Tis’ the season for spreading good cheer—and great new reads! When it comes to the book lovers and the die-hard readers in your life, gifting just a beautifully wrapped book might seem a bit too . . . generic. Spice it up in two ways: First, pick a book that matches his or her personality. Second, throw in a matching gift to go with it.

For example, if your best friend wishes she could get paid to travel, she’ll love Found. It’s a book about a traveling nurse that combines love, mystery, and a little bit of murder. Along with a travel journal to log new adventures in. Or for that techie in your life, they’ll love The House That Made Me, an anthology with authors using Google Earth to revisit the homes and towns that made them into the writers they are today. Combine that with home-state personalized artwork, and you have an ideal pairing.

Check out these 13 new reads with an added bonus gift for every type of reader in your life.

 

For Horse Lovers and Dreamers . . .

Learning to Fall by Anne Clermont, with a delicate gold horse shoe necklace.

This coming-of-age book for horse lovers has been called a “stunning debut set in the rolling hills of Northern California promises endless feels, tears and plenty of horses . . . the best equine literary experience since Seabiscuit” by Redbook magazine. It’s praised by show-jumping Olympians and Grant Prix winners.

In Learning to Fall, Brynn honors her passion for horses by studying at the toughest veterinary program in the country. Months from graduating, tragedy strikes. Tragedy for which she can’t help but feel responsible. Brynn feels suffocated by the weight of her father’s legacy and his dusty hopes for horse show jumping success. When Brynn’s frenetic efforts to dig the family business out of debt fail, she’s down to one desperate hope. Enter Jason Lander, who understands what it’s like to walk away from the ring. The onetime champion agrees to train Brynn, and her horse Jett, for an all-or-nothing run at the prestigious Million Dollar Gold Cup.

Set in Northern California against a stunning backdrop of coastal hills and valleys, Learning to Fall is about discovering how to let go—and how to hang on with your heart. Fans of Seabiscuit and The Horse Whisperer will love this beautifully written debut; one they’re bound to add to their shelf of favorites.

Gift this book with a delicate, gold horse shoe necklace that will bring good luck on any journey!

 

For Readers Craving Travel and a Bit of Mystery . . .

Found by Emily Brett, with a travel journal for the adventurer

Found has been listed in the “Top 10 Books That Let You Take A Trip Without Leaving Your Couch” by Culturalist. It revolves around twenty-seven-year-old ICU nurse Natalie Ulster. She has a desire to see the world, in case she dies young like her mother. And has a need to heal, which is compensation for her own damaged heart. She is armed with an independence and self-reliance that stems from her father’s emotional abandonment. Wanting to separate herself from a deranged nurse whose husband just died under suspicious circumstances on Natalie’s watch—Natalie grabs life by the globe and accepts successive assignments in Belize, Australia, and Arizona.

When Natalie meets Dr. Joel Lansfield, a physician who is also familiar with grief, she finds that Joel sees her for the strong woman she is. And loves her for all she has yet to figure out. Even though she’s not sure she’s ready to make room in her heart for love. Desperate to maintain her emotional distance with Joel, she continues to travel. In each country, however, she finds herself confronted with near-death accidents, from a poisoned drink to a severe food allergy to being thrown overboard in the Great Barrier Reef. Too many coincidences force her to ask herself a frightening question: Is someone trying to kill her?

Gift this book with a journal for logging new adventures.

 

For Readers Pressing the Reset Button on Life and Romance . . .

First Rodeo by Judith Hennessey, with handmade bath bombs.

At the 2016 USA Best Book Awards, this read was a finalist in Best New Fiction as well as Chick Lit/Women’s Lit, and Booklist named it one of the Top 10 Romance Debuts of 2016.

Kate, an attractive, thirty-something, workaholic, single mother, is in the business of pleasing others. At the top of her “yes” list is her sometimes surly and controlling boss: her father. A crisis at work spurs Kate to examine her life. She surprises everyone by taking her young son and heading where few high heels have ever gone. Wyoming, home to more cows than humans. There, at the Prickly Pear Ranch, she meets a young, sexy, bull rider, who’s lived a lifetime in just over two decades. He’s full of big dreams of training horses, and his passion fuels Kate’s dormant dreams of becoming an artist, and sparks fly?and once again, Kate shocks everyone, even herself, and jumps on for the romantic ride of her life.

Fast-paced and wildly entertaining, First Rodeo is filled with humorous scenes of city girl gone country, encounters with handsome cowboys, the struggles of the creative process, and a powerful message: the greatest love of all is the love you have for yourself.

For women starting over on a new path in life, these handmade bath bombs are sure to help you unwind.

 

 

For The Parent Dealing with Empty Nest Syndrome . . .

The Goodbye Year by Kaira Rouda, with a personalized family photo album.

The Goodbye Year presents an interesting twist how both parents and kids deal with heading off to college, and it has been featured in everything from Working Mother to Woman’s Day, to Redbook to Sunset magazine.

Melanie is a perfectionist mom who views the approaching end of parenting as a type of death. She can’t believe she has only one more year to live vicariously through her slacker senior son, Dane. Gorgeous mom Sarah has just begun to realize that her only daughter, Ashley, has been serving as a stand-in for her traveling husband. And the thought of her daughter leaving for college is cracking the carefully cultivated façade of her life. Will and his wife are fine as long as he follows the instructions on the family calendar. And is sure to keep secret his whole other life with Lauren. The woman he turns to for fun (and who also happens to have a daughter in the senior class).

Told from the points of view of both the parents and the kids, The Goodbye Year explores high school peer pressure, what it’s like for young people to face the unknown of life after high school, and how a transition that should be the beginning of a couple’s second act together?empty nesting?might possibly be the end.

Gift this read with a personalized family photo album to preserve important memories as everyone moves into a new season of life.

 

 

For Twenty-Somethings Figuring Out The Journey into Adulthood . . .

25 Sense by Lisa Henthorn, with an inspirational coffee mug.

Called “A book every badass woman should read” by the San Francisco Book Review and “A mesmerizing read for millennials” by Buzzfeed, this book is ideal for readers trying who are trying to “adult” and want to evolve from their mistakes.

Claire Malone didn’t mean for this to happen when she moved to New York. She just wanted to live the city life and gain experience in television writing, her dream career. It’s not like she meant to reciprocate when her married boss, Sean Vared, sent her flirty e-mails. And you can’t blame her for coming into the office on the weekend when Sean told her he was going to be there . . . alone. She didn’t mean to sleep with him but hey, she wanted to experience the city life, so no big deal, right? Wrong.

By the time Claire wakes up on her 25th birthday, she’s very much in love with Sean. At work, she struggles to hold it together when he passes her desk?the very desk that they used to make love on. Soon Sean has turned his affection to the show’s starring actress, and Claire is devastated. Can she break away from Sean without ruining her barely started career? Will someone find out what happened? Will she ever grow up and stop making stupid mistakes? 25 Sense is about the time in a young woman’s life when the world starts to view her as a responsible adult?but all she feels is lost.

Mistakes are lessons we learn from, so gift this book with a daily reminder coffee mug.

 

 

For the Pop Culture and Celeb Buff . . .

Star Craving Mad by Elise Miller, with vintage movie star prints.

Filled with dark humor, suspense, and a revelation about the dark side of celebrity culture, this read was praised by Mike Albo, author of The Junket: “Up-front funny, sexy fiction. A hilarious comedy that manages to be outlandishly satirical, weirdly plausible, and deliciously steamy all at the same time. Our extremely dumb, celebrity-soaked culture has been asking for a good parody—and here it is!”

Maddy Braverman, thirty and single, has taught first grade at an uber-elite private school in Greenwich Village for the past six years, a hip downtown school lauded as much for its progressive pedagogy as its privileged progeny and its multitude of sex-crazed staff including the headmaster, AKA the Head Molester. Angry at herself for not moving on, Maddy gets distracted from her pity party with a new student Lola Magdalena, daughter of A-list celebrities Nic and Shelby Seabolt, a last-minute addition to her class roster.

When tragedy strikes Lola, Maddy has the chance to meet with Nic in his TriBeCa apartment. Maddy’s sexy celebrity fantasies turn to reality, leaving her breathless and spellbound. But from her front-row vantage point, Maddy learns the hard way that celebrity is not all it seems, and gets dealt a devastating blow that could leave her jobless, loveless and alone. If she could just see things clearly she could save herself from going Star Craving Mad.

Pair this coming-of-age, sexy read with a vintage dictionary-page prints featuring stars like Jean Harlow, Audrey Hepburn, or Bob Dylan.

 

 

For the Reader About to Build a Family…

Funny Little Pregnant Things by Emily Doherty, with a stylish wardrobe addition.

Called “Brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny, with chapters short enough to read between trips to the bathroom . . . a welcome addition to the expectant parent’s bookshelf” by Booklist, this is truly the only parenting book you need to buy your friends.

Today’s pregnancy books may no longer recommend martinis and cigarettes to help pregnant women relax, but most offer moms to be a ton of worthless information?like what kind of fruit your baby is the size of at Week 16. Is there any practical http://laparkan.com/buy-tadalafil/ value in knowing that your child resembles produce? And where’s the good stuff?the useful details, like beware of the baby registry and all the crap you will never use, or be prepared to get breast milk all over everything you own?

Hilarious, candid, and easy to read, Funny Little Pregnant Things is full of helpful information about all the stuff people don’t tell you about pregnancy the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Gift this read with something stylish and funny to start the expecting’s maternity wardrobe.

 

 

For the Woman Juggling Romance and her Career…

Hostile Takeover by Phyllis Piano, with a chic professional planner.

“What goes best with professional affairs? A lover who cons you. Fans of The Catch will simply consume this entertaining cocktail of first love and business acquisitions which will put our heroine in the ultimate conundrum: should she follow her heart and risk losing everything or choose the safety net of her career?”
?Elle magazine

Long-lost love, a hostile corporate takeover, and the death of her beloved husband. All this turns attorney Molly Parr’s life into a tailspin that threatens to ruin everything she has worked for. Molly’s all-consuming job is to take over other companies, but when her first love, a man who she feels betrayed her, appears out of nowhere to try and acquire her business, long-hidden passions and secrets are exposed.

Can Molly trust the man who broke her heart years ago, and who may be manipulating her now to get what he wants? Further complicating matters is the reemergence of her lost love’s brother, who was a dear friend and knows the shocking truth about their past. As Molly painfully revisits the old betrayal, she partners with her boss and mentor to fight the takeover at all costs?and the chaos that ensues forces Molly to chart a dramatic new direction for her life. She must decide: does she have the courage to follow her heart and expose her painful past?a decision that may cost her everything?

Balancing dates with work responsibilities can be tricky; gift this read with a professional but chic planner to keep everything straight.

 

 

For the Woman Who Wants it All…

The Balance Project by Susie Orman Schnall, with a top-notch workout tee.

When Huffington Post, Jenny McCarthy, New York Parenting, Self magazine, and Working Mother all praise a book, you know you can’t go wrong. As Self magazine said, “The Balance Project is a Lean In-esque romp which begs that perenially pertinent question: Can women really have it all?”

The Balance Project is a story of loyalty, choices, and balance that will resonate deeply with all women who struggle with this hot-button issue.

Loyal assistant Lucy Cooper works for Katherine Whitney, who seems to have it all. A high-powered job at a multibillion-dollar health and wellness lifestyle company, a successful husband, and two adorable daughters. Now, with the release of her book on work-life balance, Katherine has become a media darling and a hero to working women everywhere. In reality, though, Katherine’s life is starting to fall apart. Lucy is the one holding it all together, causing her own life and relationship with her boyfriend Nick to suffer. When Katherine does something unthinkable to Lucy, Lucy must decide whether to change Katherine’s life forever or continue being her main champion. Her choice will affect the trajectory of both of their lives and lead to opportunities neither one could have imagined.

Gift this book with the perfect workout tee for the woman who’s doing it all.

 

 

For Readers Craving Even More Poltiical Scandal…

So Close by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (The Nanny Diaries), with a cozy sweatshirt to curl up in.

When this book came out in summer 2016, it was praised by US Weekly and Parade magazine, and Redbook predicted it would “speak to all of the craziness we’re enduring on account of this year’s U.S. presidential election.”

From international #1 best-selling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus comes a story about a girl from the trailer parks of central Florida. Two powerful men shape her life: one of whom will raise her up to places she never imagined. The other of whom will threaten to destroy her.

Amanda Beth Luker has spent her whole life desperately looking for someone who can show her the way out of her trailer park Florida town. And then, finally, help arrives?in the form of Tom Davis, a successful lawyer with political aspirations who grew up just a few towns over from Amanda. But it’s his wife, Lindsay, who really captures Amanda’s imagination. Strong, smart, and determined, she gives Amanda something she’s never had?a role model. Meanwhile Amanda is introduced to the wealthy, charismatic, and deeply troubled Pax Westerbrook. He clearly desires Amanda, but if she gives in will that move her closer to the life she’s always dreamed of?or make it impossible?

Amanda rides Davis’s political success all the way to Washington. He becomes Senator and will later be tapped for president and even make a bid for the White House. But when Amanda starts to suspect, and later confirms, his moral indiscretions, her loyalty is tested. Will a girl from a trailer park even be believed if she goes public with damning information? Will she be willing to risk losing everything she’s gained?

This read gets political, so you need a cozy sweatshirt to match.

 

 

For the Reader Who Seems to Have Read Everything….

Hindsight by Mindy Tarquini, with some profound home decor.

Awarded stars and praise by Foreword, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Real Simple, this novel intertwines multiple people and the past lives they have shared throughout history, ideal for literary buffs and anyone who wonders about where the choices we make lead us.

Eugenia Panisporchi lives with her mother, teachers Chaucer, and remembers all her past lives. She is desperate to change her future. Born this time around into a South Philadelphia Italian-American family so traditional, she and her siblings are expected to marry in birth order, Eugenia lives a simple life?no love connection, no controversy, no complications. Her hope is that the Blessed Virgin Mary (who oversees her soul’s progress) will grant her heart’s desire. The option to choose the circumstances of her next life. But when a student reveals he shares her ability, Eugenia suddenly finds herself setting up a Facebook page and sponsoring a support group for others like her. An oddball odyssey, during which she discovers she must confront her current shortcomings before she can break the cycle and finally live the life of her dreams.

A layered contemporary fable, Hindsight reminds us to live this life like it’s the only one we’ll have.

Gift this read with some profound artwork that speaks to a book-lover’s soul.

 

 

For the “Techie” That is Into Books . . .

The House That Made Me by Grant Jarrett, with personalized home state décor.

Called a “Trust Us” book by Elle magazine, this book is an easy-read anthology by 19 diverse award-winning authors who use Google Earth to zoom in and reflect on the homes or neighborhoods that made them who they are as writers today.

Home?the place where we were born, where we learned our first lessons, where family was defined. The very notion evokes powerful feelings, feelings as individual as our fingerprints, as enduring as the universe and as inescapable as gravity. In this candid, evocative collection of essays, a diverse group of acclaimed authors reflects on the diverse homes, neighborhoods, and experiences that helped shape them?using Google Earth software to revisit the location in the process. Moving and life-affirming, this poignant anthology gives fresh insight into the concept of Home.
Gift this with a personalized piece of art or décor that celebrates their home town or state.

Gift this with a personalized piece of art or décor that celebrates their hometown or state.

 

 

For the Teen Who Loves Percy Jackson . . .

The Legends of Orkney series by Alane Adams, with dragon-inspired gloves.

The two books available in the Legends of Orkney series, The Red Sun and Kalifus Rising, are hard to put down, and have been a big hit with fans of Anakin Skywalker, Norse mythology, and Percy Jackson. The Red Sun starts with the main character, Sam Baron, finding out he is from a magical realm called Orkney. When his friends are taken prisoner, it’s up to Sam to save them. So Sam embarks on a journey to Orkney through a stonefire to find his friends. But when he arrives, he discovers that an ancient curse has turned the sun a poisonous red and threatens to destroy the land. With only a young witch girl to guide him, Sam must choose: save his friends, or stop the red sun from consuming the land?

Drawing on Norse mythology, The Red Sun follows Sam’s journey to uncover the truth about his past journey during which he has to overcome the simmering anger inside of him, learn to channel his growing magical powers, and find a way to forgive the father who left him behind. Kalifus Rising turns the tables, where Sam’s friends must save him before other forces that are at work in Orkney’s shadows?forces that could help free Sam, or condemn him to the darkness forever.

Gift these two reads with something to keep their hands warm while digging into this must-read series.

 

 

For the Teen That is a Budding Feminist . . .

The Wendy Darling series by Colleen Oakes, with a fantasy, girl-power tee.

This feminist spin on the traditional fairytale of Peter Pan is seriously awesome. Volume 1: Stars brings the charmingly beautiful Peter Pan into the Darling children’s nursery. Dazzled by this flying boy with god-like powers—they follow him out of the window and straight on to morning into Neverland. The island is an intoxicating place of freedom. As time passes in Neverland, Wendy Darling realizes that this Lost Boy’s paradise of turquoise seas, mermaids, and pirates holds terrible secrets rooted in blood and greed. As Peter’s grasp on her heart tightens, she struggles to remember where she came from. She begins to suspect that this island of dreams, and the boy who desires her, have the potential to transform into an everlasting nightmare.

The second book, Volume 2: Seas, finds Wendy and Michael aboard the dreaded Sudden Night, a dangerous behemoth sailed by the infamous Captain Hook and his blood-thirsty crew. In this exotic world of mermaids, spies and pirate-feuds, Wendy finds herself hunted by the twisted boy who once stole her heart and struggling to survive in the whimsical Neverland sea, returning home to London now seems like a distant dream and the betrayals have just begun.

This feminist spin on Peter Pan will leave a girl feeling seriously powerful. We love this sassy tee with a nod to fairy tales.