Monthly Archives: May 2022

The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi’s first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.” Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn’t tell ...

Cats’ Eye View of Being Green – Octavia Lonergan

May 21, 2022

Children

The cats are worried about the state of our planet! Join Ozzy, Tibby, Leo and Mimi as they chat about what everyone can do to be more Green. With topics including recycling, litter-picking, energy conservation, up-cycling and more, this book can start many meaningful discussions. Whether read by a parent, care-giver or teacher, there are conversation-starting questions throughout, interspersed with a wonderful rhyming story. Adorable illustrations of the friendly cats, combine with real-life photography to create an eye-catching and engaging book. Sustainability is a subject ...

Bravely – Maggie Stiefvater

May 20, 2022

Young Adult

What if you had one year to save everything you loved? ONE PRINCESS. Merida of DunBroch needs a change. She loves her family—jovial King Fergus, proper Queen Elinor, the mischievous triplets— and her peaceful kingdom. But she’s frustrated by its sluggishness; each day, the same. Merida longs for adventure, purpose, challenge – maybe even, someday, love. TWO GODS. But the fiery Princess never expects her disquiet to manifest by way of Feradach, an uncanny supernatural being tasked with rooting out rot and stagnation, who appears ...

21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 – Ben S. Bernanke

May 19, 2022

Business

21st Century Monetary Policy takes readers inside the Federal Reserve, explaining what it does and why. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues lent directly to U.S. businesses, purchased trillions of dollars of government securities, pumped dollars into the international financial system, and crafted a new framework for monetary policy that emphasized job creation. These strategies would have ...

Ghost Stories VOL II: A Collection of the World’s Most Haunted Locations and Paranormal Encounters – H.J. Tidy

May 19, 2022

Paranormal

Behind every ghost story is a chilling truth… and whether you believe in the supernatural or not, you can’t fail to be moved by the realities that paved the way for the stories. Ghost Stories Vol II is packed with eight unique real-life encounters with the supernatural and peppered with evidence difficult to ignore. Whether you’re a supernatural skeptic or a firm believer, this collection of ghost stories will leave you transfixed, giving you all the theories and angles you need to get down to ...

There’s A Reason For That – Understand why people don’t get you and you don’t get them, and find calm when the shift hits the fan, starting today. – Nolan Collins

May 19, 2022

Inspiration

Have you ever muttered the words “What were you thinking?” either under your breath or in a moment of frustration out loud. Or “Why did you do that?” and been rewarded with a shrug of unknowing in response? The people we interact with, like us, have lives and experiences we couldn’t begin to fathom in our attempt to answer those questions – questions that never seemed to get answered to our satisfaction. Until now. In a society bombarding us with endless self-help directives to do ...

The Murder Rule – Dervla McTiernan

May 18, 2022

Mystery

For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter story—one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it—that twists and turns in shocking ways, from the internationally bestselling author of The Scholar and The Ruin. First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule: Make them pay. They think I’m a young, idealistic law student, that I’m passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system. They think I’m working hard to impress them. They think ...

Avenger (Sovereign Stars Book 1) – Blair C. Howard

May 18, 2022

Science Fiction

Five years after physicist Mark Holder discovered the Slipstream Drive in 2058, humanity reached for the stars and began to colonize the galaxy. For centuries, humans continued to populate system after system without encountering intelligent alien life. Some twelve hundred years later, after many generations of relative peace, in the year 3278, human space is invaded by a powerful and mysterious enemy. To these invaders the very concept of free will is heresy. Their crusade—to eradicate humanity. The war begins, and the fight for the ...

Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt

May 17, 2022

Comedy

A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! “Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.” — Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and ...

Little Wanderers: The Everlasting Seasons – I.K. Silver

May 17, 2022

Children

A fast-paced fantasy adventure for 8-12 year old boys and girls. Snowy is a tiny dwarf leading an almost normal life in the village of never-ending winter. Aside from the ever-dreary sky, living next to rowdy neighbors, and being treated like a child, nothing seems to pose a challenge. All that changes when rumors about Snowy breaking a taboo spread. Disheartened at what he deemed betrayal and feeling stuck in his village, Snowy sneaks out to look for Originem, a village where misfortune befalls no ...

The Homewreckers – Mary Kay Andrews

May 16, 2022

Romance

Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love. “Andrews (The Newcomer) sparkles in this fast-paced tale. Andrews’s fans will eat this up.” —Publishers Weekly. “A fun story with twists and turns that will appeal to romantics and cold-case fans alike.” —Kirkus. Hattie Kavanaugh went to work restoring homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen, married the boss’s son at twenty, and became a widow at twenty-five. Now, she’s passionate about her work, but that’s ...

The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life – A.J. Jacobs, Greg Pliska

May 15, 2022

Random

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. “Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, ...

Flame and Crystal Thorns – Kay L. Moody

May 15, 2022

Fantasy

She vowed she’d never return to Faerie… But vows were made to be broken. As a human girl, Chloe is perfectly happy being back in the mortal realm where she belongs. She’s even become the town apothecary. When a fae from her past shows up begging her to return to Faerie, she utterly refuses. But then she finds out an angry group of mortals are using iron to hold an entire castle full of fae hostage. And of course, the hostages include Chloe’s older sister ...

A Most Efficient Murder – Anthony Slayton

May 15, 2022

Mystery

When a party thrown by the reclusive Lord Unsworth is marred by murder, his loyal secretary, Mr. Quayle, must unravel a web of red-herrings and old family secrets in this “English country house mystery infused with humor, verve, and plenty of surprises.” (Kirkus Reviews)