Category: Riot Rundown

Sponsored by Wednesday Books

In Cazadora, Romina Garber weaves together Argentine folklore and what it means to be illegal in a timely, intimate, and emotionally powerful narrative. Following the events of Lobizona, Manu and her friends cross the mystical border into Kerana—a cursed realm in Argentina—searching for allies and a hiding place. As they chase down leads about the Coven—a mythical resistance manada that might not even exist—the Cazadores chase down leads about Manu, setting up traps to capture and arrest her. After running this far, for this long—how much farther can Manu go before her feet get tired, and she stops to take a stand?

Sponsored by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Alice meets Felix and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.

While still young, life is catching up with them. They desire each other, delude each other, get together, and break apart. They have sex, worry about sex, worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Sponsored by Preston & Child’s new Pendergast novel, Bloodless

Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire. As the mystery rises along with the body count, Pendergast and his partner, Agent Coldmoon, race to understand how—or if—these murders are connected to an infamous skyjacking, and together they’ll uncover not just the answer…but an unearthly evil beyond all imagining.

It’s a case like no other in the new installment of Preston & Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series..

Sponsored by Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny

Who really understands the concept of karma? Half the time when people are referencing it, it sounds like some form of revenge. But karma is a much deeper and richer concept than that.

As explained by Sadhguru, yogi & mystic, karma means action. Sadhguru turns the tables by showing us clearly that karma is an empowering possibility for taking charge of our lives by choosing how we respond to what is happening to us. With celebrity fans from Will Smith to Tom Brady, this enlightening book offers in depth insights on the concept of Karma and shows how to achieve true happiness.

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Sponsored by Joy by Samantina Zenon

Joy: The Five Lights That Clarify Your Best Self Through The Pain is a self-help/memoir book about healing from cultural and generational traumas. These wounds are not healed until we take care of them. Whether you were physically, emotionally or mentally abused – you are not a victim, you’ve never been one, you were victimized! You can rise above, the key is to show up for yourself and submit to do the work. Learn to live the life you want by healing from your pains. In this book, I share 5 Lights: Boundaries, Prioritizing Self, Seeking Help, Self-Care Ritual, Creating Me the Person.

Sponsored by Amazon Publishing

Jane is at rock bottom when a friend calls her to offer an unusual deal—a cottage above the crashing surf of Big Sur on the estate of his employer, Evan Rochester. In return, Jane will tutor his teenage daughter. But nothing is quite as it seems and rumors about what happened to Mrs. Rochester prevail. Amidst all this, as Jane grows close to Evan’s daughter, she can’t help but fall in love with the secretive entrepreneur. But when a ghostly presence appears in the night’s mist, Jane becomes determined to discover what really happened. Read Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost.

Sponsored by Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers, from Park Row Books

With her new PhD in hand, Grace goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and drunkenly marries a woman…until she does.

This moment has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from her degree. Staggering under the weight of her parent’s expectations, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York.

In New York, she’s able to ignore questions about her future and falls hard for her wife, Yuki. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along.

Sponsored by Ecco

After another taxing day as the sole female employee at a tech startup, Edwina comes home to find that her husband has packed a suitcase and left, abandoning their life and their increasingly hopeless quest to secure green cards. As Edwina searches for traces of her husband, she sifts through memories of their relationship, hoping to discover when something went wrong. Soon she will have to decide how much she is willing to sacrifice in order to stay in her marriage and in America

Sponsored by Sandra Brown’s new historical thriller Blind Tiger

The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas. It’s there that young widow Laurel Plummer and Deputy Thatcher Hutton will find themselves on the opposite sides of a moonshine war, where the blood flows as freely as the whiskey.