Monthly Archives: August 2018

From Pemberley, a Wedding to Remember – Margaret Lynette Sharp

August 22, 2018
Romance
Short story. On the day before her daughter’s wedding, Elizabeth’s felicitous thoughts give way to consternation when she learns that Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s granddaughter, Amelia, has threatened to boycott the ceremony if her demands are not met by the Darcy family. Will Juliette’s special day be marred by Amelia’s vengefulness? Australian author Margaret Lynette Sharp provides yet another engaging glimpse into the Regency world of Jane Austen.

Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work – Sarah Kessler

August 21, 2018
Business
“With deep reporting and graceful storytelling, Sarah Kessler reveals the ground truth of a key part of the American workforce. Her analysis is both astute and nuanced, making GIGGED essential reading for anyone interested in the future of work.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN and DRIVE The full-time job is disappearing—is landing the right gig the new American Dream? One in three American workers is now a freelancer. This “gig economy”—one that provides neither the guarantee of steady hours nor benefits—emerged out of the ...

Drunken Angel – Charles Stoll

August 21, 2018
Thriller
Daisy Perlman is the uneducated, unloved daughter of a whore. Lacking any comfort or trust in her life, she develops a philosophy of life from her walks through the woods. She makes many mistakes due to her circumstances, including murder, but she becomes the best-loved murderer and one of the most respected citizens in the town of Marmalade. Drunken Angel is the story from the eyes of a serial killer who regrets her actions later in life when she knows better. But it is precisely ...

All of This Is True – Lygia Day Penaflor

August 20, 2018
Young Adult
“Devious, delicious, and gasp-worthy.” (Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces) In this genre-defying page-turner from Lygia Day Peñaflor, four teens befriend their favorite YA novelist, only to find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next book—with devastating consequences. Miri Tan loved the book Undertow like it was a living being. So when she and her friends went to a book signing to hear the author, Fatima Ro, they concocted a plan to get close to her. Soleil Johnston wanted to be a writer herself ...

Honor Among Outcasts (DarkHorse Trilogy, Book 2) – Ed Protzel

August 20, 2018
Historical
An abolitionist from Mississippi forms a colored Union army regiment with a dozen runaway slaves in guerrilla-infested Missouri, only to find himself accused of spying for the Confederacy. After a harrowing escape from Mississippi, abolitionist Durksen Hurst, his fiancée Antoinette DuVallier, and their friends — a group of undocumented slaves — land in guerrilla-infested Civil War Missouri, the most savage whirlwind of destruction, cruelty, and death in American history. Trapped in a terrifying cycle of murder and revenge, scarred by Quantrill’s cold-blooded Lawrence massacre and ...

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy – Tressie McMillan Cottom

August 19, 2018
Society
“The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students.” —The New York Times Book Review  More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years—during the so-called Wall Street era of for-profit colleges. In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottom—a ...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer

August 18, 2018
Historical
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. “Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer ...

Schrödinger’s Dog – Allan Brewer

August 18, 2018
Science Fiction
“Well written, great characters, terrific story, it all seems so plausible, sort of, maybe.” – Amazon review “A love affair between two of the protagonists leaves one of them in distress, and I found myself really feeling his tears at his loss. That means that the writing was first class.” – Amazon review A convoluted, but down-to-earth sci-fi story set in the fringes of the present-day UK GCHQ. A spell at GCHQ sounded like a refreshing change for academic historian George. But his life is ...

Malice Intent: Is Love Worth Dying For? – Alba Castillo

August 18, 2018
Non-Fiction
Alba Castillo has always been gutsy. A proclaimed rebel, she flees her small village in Spain for adventure and new life in the States. But what she meets instead is the devil himself. After several failed relationships, the charming and charismatic Peter seems like a gift from Heaven. Until he isn’t. Cruel, controlling, and malicious, Peter will stop at nothing to win, even if it means destroying Alba, and her children, in the process. Left with nothing but her spirit, Alba faces the fight of ...

Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin – David Ritz

August 17, 2018
Biography
The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz. Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted she return to her gospel-soul roots, that fame and ...

Contraception – Degen Hill

August 17, 2018
Science Fiction
The world’s population has reached catastrophic proportions. From the ashes of countless wars and revolutions rose a new universal policy that would bring out the worst in people so they may bring about a better world. A policy that must succeed. In the year 2070, when Li Hu, an ethics professor in Beijing, and his wife decide to have a child, he must apply to Contraception – an initiative requiring each applicant to first kill three random people to combat the world’s growing population. Only, ...

Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party – Dinesh D’Souza

August 16, 2018
Society
Now a major motion picture! Who is killing America? Is it really Donald Trump and a GOP filled with white supremacists? In a major new work of historical revisionism, Dinesh D’Souza makes the provocative case that Democrats are the ones killing America by turning it into a massive nanny state modeled on the Southern plantation system. This sweeping alternative history of the Democratic Party goes back to its foundations in the antebellum South. The slaveholding elite devised the plantation as a means of organizing labor ...

Protecting Eden – Sheri Richey

August 16, 2018
Romance
Chicago Police Detective Sean Clary returns to active duty after a knife injury only to get an assignment that turns out to be his greatest challenge. His motto had always been “Protect and Serve”, but he’d never been in a position to possibly lose his future by protecting his past. Carena Cabot shows him that although he is a unique man, there is a woman out there just like him and she forces him to finally face himself.