HeyJaredReader's Forecast
What's on the horizon this week at our local bookstores? In Reader's Forecast, host Sam Vacik invites you to take a look at new releases in a wide variety of genres, authors (both new and established), subjects, and more.
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The Official Barman's Guide to Body Language (opens the original)
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Pack your umbrellas for a week practically full of rain and storms, ranging from animal dark fantasy and scifi novels reflecting on humans and our humanity to three women's fiction exploring love, loss, and family. Three debut authors balance the inclusion of three war era historical fiction novels — one following a Jewish barman in Nazi-occupied Paris (based on a true story), one featuring two Japanese teens interned in Arizona in WW2, and the last following two academics turned spy to trace a
Food Doesn't Time Travel Well (opens the original)
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Time travelers break out through time in showers of time-wimey storms from time traveling agencies that promised safe trips to the past as we explore generational stories of farming through the Great Recession and scientific breakthroughs in farming. We will have fun with a satirical dinner party and see the rainbow through a murder mystery. And if that doesn’t scratch your reading itch, there is also some fantasy and fantastical beasts lurking around the road a war dog takes to find a home. Sti
Tangled Histories, and Where to Fantasize Them! (opens the original)
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Here we go: exploring tangled histories and where to fantasize them. Should history be fantasized in Hong Kong, Japan, the USA, Afghanistan, Italy, a fictional land, or elsewhere? Wherever we go, we’re sure to run into stormy weather with dark high fantasy in fictional land, a paranormal murder mystery in the USA, and a historical fiction in Hong Kong. Lest you believe the lies that our skies are dark and in shadow, bring out the sun with an African American historical fiction and a satirical bu
Curiosity Killed the Crime Writer (opens the original)
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Choose: a mystery crime writer who must solve a murder with an imaginary detective, a historical fantasy involving magic and the queens of Henry VIII, or romantic sci fi graphic novel of a teen who finds ancient fashion clothes in the depths of the submerged NYC that grant access to the rich upriver? Either way, you’re guaranteed a fun time as we explore new worlds and new civilizations to boldly read where no one has read before… Tune in with the host to review 9 new novels cover to cover in th
Make Nice, Not Heist! (opens the original)
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Cloud heists getting you down in this era of the data empire? What does an astronaut have to do with an authoritarian Romanian regime in 1989? Don’t want to “make nice” with the Cloak and Dagger Club? Don’t worry! All of this hot and humid weather’s got nothing on this forecast’s selection of books, featuring a cloud heist thriller, a golden age murder mystery club, pioneering women, an assassin with sing magic in a romantasy while an immortal chases a time traveler in a romascifi, and more! The
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