Author: Devin Service

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by St. Martin’s Press.

A #1 New York Times bestseller

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen.

His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend dumped him, and there’s a monster running around wearing Simon’s face. Baz, his roommate and nemesis, would be having a field day with all this, if he were here—it’s their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and he hasn’t shown up.

Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, and a mystery. It has as much kissing and talking as you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell story—but far more monsters.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by HarperOne, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Much advice about achievement is logical, earnest… and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success. You’ll learn:

· Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires
· How your biggest weakness might be your greatest strength
· Lessons about cooperation from gangs, pirates, and serial killers

· The Navy SEAL secret to “grit”

· How to find work-life balance from Genghis Khan, Albert Einstein, and Spider-Man

By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn how to be more like them—and discover why it’s sometimes good that we aren’t.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Traitor’s Kiss by Erin Beaty.

An obstinate girl who will not be married.
A soldier desperate to prove himself.
A kingdom on the brink of war.

With a sharp tongue and an unruly temper, Sage Fowler is not what they’d call a proper lady—which is perfectly fine with her. Deemed unfit for a suitable marriage, Sage is apprenticed to a matchmaker and tasked with wrangling other young ladies to be married off for political alliances. She spies on the girls—and on the soldiers escorting them.

As the girls’ military escort senses a political uprising, Sage is recruited by a handsome soldier to infiltrate the enemy ranks. The more she discovers as a spy, the less certain she becomes about whom to trust—and Sage becomes caught in a dangerous balancing act that will determine the fate of her kingdom.

With secret identities and a tempestuous romance, Erin Beaty’s The Traitor’s Kiss is full of intrigue, espionage, and lies.

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Flatiron Books.

For Flannery Fields, the only respite from the plaid-skirted mean girls at Sacred Heart High is her beloved teacher Miss Sweeney’s AP English class. But when Miss Sweeney doesn’t show up, leaving behind her purse and a copy of Wuthering Heights, Flannery knows something is wrong. Dear Reader is “a story for anyone who believes in the power of books to help you figure out your life and remind you to go out and live it.” (Book Riot)

Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Radium Girls by Kate Moore.

The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.
Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories—the glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive – until they begin to fall mysteriously ill. As the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come.