Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books™️

Editorial Director of Amazon Books, Sarah Gelman, returns to share the Amazon Book Review's top ten books of the year so far. Sarah explains that the team of expert editors doesn't pick these books based on sales data but rather, they assemble a list of books they all love and want to share with Amazon customers who may not findthem anywhere else. Sarah also tells Zibby about her new book club, Sarah Selects, which listeners can check out and sign up forhere!Subscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here.

"I'm a firm believer that the issue isn't whether or not your opportunities come. The issue is whether you're ready when your opportunity comes." CNN anchor Zain Asher joins Zibby to talk about her memoir,Where the Children Take Us, which documents her family's tragedy and triumphs. The two discuss why Zain wrote this book to honor her mother who raised her and her three siblings after her dad died in a car accident, which life lessons shaped her work ethic, and how her family grappled with race throughout the different phases of their lives.Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3nlASowBookshop: https://bit.ly/3uaYfVDSubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here.

Zibby is joined byNew York Timesbestselling author and co-creator ofFriends & FictionPatti Callahan to talk about her two novels,Surviving SavannahandOnce Upon a Wardrobe. The two discuss howOnce Upon a Wardrobegrew out of the research Patti conducted for her 2018 book,Becoming Mrs. Lewis, why her books read so visually, and how she finds ways to weave her experience as a nurse into her stories. Patti also shares how she had heard the story of theSS Pulaski five years before she decided to writeSurviving Savannah, as well as what project she's working on next.Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon (Once Upon a Wardrobe): https://amzn.to/3byLygKAmazon (Surviving Savannah): https://amzn.to/3bCpmCJBookshop (Once Upon a Wardrobe): https://bit.ly/3yon9DQBookshop (Surviving Savannah): https://bit.ly/3bA41tBSubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here.