Jane Recommends: Curated Ebooks and Audiobooks

Collection of bestselling books from Jane Recommends
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Placing Books by the Bedsides in Luxury & Boutique Hotels

Here’s what they’re reading at Kimpton Marlowe Hotel, Cambridge, MA… ​
Shooting Stars Above (Fiction) by Patricia Leavy

Tess Lee is a world-famous novelist. Her inspirational books explore people’s innermost struggles and the human need to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel—but despite her extraordinary success, she’s been unable to find personal happiness. Jack Miller is a federal agent working in counterterrorism. After spending decades immersed in a violent world, a residue remains. He’s dedicated everything to his job, leaving nothing for himself.

The night Tess and Jack meet, their connection is palpable. She examines the scars on his body and says, “I’ve never seen anyone whose outsides match my insides.” The two embark on an epic love story, but old traumas soon rise to the surface as Jack struggles with the death of a loved one and Tess is forced to confront her childhood abuse. Can unconditional love help heal their invisible wounds? Together, will they be able to move from darkness to light?​
Here’s what they’re reading at Conrad Washington, DC…
The Rancher Before Stilettos (Fiction)  by Marcia Williams Cromer
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“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.
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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.”
Here’s what they’re reading at Acqualina Resort & Residences , Sunny Isle Beach, FL… ​
The Vitality Map (Non-Fiction) by Deborah Zucker​

Are you deeply healthy? Not just free of disease or illness, but living with a profound sense of vitality that sustains you as you move through your life? This can be hard to achieve in the midst of life's competing priorities...whether it's our families, our careers, our social lives, or our passions, our attention and care is often focused more on those around us than on ourselves. And, as a result, we get depleted. 

But in order to sustain all the things you care most deeply about, you need to build a strong foundation of health and vitality. In THE VITALITY MAP: A Guide to Deep Health, Joyful Self-Care, and Resilient Well-Being, naturopathic physician Dr. Deborah Zucker shows you how. 

TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO HEALTH 

Each year, thousands of new health books are published offering quick, easy lifestyle changes that will lead you to the "promised land" of overflowing vitality and boundless energy. While many of these approaches are valid, few are built to last. When confronted with the inevitable pressures and old habits, our best intentions often crumble. 

Why? Most health solutions don't go deep enough. They focus on symptoms, ingredients, habits, diets, and exercises. But they don't get to the bottom of your fundamental relationship to health and how you care for yourself. In The Vitality Map, Dr. Zucker guides you on a deep and transformative journey that helps you to build a strong foundation for long-term health, vitality, and well-being. 

Based on her own profound health transformation and her work as a licensed naturopathic physician, Dr. Zucker helps you to disentangle from the patterns that hold you back from real and lasting health breakthroughs:  
 
  • The boom and bust cycles 
  • The constant need to put others first 
  • The feeling that no matter what health strategy you try, you always end up back in the same place

By going step-by-step through her 9 Keys, you'll skillfully shine a light on these unconscious patterns and build new ones that will guide you on your health journey. 

THE 9 KEYS TO DEEP VITALITY 

The Vitality Map isn't just a book full of theories and ideas. Dr. Zucker's 9 Keys are based on her own personal health journey--a struggle with chronic fatigue and other persistent health issues in which she uncovered many of the hidden assumptions and habits that were holding her back from being deeply healthy. 

Building on this experience, Dr. Zucker dedicates a chapter to each key and uses anecdotes from her own life and her work with her clients to illuminate her vitality principles. She also provides practical exercises, meditations, and inquiry questions for each key so you can put them to use right away in your own life: 
 
  • KEY #1: Honoring Your Unique Life 
  • KEY #2: Facing and Embracing Your Shadows 
  • KEY #3: Strengthening Your Self-Awareness Muscles 
  • KEY #4: Cultivating Resilience 
  • KEY #5: Aligning with Your "Yes!" 
  • KEY #6: Experimenting with Playful Curiosity 
  • KEY #7: Discovering Easeful Discipline 
  • KEY #8: Inviting Support and Connection 
  • KEY #9: Living Like You Matter

The Vitality Map doesn't offer a quick fix. The 9 Keys make up a long-term guide to developing a healthy foundation that will sustain your life, your work, and your being.
Here’s what they’re reading at Kimpton Palomar Philadelphia, PA…
When Wisdom Arrives (Spiritual Wisdom) by Rosalyn Rourke
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If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts. In the pages of this fable and companion memoir, we learn about truth and the simple way we can transcend the lie of unworthiness. Imagined unworthiness shows up as a tyranny of thoughts and feelings that cause psychological suffering.

Eleven-year-old Gem struggles with looping thoughts and feelings of self-hate because of her body weight. She believes she is unworthy of love. A wise woman comes into young Gem’s life and demonstrates that her looping, hurtful, repetitive thoughts are untrue. When Gem moves her attention away from her habitual looping patterns, she finds her true ‘I,’ a deeper part of herself that is free. The true ‘I’ is not tied to thoughts and feelings, or the past or future. It is a presence that is available in each person.

Rosalyn Rourke has been all three characters in the fable and all three in the memoir companion: the judgmental mother, the hurt daughter and the wise woman. Even with a successful, decades-long psychotherapy practice and credentials as an eating disorder expert and trauma specialist, Rosalyn struggled with worry and judgment about her daughter, Melissa’s, weight. The same protocol Gem discovers in the fable helped Rosalyn transcend compulsive worry and judgment about Melissa’s weight and later helped her transmute grief after Melissa’s unexpected death. When Wisdom Arrives in our lives, we discover how imagined unworthiness can transform into the knowledge of what we are in truth.