Monthly Archives: August 2016

Another Brooklyn – Jacqueline Woodson

August 31, 2016
Historical
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them. ...

A Rose By Any Other Name… – Helen Bell

August 31, 2016
Romance
When insecure sophomore Emma gets a part-time job, she’s thrilled. The job is a six-week long project where she’ll be coding a website for a martial arts studio. For Emma, a computer science major, it’s perfect—a great way to gain some real world experience. But her excitement quickly evaporates when she finds out that her boss is Ryan Damon, the mean, arrogant guy she has slammed into, twice. Ryan Damon, the son of the famous, late movie star Bruce Damon, suffered a great tragedy at ...

The Dragon and the Faerie – Roland Capalbo

August 31, 2016
Fantasy
Sixteen-year-old Andy has an appetite for adventure, so when he stumbles upon a ruined, condemned castle perched on a remote island in the Hudson River, he can’t resist the urge to explore it. Together with his reluctant sister, Emilia, they discover that the castle has housed a dark secret for centuries—a gateway to a world inhabited by dragons, wizards, faeries, and demons. When they pierce the barrier between the world they know, and this other world, their crossing sets off a dark chain of events: ...

Infernal Ties – Holly Evans

August 31, 2016
Paranormal
The Hawke twins are hunters. They keep the supernal community of Prague in line, and they’re good at it. The witches whisper their names when something goes bump in the night, and the lycans tell stories of them to make their cubs behave. When Quin doesn’t come home after what should have been a quick rogue-disposal, Evie begins to worry. Evelyn Hawke is a force to be reckoned with. Nothing and no one will stop her from getting her twin back. She’ll do whatever it ...

Shadowed Strength – Wendi Wilson

August 31, 2016
Young Adult
She should have run. While walking home at night, sixteen year old Melanie Johnson is tackled to the ground by a masked assailant with nefarious intentions. Her savior, a large black dog with soulful eyes, vanishes as quickly as he appears. You are mine. She starts receiving threatening notes from her attacker, promising to finish what he started. I am Ace. To complicate things further, her long-time crush Jeremy reveals a secret that Melanie is not sure she can accept. He is more than he ...

It Gets Worse – Shane Dawson

August 30, 2016
Comedy
New York Times bestselling author Shane Dawson returns with another highly entertaining and uproariously funny essay collection, chronicling a mix of real life moments both extraordinary and mortifying, yet always full of heart. Shane Dawson shared some of his best and worst experiences in I Hate Myselfie, the critically acclaimed book that secured his place as a gifted humorist and keen observer of millennial culture. Fans felt as though they knew him after devouring the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, and Wall ...

Kendra’s Diaries – KP Smith

August 30, 2016
Young Adult
Doesn’t growing up remind you of a roller coaster? You are going up, up and up and as soon as you make it to the top yeah life will try and drop you back down. Even when you steady yourself make sure you hold on tight; don’t forget about those gigantic loops! Growing up can get some kinda crazy huh? No worries you are not alone. Meet Kendra Foster she OVERstands. She experiences all the highs, lows, ups, downs and everything in between. Her family ...

Shadow of the Mountain: A Novel of the Flood – Scott R. Rezer

August 30, 2016
Historical
The Children of Ararat: Book One Chosen… or delusional? How does one man persevere when he is given a message that will either test the strength of his faith or convince him he has lost his mind? Noach ben-Lemekh is one of the few men on earth who still worships the One True God. With his barren wife, he leads a simple life as a trader in the provincial city of Beth-Aden, away from the intrigues that infest the capital of the League of Sippar. ...

Search For Reason: (State Of Reason, Book 2) – Miles A. Maxwell

August 30, 2016
Thriller
Who did it? Someone bombed New York. In a near miss on Washington a second city has been destroyed. Is it militant Muslims? White Separatists? Russia? China? North Korea? Or the worst serial killer of all time—not taking one life or even twenty, but four million? No One Knows Lost religious texts appear. Entire faiths are rocked to their foundations. Well-known, highly-respected clerics thought to have been killed by the New York and Virginia City bombs are being kidnapped. . . For two brothers Franklin ...

Winter’s Journey – Kathryn Meyer Griffith

August 30, 2016
Thriller
To keep the bank from repossessing her eighteen-wheeler and putting her and her daughter on the street, trucker Loretta Brennan takes a dangerous route to Wyoming with a winter storm approaching. She worries if she can make the deadline and navigate the icy roads since her driving partner husband died in an accident the year before. At a truck stop, Loretta meets handsome hitchhiker Sam Emerson, who helps her out of a bind. She feels compelled to return the favor and offers him a ride ...

All the Time in the World – Caroline Angell

August 29, 2016
Drama
An unforgettable debut about a young woman’s choice between the future she’s always imagined and the people she’s come to love. Charlotte, a gifted and superbly trained young musician, has been blindsided by a shocking betrayal in her promising career when she takes a babysitting job with the McLeans, a glamorous Upper East Side Manhattan family. At first, the nanny gig is just a way of tiding herself over until she has licked her wounds and figured out her next move as a composer in ...

Momentum – Charlie Moore

August 29, 2016
Thriller
In the contemporary world of secret government organisations, Shirin Reyes is a rogue, de-sanctioned assassin on a mission of revenge and justice, hunting the persons responsible for killing her husband. Damaged, dangerous and deadly, Shirin keeps moving forward, hunting, and being hunted, from one battlefield, ambush, and gun fight, to the next. She comes into the orbit of Director Zelig, who is closing in on the endgame of an ambitious plot to take control of the nation’s intelligence community. Working for Zelig comes the frightening ...

Juliette and the Monday ManDates: The Gustafson Girls Book 1 – Becky Doughty

August 29, 2016
Inspiration
One brokenhearted girl, three meddling sisters, and an intervention plan called The Monday ManDates…. MEET JULIETTE GUSTAFSON Juliette is heart-broken after waiting in vain almost ten years for a proposal from her boyfriend. Determined she isn’t “getting over Mike” quickly enough, her three sisters devise The Monday ManDates; an intervention plan requiring Juliette to endure what turns out to be a series of remarkably disastrous blind dates: TheraPaul, Frisky Frank, TAZ the rock star, and the stoic Tim Larsen, among others. Then there’s Victor Jarrett, ...

When the Watcher Shakes – Timothy G. Huguenin

August 29, 2016
Horror
The walls were meant to keep evil out–but they only hid the evil within. John has given up his ordinary life to find wisdom traveling the country and enjoy the freedom of living as a nomad. But when he stumbles across a mysterious town tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains, walled off from modern society, he discovers a group of people who could use some freedom of their own. Are they a harmless religious sect, or is there something less benign underneath the surface? The ...