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Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber – Andy Borowitz

September 26, 2022

Named One of 7 Best Nonfiction Books of the Fall by Kirkus Reviews Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump. The winner of the first-ever National Press Club award for humor, Andy Borowitz has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (The Wall Street Journal) and “one of the country’s finest satirists” (The New York Times). ...

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II – Buzz Bissinger

September 24, 2022

“Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John Grisham An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of ...

The Teaching – T.O. Paine

September 24, 2022

They had her life planned, but when a mysterious girl goes missing, the search just might end her life. Raine Harkins believes everything the Teaching tells her—forgiveness is freedom, there are no dead, and there is no dying. She has lived her entire life in the Haven, a small religious community buried in the hills of northern Nevada, and it’s been a good life. But when she discovers a frightened teenage girl hiding in the forest, everything changes. Raine offers to help the girl, but ...

Nothing More to Tell – Karen M. McManus

September 23, 2022

From the critically acclaimed author of One of Us Is Lying comes a new page-turning mystery. Be sure to keep your friends close . . . and your secrets closer. Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher—a story that made headlines after the teacher’s body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she’s ...

Holding the Line: Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department – Geoffrey Berman

September 22, 2022

“Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump’s Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining – in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired. I walked this tightrope for two and a half years. Eventually, the rope snapped.” – from Holding the Line. “A cautionary tale about how political forces can undermine the quest for justice.” – Barbara McQuade, The Washington Post. The gripping and explosive memoir of serving as US Attorney for the ...

Wake Up! Melatonin is For More Than Just Sleep: The answer to aging, immune health, cancer, and much more! – Terry Lemerond

September 22, 2022

Wake Up! Melatonin is for More Than Just Sleep! The answer to aging, immune health, cancer, and much more! Wake up to groundbreaking news! There’s far more to melatonin than simply being a sleep aid. Called the “miracle molecule”, this master mediator of all hormones provides a much bigger story for your good health. Melatonin can: • Knock out a wide range of viruses • Improve immune function, especially in the elderly • Lower cholesterol • Improve blood sugar control • Normalize blood pressure • ...

The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun – Noah Rothman

September 21, 2022

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” – H.L. Mencken. The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep. No choice is neutral, no sphere is private. Not since the Puritans has a political movement wanted so much power over your thoughts, ...

Deadhead and Buried (English Cottage Garden Mysteries – Book 1) – H.Y. Hanna

September 21, 2022

City girl Poppy desperately wants to pay off her debts, quit her dead-end job, find her father… oh, and keep a plant alive. But she knows that these are just hopeless dreams–until the day a letter arrives. Suddenly, Poppy is on a train heading deep into the English countryside to claim a mysterious inheritance. And the last thing she expects to receive is a cottage garden nursery–complete with romantic climbing roses, fragrant herbs, a ginger cat with serious attitude… and a dead body. Now she ...

Killers of a Certain Age – Deanna Raybourn

September 20, 2022

“This Golden Girls meets James Bond thriller is a journey you want to be part of.” -Buzzfeed Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they’re sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, ...

Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing – John B. Thompson

September 19, 2022

This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries. Like other sectors, publishing has been thrown into disarray by the digital revolution. The foundation on which this industry had been based for 500 years – the packaging ...

Right to Kill – John Barlow

September 19, 2022

Published in the UK by HarperCollins, this is the debut thriller in a gripping new British detective crime fiction series. Now published as a US version by Strom Books. For fans of Harlen Coben and Ian Rankin. “A striking debut.” Peter Robinson. “An outstandingly good first instalment.” The Quietus. “Breakneck pace, terrific protagonist and a kick-ass sidekick.” Neil Lancaster. They’re guilty, but do they deserve to die? On a Thursday night in February, Detective Sergeant Joe Romano is following up on the disappearance of drug ...

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions – Randall Munroe

September 18, 2022

“An absolute delight!” —Hank Green The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s ...

Hell and Back: A Longmire Mystery – Craig Johnson

September 17, 2022

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies, along with ...

Daisy Darker – Alice Feeney

September 16, 2022

“Alice Feeney is great with TWISTS and TURNS.” ―Harlan Coben. The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of Rock Paper Scissors returns with a locked-room mystery when a family reunion leads to murder in a delightfully twisty and atmospheric thriller, as seen on the TODAY show. “A dysfunctional family meets Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None with a truly gasp-inducing twist. This is the book you’ve been looking for.” ―Catherine Ryan Howard, bestselling author of 56 Days. Daisy Darker was born with a broken heart. Now after years of avoiding each other, ...

Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses – Sarah Fay

September 15, 2022

AN APPLE BOOKS PICK OF THE MONTH. “Masterfully written, distinctively researched, deeply humane . . . Genius.”—ANTHONY SWOFFORD, author of Jarhead. “A major contribution . . . A necessary book.”—JOHANN HARI, author of Lost Connections. “This book is a triumph of the spirit and the flesh.”—ELIZA GRISWOLD, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Amity and Prosperity. In this stunning debut—both a memoir and a work of investigative journalism—writer Sarah Fay explores the ways we pathologize human experiences. Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses—anorexia, ...

The Case at Barton Manor (Mrs. Lillywhite Investigates #1) – Emily Queen

September 15, 2022

1920’s London. If one more person gives Rosemary Lillywhite unwanted advice on when to stop mourning the loss of her beloved husband, she fears she will lose control of her sensibilities. All she wants is to be left alone to drown her misery in a glass of gin and tonic, but when Grace Barton knocks on the door of her dead husband’s investigative office, Rosemary faces a choice: come out of hiding or turn away someone in need of help. As Grace recounts her tale ...

Fairy Tale – Stephen King

September 14, 2022

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his ...

Other Birds – Sarah Addison Allen

September 13, 2022

From the acclaimed author of Garden Spells comes a tale of lost souls, secrets that shape us, and how the right flock can guide you home. Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It’s called The Dellawisp and it’s named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment at The Dellawisp, she meets ...

“Elizabeth” My Journey Through Control – Elizabeth J. Simpkins

September 13, 2022

Do you like sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll? Do you know what jails, institutions, and death are all about? I don’t want to be controlled, but can I control myself? Who says I have to live by society’s rules? Elizabeth J. Simpkins is an American Author who resides in Phoenix, AZ. She has been on the Amazon’s best sellers list (for bios on persons with disabilities and bios of criminals) in the years 2021 and 2022 for her Autobiography, “Elizabeth” My Journey Through Control. ...

Carrie Soto Is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid

September 12, 2022

“An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam” (Elle), from the author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. “The perfect novel to close out your summer.”—The Washington Post. “Gorgeous. The kind of sharp, smart, potent book you have to set aside every few pages just to catch your breath. I’ll take a piece of Carrie Soto forward with me in life and be ...

Operation Pineapple Express – Lt. Col. Scott Mann

September 11, 2022

An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comrade—and 500 other Afghans—being targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. In April, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message: Get Nezam out of Afghanistan now. Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army’s first group of American-trained commandos. He passed through Fort Bragg’s legendary Q course and served alongside the US Special Forces for over a decade. ...

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