Category: Riot Rundown

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Folio Society celebrating their new collector’s edition of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Chris Samnee, coloured by Matthew Wilson, Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is introduced by Michael Moorcock. A triumph of both cult and mainstream literature, it delivers all the thrills of Golden Age comics and a deeply humane story about hope and tragedy via an exuberant literary voice. It is one of the defining novels of the modern age.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Libby, the one-tap reading app from your library and OverDrive.

Meet Libby. The award-winning reading app that makes sure you always have something to read. It’s like having your entire library right in your pocket. Download the app today and get instant access to thousands of ebooks and audiobooks for free thanks to your public library and OverDrive.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Vesuvian Books.

Beau Devereaux is the only child of a powerful family. Handsome. Charming. Intelligent. The “prince” of St. Benedict is the ultimate catch. He is also a psychopath. A dirty family secret buried for years, Beau’s evil grows unchecked. In the shadows of the ruined St. Francis Abbey, he commits unspeakable acts on his victims. Senior year, Beau sets his sights on his girlfriend’s twin sister, Leslie. Everything he wants but cannot have, she will be his ultimate prize. As the victim toll mounts, it becomes clear someone must stop Beau Devereaux. And that someone will pay with their life.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child (BenBella Books, Inc.).

James Breakwell is best known for his parenting humor Twitter account @XplodingUnicorn, which has more than a million followers. Now James brings his hilarious parenting stories and tongue-in-cheek advice to print in his new book, Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child. A breath of fresh air in a culture of parent shaming and mom guilt, James tells worried parents what they actually need to hear.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Candlewick Press.

While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he’s seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress. But what will Abuela think about the mess he makes — and even more importantly, what will she think about how Julián sees himself? Mesmerizing and full of heart, Jessica Love’s author-illustrator debut is a jubilant picture of self-love and a radiant celebration of individuality.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Carpe Librum Bookstore & Art Gallery.

Our bookstore cat made us start a promotion in his honor, so we started offering discounted books and free shipping. Enter promo code Stan Lee at checkout for free shipping.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio.

Make your holiday travels, errands, cooking sessions, and all the rest more enjoyable by listening to an audiobook. From bestsellers, to thrillers, to self-care, you can find the perfect listen for any moment. Give yourself the gift of audio this holiday season.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean.

Each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace’s enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Marry the prince. All are eligible to compete—all except yokai, supernatural monsters and spirits whom the human emperor is determined to enslave and destroy.

Mari has spent a lifetime training to become empress. Winning should be easy. But Mari is a yokai. If discovered, her life will be forfeit. As she struggles to keep her true identity hidden, Mari’s fate collides with that of Taro, the prince who has no desire to inherit the imperial throne, and Akira, a half-human, half-yokai outcast.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger

The world remembers Elie Wiesel—Nobel laureate, activist, and author of more than forty books—as a great humanist. He passed away in July of 2016.

Now, in Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, we see him as never before—not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher.

Written by Wiesel’s devoted protégé and friend, Ariel Burger, Witness takes us inside the classroom, where listening and storytelling keep memory alive. Witness provides a front row seat to these lessons in compassion, teaching us that listening to a witness, makes us all witnesses. In this book, Wiesel’s legacy lives on.

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