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THE TROUBLE WITH WINGS
when life forces the author to make an impossible choice between living the life she’s always wanted or becoming the woman she’s always wanted to be, she retraces the past decade of life and travel abroad that led her to this crossroads and the courage it takes to own our biggest mistakes.
sixteen women share their stories of overcoming challenges, includes open-hearted advice and encouragement for readers to step into their own power and rise above their own adversity.
Jillian’s chapter “Faith” involves themes of motherhood, depression, and community.
a collection of 18 paintings by 8 artists and 54 short stories inspired by the paintings, this book is a collaboration celebrating a union of the arts.
jillian’s story “Pride” follows an estranged napa wine family who struggles to come to terms with love, legacy, and betrayal.
Jillian Bright is an award winning travel essayist + historical fiction author living in Central Italy with her winemaking partner and young son.
She deeply misses Mexican food from her California home but makes up for it with morning walks in her small town, afternoon espresso, delicious wine, and plenty of gelato.
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my recommended BOOKS
Want to see a hint of what’s coming?
Check out the April 2025 email I sent to my readers list where I shared my top 40 recent reads to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day!
I’m working on a curated selection of all my favorite books! From business to fantasy, magical realism to romance, historical fiction to scifi.
I’m a HUGE reader, usually finishing a book or two a week so this is my way of sharing all my recommendations in one place!
All books will have buy links that direct to bookshop.org or Amazon if it’s an indie KU author (affiliate) which gives me a small percentage of the sale (10% for bookshop, 4-7% for Amazon) at no extra charge to you. Don’t like affiliate links? No worries! Just copy/past the book title into another window 🙂