Misery by Stephen King You know that feeling you get when one of your favourite characters in a book gets killed off? Don’t you just want to scream and use any means possible to force the author to write a book where your fave character is still alive? No? That’s good cause that would be wrong but that’s exactly what Annie does in this novel. Bestselling author Paul Sheldon gets into a car crash but is saved by Annie, his number one fan....

September Iced in Paradise by Naomi Hirahara (Prospect Park Books; 9/3/19) “Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes the No. 1 murder suspect, Leilani must find the real killer and somehow safeguard her ill mother, little sisters, and grandmother while also preserving a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend in Seattle....

Reading with Preschoolers Preschoolers are children ages 3–5. Most can sit still and listen to a story for at least five minutes. They also understand how to care for books and are ready for “real” books instead of board books. Here are some tips for reading with these little book lovers: Whenever possible, let your preschooler choose the books to read. Visit your library often with your little one! Books do not have to be read in one sitting....

Expanding our shelves and minds is not only necessary, but enjoyable! So, take a tour of the terrors of the world with this list of international horror novels from across the globe; from observations on the generational trauma of colonialism, to ministrations on the fear of our own mortality, to stories full of guts and saws, there are plenty of grisly sights to see. International Horror Novels Love these international horror novels?...

Middle grade, young adult, and adult books gather up to bless us all with new and upcoming fantasy novels. I thought it would be a good idea to compile them together. Get ready to be obsessed with these new worlds and stories written by Latinx authors. Nocturna by Maya Motayne Maya Motayne enchanted me with Nocturna really quickly. A face-changing thief and a prince teaming up to defeat a powerful evil being?...

The White Walkers of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones world build on zombie traditions (American traditions are the ones with which I am most familiar, but he definitely incorporates attributes of others as well), and they make the monsters as we know them even scarier. Here are the top six reasons that I think White Walkers are scarier than your average ghoul. 1. They’re WARRIORS What could be scarier than a resurrected body?...

Endless Conversation I find that conversation never runs dry with fellow bookworms – and it goes deeper more quickly than it might otherwise, particularly when the friendship is new and you’re still figuring out what you have in common. One minute you’re asking what someone has been reading, and the next you’re deep into a discussion of its themes, whether that’s friendship, death, or which Hogwarts house you’re in. And, if you need more conversation starters to get you going, you can pick up Lit Chat – Book Riot’s own deck of icebreaker cards that will have you talking not just about your current reads but about what you loved as a child, or what you think of screen adaptations, or whether you judge books by their covers....

The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren Anyone who loves HGTV and all things home improvement will enjoy the premise of The Honey-Don’t List. The book follows the two assistants of a married remodeling and design duo (a la Chip and Joanna Gaines) who must keep their celebrity bosses’ relationship on track as they prepare to launch a new show. As they work together for the sake of their career, their personal relationship also starts to blossom....

When I started my research for this post, I immediately went to my library’s website to request my favorite Native American picture books from childhood. I was horrified when I discovered book after book written by white authors, mostly men. Every. Single. Book. While there’s not necessarily anything wrong with books written outside the author’s cultural experiences—given that the author does their research—it becomes a problem when those books are the ones that predominantly get published and receive the awards and accolades over #ownvoices books....

Prejudice begins young and proliferates without guidance from adults. We can dispel ignorance by combatting the negative associations that were made when the virus was first thoughtlessly called the “China Flu.” Start by teaching kids about the positive contributions of Chinese and Chinese Americans to society. The following are some excellent books that celebrate the roles of Chinese and Chinese American people in American and world history, or that teach how diversity is a cherished value....

Comics conjure entire worlds on the page, and a good one can grab you by the throat and hurtle you through a character’s journey. Comics by Asian American Authors I compiled a list of seven comics by Asian American authors and/or illustrators with deeply personal stories that go beyond the standard superhero narrative. Many comics on this list contain stories that were inspired by the experiences of the authors or their families—everything from war to internment....

An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. For more audiobooks by disabled authors, check out my previous post 5 Own Voices Audiobooks About Women With Chronic Illness or Disabilities!

I’d never seen The Magic School Bus before—I was a bit past the target demographic when it came out in 1994—but as a science geek, when my son started watching it on Netflix, along with the reboot The Magic School Bus Rides Again, I fell in love with the show. The way they interweave science knowledge and facts into the show and make it age-appropriate and fun is really neat, and who doesn’t love all of the dresses the Friz wears that complement whatever lesson she’s teaching?...

Eleven years ago, 16-year-old Nina Guerrera escaped the trap of a depraved serial killer. Now an FBI agent, Nina is hellbent on preventing terrors like her own from happening to others. But when she goes viral after a video of her fighting off an attacker in a park is shared online, the man who abducted Nina years ago once again sets his sights on her. As he uses the internet to invite the public to play along, Nina tracks him across the country....

From the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna to the unprecedented rise of COVID-19 and the protests honoring George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the 2019-2020 NBA season was, from the beginning, about more than winning basketball games for the Los Angeles Lakers. In this single-sitting, page-turning, behind-the-scenes account of the nearly 100-day NBA lockdown at Disney World, NBA champion Jared Dudley shares his winning memories of a personal and professional victory from inside the NBA Bubble....

No one knows what Nikolai endured in his country’s bloody civil war – and he intends to keep it that way. As the young king strives to rebuild his country and forge new alliances, the dark magic growing within him threatens to destroy all he has built. Nikolai must journey to the places where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried—and some wounds aren’t meant to heal....

These books are often concerned with power, identity, and privilege. They recognize the complexities of belonging, from minority or under-represented perspectives. And they may reveal as much about the “host country” as about the “home country” (while recognizing that these concepts are fluid and often flawed). The novels that I find most revealing about British identity, for instance, are by immigrants and the children of immigrants. This is a list of the novels that have most shaped my thinking about diasporas....

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ePub The most used, widely adopted, and most popular ebook format in the digital publishing world is ePub. It is what most publishers would send to you when requesting eARCs outside of NetGalley. It is the ebook format they send to ebookstores for selling and the preferred format developers would create first. You can read an ePub file on any device that has an ebook reader on it. Since it’s written in HTML and CSS, you can change the font style and size of the text to whatever you like....

“Abrams wrote her first novel during her third year at Yale Law School, inspired after reading her ex-boyfriend’s PhD dissertation in chemical physics. She had wanted to write a spy novel: ‘For me, for other young black girls, I wanted to write books that showed them to be as adventurous and attractive as any white woman,’ she wrote in her memoir Minority Leader. But after being told repeatedly by editors that women don’t read spy novels, and that men don’t read spy novels by women, she made her spies fall in love....