Monthly Archives: August 2018

It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis

August 26, 2018
Classics
“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street,Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation ...

Winning Habitudes: 99 Habits and Attitudes of Leaders, Visionaries and Achievers – Leonard Mack

August 26, 2018
Business
Our never-ending quest towards self-improvement and success is a long journey of small steps. Habits we repeat day after day, week after week, year after year. Habits that have turned us into who we are today that will also determine who we will become in the future and the success we will have. This goes for all our habits, the good ones, as well as the bad ones, from working out and reading books to smoking and drinking. This book focuses on the positive habits ...

Everything Trump Touches Dies – Rick Wilson

August 25, 2018
Society
A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism. In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson brings his darkly funny humor and biting analysis to the absurdity of American politics in the age of Trump. Wilson mercilessly exposes the damage Trump has done to the country, to the Republican Party he served for decades, and to the conservative movement that has abandoned its principles for ...

A Loss Too Great – Lonz Cook

August 25, 2018
Drama
Tom and Mary Stetson have the perfect marriage and the best son. Their joy of the last 20 years is reflective in the way their son, Tom Junior, achieves and excel. As responsible parents, they guide Tom Junior to a course for success. Tom Junior develops a growing independence and prides himself on being a true patriot. When Tom Junior graduates high school, he decides to pay his college tuition. His decision embarks him on a journey with the Army. Though Junior understands his parents’ ...

Witches II: Apocalypse – Kathryn Meyer Griffith

August 25, 2018
Horror
The long-awaited sequel to my 1993 best-selling paperback novel Witches is finally HERE! Yes, witches exist…the good and the bad ones…and one day the two ancient adversaries of good and evil will join the fight for control of the world. Amanda has been told her ten year old witch-child, Lizzy, is fated to someday become one of the planet’s most powerful witches. If she lives. If the world survives. Because the world is being threatened by an anti-Christ called Reuben who is prophesied to bring ...

Martyrs: Legends of the Great Savanna – J.lincoln

August 25, 2018
Fantasy
After being approached by the military with a contract he couldn’t refuse, JAMES winds up uploaded into a virtual reality game as a beta tester. Waking up in the Great Savanna, James struggles with a less-than-useful interface before he comes across two creatures locked in battle. The shoulder high grass allows him glimpses of a lion-esque creature fending off a torrent of scales and claws. Sneaking up to steal a better look at the surreal situation, James discovers two things.

Vox – Christina Dalcher

August 24, 2018
Science Fiction
“[An] electrifying debut.”–O, Oprah Magazine “The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”–Cosmopolitan  One of Entertainment Weekly‘s and SheReads’ books to read after The Handmaid’s Tale One of Good Morning America‘s “Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer” One of PopSugar, Refinery29, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Real Simple, i09, and Amazon’s best books to read in August 2018 Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. On ...

Only For Him – Cristin Harber

August 24, 2018
Romance
Grayson Ford and Emma Kinglsey–close since they were kids, opposites in every way. He’s the stuff high school crushes are made of, Mister Popular, and captain of every team. She’s artsy, cute, and not in his league, though fully aware of Summerland’s “I Dream of Dating Grayson Ford” support group. I can’t say no. The girl’s had my heart since before I knew it went missing. He hides a life of hell. His father hates him, his mother’s gone. Emma is his only savior, yet ...

Time Lies – Magnus Stanke

August 24, 2018
Mystery
In Time Lies, a devious mystery-thriller set in Cold War Germany, a reluctant serial killer realises he has been murdering the wrong people. But there is hope for him yet… Karl wakes up in a locked room, a prisoner once again. But this unfamiliar place is no penitentiary. And this time he volunteered to be here. A tragic accident took everything that was dear to Albert. Now everybody’s favourite twin sits in his wheelchair and contemplates the ultimate sin. Dagmar was taken in by the ...

The Fighters – C. J. Chivers

August 23, 2018
Non-Fiction
“A classic of war reporting…The author’s stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not.”—The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers’ unvarnished account of modern combat, told through the eyes of the fighters who have waged America’s longest wars. More than 2.7 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. C.J. Chivers reported from both wars from their beginnings. The Fighters vividly conveys the physical and emotional experience of war ...

The Concubine and Her Vampires – Julie Morgan

August 23, 2018
Romance
When destiny becomes reality… Born a blood demon, Olivia Martin’s sole purpose is to become a blood slave to a vampire. She is nothing more than a blood bag. With a vampire as her master, she would want for nothing, her every need and whim catered to, but becoming a prisoner was not the life Olivia would have chosen for herself. At least, until she met Jared and his four brothers-at-arms. Giving yourself to one person was easy. Having fun with two, exciting. But a ...

Tailspin – Sandra Brown

August 22, 2018
Thriller
Don’t miss the spine tingling suspense and tantalizing romance in this thriller about a daring pilot caught in a race against time from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Rye Mallett, a fearless “freight dog” pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is often rough-spoken and all business, but soft on regulations when they get in the way of meeting a deadline. But he does have a rock-solid reputation: he will fly in the foulest weather, day or night, and deliver the goods safely ...