February is a strange month, we have a new title from Salman Rushdie, and Pamela Anderson, what an odd couple. The list for this month includes Fiction, Non-Fiction, Romance and mysteries. There is enough new Kindle ebooks here for someone to find a new author or title they want to read.
Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth. by Pamela Anderson
B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate
Christie is bright, messy, and big hearted, with a propensity to endlessly dissect her failed romances but glaze over her friendships that fizzled. Until a kind, and unexpected, moment with Meredith (quieter, wise in an almost intimidating way) catches her off guard and opens her up to rethinking everything. Christie and Meredith don’t share the same neighborhood, age, hang-ups, or sensibilities, and yet their relationship grows so close it transcends friendship to become an honest, aspirational camaraderie—an authentic bond that’s easy to crave in this digitally detached world. Tate gives voice to the insecurities that plague so many people (especially women) in an ebullient, relatable way that will make you laugh out loud, nod your head in agreement, and examine your own feelings about every friend you’ve ever had.
8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go by Jay Shetty
Jay Shetty has a top-ranked podcast, On Purpose, millions of followers on social media (and literally billions of views on YouTube), and his last book, Think Like a Monk, was not only a best-seller and one of our favorites, but it also has more than 31,000 positive customer reviews on Amazon. So to say the world is excited for his follow-up may be an understatement. In 8 Rules of Love, Shetty gives us the tools to love ourselves before committing to anyone else. It’s part guide, part memoir, a conversation with your enlightened friend, and a fascinating mix of ancient wisdom applied to modern times.
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano
Fans disappointed that Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books remain a one-book-a-year series would be well advised to add the Finley Donovan series to your rotation of fast, funny, fearless femmes. In this third book, Russian mob boss Feliks—who helped Finlay out of a fix in the last book—gives Finlay two weeks to locate a contract killer—by the name of EasyClean—who’s been blackmailing him. Since this assassin may also be a police officer, the logical thing to do would be for Finlay and her sidekick/kid’s nanny Vero to use the citizen’s police academy which is being opened by hot cop Nick as cover, to find the assassin. What could possibly go wrong?
Exiles by Jane Harper
Jane Harper’s latest is a mesmerizing swirl of spot-on character studies and atmospheric plot lines that perfectly captures the conundrum of small town life, where residents’ routines are known to all, but their inner conflicts are disquietingly concealed. A year ago, Kim Gillespie’s infant daughter was found in her stroller, which was parked in a buggy bay at a local wine festival. No trace of Kim remained, besides a lone white shoe floating in the river nearby. What would make a mother abandon her child? As Falk and his fellow cop and friend investigate, they find that love and answers have one maddening thing in common: sometimes, the harder you push for each, the more elusive it becomes, and “the little things you could have done differently, that was the stuff that haunted you.” Harper structures this riveting missing person story so masterfully that when it builds to its apex, there’s no showy thunderclap of revelation, but a dawning, like the soft, satisfying snick of a key turning in a lock.
The Second You’re Single by Cara Tanamachi
This funny and entertaining rom-com stars Sora, a freelance writer who is done with romance. Better yet, she is done with all themes of love—including Valentine’s Day. So Sora decides to launch a “Solo February Challenge,” #GoSolo—where she’ll blog her bitter experience with love and provide daily advice for readers on why to stay single. Each chapter opens up with a quote from the blog, which I loved. Sora also plans to spend February eating as much bacon as possible while cuddling with her pooch, Larry. As you might expect, fate has different plans. A chance meeting with a childhood friend complicates Sora’s ability to successfully finish the challenge.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.