Author: Devin Service

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Sisters Chase by Sarah Healy, published in hardcover and ebook from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother’s death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge.
“A deliciously compulsive read. . . . It lingers like a summer dream after the last page is turned.” —Amy Gentry, author of Good as Gone
“Part mystery, part road novel, part family saga, The Sisters Chase had me riveted from the first secret to the last revelation.” —Lisa Lutz, author of The Passenger and How to Start a Fire
“Captivating . . . a fierce and unstoppable force of nature.” —Publishers Weekly

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Here Comes the Sun, by Nicole Dennis-Benn.

In this radiant, prize-winning debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village.

Named a Best Book of the Year by: The New York Times, NPR, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Root, Book Riot, Kirkus, Amazon, WBUR’s “On Point,” and Barnes & Noble

A New York Times Cool Reads for Hot Days Pick
One of BBC’s Ten New Beach Reads to Devour
A Cosmo Reads selection for July
One of Elle’s 19 Summer Books That Everyone Will Be Talking About

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Random House.

Who Is Rich? is a warped and exhilarating tale of love and lust, a study in midlife alienation, erotic pleasure, envy, and bitterness in the new gilded age that goes far beyond humor and satire to address deeper questions: of family, monogamy, the intoxicating beauty of children, and the challenging interdependence of two soulful, sensitive creatures in a confusing domestic alliance.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Separatists by Lis Wiehl.

Bestselling novelist and national legal and political news analyst Lis Wiehl takes us behind the anchor’s desk and into a country being torn apart.
Reporter Erica Sparks heads to North Dakota, to investigate Take Back Our Homeland, a large secessionist group threatening our Union.
When Erica discovers a potential informant murdered in her Bismarck hotel, she realizes Take Back Our Homeland might be even more dangerous than she thought. She unwittingly becomes one of the key players in the story she’s reporting. Her fear and anxiety escalate – for her family and her own life.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Epic Reads.

From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson comes a masterful exploration of how love, determination, and hope can change a person’s fate. MIDNIGHT AT THE ELECTRIC is a novel told in three unforgettable points of view from three girls in three different moments in time. While their stories span thousands of miles and multiple generations, Adri, Catherine, and Lenore’s fates are entwined with love and connected by the hope that we can live on, even though we can’t live forever.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Books.

One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle’s house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. The unwed daughter of wealthy Jewish industrialists and a gifted pianist bound for Radcliffe, Bea plans to leave her shameful secret behind and make a fresh start. Ten years later, Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea’s hopes for her future remain unfulfilled.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Penguin Books.

How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammond family is living in DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that the oldest daughter, Tilly, is developing abnormally–a mix of off-the-charts genius and social incompetence. Once Tilly is kicked out of the last school in the area, the family turns to Camp Harmony and the wisdom of child behavior guru Scott Bean for a solution. But what they discover in the woods of New Hampshire will push them to the very limit.