Author: Lisa Brennan-Jobs Book: SMALL FRY: A Memoir Publishing: Grove Press; Paperback edition (June 18, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR “Beautiful, literary, and devastating.”—New York Times Book Review • “Revelatory.”—Entertainment Weekly • “A masterly Silicon Valley gothic.”—Vogue •“Mesmerizing, discomfiting reading… A book of […]

Author: Renee Rosen Book: PARK AVENUE SUMMER: A Novel Publishing: Berkley (April 30, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): “‘Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada,’ which might as well be saying ‘put me in your cart immediately.’”—PopSugar It’s 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine’s brazen new editor in chief—Helen Gurley Brown—shocks America and saves a dying publication by […]

Author: David Sedaris Book: CALYPSO Publishing: Back Bay Books; Paperback edition (June 4, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you’ve ever laughed your way through David Sedaris’s cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you’re getting with Calypso. You’d be wrong. […]

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick Book: IN THE HURRICANE’S EYE: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown Publishing: Penguin Books; Paperback edition (June 4, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central […]

Author: Gillian McAllister Book: THE GOOD SISTER Publishing: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (June 11, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): An electrifying novel about the unyielding bond between two sisters, which is severely tested when one of them is accused of the worst imaginable crime. Martha and Becky Blackwater are more than sisters–they’re each other’s lifelines. When […]

Author: Louise Candlish Book: THOSE PEOPLE Publishing: Berkley (June 11, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): From the author of the international bestseller Our House, a new novel of twisty domestic suspense asks, “Could you hate your neighbor enough to plot to kill him?” Lowland Way is the suburban dream. The houses are beautiful, the neighbors […]

Author: Mike Maden Book: TOM CLANCY ENEMY CONTACT: A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel Publishing: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (June 11, 2019) AUDIO BOOK EXCERPT! (Audio excerpted courtesy Penguin Random House Audio from the audiobook TOM CLANCY ENEMY CONTACT by Mike Maden, narrated by Scott Brick) Synopsis (from the Publisher): Jack Ryan, Jr.’s race to stop an […]

Author: Kim Hooper Book: TINY: A Novel Publishing: Turner (June 11, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): Nate and Annie Forester are faced with every parent’s worst nightmare when their three-year-old daughter, Penelope, is hit by a car right before their eyes. In the aftermath of her death, the distance between them grows. Nate just wants […]

Author: Neil Miller Book: SEX CRIME PANIC: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s Publishing: Alyson Books – 2002 NOTE: Unfortunately, this book is out-of-print.  However, there are many used copies available for purchase through various merchants online.  The author was in Sioux City for a speaking engagement and he joined me in-studio […]

Author: Jane Green Book: THE FRIENDS WE KEEP: A Novel Publishing: Berkley (June 4, 2019) Synopsis (from the Publisher): The Friends We Keep is the heartwarming and unforgettable new novel from Jane Green, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sunshine Sisters and The Beach House. Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known one another since […]