Book Stew

Discover 5 things you may not have known about President Joe Biden! For his book, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run and What Matters Now, New Yorker writer Evan Osnos drew from lengthy interviews with Biden as well as revealing conversations with more than a hundred others—including President Barack Obama, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and a range of activists, advisers and opponents—to put together a “comprehensive and compelling” (Washington Post) portrait of our 46th president. How well do you know President Joe Biden? Watch and see.

The doctor's first rule is "do no harm" --but rules were meant to be broken. In the heart-pounding new thriller from international bestselling author Katrine Engberg, detective Jeppe Korner hunts a killer through the city. Bodies drained of blood are found in the public fountains around Copenhagen, and the clues lead to the Butterfly House, a private mental health clinic with some shadowy practices. Is this garden-variety murder, or could it be revenge? Pick up your copy today.To learn more, go to https://bit.ly/3bi1B0t.

Author Sadeqa Johnson read every book she could get her hands on as a child — but they were all by white authors. It wasn't until her father took her to a Black-owned bookstore in Philadelphia, Hakim's Bookstore, that she actually encountered books by Black people.

A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl's fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her abusive father.

Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all areas of her life. The warped power dynamic of coach and rider extends far beyond the stables, and Roan's relationship with her father has long been inappropriate. She has been able to compartmentalize that dark aspect of her life, ruthlessly focusing on her ambitions as a rider heading for the Olympics, just as her father had done. However, her developing relationship with Will Howard, a boy her own age, broadens the scope of her vision. This transfixing novel will stay with you long after you turn the last page.

A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl's fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her abusive father.Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all areas of her life. The warped power dynamic of coach and rider extends far beyond the stables, and Roan's relationship with her father has long been inappropriate. She has been able to compartmentalize that dark aspect of her life, ruthlessly focusing on her ambitions as a rider heading for the Olympics, just as her father had done. However, her developing relationship with Will Howard, a boy her own age, broadens the scope of her vision. This transfixing novel will stay with you long after you turn the last page.

Three-time Bram Stoker Award winner Sarah Langan moves from writing supernatural horror to writing literary suburban noir in GOOD NEIGHBORS, skillfully excavating the dark secrets and lies behind every house in a sleepy Long Island suburb.

In this debut collection, Halsey bares her soul. Bringing the same artistry found in her lyrics, Halsey's poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, family ties, sexuality, and mental illness. More hand grenades than confessions, these autobiographical poems explore and dismantle conventional notions of what it means to be a feminist in search of power. See more here: https://bit.ly/35OaoTx

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, GROUP is the refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—her psychotherapy group—and in turn finds human connection, and herself.

In the latest thrilling collaboration from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran must solve the kidnapping of her fiancée's nephew—just days before her wedding. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3p2ToBCA ticking clock, a sinister stalker, and fresh romance combine in this exhilarating follow up to the bestselling You Don't Own Me—another riveting page-turner from the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and her dazzling partner-in-crime Alafair Burke.The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark wrote forty suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a his­torical novel, a memoir, and two children's books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series including The Cinderella Murder, All Dressed in White, The Sleeping Beauty Killer, Every Breath You Take, and You Don't Own Me. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she coauthored five more suspense novels. More than one hundred million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone. Her books are international bestsellers.Alafair Burke is the Edgar-nominated, New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, including The Wife, The Ex, If You Were Here, Long Gone, and the Ellie Hatcher series. A former prosecutor, she is now a professor of criminal law and lives in Manhattan.

Debut novelist Susie Yang describes how she came to write her critically acclaimed–and Today Show “Read With Jenna” Book Club Pick–novel, White Ivy. White Ivy follows a young woman, Ivy Lin, and how her crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending.

"A twisty, unputdownable psychological thriller. Clear your schedule." — People, Book of the Week

"A truly addictive read." — Glamour

“White Ivy is an enthralling, thrill of a book. It is fascinating to spend time inside Ivy's mind, unique and unapologetic in its bold (and often bad) decisions. A story of many cultures both clashing and converging, White Ivy's many twists and turns will surprise you until the very last page." — Molly Sprayregen, Associated Press

"Susie Yang delves into class warfare and deceit in the season's biggest debut" — Entertainment Weekly