October’s Hot List features simultaneous releases—ReadHowYouWant’s large print and accessible editions available at the same time as the original editions:
Endangered: Biodiversity on the Brink by Mitch Tobin (Fulcrum Publishing)—
“Tobin—with meticulously researched reportage and a hands-on approach—reminds readers that the American Southwest is the real ground zero in the ongoing battle to better manage and protect the nation’s precious wildlife,” praises Pasatiempo. Urban sprawl, wasteful water use, increasingly ferocious wildlife, changing weather patterns, and chronic political infighting. These are but a few of the problems facing animal and plant species throughout the United States and the world. Award-winning journalist Mitch Tobin reports from the front lines of the Endangered Species Act, using America’s hottest, driest, fastest-growing region—the Southwest—as a snapshot of the complex and myriad issues confronting imperiled species. Click here to learn more about this title, or to purchase it in large print and accessible formats.
The New Kid by Temple Mathews (BenBella Books)—A Young Adult Mystery
Will Hunter is used to being the New Kid—Harrisburg High School is his fifth new school in less than three years. By now, he knows not to be fooled by the bright pep rallies, the wholesome jocks, the innocent cheerleaders. He knows the evil lurking underneath. It’s the same evil that took his dad eight years ago—the same evil he battles every day. And Natalie Holand’s life fell apart the night her sister Emily disappeared. No one believes her when she tells them what she saw: yellow and green eyes, glowing beneath the surface of the water in which Emily supposedly drowned. And Emily isn’t the only person to go missing in Harrisburg lately. The town is changing, not for the better, and Natalie doesn’t know why. What she does know is that, whatever’s happening is bad, and the New Kid is right in the middle of it, because Will’s got a secret even bigger than Harrisburg’s…and there’s more to it than even he knows. Click here to learn more about this title, or to purchase it in large print and accessible formats.
The October Hot List also features popular titles to help inspire, inform, and entertain you:
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God’s Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People by Jim Cymbala (Zondervan)
The Brooklyn Tabernacle has become world-famous as a church of miracles, a church that has flourished amidst the poverty and crime of one of Brooklyn's harshest, most unforgiving neighborhoods. A place where professional men and women, former prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, homeless people, and transvestites gather to worship their powerful and merciful God. This is a book that will lead you on a journey to spiritual awakening. In it, Jim Cymbala, pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, shares the cry of God to renew and revive his people—to call us back from spiritual dead ends leading only to apathy and lukewarm religion. This is a book that will break your heart and restore your vision. It will lead you into a deeper experience of all that God intends for your life. Click here to learn more about this title, or to purchase it in large print and accessible formats.
Angel Face: The True Story of Student Killer Amanda Knox by Barbie Latza Nadeau (Beast Books)
“Angel Face is a brilliant postmortem of the most fascinating and disturbing true crime in recent memory,” states Linda Fairstein, author and former sex crimes prosecutor. Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it’s still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau—who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense—describes how the Knox family’s heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy’s justice system. Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime. Click here to learn more about this title, or to purchase it in large print and accessible formats.
Painting Caitlyn by Kimberly Joy Peters (Lobster Press)—Perfect for Grades 9 and Up
Like many teen girls, Caitlyn is having a tough time. She feels ignored by her mother and step-father who are obsessed with having a baby, her best friend is always blowing her off for a boyfriend, and she's struggling in art, her favorite subject. Caitlyn is completely depressed—then Tyler enters her life, and seems to make her problems disappear. Older, gorgeous, and totally into Caitlyn, he makes Caitlyn feel important, needed, and special. But just as things get serious, Caitlyn discovers Tyler’s jealous side. Once she realizes her "perfect" boyfriend is as controlling as he is caring, she is faced with a choice—she can either let this relationship define her, or find the courage to break away. This emotionally-charged story about teen dating and abusive relationships touches upon first love, sexual peer pressure, family dysfunction, and the need for young women to empower themselves. Booklist praised “…this is more than just a simple problem novel. The characters are drawn with real complexity, and the first-person narrative shows the contradiction between attractive, romantic, contrite Tyler and the bullying boy who is not always in control…” Click here to learn more about this title, or to purchase it in large print and accessible formats.
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