Monthly Archives: February 2018

Next Year in Havana – Chanel Cleeton

February 6, 2018
Historical
After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity–and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution… Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s growing political unrest–until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary… Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, ...

My Fake Vegas Boyfriend – Lori Sizemore

February 6, 2018
Romance
1958 Las Vegas. She can ruin his career. He can save her freedom. What’s a little blackmail between strangers? Layla Rosas has been burned too many times—by her cheating ex, her narcissist mother, and now her father who’ll put her in an asylum, for good this time, if she can’t settle down and be a good girl. She needs a quality boyfriend—now—to convince her dad she’s back on the straight and narrow. Jace Russell is good at his job: keeping the wealthy elite who visit ...

Seven for the Slab – Doug Lamoreux

February 5, 2018
Horror
It’s nearly midnight when a curious snoop finds his neighbors dead. He gathers his wits and calls emergency services. Despite a thunderstorm, Sheriff’s deputies, the Fire Department and an ambulance all respond quickly. But there’s little they can do; the victims are not only dead, they are long dead. The snoop invites the emergency workers into his garage, out of the rain, to await the arrival of the coroner and the funeral home staff, who will take his neighbors away. The lightning flashes… The thunder ...

It’s Even Worse Than You Think – David Cay Johnston

February 4, 2018
Society
New York Times Bestseller The Trump administration is remaking the government. It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America tells us exactly how it is making America worse again. Bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who have infested our government under the Trump Administration, destroying it from within and compromising our jobs, safety, finances, and more. No journalist knows Donald Trump better than David Cay Johnston, who has been following him since ...

The Rose Thief – Claire Buss

February 4, 2018
Fantasy
Ned Spinks, Chief Thief-Catcher has a problem. Someone is stealing the Emperor’s roses. But that’s not the worst of it. In his infinite wisdom and grace, the Emperor magically imbued his red rose with love so if it was ever removed from the Imperial Rose Gardens then love will be lost, to everyone, forever. It’s up to Ned and his band of motley catchers to apprehend the thief and save the day. But the thief isn’t exactly who they seem to be, neither is the ...

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees – Elly Grant

February 4, 2018
Mystery
The sudden, mysterious death of a hated Englishman changes the life of a small French town forever. Danielle, the only police officer in this small Pyrenean town, feels unappreciated and unnoticed. Passed over for promotion in favor of her male colleagues in the region, she feels her life is going nowhere. When the unexpected murder turns the town upside down, Danielle hunts for clues high and low to return peace to their community, and stop the killer before more innocent lives are lost.

Iron Gold – Pierce Brown

February 3, 2018
Adventure
They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life. A decade ago Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk all he has fought ...

The Princess Rebellion (The Kyroibi Trilogy Book 2) – Christina McMullen

February 3, 2018
Young Adult
Although Ellie always wanted to save the world, she never wanted to rule it. But as the true master of the Kyroibi and heir to the Korghetian throne, she’s now expected to do both. Worse, she’s also expected to play nice with the other leaders of the Ghowrn Alliance, including the overbearing Prince Gevandar, who sees her as nothing more than a weapon to unleash upon the Huptsovian Empire. When imperial ships are discovered lurking in Ghowrn space, war becomes inevitable. Ellie finds herself pressured ...

Cube Rube – Scott Michael Decker

February 3, 2018
Science Fiction
After salvager Jack Carson lands on Canis Dogma Five, capital of the long-dead Circian Empire, he finds a ghost cube that tells him he’s been chosen to become the next Emperor. Even though he finds this ludicrous, Jack travels to the capital of the Torgassan Empire with an orphan girl, who claims to be the Princess of Circia. Bedeviled by three divorces, four bankruptcies and his constant search for smoke-induced oblivion, Jack tries to reach his destination while avoiding debt collection agents sent by his ...

Bluebird, Bluebird – Attica Locke

February 2, 2018
Mystery
*Coming soon to FX as a TV series*   “In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it.” –Ann Patchett “A heartbreakingly resonant new novel about race and justice in America” —USA Today When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules–a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from ...

Mercy’s First Semester – W.M. Bunche

February 2, 2018
Random
Raised in a deeply religious family, Mercy rebels against all rules. To avoid a destined path of self-destruction, Mercy enlists in the Army. After two combat tours, Mercy returns home battling PTSD. Trying to forget about the lives that he has taken and resume a “normal” life, Mercy enrolls in college and reconnects with a childhood crush. Mercy saved some of his men. Can he save himself?

The Fifth Commandment – Eve Gaal

February 2, 2018
Paranormal
After Christina breaks the Fifth Commandment, strange things begin to happen – and take her away from home in Normal, Illinois. Now, she’s back and has to tell them the story within a story, but how can she make them believe? So she had made a mistake – but didn’t all teenagers do the same thing? The Fifth Commandment is a paranormal memoir entwined with a plot drenching with old-fashioned religious guilt, and short enough to finish in a single sitting – perhaps lounging by ...

Munich – Robert Harris

February 1, 2018
Mystery
From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy–a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office–and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the ...