As the end of the year approaches, maybe you’re in a rush to meet your reading goals or get a good start for the next year. Put these books in your radar. From the lost tombs of Egypt to the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, you’ll be transported to a variety of destinations with characters whose stories that will grip your heart.
Sunday Forrester lives a careful life: eating only white foods most days and using her etiquette handbook to guide her through confusing social situations. The only thing out of her control is her sixteen-year-old daughter Dolly. Their lives get turned around when a couple, Vita and Rollo, move next door and break all of Sunday’s rules. As the couple pushes themselves into Sunday’s life, a darker motive is revealed, for Sunday has something Vita has always wanted—a daughter.
From the bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston shows us a discovery of a vast Egyptian tomb with dozens of sealed burial chambers. This collection brings together true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of past and present.
What happens in Vegas, doesn’t always stay in Vegas. The inventor of the Elvis impersonator wedding and the drive-thru wedding has performed hundreds of marriages and believes in them all. A gambling VIP “whale” has a great time despite losing $1 million at the casinos. James Patterson and Mark Seal transport readers to the thrills found in Vegas with lively tales from those who work and dream in Sin City.
For fans of Food, Inc and the movie’s timely sequel comes this new companion book that addresses the remarkable developments in the food world, from lab-grown meat to the burgeoning food sovereignty movement. It features essays from Michael Pollan, The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Saru Jayaraman, among others. This book will help gain an understanding of our dysfunctional food system and ways to help reform it.
It’s 1935 in Oklahoma. Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson and her little sister, Hope, walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl towards a new life in California. They get separated from their parents and are forced to sleep on the streets. When they find a small boarding house, Faith thinks this will keep her sister safe, but the landlady’s glare might say she made a terrible mistake. In present day California, Zoe Edwards grieves for the child she lost and a divorce. When she finds an image of a teenage girl who looks exactly like her, Zoe dives into a journey, searching for the secrets that may fill the holes in her family history.
Emily Hoang is a writer and editor, who is obsessed with haunted houses, ghosts, and dreams. More info can be found on her website.
