It’s Friday right? I feel like if I make any sudden movements it will turn into Tuesday or something.
Relentless (Book One)
by Karen Lynch, Kelly Hashway
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
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Sara Grey’s world shattered ten years ago when her father was brutally murdered. Now at seventeen, she is still haunted by memories of that day, and driven by the need to understand why it happened. She lives a life full of secrets, and her family and friends have no idea of the supernatural world she is immersed in or of Sara’s very powerful gift.
In her quest for answers about her father’s death, Sara takes risks that expose her and her friends to danger, and puts herself into the sights of a sadistic vampire. On the same fateful night she meets Nikolas, a warrior who turns Sara’s world upside down, and who is determined to protect her even if it’s the last thing she wants.
Sara’s life starts to spin out of control as she is hunted by an obsessed vampire, learns that her friends have secrets of their own, and reels from the truth about her own ancestry. Sara has always been fiercely independent, but in order to survive now she must open herself to others, to reveal her deepest secrets. And she must learn to trust the one person capable of breaking down the walls around her.
** This book has language that may be offensive to some readers.
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The Red Hot Empress (The Annie Szabo Mystery Series Book 3)
by Meredith Blevins
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Mystery | Contemporary Fiction
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The spicy Szabo women would like to kick back with a lover, a good movie, and a few laughs, but life has something else in mind. One meeting with an extraordinary boy leads them headlong into another wild, and hair-raising, adventure.
Annie Szabo has discovered a miracle — Jimmy Qi, a kid from Chinatown with the power to heal using music. He’s dazzling, he’s a scoundrel, he is sensitive, and he makes a great newspaper article. But now? Everyone wants Jimmy.
Feeling responsible for creating San Francisco’s latest hot commodity, Annie enlists her mother-in-law, the audacious fortune-teller Madame Mina, to help keep Jimmy safe from his avid pursuers: an evangelist; an ex-hero with a troubled past; the tongs; a CDC doctor; a dolphin fanatic; and an FBI agent who seems too good to be true.
A set of aging twins with a vivid past and a dubious future offer Annie protection. The women have powerful alliances, and they like Annie’s style. She has reservations, but after an afternoon spent slamming back Bombay Gin with the ladies, Annie accepts their help.
And then the bodies start turning up. Annie grabs Jimmy and runs, luring the killer through a tangle of Chinese New Year celebrations and north, up the deserted California coast, where she and Madame Mina force the killer to face justice.
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Sliding Delta: A NOVEL
by Baldwin Ed
Genre: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction
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Leaving Chicago and his privileged life of debutante balls and college fraternity parties, Doug Spencer travels to Mississippi in the summer of 1965 to learn to pick the Delta blues. Robbed in Memphis, arrested for vagrancy in Cleveland, Mississippi and down to his last $5 he arrives at Kinder’s store in Avalon, the home of legendary musician Mississippi John Hurt. Buck Kinder has just collapsed and is in hospital and daughter Addie is there alone to run the store. Doug is hired to pump gas, stock shelves, and sleep in the storeroom.
The Voting Rights Act passed that summer and the Jim Crow south was changing, but not all at once. Doug sees the range of kindness and bigotry as colored and white shop at Kinder’s store, sit on the porch, tell their stories, play blues music. His courtship of Addie stays carefully within the rules for romancing a southern lady as old maid Aunt Emmabelle keeps a watchful eye. Talented and courageous, Addie proves her mettle in a brush with the Ku Klux Klan. Doug learns blues music from Hurt, Hubert Sumlin, Howlin’ Wolf, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
Promising to return for the Thanksgiving holiday, Doug leaves to return to Chicago but a chance encounter in the Memphis bus station results in his fronting a band for Camille Fontenot in her debut as an exotic dancer at the Hotel King Cotton. The next day, mentored by Abe Saperstein, the pawnbroker who has “seen ’em all” in 30 years on Beale Street, Doug faces his epiphany.
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The Kiss That Launched 1,000 Gifs
by Sheralyn Pratt
Genre: Romance | Teen & Young Adult | Contemporary Fiction
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*** 2015 SWOONY Award Winner ***
Each weekday from 2:00-4:00 p.m., Grace and Ashton cohost Battle of the Sexes, a radio program arguing the he-said/she-said issues of the day. Their fiery debates often have listeners wondering if there’s more to their relationship than just talk, even though Grace has been dating Phillip, Mr. Tall, Dark, and Perfect, since long before she ever met Ashton Miller.
Yet when news comes that Battle of the Sexes is on the bubble for cancellation, Grace and Ashton need to step up their efforts to engage their audience to keep the show alive. When a charity organization approaches them and proposes that the two of them kiss for a fund raiser, Grace and Ash agree to kiss for a good cause. A kiss is just a kiss, right?
Or can one kiss really change everything?
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Blue Skies Over Berlin: The powerful story of a German woman trying to escape her country’s shameful past
by John Steinberg
Genre: World Literature | Women’s Fiction | Contemporary Fiction
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A young German woman moves to London from war-ravaged Berlin in 1956 to start a new life. She takes a new name – Charlotte Brown – and lands the job of her dreams at the National Gallery. But London is a city still rising from the ruins of the war, and Charlotte encounters ruthless individuals who are set on rising with it.
Out of her depth in a world of aristocratic rogues, conmen, thieves and art dealers with unsavoury wartime connections, her life becomes unstable and complicated. After a series of broken relationships and poor career choices, she loses her job and, more seriously, becomes the subject of a criminal investigation. Lonely and short of money, Charlotte has to make a new life for herself yet again.
Blue Skies Over Berlin is a moving and thought-provoking book about guilt and who we really are from an author who is fascinated by the human condition and the challenges life can throw up. It is a must-read for fans of Howard Jacobson, Ian McEwan and William Boyd.
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