Warm Weather, Hot Reads & Dyslexia Strategies

Fur Baby Matchmaker on a Mission

Joint Custody by Lauren Baratz-Logsted & Jackie Logsted -contemporary

Sex, Lies & Conspiracies

Earl’s Well That Ends Well (Way to a Lord's Heart #5) by Jane Ashford -historical

No Holding Back by Lori Foster -contemporary

Walking the Edge by Sue Ward Drake -contemporary

Who Wants to Marry a Duke (Duke Dynasty #3) by Sabrina Jefferies -historical

A Wolf After My Own Heart (BeWere My Heart #2) by MaryJanice Davidson -contemporary

Won't Go Home Without You (Richardson Sisters #2) by Cheris Hodges -contemporary

Seri(es)ous Reading

Any Rogue Will Do (Misfits of Mayfair #1) by Bethany Bennett -historical

Beauty Tempts the Beast (Sins for All Seasons #6) by Lorraine Heath -historical

• More an assortment of clever twists on “My Fair Lady" than a retelling of “Beauty and the Beast"

Careless Whispers (Jackson Falls #4) by Synithia Williams -contemporary

Falling Hard (Colorado High Country #3) by Pamela Clare -contemporary

Tempting Fate (Colorado High Country #4) by Pamela Clare -contemporary

Ravish Me with Rubies (London Jewels #3) by Jane Feather -historical

Growing Pains

The Somerset Girls by Lori Foster -contemporary

Top Secret by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy -contemporary

Tips on Focusing for People with Different Ways of Seeing & Being

Handy Health Guide to Dyslexia by Alvin & Virginia Silverstein & Laura Silverstein Nunn The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity dyslexia.yale.edu

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New Arrivals Giving BRBF Vibes + BAC Issues

Even as my friends and I enjoyed a fantastic community event yesterday in and around the Bowie Branch of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System, there was envy in my heart for all of the attendees and participants at the Black Romance Book Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. Reports of issues of crowding just made me happy for the event organizers' success while they posted apologies and corrective strategies for crowd control during the last day. In the meantime, the new arrivals shelves at the closest library in the neighboring county offered a variety of books by BRBF authors. "Where the Melanated Are Celebrated" indeed. [9 books, from left to right: Positive Obsession, Communion, Big Girl Blitz (atop a bookstack), The Started Ex, Fire Sword & Sea, Leave Your Mess at Home, Archangel's Eternity, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, First Sign of Danger] Currently reading Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Mo...

When What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Funny

Need to laugh out loud? To feel inspired? To feel seen? To feel encouraged to pursue your heart's most ambitious desires despite overwhelming odds against succeeding? Read Zarna Garg's memoir, which offers an intimate, compelling coming of age, immigrant's journey, family saga, and keen observations about humans and life as experienced by a hilarious, intrepid individual. [front cover of "Zarna Garg, This American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir" showing the Statue of Liberty holding the author in her arms with the New York City skyline in the lower half of the background] This American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg non-fiction memoir Ballantine Books, April 2025 Universal themes of family love and family conflict, support and abandonment, grieving as a years' long process with lulls, parenting and being parented (or not), finding your people in friendship, romance, community presented and dissected with the author's sharp wit ...

Legacies of Octavia Butler & June BAC Issues

It's so exciting to read about a trailblazer who was ethical, thoughtful, generous, and funny in addition to being diligent and multifaceted. [Positive Obsession atop a bookstack of 7 books - The Last Lady B spine showing, then 6 books showing page edges; Communion propped to the left of the bookstack] Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris non-fiction biography Amistad, 2025 Opening with a quote from Parable of the Sower, this biographer uses every word in the O.E.B. chronology, author's note, introduction, six chapters, epilogue, and acknowledgements to engage readers in an intimate personal study of this extraordinary, talented, driven woman who was vulnerable and complicated in her brilliant humanity. The author's access to the O.E.B. archives adds layers of emotional depth that enrich the context of the details of the author's personal life and creative and professional development. from the Author's Note:...

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