Monthly Archives: February 2017

Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama

February 28, 2017
Biography
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, ...

Glorious Incorporated – Steven Neil Moore

February 28, 2017
Thriller
The critically acclaimed first book in Steven Neil Moore’s Joshua Chronicles. “Pilgrim’s Progress meets Tom Clancy.” -Kirkus Reviews- Determined to leave his troubled past behind, Joshua Arden moves to New York City. When he lands his dream job at Jonah International, he is excited to enable real and lasting change. But behind the scenes, a darker power is at play. The CEO of a rival corporation has been given orders to track a high-level asset that is the key to winning an unknown war — ...

Shadowland – C.M. Gray

February 28, 2017
Fantasy
This is the story that came before, when Britain was just a Shadowland. We grow up with the Legend of King Arthur, but where did he come from? Who was Merlin? What part did the Druids play in bringing Arthur to his round table? On the night of Midwinter’s Eve, a storyteller takes his listeners back to the Dark Ages and a tale from his youth: `I have lived more years than I can remember, probably more than the sum of all your years combined. ...

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t – Nate Silver

February 27, 2017
Business
One of Wall Street Journal‘s Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012   New York Times Bestseller “Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion on the Vietnam War…could turn out to be one of the more momentous books of the decade.” —New York Times Book Review   “Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century.” —Rachel Maddow, author of Drift “A serious ...

Beginnings: Ahe’ey, Episode 1 – Jamie Le Fay

February 27, 2017
Fantasy
Morgan is a dreamer, change maker and art lover. She is a feisty, romantic feminist full of contradictions and insecurities. Morgan uncovers a world where women have the power, and where magic is no longer just a figment of her wild imagination. Sounds like a dream, but it may, in fact, turn into a nightmare. The world of the Ahe’ey challenges and subverts her views about gender, genes, and nature versus nurture. The strong and uninvited chemistry between her and the dashing Gabriel makes matters ...

Knowledge Revealed – D.S. Williams

February 27, 2017
Fantasy
After a devastating tragedy, Charlotte Duncan moves to the small town of Puckhaber Falls. The quick and unexpected kindness of the residents catches her by surprise, and one day, a fateful accident introduces her to Lucas Tine. Charlotte finds herself drawn to this man for reasons she can’t understand. What is it about Lucas that she finds so difficult to ignore? As time passes, she uncovers Lucas’s ancient past — and reveals secrets of her own.

Misguided Target – Jessica Page

February 27, 2017
Romance
Three strangers with an unlikely connection find themselves pawns in a dangerous struggle for power. After serving Washington’s political elite as a high-class escort for seven years, Kendall Daley is ready to move on. But on the eve of her final assignment she meets Kane Clarke — a Navy SEALs Lieutenant on enforced leave. What Kendall doesn’t know is that Kane is in town to repair his relationship with his estranged brother… someone she knows all too well. Soon after that fateful night, Senator James ...

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living – Krista Tippett

February 26, 2017
Inspiration
“The discourse of our common life inclines towards despair. In my field of journalism, where we presume to write the first draft of history, we summon our deepest critical capacities for investigating what is inadequate, corrupt, catastrophic, and failing. The ‘news’ is defined as the extraordinary events of the day, but it is most often translated as the extraordinarily terrible events of the day. And in an immersive 24/7 news cycle, we internalize the deluge of bad news as the norm—the real truth of who ...

The Unicorn’s Daughter – Norma Beishir

February 26, 2017
Thriller
Jaime Lynde would stop at nothing to find the truth. As a child, she was told her father was dead, but one by one, the lies began to unravel. James Lynde was an operative for the OSS during World War II, and later for the CIA. In 1986, he was still alive and working undercover in Libya. As Jaime followed his trail, a traitor followed hers…and the US prepared to take military action. “Beishir pens a winner with this gripping thriller…she confidently builds to a ...

The Swordswoman – Malcolm Archibald

February 26, 2017
Fantasy
Melcorka thought she was an ordinary young woman from the Isles. She was wrong. The Norse thought they could conquer Scotland. They were wrong. After her homeland of Alba comes under attack by an invading horde, Melcorka abandons her life of luxury and chooses the path of a warrior, and sets off to free the land from the scourge of the Norsemen. Along with a ragtag band of companions, she heads south to unite the clans against a fearsome foe, and claim her destiny. Welcome ...

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons – Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

February 25, 2017
Biography
Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former owner, money from his own pocket, write the first White House memoir, and see his sons fight with the Union Army in the Civil War. He died a free man in northwest Washington at 75. Based ...

To Live Is To Die First – Eli Darzi

February 25, 2017
Inspiration
If I tell you that we’re dead now, no less than ever, you probably will not accept that. True, if you ask me if I’m alive, I will say without any hesitation, “yes!” However, this is only because we, humankind, created such a reality in which; if I’m breathing and my heart beats, I am considered alive, but this conclusion comes from the assumption that I’m a thinking person who has knowledge about the body, life, and death. Thinking is the reason for the knowledge ...

A Tapestry of Tears: Short Stories from India – Gita V. Reddy

February 25, 2017
Short Stories
“Reddy writes in a straight forward prose that entices you to turn the page. For an American reader, it is truly a journey into another world,” Donna Foley Mabry, Author of Maude ~ #1 best-seller on amazon. This is a collection of a novelette and twelve short stories, bringing to life the varied culture and social spectrum of India. Change, loss, social pressures, love, relationships, and family are woven into this tapestry. Where there are tears, there is also strength, and hope. From reviews: “Gita ...

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

February 24, 2017
Mystery
“Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show.” —The New York Times Book Review A New York Times Bestseller Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking ...