Here are some of the best books to keep you engaged this entire month of September. We focus primarily on Kindle Books. You can now read a sample right on our website, share the book via social media or purchase the ebook.

The Two Lives of Sara Catherine Adel West

Set in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee, the story is about Sara King, a young woman who sets out to chart a new course in her life and set aside her troubled past in Chicago. In Memphis, she finds refuge in a popular boarding house by the name ‘The Scarlet Poplar’ and finds immense support from the owner Mama Sugar.

However, it also is the time when Memphis, like several other American cities in the 60s, is still segregated. There is political turbulence going on and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. are fighting for equal rights. It is also when Sara finds herself drawn to Jonas, a local schoolteacher, and finds themself discussing the political situation prevailing in the country, and how that has come to affect almost every facet of life like education, literature, and so on.

Soon, friendship blossoms into romance though Sara has a secret past to contend with. She is also worried that might come to affect her present relationship as well and the hope for a better and brighter future seems threatened. Sara has to make a final call on what needs to be done to ease the present situation, something that is going to shape the rest of their lives. Eventually, it is a story of hope, resilience, human emotions, and the most beautiful of it all, love.

Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas by Clarice Lispector

You perhaps get the best of all that the internationally renowned author Clarice Lispector stands for as an author in her book, Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas. A collection of small stories, the book delves into all that the author went through in her everyday life, which can be like the story of a taxi driver and his lost love, how a seemingly harmless and pretty old friend might be hiding a feeling of bitterness within her and so on. On the whole, readers will find there is a new way to see and feel the world that they might have missed out on so far.

“For those unfamiliar with her, this book opens a door into her uniquely challenging and rewarding body of work. Stretching over a decade – and across nearly 800 pages – the pieces, some amounting to a few sentences, some many pages long, make up a self-portrait in bits and pieces. The result is, like Lispector herself, witty, mystical, surreal, and profound: a treasure to return to again and again.” That is how Madoc Cairns described the literary piece in The Guardian.

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination by Mark Bergen

Like, Comment, Subscribe, these are the terms that anyone having watched YouTube videos can easily relate to, and how it’s hard to come across someone who hasn’t watched a YouTube video or hasn’t heard of it at least. This also goes on to underscore the revolution of sorts that  YouTube has come to introduce in the world of media and the internet while upholding the principles of democracy and equality like none other. Anyone with a decent camera or a smartphone has the ability to create and upload video content to the site and also make money out of it as well. It’s a new form of addiction that has taken over the world like no other in recent times.

However, with this being the sort of popularity that YouTube enjoys, there are many who aren’t quite well versed with how the Google-owned company operates. This book sheds light on it all and presents the company and its working to you like never before. You stand to gain an inside-out view of the company that has come to yield a collective force and a new world order that perhaps even Google wasn’t aware it would. Also, with a deep inside knowledge of the tech world including Google, none perhaps would have been more fitting to write the story about YouTube than Mark Bergen, the top tech reporter at Bloomberg.

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

A vivid depiction of the harsh manners and rigid expectations for women within ducal courts in 16th-century Italy . . . O’Farrell is a marvelous stylist, and The Marriage Portrait is full of the same kinds of intense details that made Hamnet come alive. Her characters are captivating and believable, and the landscape of Renaissance Italy is a veritable gift to the senses, so powerfully does O’Farrell evoke the sights, sounds and smells of forest, castle and barnyard.”

Killers of a Certain Age Kindle Edition by Deanna Raybourn

It’s the story of four women in their sixties except that they aren’t just any ordinary women. Rather, they have been killers and have been part of an international organization identified as the Museum. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have spent forty years or rather, the prime of their lives as an elite band of killers.

However, in this age of technology, their well-honed skills that once killed others and saved them from being killed is being considered old-school. They feel disconnected in this age though the story takes a twist when they are sent on an all-expenses paid trip on a vacation which they soon discover isn’t a retirement gift but is a tacit ploy to eliminate them. The Board or the highest order of the Museum decision-making body has the power to order the killing of their field agents and the foursome discover it is their turn now.

The women realize they have to rely on their old talent and experience to save themselves and turn against the very organization they have worked for all these years. In the end, it’s as much a story of surviving the odds as it is about revenge with some high-octane action in between.

Fairy Tale by Steven King

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.

Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.

King’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy—and his dog—must lead the battle.

Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?”

“As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”

The Lost Ticket by Freya Sampson

When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number 88 bus with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date at the National Gallery art museum, but Frank lost the bus ticket with her number on it. For the past sixty years, he’s ridden the same bus trying to find her, but with no luck.

Libby is inspired to action and, with the help of an unlikely companion, she papers the bus route with posters advertising their search. Libby begins to open her guarded heart to new friendships and a budding romance, as her tightly controlled world expands. But with Frank’s dementia progressing quickly, their chance of finding the girl on the 88 bus is slipping away.

More than anything, Libby wants Frank to see his lost love one more time. But their quest also shows Libby just how important it is to embrace her own chances for happiness—before it’s too late—in a beautifully uplifting novel about how a shared common experience among strangers can transform lives in the most marvelous ways.

The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce

2021 Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah depicts four residents of German-occupied Zanzibar in the lead-up to and fallout from WW I—the scale is both epic and poignantly personal.

“In Thomas Pierce’s warm and inventive debut novel, The Afterlives, reality is slippery, time is out of joint and profound disorientation is a feature of daily existence. In other words, pretty much how the world feels to a lot of us right now… Pierce is brilliant at painting an entire life — encompassing passion, missed opportunities, tragedy — in a few pages. He also isn’t afraid to pose the biggest questions: How do we deal with loss? What are the limits and possibilities of love? What is the nature of time? In The Afterlives, Pierce has worked a similar magic, connecting us to fictional characters who seem, somehow, 100 percent real.

Broken Summer by J.M. Lee

In this new novel from South Korean literary giant J.M. Lee., a famous artist’s wife mysteriously vanishes, leaving behind her unpublished manuscript — which seems to fictionalize his own salacious past. As he reads, he’s is drawn back into his memories of a deadly summer.

The Lost Ticket Kindle Edition by Freya Sampson

Libby Nicholls arrives in London with a broken heart, struggling to come to terms with how things have shaped her life. However, things take an interesting turn when she meets an elderly by the name Frank on bus number 88. They seem to strike a chord and Frank ends up discussing how he met her lady love on this very bus route back in 1962. They also plan to meet at the National Gallery art though unfortunately, Frank lost the bus ticket which contained Libby’s number. Left with no option to meet her, Frank travels the same route for two months but without any luck.

Libby, on her part, is also keen to meet Frank and decides to take things to another level. She puts up posters at strategic locations advertising her search for Frank. However, the chances of their meeting seem to be growing thin what with the rapidly progressing dementia taking over Frank’s memory. Libby however is keen to see Frank getting to meet his lost love one more time while she also feels the urgency to take control of her own life and do what it takes to usher in love and happiness in her own life before it is too late.