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Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Joan Goodwin, a reserved physics professor and astronomy enthusiast, is content with her quiet life until she sees an advertisement for the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Selected in the summer of 1980, Joan begins rigorous training at Johnson Space Center alongside a diverse and exceptional group of fellow candidates, including pilot Hank Redmond, driven scientist Lydia Danes, and the magnetic engineer Vanessa Ford. As this unlikely crew prepares for their first missions, Joan discovers new passions and a love that makes her question her place in the universe. But on mission STS-LR9 in December 1984, everything changes in an instant.
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
Throughout her life Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings around half past ten Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has. A mother, grandmother, wife, divorcée, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.
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When the Wolf Comes Home
by Nat Cassidy
One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, Jess slowly comes to a horrifying understanding of the butchery that follows them--the boy can turn his every fear into reality. And when the wolf finally comes home, no one will be spared.
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Cat's People
by Tanya Guerrero
Núria, a single-by-choice barista who volunteers with The Meow-Yorkers to care for Brooklyn's stray cats, is baffled when she starts finding Post-It notes from a secret admirer near her favorite feline, a black cat named Cat. While the sly animal knows the identity of the mysterious admirer, Núria is clueless. Is it Collin, the hermit author? Lily, the searching teen? Omar, the mailman in crisis? Or Bong, the grieving widower? When Cat suddenly falls ill, these five strangers are drawn together in their desire to help him, proving that chance encounters can forge the meaningful connections they've all been searching for.
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Sunrise on the Reaping (the Hunger Games)
by Suzanne Collins
As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight... and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.
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Can't Spell Treason Without Tea: A Cozy Fantasy Steeped with Love
by Rebecca Thorne
Guard Reyna and powerful mage Kianthe dream of a quiet life running a bookshop that serves tea. But Reyna works for the Queen, and Kianthe is the most powerful mage in the realm. After an assassin targets Reyna, she decides she's through risking her life for a self-centered monarch. Kianthe, eager to flee her own responsibilities, readily agrees. They settle in the dragon-filled town of Tawney to open their dream shop. What follows is a cozy tale of mishaps, mysteries, and a murderous queen throwing a kingdom-wide temper tantrum. In this story brimming with hurt/comfort, the two women discover what they truly mean to each other—and the world.
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Listen for the Lie
by Amy Tintera
Years ago, Lucy was the golden girl of her small Texas town—until she was found covered in the blood of her best friend, Savvy. With no memory of the horrible night, everyone branded Lucy a murderer. Now living a new life in LA, Lucy is forced to return home when the phenomenally popular true crime podcast, Listen for the Lie, decides to investigate Savvy's unsolved murder for its second season. With the podcast's handsome host hot on her trail, Lucy must confront the past and solve her friend's killing, even if it means proving she is the killer.
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All My Rage
by Sabaa Tahir
Misbah and Toufiq, new immigrants reeling from tragedy, open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel in Juniper, California. Years later, their son Salahudin (Sal) is scrambling to manage the failing motel as his mother's health declines and his father succumbs to alcoholism. Estranged from his former best friend Noor after a devastating fight, Sal must now team up with her, as she secretly works toward escaping the town and her wrathful uncle, to save the motel. A poignant novel about young love, old regrets, and the ferocity of forgiveness.
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
From one of the most inspiring lawyers of our time, Bryan Stevenson, this unforgettable true story calls for mercy and an end to mass incarceration. Just Mercy chronicles Stevenson’s founding of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor and wrongly condemned. The book details EJI's successful campaigns—from challenging the sentencing of children to die in prison to confronting America's history of racial injustice. Central is the case of Walter McMillian, a young Black man wrongly sentenced to death, which exemplifies how the death penalty is a direct descendant of lynching, disproportionately punishing the poor and innocent.
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The Unbreakable Boy: A Father's Fear, a Son's Courage, and a Story of Unconditional Love
by Scott Michael Lerette
Austin is an eighteen-year-old who loves movies, dancing, and pizza. But unlike most teens, he has a rare brittle-bone disease, is autistic, and was locked in a mental ward as a child. Yet Austin doesn't let these challenges stop him; a broken back is a minor inconvenience, and the quest for a strawberry shake is the ultimate adventure. Written by Austin's father, Scott, and New York Times best-selling author Susy Flory, The Unbreakable Boy is a beautiful, often humorous true story of how Austin teaches everyone he encounters, especially his father, to have faith, trust in God, and believe that miracles and joy are possible every day.
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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer uses the simple act of harvesting Serviceberries to explore the ethic of reciprocity at the heart of the gift economy. While our current economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and hoarding, the Serviceberry tree embodies interconnectedness and gratitude, distributing its abundant wealth to ensure its own survival and the health of its community. Kimmerer asks: How can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value, finding that "wealth and security come from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency?”
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
by Ina Garten
For the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring memoir. While her accomplishments look effortless, they are the result of hard work and audacious choices. In her unmistakable voice, Ina chronicles her remarkable journey: from a difficult childhood and marrying the love of her life, Jeffrey, to leaving a boring government job to buy the Barefoot Contessa specialty food store. Her story details decades of personal challenges, unexpected career twists, and how she became a bestselling cookbook author and celebrated television host. Delivered with her signature playfulness, Ina shares key life lessons: Do what you love, swing for the fences, and always Be Ready When the Luck Happens.
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This Changes Everything: A Surprisingly Funny Story about Race, Cancer, Faith, and Other Things We Don't Talk about
by Tyler Merritt
When Tyler Merritt was diagnosed with cancer, everything he thought he knew about what mattered in life changed. This Changes Everything is a humorous and optimistic love letter to this beautiful life. Though he made it through a highly invasive surgery and thought he was in the clear, Tyler soon realized that the cancer had other plans. It wasn’t a question of if the tumor would come back for an encore, his doctors told him. It was a question of when. Laced with Tyler’s trademark humor, love of pop culture, and arguably too many musical theater references, This Changes Everything is a story about how wrestling with the idea of death can birth a whole new outlook on life, how we live it, and the urgency that comes when you grasp that time is a precious commodity.
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My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver
by Martin J. Schreiber
Former governor of Wisconsin Marty Schreiber has seen his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman who had gracefully entertained in the Executive Residence to one who sometimes no longer recognizes him as her husband. In My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver, Marty candidly counsels those taking on this caregiving role. More than an account of Marty's struggles in caring for his wife, My Two Elaines also offers sage advice that respects the one with Alzheimer's while maintaining the caregiver's health. As two-thirds of those with Alzheimer's are women, he offers special guidance for men thrust into an unexpected job. With patience, adaptability, and even a sense of humor, Marty shows how love continues for his Second Elaine.
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
by Sharon McMahon
In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often the ordinary people history textbooks overlook—not the presidents or aristocrats, but the telephone operators and schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, McMahon brings to light the rich, riveting stories of history's unsung characters. Readers will meet a woman riding a white horse down Pennsylvania Ave, a formerly enslaved woman seeking her daughter, and a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp. This is a book about what truly made America great, featuring a cast of improbable champions who light the path toward a more just, peaceful, and free world.
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