River Readers

There is a lot of information in this book on how to make yourself and your community happier. It boils down to moving more, eating better, having healthy habits and not doing things that don't make you happy. And drink a glass of wine a day....done and done! It was helpful but not earth shattering.

I adore the Great British Baking Show and was excited to see some of the recipes. There are definitely things in here I would never bake but I like dreaming about baking, or more truthfully eating, them. I also really loved the interviews with past contestants of the show.

Desmond Coke is a Jamaican agent on the run with his young charge Lij. They have fled Jamaica and Albion pursued every step of the way. We meet them as they enter Tejas and have a run in with Garrison Hearst and Pinkerton Agent Cayt. So they flee to the First Nations and seek sanctuary with the Seminole Tribe. 

The third in the Court of Thorns and Roses series finds Feyre back in the Spring Court feigning loyalty to the Spring Court and Tamlin but in reality she is spying on him and Hybern. Prythian is on the brink of war with Hybern and since he has the Cauldron, the High Lords are scrambling to find a way to defeat him but that means an alliance with Courts that are sworn enemies.

Sunny has been sent to visit her grandpa in Florida for the summer. It is a summer of sleeping on the hide-a-bed and eating dinner at 4:30 with the old folks. Sunny does make a friend in Buzz and they spend the summer reading comics and rescuing cats. There are flashbacks to the last year when Sunny's brother Dale spirals out of control due to drug and alcohol use. Sunny also has to deal with her grandpa sneaking cigarettes when he is not supposed to smoke. 

Mark is short and skinny and gets picked on. When Star Wars comes out he becomes obsessed and writes a parody movie. He gets his friends and family to star in it and it gets shown in his town. There are friend issues, girl problems and family fun times. 

A realistic graphic novel with a male as the main character! Reminded me of the memoirs by Raina Telegemeier. Great fun and it is about boys! We are always looking for good graphic novels for boys and there aren't that many realistic ones.

Scarlet moves to Norway and gets bullied by Greta. Then her grandma gives her a red hoodie and when she zips it up she is transported to a Viking village being attacked by a dragon. 

This was a bit of a mess and didn't go together at all. Either there wasn't enough of the story to make sense or there were too many ideas or something. I didn't really like it.

James Patterson presents a bold new heroine—a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow's West.

Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great....

Whether you've been a regular at the gym for years or are just getting started, " Fitness Weight Training" contains proven programs for attaining the body you want!

Expanded, enhanced, and improved, this new edition of the perennial best-selling guide provides an overview of weight training. From equipment selection to exercise technique, "Fitness Weight Training" has the information you need to get to work quickly, safely, and correctly.

The hilarious and wildly popular instagram comic about a world with no men

Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.

EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING.

As the final showdown between the New Republic and the Empire draws near, all eyes turn to a once-isolated planet: Jakku.

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems

“If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,”

Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver’s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds.

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive-continue in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit-to accepting the truth about one's personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.

A series of stories showing the benefits of Planned Parenthood.

The Reacher family is constantly moving from base to base, and at each new assignment teen brothers Joe and Jack Reacher have to prove themselves to the teens wanting to establish a pecking order. Thirteen-year-old Jack Reacher is itching for a fight but has to help his father, accused of losing a code book, and Joe, accused of cheating on a placement test when his mother is called away to her dying father. Using his powers of observation and a girl he meets gives the reader a prelude to the successful military policeman he will later become.