seminars, and workshops.

More at:

https://www.tiktok.com/@gardenmarcus?lang=en,

https://www.instagram.com/garden_marcus/?hl=en

https://www.gardenmarcus.com/

Since the pandemic began, kids have been more isolated than ever….and many are missing out on learning the oh-so-important social skills needed to succeed and prosper as young adults!

In WHAT CAN I SAY, author Catherine Newman provides a framework for parents to help their kids learn more about relationships, empathy, respect, friendship, and communication.  From how to be inclusive, listen, give advice, argue, stick up for yourself, and ask for help to how to turn down a date, express sympathy, deal with offensive comments, respond to bullying, and be trustworthy, What Can I Say? helps kids develop the skills to express themselves clearly while showing empathy, care, and generosity towards others.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Catherine Newman is the author of the award-winning bestseller How to Be a Person, as well as two parenting memoirs: Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness, and a middle-grade novel, One Mixed-Up Night. She is also the co-author of Stitch Camp. Newman is the etiquette columnist for Real Simple magazine and the editor of the James Beard Award-winning kids’ cooking magazine ChopChop. Newman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family. Visit her at catherinenewmanwriter.com.

This week Mrs. TNTBS hosts author, Kim Daly of True Crime File - Compendium

THE TRUE CRIME FILE: Serial Killers, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors & Their Stories, Forensics, Oddities & Absurdities, Quotes & Quizzes - compiled by Kim Daly (Workman Publishing, May 10, 2022) - delivers more than 200 stories of murder, mayhem, and survival.

But this is not your average crime book—Daly, who holds a  master’s degree in English with a focus on trauma studies  and has worked as a rape crisis counselor, gets to the heart of true crime while remaining respectful of the victims. She examines trending and notorious cases in a less salacious, more balanced manner that modern true crime fans will appreciate.

So, while readers familiar with Inventing Anna, The Stranger Beside Me, and This Is a Robbery will find entries on Cassie Chadwick, Ed Kemper, and the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa, they will also see these stories told with an emphasis on awareness, victim advocacy, and social justice.

From tales of slashers and serial killers, grifters and con artists dogged investigators and miraculous survivors, there is something of interest on every page. Each entry is succinct yet packed with detail, giving needed context for those readers just beginning to explore the thrilling vagaries of true crime while also providing a new lens for fans who have been delving into the subject for years.

Mrs. TNTBS hosts author Helena Hunting during this segment of This Needs To Be Read "with her latest book, "Starry Eyed Love"

Having just broken up with her boyfriend, London Spark is not in the mood to be hit on. Especially not when she’s out celebrating her single status with her sisters. So when a very attractive man pays for their drinks and then slips her his number, she passes it right back to him with a ‘thanks, but no thanks’. As the business administrator for their family’s event hotel, the Spark House, London has more important things to worry about, like bringing in new clientele.

Mrs. TNTBS hosts author Jeremy Schifeling as he shares some tips on "How to land the job of your dreams (and so much more)"

Jeremy Schifeling and Omar Garriott were career coaches who ran LinkedIn’s education team, then formed The Job InSiders (formerly The LinkedIn Guys) to advise all levels of job seekers. Now they’re sharing all they know in LINKED: Conquer LinkedIn. Get the Job

About the authors: Jeremy and Omar first joined forces to launch and lead marketing for LinkedIn’s education team. Their charter: to demystify LinkedIn for tens of millions of college students, staff, and alumni.

JEREMY SCHIFELING has devoted his career to helping students succeed in theirs. From recruiting top students at Teach For America to leading student marketing for LinkedIn, he’s touched the lives of millions of people just starting their journeys. Along the way, he’s published a top-selling book on job applications, served as the University of Michigan’s tech career coach, and produced the most-viewed video in LinkedIn’s history. He currently leads teacher outreach efforts at Khan Academy and shares his thoughts on Break into Tech, a site for anyone who wants to launch a tech career. He is the co-founder of The Job Insiders – a one-of-its-kind, 5-star-rated online course that advises jobseekers on the modern job search.

OMAR GARRIOTT is a Tech Intrapreneur for Good. He is currently the Global Head of Education (K-12 & Higher Ed) for Qualtrics (NASDAQ: XM) and formerly led education product marketing for Salesforce, LinkedIn, Apple, and Adobe. He is the co-founder of The Job Insiders. Despite his corporate bona fides, he is at core a teacher and mentor, having taught 3rd grade through Teach for America—a seminal experience that shaped everything he’s since done—and having coached students ranging from low-income high schoolers to MBAs on college and career transitions. He also worked as a Career Coach for UC-Berkeley Haas and the University of Virginia, was a reporter for Major League Soccer, and has been published in The New York times, Forbes and The Washington Post.

TNTBS Legal Presents: Attorney Laputka Pt. 2ish