Author: Devin Service

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo.

Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck alongside her uptight classmate Rose. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined.
But maybe Rose isn’t so bad. Maybe the boy crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara feels invested in her dad’s business.
What if taking this seriously means Clara has to leave her old self behind? With Maurene Goo’s signature warmth and humor, this is a relatable story of falling in love and finding yourself in the places you’d never thought to look.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Read It Forward Book Recs.

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Today’s The Stack is sponsored by Nocturnal Meetings of the Misplaced by R.J. Garcia from The Parliament House.

Mystery surrounds the town of Summertime, Indiana, where fifteen-year-old Tommy Walker and his little sister are sent to live with relatives they’ve never met. Tommy is invited to late-night meetings in the woods by his new neighbor, Finn. The meetings become a place where kids who don’t fit in at school or home finally belong. As the group of friends slowly unravel long-buried secrets— they discover the truth is darker and closer than they ever imagined. If they live to tell will anyone believe them?

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Random House.

Tara Westover was seventeen when she first entered a classroom. Her stunning debut, in the tradition of The Glass Castle, recounts the quest for self-invention that took her from an unschooled childhood with Western survivalists to the halls of Harvard and Cambridge. EDUCATED is the must-read book of 2018, a memoir hailed by Amy Chua, the author of Political Tribes and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, as “breathtaking, heart-wrenching, and inspirational” and by J. D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, as a “powerful tale” that “deserves to be widely read.”

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne.

A romantic, cinematic, richly-imagined retelling of the classic Jane Eyre set in space, about seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley, a mechanic who takes a governess job on board the private ship, the Rochester and falls in the love with the ship’s mysterious and troubled captain. Alexa Donne’s lush and enthralling novel will seduce and beguile you. For Marissa Meyer and Kiera Cass fans.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Little, Brown and Company.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
A daring, dazzling follow-up to the bestseller The Song of Achilles, novelist Madeline Miller has created an epic story of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man’s world.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Squared Away by Annabeth Albert.

In the wake of tragedy, SEAL Mark Whitley rushed stateside to act as guardian to his sister’s three young children. But a conflicting will could give custody to someone else—someone Mark remembers as a too young, too hot, wild party boy.

As the legal details get sorted out, their long-buried attraction resurfaces, leading to intimate evenings after the kids are tucked in. A forever future is within reach for all of them, if only Mark can find the courage he needs to trust Isaiah with his secrets—and his heart.