The Ro Bro J.A. Huss, Johnathan McClain Publication date: June 20th 2023 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance Essie Smith-Scott, the author known as SS, has been the number one erotic romance writer in the world for the past ten years. Movie deals, merchandise, dozens of books on the New York Times bestseller’s list, and the founder of the biggest romance convention to ever hit the planet. Scoring an invitation to the Sin With Us Romance Convention in Las Vegas is the ‘big break’ every romance author hopes for and Cynthia Lear’s name just made it to the top of the wait list. She’s in. And she’s gonna make the most of it. This is her chance to shine and propel her career into the stratosphere. But then she meets Essie’s twin brother, Steve. Not only is Steve Smith handsome, and charming, and loves her work—he’s also… lying. To the whole world. Literally everyone. Because his twin sister, Essie, isn’t the one who’s been writing all those super-spicy Master Choke books...

Combustible Al Riske Publication date: May 16th 2021 Genres: Coming of Age It’s that summer between the end of high school and the start of something else. Dean Stockton and Curt Hutton are best friends, and more often than not you can find them rowing on the Rogue River at dawn. Together they experience something they will never be able to describe adequately. But then they won’t really need to. Not to each other. It’s that moment of swing when rowers find the rhythm and everything falls into place. The shell seems to lift right out of the water. Enter Isabelle Smiley. She’s beautiful yet insecure, knowing yet innocent, and crazy about Curt in a way that no girl has ever been crazy about Dean. She wants Curt to choose a college closer to home than the one he and Dean have selected—and she can be persuasive. “I’d never be able to hold out against a girl like Smiley,” Dean admits. “Don’t say that,” Curt replies. “I told her she’d have to convince you, too.” Everyone is con...

The Attraction: House of Illusion Rick Polito (The Attraction, #1) Publication date: November 18th 2021 Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Young Adult From the author of Off Trail comes a hilarious mystery about what happens when a chilling trip leads to a lost fortune. Nate and Lily knew their mother was different. All it took was a hunch or a bad feeling and the family would be uprooted and moving to a different apartment or even a different town. But when the two are torn out of their life in the ritzy North Bay for the summer and dropped in “the Mississippi of California” on the Sacramento River Delta, Nate Caldwell and his sister Lily see it as one more move in a series of lurching disruptions driven by their mother’s suspicion that something or someone is after them. When they settle into life around their uncle’s House of Illusion roadside attraction, Nate meets Mia—who makes all the girls he knew in the North Bay seem shallow and dull—and begins to connect with local teens...

Review: The Bro Code - Elizabeth A. Seibert - September 2020 As a female, we all know the girl code where we don't date guys that our friends have commented that they like and it's friends before bros, etc. Well, it seems that guys have a code as well called The Bro Code. Meet a group of male friends who are in High School - we have Austin, Nick, Carter who are the best of friends. Enter Eliza - she is Carter's older sister and has just come back from spending a year in Australia on a student exchange and she has gotten hotter over the past year and Nick has his eyes set on her but of course he can't break the bro code, so, for now, he has to sit back and be her friend. However, if he's not careful he might lose Eliza to a jerk named Josh Daley. Can Nick navigate his high school year and friendships with Carter and Eliza without technically breaking the "Bro Code" and ruining his "bromance" with Carter? The Bro Code was lad lit and a perfect re...

Why Can’t Freshman Summer Be Like Pizza? Andy V. Roamer (The Pizza Chronicles #2) Publication date: June 1st 2020 Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult RV, having successfully completed his freshman year at the demanding Boston Latin School, is hoping for a great summer. He’s now fifteen years old and looking forward to sharing many languid summer days with his friend Bobby, who’s told him he has gay feelings too. But life and family and duties for a son of immigrant parents makes it difficult to steal time away with Bobby. Bobby, too, has pressures. He spends part of the summer away at football camp, and his father pushes him to work a summer job at a friend’s accounting firm. Bobby takes the job grudgingly, wanting to spend any extra time practicing the necessary skills to make Latin’s varsity football team. On top of everything, RV’s best friend Carole goes away for the summer, jumping at an opportunity to spend it with her father in Paris. Luckily, there is always Mr. Aniso...

  Review: The Secret Billionaire - Book #1 - Teymour Shahabi - September 2016 The Secret Billionaire has a strong start with an incident happening in 1960 where a reclusive billionaire who owned most of the town disappeared without a trace when his plane went down.  Lyndon Surway with no relatives and family, left some of his money to his workers to provide for their families and children's education and the rest of his money, estates - everything else was left to Lucian Baker.  The thing though is that no-one could ever track down Lucian Baker and so it remained uncollected for 50 years. It was rumored that Lyndon had stored away his fortune, but many sought it out and not one found traces. It was a town mystery. The other thing that Lyndon Surway started was a scholarship fund to a private elite school. Every year, children put forth applications, but none were ever chosen . That is until now; orphan Andrew Day has been awarded a schol...