Monthly Archives: May 2020

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” Did you know that these twenty-six words are responsible for much of America’s multibillion-dollar online industry? What we can and cannot write, say, and do online is based on just one law—a law that protects online services from lawsuits based on user content. Jeff Kosseff exposes the workings of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which has lived ...

A Bloody Hot Summer – Trevor D’Silva

May 31, 2020

Mystery

It’s 1927 and Great Britain is sweltering in an unprecedented heatwave. On the morning after her eightieth birthday party, Lady Fitzhugh is discovered bound and butchered in her bed, with her family and staff the prime suspects… Whilst holidaying at nearby Meadowford Village, Detective Dermot Carlyle is asked to help investigate the brutal murder. The clues all point to a robbery gone wrong, but Dermot suspects that there is more to the horrific crime. The Fitzhughs’ secrets take Dermot along a path linking some of ...

Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls – Carrie Goldberg

May 30, 2020

Society

Nobody’s Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don’t know exists—one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off—and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. “We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our destruction.” That grim reality—gleaned from personal experience and twenty years of trauma work—is a fundamental principle of Carrie Goldberg’s cutting-edge victims’ rights law firm. Riveting and an essential timely conversation-starter, Nobody’s Victim invites readers ...

Sapphire: A Murder for Your Thoughts (Josh Decker Novel Book 1) – Paul Jannereth

May 30, 2020

Mystery

Josh Decker is a former police detective who prefers to battle his inner demons alone in the seclusion of his cottage near Lake Michigan. But when an unexpected visitor and a dead body show up in his quiet town, Josh can’t ignore his detective instincts. As he pursues justice for a young woman, he is inadvertently drawn into a conspiracy spanning the globe. Along the way he meets a gorgeous femme fatale, reunites with old colleagues, and encounters a doctor intent on subverting death itself. ...

The Mothers – Brit Bennett

May 29, 2020

Young Adult

“Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review “Luminous… engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss.” –People, Pick of the Week “Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page.” –The Washington Post The beloved New York Times-bestselling novel about young love and a big secret in a small community, from the author of The Vanishing Half. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. ...

Little Voices – Vanessa Lillie

May 29, 2020

Thriller

#1 Amazon bestselling psychological thriller! “Grabs you and doesn’t let go until the final shocking twist.” A struggling new mother must find justice for her murdered friend. But as she digs into the evidence, each layer is darker, more disturbing, and she’s not sure she—or her baby—can survive what lies at the truth. “Fast paced and psychologically complex…will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins.” —Library Journal (starred review)

Immortal Defiance – Laura Maybrooke

May 29, 2020

Fantasy

A dark high fantasy slow-burn romance series. An elven Dragonmistress and an immortal vampire warrior may be each other’s best hope for peace… If the world doesn’t destroy them first! Join these two in righting some wrongs. Love, friendship, and freedom await the brave! Some things never die. Hope. Heroes. Defiance. Things take a strange turn for Dulcea, the elven enchantress turned war heroine and Dragonmistress, when a countryman’s betrayal lands her in enemy hands. As she awaits her execution, a handsome stranger with mysterious ...

The Henna Artist – Alka Joshi

May 28, 2020

Adventure

“Eloquent and moving…Joshi masterfully balances a yearning for self-discovery with the need for familial love.”—Publishers Weekly Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel. Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante—to the ...

Joy After Noon (Sugar Sands Series Book 1) – Debra Coleman Jeter

May 28, 2020

Romance

Joy marries a widowed bank executive caught in an ethical dilemma. She misreads his obvious frustration while at the same time, struggles to integrate into her new family. This novel explores the challenges of second marriages and dealing with stepchildren during the crucial years of puberty and teenage angst. A college professor coming up shortly for the huge tenure decision, Joy finds herself falling apart as her career and her home issues deteriorate and collide. The truth about Ray’s relationship with his first wife hovers ...

The Last Trial – Scott Turow

May 27, 2020

Thriller

Two formidable men collide in this “first-class legal thriller” and New York Times bestseller from Scott Turow: a “brilliant courtroom chess match” about a celebrated criminal defense lawyer and the prosecution of his lifelong friend — a doctor accused of murder (David Baldacci). At eighty-five years old, Alejandro “Sandy” Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of ...

Firestorm – Rachel Grant

May 27, 2020

Romance

CIA covert operator Savannah James is after intel on a potential coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but she needs a partner to infiltrate the organization. Sergeant First Class Cassius Callahan is the perfect choice, except he doesn’t like or trust her, despite the sparks that flare between them. Still, he accepts the assignment, knowing Savannah will pose as his mistress. They enter battle-worn Congo to expose the financing for the coup. Betrayal stalks them as they follow the money deep into the ...

Shakespeare for Squirrels – Christopher Moore

May 26, 2020

Comedy

Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff. Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging—last seen in The Serpent of Venice—washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool. But the ...

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

May 25, 2020

Classics

Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley’s enduring “masterpiece … one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century” (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our “brave new world.” Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius ...

The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President–and Why It Failed – Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch

May 24, 2020

History

The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The conspirators were part of a pro-Southern secret society that didn’t want an antislavery President in the ...