Daily Archives: January 12, 2020

Purpose Plus: What Really Matters at Work by Amy Shenot

While other career guides are dry and focus on purpose alone, the funny stories about ridiculously real jobs in this book illustrate what else really matters at work. Each story includes transferable lessons and models how to reflect on your experiences to discover what matters most in your work life.

Amy Shenot’s mother wanted her to be a comedian, and for years Amy’s career was a joke. She worked several odd jobs before studying and practicing career counseling and better judgment. Since the advent of the web she’s been authoring and teaching online courses.

Fool: A Novel by Christopher Moore

“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.”
—Dallas Morning News

Fool–the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore–is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” Fool joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”

The Dreaming Tree (The Delta Devlin Novels) by Matthew Mather

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Black Mirror in this new release from Matthew Mather, million-copy bestseller translated in over twenty languages worldwide.

A new breed of predator hunts on the streets of New York.
Chased by a detective whose gift and curse are eyes that see things only she can.

"Incredible detective Delta Devlin is a franchise character worth losing your head over.’" —Scott Sigler, #1 New York Times bestselling author

After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Vandeweghe wakes up to find he’s one of the first patients to undergo a radical new medical procedure: a full-body transplant. Convalescing and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective. She sees things nobody else can, visions created by a rare mutation in her eyes.

Roy becomes Devlin’s prime suspect in a string of grisly murders. The mysterious Dr. Danesti, who performed the surgery, together with Roy’s estranged wife Penny, do their best to shield him–but it becomes obvious it’s not for his sake. Desperate for answers, Roy tracks down the grieving widow of the man whose body he now inhabits.

Out of time, and perhaps his mind, Roy leads Devlin on a spiraling chase through a global underworld of black-market body parts and billionaires where nothing can stand in the way of living forever–not even death itself.

When She Returned by Lucinda Berry

One woman’s reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships.

Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult.

Kate’s return flips her family’s world upside down–her husband is remarried, and her daughter barely remembers her. Kate herself doesn’t look or act like she did before.

While the family tries to help Kate reintegrate into society, they discover truths they’ve been hiding from each other about their own relationships. But they aren’t the only ones with secrets. As the family unravels what happened to Kate, a series of shocking revelations shows that Kate’s return is more sinister than any of them could have imagined.

Parlez-Vous Murder?by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

While American Jules Hooker is on vacation, a bomb explodes over the Riviera, destroying technology and leaving Jules stranded in Provence where she must make a living by solving murders the old-fashioned way—without help from DNA, databases, CSI crime labs or the police.