The favorite day of the week for any book lover is Tuesday, for all the new book releases to discover! All those new titles ready to be read, reviewed, and recommended to your friends and family. Here are a couple new titles this week that have my interest. Happy Reading!
Regime Change
by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Okay, I know this book is different from what Wallflower Bookshop typically carries, but I can’t resist. Go Team Algae!
Anyway, I’m intrigued by the gossip-y details trickling out; after listening to some of my politics podcasts. I’m so nosy, I promptly went to Libby and put the audiobook on hold (the wait is literal months, sigh). Probably by the time the hold becomes available I won’t care to torture myself with this book anymore. But for now, the hot takes have me beyond nosy.
Book Description:
A riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time.
From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else, comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump’s second presidency—a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him “no” are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state. An imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone.
Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room; into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East; and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors.
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan bring us behind the scenes of a presidency that has transformed the culture, turned the Justice Department into an agent of retribution; and the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a second term propelled by a historical irony that Trump himself has come to understand: that the indictments, the convictions, the assassination attempts, and four years of exile made him not weaker, but far more powerful, more vengeful, and more willing to gamble.
This is the story of how Trump has used that power. Who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds—and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power. It is an account of Regime Change right here in America—a landmark real-time history of a modern presidency like no other.
Scandal of the Summer
by Alexandra Vasti
I try to read all of Alexandra Vasti’s Regency romances with a modern-day sensibility. And Scandal of the Summer sounds like the perfect light-hearted read for the summer heat that has finally hit. Feisty main character, check; Roguish love interest, check; opposites attract with hints of a heist, or smuggling (?), double check. I can’t wait to dive into this one.
Book Description:
A desperate debutante meets a ragtag smuggler in this sexy Regency romp by USA Today bestselling author Alexandra Vasti.
Eccentric heiress Lady Ruby Ballimore has had enough of the Marriage Mart. After offending yet another Very Important Marquess—and imperiling her father’s diplomatic career—Ruby flees London for the holiday house of a glamorous (and better yet, absent) princess. Armed with a forged invitation and accompanied by her like-minded friends, Ruby arrives at the Cornwall estate expecting a summer of blissful freedom.
Instead, she discovers a derelict mansion and the most suspiciously charming man she’s ever met.
Former privateer and current con artist Captain Malcolm Archer has dragged his ramshackle crew into a new life. Posing as staff at a princess’s abandoned estate provides the perfect cover for Archer’s smuggling scheme (not to mention free rent). Everything’s going according to plan—until an unorthodox London heiress crashes the party.
But when Archer and his crew attempt to frighten off their uninvited guests, Ruby’s unfazed by insect invasions and sham sea monsters. Harder to ignore? The scorching heat between the rakish pirate and the debutante who can see right through him. As sparks fly, deceptions run wild—because in this Great Cornish Fake Off, the only thing riskier than telling the truth is falling in love.
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