Category: Riot Rundown

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Epic Reads.

Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries.

Compiled by We Need Diverse Books’s Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, this collection of retold Asian myths and legends includes authors Renée Ahdieh, Sona Charaipotra, Preeti Chhibber, Roshani Chokshi, Melissa de la Cruz, Aisha Saeed, Alyssa Wong and more.

From fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge, these stories will beguile readers from start to finish. Perfect for fans Ameriie’s New York Times–bestselling Because You Love to Hate Me.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by ME, MYSELF AND THEM by Dan Mooney

Struggling to cope with a tragic loss, Denis has, for the past seven years, learned to live a bit differently. Both his friends—Ollie and Frank—are used to his strict routines, like ironing his socks and lighting his fireplace every Sunday afternoon (even in the summer).

Then Rebecca returns to town. Rebecca is Denis’s enigmatic ex-girlfriend and is sunshine personified. Shocked to meet the new Denis—unable to manage even the most basic social interactions—she becomes determined to bring back the funny, charismatic Denis. It’s not long before Rebecca’s carefree charm threatens to shatter world Denis has created for himself.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Young Readers.

A boy discovers his destiny could totally stink in this riotously funny fantasy-adventure. Risk-averse Greg Belmont is content with being ordinary. He’s got a friend–that’s right, just one–at his fancy prep school, and a pretty cool dad (even if he is obsessed with organic soaps that smell like a mix of salted pork and Icelandic bog). The problem is, Greg isn’t ordinary . . . he’s actually an honest-to-goodness, fantastical Dwarf! He discovers the truth the day his dad brings home a gross new tea–one that awakens bizarre abilities in Greg. Brimming with humor and action, Chris Rylander’s The Legend of Greg turns dwarf lore on its head, delivering an adventure readers won’t be able to resist.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Robots of Gotham by Todd McAulty.

The Robots of Gotham is a near-future novel set in an occupied Chicago in 2083. The world is on the verge of total subjugation by machines, and American resistance has just collapsed. With the war over, a foreign businessman comes to Chicago to profit from the rebuilding, and stumbles on a machine plot to exterminate all life in North America. He assembles an unlikely team of foreign peacekeepers, American resistance fighters, and robots to stop it.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson, new from Park Row Books.

Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda’s twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears. Sixteen years later Miranda receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy, and one final scavenger hunt. Miranda soon finds herself drawn into a journey where she meets people whose stories reveal a hidden history—and the terrible secret that tore her family apart.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Disney Publishing Worldwide.

“Jon Snow won’t be the only ‘bastard’ whose name readers will remember.”
—Entertainment Weekly

In this action-packed sequel to YA fantasy Royal Bastards, Tilla explores the magnificent royal city of Lightspire where she uncovers a sinister conspiracy to take down the kingdom from within. Nothing is as it seems in the glorious capital, and Tilla’s presence might just be the spark that sets the Kingdom aflame.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Other Press.

This Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three lives intertwined with that of an enigmatic author, whose character is inspired by the groundbreaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.

Three figures gather around the comatose body of a legendary Latin American writer. As Daniel, Emilia, and Horacio tell their stories, they reconstruct Vera’s past, trying—in different ways and before it’s too late—to unveil the dying woman’s secrets. Spanning from modern-day Chile to the 1950s, 60s, and through the years of the Pinochet dictatorship, In the Distance With You reveals successive mysteries and discoveries like a set of Russian nesting dolls.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Hawkman, by Jane Rosenberg LaForge

Set against the shattering events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an imaginative American schoolteacher and a homeless Irish musician survive bloodshed, poverty, and sickness only to be thrown together in an English village. Hiding from the world in a small cottage, reality shatters their serenity, and they must face the parochial community. Unbeknownst to everyone, a legend is in the making—one of courage and resilience, even as outside forces threaten to tear them apart.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Epic Reads

When Betts meets Aiden at the candy store where she works, their connection is like a sugar rush to the heart and Betts already knows they are destined to be.

Betts has only ever kept one secret from her best friend, Jo, but suddenly there’s a long list of things Jo wouldn’t understand. Because Jo doesn’t see how good Aiden is for Betts. She finds him needy. Possessive. Controlling.

She’s wrong. With a love sweet, nothing else matters, until it turns sour.

Anica Mrose Rissi weaves a gripping, compulsively readable novel about what happens when what feels like love turns into something more dangerous.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Meredith Wild

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