Book Tastings: April 2024

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Crime

Who is the Real Villain?:

Tag, You're Dead by Kathryn Foxfield: When teen social media influencer Anton Frazer stages a live-streamed, citywide game of Tag, his fans go wild. Outfitted with body cams, GPS trackers, and pressure sensors to keep tally of who's disqualified, contestants are split into Chasers and Runners then let lose into the night-covered urban jungle to hunt each other down.

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell: The author of numerous best-selling cookbooks and hailed as "America's Grandmother", Betsy Martin isn't as warm off-screen as on, although no one needs to know that but her. Things go awry as the baking competition begins. At first, it's merely sabotage - sugar replaced with salt, a burner turned too high - but when a body is discovered, everyone is a suspect.

Women Have the Power:

Women Who Murder by Mitzi Szereto: From historical accounts to modern cases, explore the captivating psychology behind these killer women, unraveling their motives and unveiling the dark complexities of human behavior.

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll: An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity serial killer in his final murderous spree.

Upcoming Releases:

The Serial Killer’s Apprentice by Katherine Ramsland & Tracy Ullman: A psychological examination of the blurred line between victim and accomplice―and how a killer can be created.

College Girl, Missing by Shawn Cohen: When Lauren Spierer―a gregarious young woman at a crossroads in her life―vanished from Indiana University, her story drew global attention from celebrities and news outlets such as People magazine, CNN, and USA Today . Lauren's disappearance wasn't just some random abduction. What makes the case so confounding is that the 20-year-old was out with dozens of classmates in a bustling university town on the night she went missing.

Gardening

Container Gardening:

Container Succulents by Kentaro Kuroda: The perfect book for container gardening beginners who don't have a lot of space to work with. The beautiful photographs of succulent decor are sure to inspire your inner gardener, interior designer and all-around house plant lover.

Container Gardening by Southern Living: Transform your front porch, deck, patio, or window box with beautiful and lush containers for every season. Short on space? No problem. We'll show you how to create pots full of color with flowers, hardy foliage, and tasty herbs.

Gardening Places:

Blooms & Dreams by Misha Gillingham: Misha shares not only what brought her to Evergreen Aces, a farm on Bainbridge Island in the Pacific Northwest, but also all of the wisdom she has gleaned over the years as she and her family put roots down.

The Cottage Garden by Claus Dalby: Through over 700 exquisite photographs and evocative text written by Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby, explore the history and development of the beloved cottage garden design style.

Gardening Spaces:

The New Heirloom Garden by Ellen Ecker Ogden: Design a beautiful and self-sufficient garden; learn the secrets of heirloom vegetables, herbs, and flowers; and enjoy 60 seasonal recipes featuring the fruits of your labor - all with one book!

Growing a Living Wall by Shawna Coronado: Sometimes called "green walls" and "vertical gardens", living walls are easier than ever to plan and grow! The first wall-gardening book to focus exclusively on the needs of home gardeners.

Poetry

Female Empowerment:

Swimming Lessons by Lili Reinhart: Explores the euphoric beginnings of young love, battling anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and the inevitable heartbreak that stems from passion.

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur: It is split into four chapters, with each chapter dealing with a different pain. Healing a different heartache. Taking readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finding sweetness in them - because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

Poisonous Lives:

To Make Monsters Out of Girls by Amanda Lovelace: Lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses the eternal question: Can you heal once you've been marked by a monster, or will the sun always sting?

Pretty Boys are Poisonous by Megan Fox: Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process.

Modern Dating:

Poems to Swipe Right To by Charlie Castelletti: From romance to rejection, the complex theme of love has inspired some of the greatest poetry ever written. Takes this tradition and reframed it within the bewildering experience of modern dating.

Her, Him & I by Christian Weissmann: Tells the story of a bisexual man on his journey to self-discovery. Weissmann offers the reader a peek into his psyche: the poems are refinded journal entries, documenting his voyage to self-actualization. The collection magnifies the reality of exploring emotional and physical intimacy with multiple genders, in the midst of figuring out to love oneself in the process.

Romance

Faking It:

Faking Ms. Right by Claire Kingley: The solution - to have Everly pose as his live-in girlfriend - is obviously crazy. But the timing is uncanny. It just so happens Everly needs a favor from her boss - a big and awkward one - and this could ensure everyone gets what they want.

Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey: A down-on-her-luck Napa heiress suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she can't stand...only to discover there's a fine line between love and hate.

Armchair Travel:

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes: Dean won't ask about Evvie's late husband, and Evvie won't ask about Dean's baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken - and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more.

The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand: Xavier hires Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton as his general manager, and Lizbet, in turn, pulls together a charismatic, if inexperienced, staff who share the vision of turning the fate of the hotel around.

Hollywood's Calling:

The Book Proposal by K.J. Micciche: Colin's tales of his own woeful break-up become fodder for Gracie's fertile imagination and her current work-in-progress takes off. With the deadline looming and her checking account dwindling, Gracie has no idea that borrowing Colin's story could wreak havoc on her life, her career, and her own chance at happily-ever-after.

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren: Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hollywood love story and take both of their careers to the next level - but only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off script.