The author of Making It Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League lets us peek into her “mom bag.”
The PHiXRead It: Love Buzz
Leah LeMoineMay 23, 2023
Fans of rom-coms by the likes of Emily Henry, Helen Hoang and Rebecca Serle will find familiar satisfaction in Love Buzz (Harper Perennial, $17.99), the debut novel of Phoenix writer Neely Tubati Alexander. Like those best-selling scribes, Tubati Alexander mingles romance with career concerns, friend and family issues, and personal growth for a tale that’s as moving as it is steamy. Love Buzz starts with a Mardi Gras meet-cute in a Bourbon Street bar between...
Learning where our food comes from – and celebrating the farmers who grow it – is at the center of this children’s book written by Paradise Valley author B. G. Hennessy (the Corduroy series) and illustrated by Mary Ann Fraser (In Search of the Grand Canyon). Phoenix nonprofit Southwest Human Development, which focuses on early childhood development, including mental health, family support and disabilities services, published the picture book as part of its Buy One,...
The PHiXRead It: Me After You
Leah LeMoineMay 17, 2022
“Grief is itself a medicine,” wrote 18th-century English poet William Cowper. Phoenix psychotherapist – and fellow poet – Gigi Veasey knows this deeply. As a counselor and grief consultant, she has spent years shepherding countless clients through the loss of parents, siblings, children, friends and pets. Her experiences led her to develop her own therapeutic processes, which she shares with readers in Me After You: Surviving the Loss of a Loved One (Hopes Road Publishing,...
Local author Amy Trueblood straps on her helmet and gets a bit daring with her debut young adult novel, “Nothing But Sky.” It features 18-year-old Grace Lafferty, a wing walker who stuns the crowds with dangerous acrobatics in the sky. The novel follows her chase to get to the 1922 World Aviation Expo until a stunt goes wrong. PHOENIX had the chance to talk to Trueblood before her novel came out on March 27.
Trueblood will be at Changing Hands in Tempe on March 31 at 4 p.m. for her book launch. For more information, go here.