Category: Riot Rundown

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Whisper by Lynette Noni from KCP Loft

Teenaged Jane Doe (aka Subject 684) has been locked in a secret underground government facility for over two years, as authorities have tried — unsuccessfully — to get her to speak. But now a young evaluator, Landon Ward, is assigned to break her resolve, and her resistance begins to crumble. The last thing she expects is for him to be keeping secrets of his own … Whisper is a compelling, addictive, face-paced fantasy that will leave readers begging for more.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Manfried the Man, published by Quirk Books.

In this graphic novel dramedy, readers are welcomed to Catlanta, a world where humanoid cats rule. Slacker Steve Catson has one constant in his life: the tiny, grumpy, naked little human he keeps as a pet, Manfried. While Steve’s friends think he’s in danger of becoming a “crazy man cat,” he’s content to let them move on with their lives while he plays with his pet, and Manfried is happy to be spoiled. But when Manfried accidentally escapes, Steve has to muster up strength and motivation he didn’t know he had to bring his best friend home safe.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Theory of Happily Ever After by Kristin Billerbeck and Revell Books, a Division of Baker Publishing Group.

For Dr. Maggie Maguire, happiness is serious–serious science, that is. But science can’t explain everything, like why her fiancé dumped her and how the breakup sent Maggie into an ice cream-fueled chick flick binge.

When her concerned friends book Maggie as a speaker on a “New Year, New You” cruise, she wonders if she’s qualified to teach others about happiness anymore. But when a handsome stranger on board insists that smart women can’t be happy, Maggie sets out to prove him wrong. Along the way she may discover that happiness has far less to do with the head than with the heart.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Random House.

Tara Westover was seventeen when she first entered a classroom. Her stunning debut, in the tradition of The Glass Castle, recounts the quest for self-invention that took her from an unschooled childhood with Western survivalists to the halls of Harvard and Cambridge. EDUCATED is the must-read book of 2018, a memoir hailed by Amy Chua, the author of Political Tribes and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, as “breathtaking, heart-wrenching, and inspirational” and by J. D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, as a “powerful tale” that “deserves to be widely read.”

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne.

A romantic, cinematic, richly-imagined retelling of the classic Jane Eyre set in space, about seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley, a mechanic who takes a governess job on board the private ship, the Rochester and falls in the love with the ship’s mysterious and troubled captain. Alexa Donne’s lush and enthralling novel will seduce and beguile you. For Marissa Meyer and Kiera Cass fans.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Epic Reads. 

In this sequel to Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—now a major motion picture, Love, Simon—Simon’s BFF Leah grapples with changing friendships, first love, and senior year angst.

Leah’s an anomaly in her friend group. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And while her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t told her friends.

So Leah doesn’t know what to do when the group starts to fracture, and with prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high.

It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while her friends are fighting—especially since she might love one of them more than she intended.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Little, Brown and Company.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
A daring, dazzling follow-up to the bestseller The Song of Achilles, novelist Madeline Miller has created an epic story of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man’s world.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Squared Away by Annabeth Albert.

In the wake of tragedy, SEAL Mark Whitley rushed stateside to act as guardian to his sister’s three young children. But a conflicting will could give custody to someone else—someone Mark remembers as a too young, too hot, wild party boy.

As the legal details get sorted out, their long-buried attraction resurfaces, leading to intimate evenings after the kids are tucked in. A forever future is within reach for all of them, if only Mark can find the courage he needs to trust Isaiah with his secrets—and his heart.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Gods of Winter

Bob Daniels, against all odds, becomes a noted psychologist. In unlikely fashion, he meets Gloria Hopkins, a noted stage performer. A rare and daring love ensues, but it’s thwarted by an inexplicable force of madness. The two are pulled into a harrowing journey to save their love, and as they interlock with a range of vibrant characters, in desperation they face the impossible. The stuff of legend. Fiction based on fact. A story to behold. Its humor, laughter, strife, sadness, and tragedy are the stuff of legend. The Gods of Winter: A story of pondering gasps, ending in deep awe.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Pegasus Books’ A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee. 

India, 1920: When the heir to the throne of Sambalpore is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee, they discover a kingdom rife with suppressed conflict. Prince Adhir’s modern attitudes may have upset the religious elements of his country, while his brother, now in line for the throne, appears to be a feckless playboy.

As Wyndham and Banerjee desperately try to unravel the mystery behind the assassination, they become entangled in a dangerous world where those in power live by their own rules—and those who cross their paths pay with their lives.