Monthly Archives: August 2022

Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career. Peggy Rowe has been writing all of her adult life. In fact, she doesn’t know how not to write—even through those years of constant rejection from publishing houses. But between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, Peggy’s breakthrough finally came—at the age of eighty! Vacuuming in the Nude is most likely her funniest prose to date as she shares her journey of attending myriad writers’ conferences and honing her ability ...

The Last Cuentista – Donna Barba Higuera

August 30, 2022

Children

Winner of the John Newbery Medal. Winner of the Pura Belpré Award. TIME‘s Best Books of the Year. Wall Street Journal‘s Best of the Year. Minneapolis Star Tribune‘s Best of the Year. Boston Globe‘s Best of the Year. BookPage‘s Best of the Year. Publishers Weekly‘s Best of the Year. School Library Journal‘s Best of the Year. Kirkus Reviews‘ Best of the Year. Bank Street’s Best of the Year. Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best. New York Public Library Best of the Year. A Junior ...

All Good People Here – Ashley Flowers

August 29, 2022

Mystery

In the propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown’s dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor—and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. You can’t ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors. Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the ...

What We Owe the Future – Wiliam MacAskill

August 28, 2022

Society

“This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It’s as simple, and as ambitious, as that.” —Ezra Klein An Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism” — that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten ...

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe – David Maraniss

August 27, 2022

Biography

A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered. Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw’s New York Giants. Even in ...

Haven – Emma Donoghue

August 26, 2022

Adventure

In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks—young Trian and old Cormac—he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot ...

Dead Funny: Four Women, Four Dead Bodies…Well Ok, Five – Jinx James

August 26, 2022

Comedy

A fast-fading celebrity is prepared to do anything, yes anything, to capture the headlines again. Unfortunately, Annabel had picked a very bad day to kill her husband. Four equally ballsy women cross a moral line to get what they want, with unexpected consequences. Dead Funny confirms that the world is as crazy and off-kilter as you always suspected. A humorous, satirical dark comedy.

Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions – Sabine Hossenfelder

August 25, 2022

Non-Fiction

“An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us.” —The Wall Street Journal. “Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions […] and have fun doing so.” —Science Magazine. From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense approach to life’s biggest questions, and wrestles with what physics really says about the human condition. Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we ...

A Practical DBT Skills Workbook for Modern Teens and Adolescents – Christopher B. K. Edward

August 25, 2022

Health

This therapeutic technique has helped Lady Gaga and Selena Gomez get through the toughest times in their lives. Here’s how it can help you too. Your teenage years are a time of great change and new experiences as you transition into adulthood. You’re undergoing profound changes in your body, facing more challenging ordeals, and feeling deeper emotions, you may not have felt before. On top of that are the stresses of school, the complications of teenage relationships and the It can feel overwhelming to be ...

Heat 2 – Michael Mann, Meg Gardiner

August 24, 2022

Horror

Michael Mann, four-time-Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice, Collateral, and Heat teams up with Edgar Award–winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s first novel, an explosive return to the universe and characters of his classic crime film—with an all-new story unfolding in the years before and after the iconic movie “Heat 2 is now one of my favorite suspense novels. . . . I’m already quoting lines from Heat 2 to my writer friends (shamelessly saying the lines are mine).” – James Patterson One day after the end ...

The Trail Back Out – Jadi Campbell

August 24, 2022

Short Stories

2020 American Book Fest Best Book Award Finalist Fiction Anthologies. 2021 IAN Book of the Year Award Finalist (Short Story Collection). 2021 Top Shelf Award Runner-Up. 2021 Wishing Shelf Red Ribbon. The title story was longlisted for the 2021 Screen Craft Cinematic Short Story Award. This collection is Jadi Campbell’s fourth book and her first finished work in four years. She completed many of these stories during the coronavirus lockdown. From tales of Eddie, high on LSD and trapped by “What Died in the Fridge”, ...

I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette Mccurdy

August 23, 2022

Biography

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing ...

Unforeseen Love – L.S. Pullen

August 23, 2022

Romance

Sienna Morgan is no stranger to death and grief. Becoming an embalmer might not be everyone’s chosen profession, but it’s the only place she truly feels in control. An introvert by nature, working and living above a funeral home suits her down to a T. Until Theodore walks through the door, and she realises her arch-nemesis from Uni is about to be her new boss. Theodore Wainwright hasn’t been back home in two years. A fact he’s not proud of. But his catastrophe of a ...

The Family Remains – Lisa Jewell

August 22, 2022

Thriller

“The page-turner will sate fans and win over new readers alike…a solid stand-alone tale of mystery and suspense.” —USA TODAY From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this stand-alone sequel to the “brilliantly chilling” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs. Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns ...