Accolades

Amazon First Reads pick for June 2022!
Featured on Good Morning America, CNN, Eyewitness News with Sandy Kenyon, Good Day LA, Good Day Dallas, Good Day DC, Miami NBC, and San Diego
One of Town & Country’s “33 Best Summer Beach Reads”
One of Book Riot’s “8 Surprising New Memoirs to Add to Your TBR ASAP”
January 2023 Book Club Pick for Friends & Fiction! Selected for many other book clubs!
#1 Bestselling Memoir

After First Reads launched, Bookends hit the #1 bestselling spot for all memoirs and was #45 in ALL OF KINDLE!
Featured in Katie Couric Media, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Woman’s Day, the New York Post, BookTrib, Thrive Global, Avenue, Quest, Amazon Book Review, Dan’s Papers, Audiofile, Hamptons Magazine, the Palisadian Post, Behind the Hedges, Westport Magazine, Spotlight Hamptons, Social Life, James Lane Post, Our Town, The Post & Courier, The Alliance Times Herald, The Westerly Sun, Tampa Bay Parenting, Hippocampus, Atlantic Avenue, and more.

Bookends on GMA & CNN!

DESCRIPTION

A deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by Zibby Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books™.

Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family.

But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was forgetting what made her her. She turned to books and writing for help.

Just when things seemed particularly bleak, Zibby unexpectedly fell in love with a tennis pro turned movie producer who showed her the path to happiness: away from type A perfectionism and toward “letting things unfold organically.” What “unfolded” was a meaningful career, a great love, and finally, her voice, now heard by millions of listeners.

An honest and moving story about relationships, love, food issues, the writing life, and finding one’s true calling, Bookends will inspire and uplift.