Monthly Archives: July 2022

Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission – Mark Leibovich

July 31, 2022
Society
“He’s one of the best chroniclers of politics today.” –Jake Tapper. “This is a really funny book.” –Kara Swisher. “His writing is so damn good.” –John Berman. “Really fascinating…There are so many revelations.” –Anderson Cooper. “The new must read summer book.” –Stephanie Ruhle. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub—and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. In the ...

Portrait of an Unknown Woman – Daniel Silva

July 30, 2022
Adventure
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. ...

Melchizedek, Book One: Kings and Priests – Michael S. Cordima

July 30, 2022
Adventure, Science Fiction, Young Adult
“Amazingly prophetic.” ★★★★★ In the near future, an electoral crisis leads to chaos across the United States. Jerry Farron, a freelance journalist, is given the assignment of infiltrating territory that has been taken by a group of prosperity churches outside of Spokane. After an arduous journey, he meets the unexpected in the form of Mark Tunbridge, a true believer on a spiritual mission to do the same, though for a completely different purpose. Meanwhile, in Seattle, Simon Raimes, a stoic atheist with grand ambitions of ...

Hell Followed with Us – Andrew Joseph White

July 29, 2022
Young Adult
A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters ...

Floating Hair – Ethan Koil

July 29, 2022
Horror
It was a pleasure to burn… Lucy was dead: to begin with. Burned as a witch to conceal his crime. Ashes dumped into the river. Gone forever. No-one cared. Resurrected as a relentless, dragonish vampire. Hungry for revenge. So very hungry…

Tanqueray – Brandon Stanton

July 28, 2022
Biography
The storytelling phenomenon Humans of New York and its #1 bestselling books have captivated a global audience of millions with personal narratives that illuminate the human condition. But one story stands apart from the rest… She is a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible as the city she lives in. Meet TANQUERAY. In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she’s better ...

Finding Home: Hidden Treasures – Susan Warner

July 28, 2022
Romance
Everett Stansi had gotten all of his dreams except one. Now that Ava Pearson was divorced maybe he’d have a chance at that dream too. A treasure worth having is a treasure worth fighting for. Nothing moves gossip quicker than a good-looking man taking up with a discarded gem. That’s what Ava’s friends call her, a true gem. But Ava can’t see how that’s true when her marriage of twenty years ends. She’s not finding much to shine about these days. Until she finds friendship ...

They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency – Malcolm Nance

July 27, 2022
Society
New York Times bestselling author, Malcolm Nance, offers a chilling warning on a clear, present and existential threat to our democracy… our fellow Americans “Malcolm Nance is one of the great unsung national security geniuses of the modern era.” —Rachel Maddow To varying degrees, as many as 74 million Americans have expressed hostility towards American democracy. Their radicalization is increasingly visible in our day to day life: in neighbor’s or family member’s open discussion of bizarre conspiracy theories, reveling in the fantasy of mass murdering the ...

The Mysterious Language of Numerology & Angel Numbers – Charlie Emerson

July 27, 2022
Inspiration
There are messages and signs around you all the time… Do you know how to interpret them and use them to light your path? Did your grandmother ever tell you to make a wish when the clock struck 11:11? Many people grow up knowing that some numbers are considered lucky… But not many people stop to wonder why. But there’s a good reason, and the answer lies in numbers. So much of life seems impossible to control. How can you plan for the future when ...

The It Girl – Ruth Ware

July 26, 2022
Mystery
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder. April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, ...

Your Writing Matters: 34 Quick Essays to Get Unstuck and Stay Inspired – Keiko O’Leary

July 26, 2022
Non-Fiction
WHAT YOU WRITE CAN CHANGE SOMEONE’S LIFE. In this engaging collection of short essays for writers, Keiko O’Leary explores what it means to live life as a writer, offers encouragement and inspiration, and suggests practical techniques to cultivate your writing life. Drawing on her experience as a writer, writing group leader, and workshop instructor, Keiko writes about topics such as: MOTIVATION: “You deserve to create what’s in you to create.” CREATIVITY: “Your personal geography is a wellspring of memoir and poetry, and a source of ...

The 6:20 Man – David Baldacci

July 25, 2022
Mystery
A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci. Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the ...

Breath of Malice – Karen Fenech

July 25, 2022
Romance
It’s a game of cat and mouse. And she is losing . . . FBI Special Agent Paige Carson hoped she’d be able to start a new life in small-town South Carolina. But when a senator’s sister is murdered and a blank postcard is left next to the body, Paige realizes that a killer from her past has found her–and is sending her a very personal message. From the moment he hired her, FBI Special Agent in Charge Sam McKade knew Paige was hiding something. ...

I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood – Jessi Klein

July 24, 2022
Comedy
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling debut You’ll Grow Out of It. “Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of truly terrible things that have happened, and I want to get under the bed and never come out. How do we tell them about all this? Can we just play Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire and then brace for questions? The first of ...