Lynn Walker grew up the carefree daughter of a Miami undercover narcotics agent—until her father slipped out of the house one night without a backward glance and disappeared. She didn’t find out what happened to him until high school, when she discovered he was in federal prison for drug smuggling. By then, Lynn had already developed a dangerous drug and alcohol habit of her own. The timing was not coincidental. When her father was paroled, the only connection she could find to him was the one thing they had in common: cocaine. The first time they used together, she was eighteen. The last time, she was twenty-one. In those three years, she lost everything and everyone she cared about—and was ultimately forced to make the hardest choice of her life: her father or her life. Lynn Walker delivers the National Indie Excellence Award–winning memoir that BookLife called “brilliantly engaging” and “a compelling story of resilience against the odds.” 📚
Walker writes with the novelistic tension and unflinching honesty that distinguishes the best addiction memoirs—the pull toward her father is rendered with genuine compassion rather than easy judgment, and the specific Miami drug trafficking world of the era is depicted with insider authority. BookLife praised her “knack for building tension and nail-biting scenarios.” 🔍
Walker spent years working with at-risk high school students whose parents were addicts. Midnight Calling is the first book in a trilogy; Breaking Midnight covers events from her father’s perspective. ⭐
Why this matters: The first time she used cocaine with her father she was eighteen—the last time she was twenty-one—and everything in between is the story.
Kylie Cain is not your standard CIA operative. She is an audial telepath—she can hear thoughts—and she works for PSI: Psychic Sensory Intelligence, the black ops division of the CIA that nobody officially acknowledges. When a faction of rogue operatives calling themselves WON (World Order Now) kidnaps eleven-year-old Hope Mitchell—a girl with rare and potentially world-altering psychic abilities—Kylie is given the assignment of her career. The girl feels familiar to Kylie at a level she can’t quite explain, like a resonance she’s drawn toward. Getting Hope back means going up against organized enemies who are well-funded, well-trained, and don’t share PSI’s reservations about collateral damage. J.R. Rain and A.K. Alexander open the PSI Trilogy with the paranormal spy thriller that one Amazon reviewer called “a whole new kind of paranormal thriller—set aside an afternoon and be prepared to be thoroughly entertained.” 🔍
Rain and Alexander write with the fast-paced, chapter-short style that defines their separate catalogs—the book reads in a single sitting, the action starts immediately, and the psychic mechanics are kept accessible rather than complicated. Sexual tension runs throughout alongside the danger. Reviewers describe it as potentially their favorite J.R. Rain series. 💙
Rain is an ex-private investigator and bestselling author of over 60 novels. Alexander is a bestselling thriller author of over 40 books. The PSI Trilogy runs three completed books. ⭐
Why this grips you: A CIA telepath is sent to rescue a psychic girl who may be the link to other worlds—from operatives willing to go further than she is.
In the space of a few weeks, Victoria lost her job, her fiancé, and every plan she thought was solid. Then came the inheritance: a rundown farmhouse in the small country town of Whispers—the kind of place she never imagined ending up. Renovating it was supposed to be her fresh start. Sparring with the grumpy, infuriatingly handsome billionaire next door was absolutely not part of the plan. Tanner Whiteman owns the largest whiskey distillery in the country, he is considerably older than her, and he wants her land. It is the only thing Victoria has to her name, and she is not selling. He tells her she’s not cut out for country life. She tells him he has no idea what she’s capable of. But as the tension between them turns electric and the lines between rivalry and something far more dangerous begin to blur, something arrives in Whispers that neither of them was ready for—something vicious and unexpected, and not even the most powerful man in town saw it coming. Samantha Skye opens the Billionaires of Whispers series with the small-town romantic suspense that reviewers call spicy, sweet, and impossible to put down. 💕
Skye writes with the dual city-girl-meets-country-world charm and genuine suspense that has made her an Amazon Top 50 bestselling author. The age-gap dynamic between Victoria and Tanner gives the romance its specific tension, and the suspense element arrives with enough force to shift the stakes entirely. 🔍
Skye is an Amazon Top 50 and international bestselling author based in Melbourne, Australia. The Billionaires of Whispers series runs multiple books. ⭐
Why this hooks you: She inherited a rundown farmhouse, the billionaire next door wants her land, and neither of them saw what was coming for the town of Whispers.
Famesick
When Lena Dunham sold the pilot of Girls at twenty-four, the decade that followed was one of the most publicly scrutinized careers in recent television history—and one of the most privately punishing lives she could have imagined. Famesick traces her rise to fame in three acts, from the early days of Tiny Furniture and Girls through the production years, the cancellations, the cultural controversies, a Klonopin addiction, a long series of devastating health crises, and countless surgeries for endometriosis and other conditions. The book asks an honest question: at what point does the pursuit of your dream stop being brave and start being something closer to compulsion? When you can’t tell the difference between doing what you love and being a servant to your own ambition. All while vomiting in a bathroom when she was supposed to be meeting Oprah, or terrifying the people who loved her. Lena Dunham delivers the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that Harper’s Bazaar called “the kind of honesty that Dunham has made her creative signature.” 📚
Dunham spent seven years writing this book—she began it thirty days out of rehab—and the result is considerably more clear-eyed than her debut memoir Not That Kind of Girl. Slate called it “shocking and funny, clear-eyed and contextualized.” W Magazine described it as Dunham “at her most ruthlessly self-deprecating.” 🔍
Dunham is the writer, director, and star of the HBO series Girls. Famesick was published April 14, 2026 by Random House to immediate bestseller status. New release. ⭐
Why this matters: Lena Dunham’s account of what fame actually costs—the addiction, the illness, the ambition she couldn’t switch off—written over seven years and told without flinching—new release.
Food Network Magazine’s June/July 2026 issue arrives just in time for peak grilling season and the long stretch of summer cooking when everyone wants recipes that are fast, crowd-pleasing, and worth repeating. Each summer double-issue is among the most popular of the year, packed with seasonal recipes built around what’s fresh and abundant in June and July—grilled mains, no-fuss sides, cold salads, summer desserts, and the kind of weekend project recipes that justify firing up the oven just once. The issue also features the signature Food Network blend of cook profiles, kitchen tips, restaurant recommendations, and the practical weeknight-friendly content that has made it one of the highest-circulation food magazines in the country. New release. 🍉
Late 1944. Allied forces are grinding toward the German heartland and the Littlefield family—scattered across the theater of war—are each fighting their own piece of it. Jeremy, the daring RAF pilot who escaped Dunkirk and has been flying missions ever since, pushes deeper into a waning but still deadly empire alongside Amelie, the courageous ambulance driver equally devoted to saving lives and to Jeremy himself. At Bletchley Park, Claire races against time to crack enemy codes that could save thousands—haunted by the fear that her warnings might be ignored. In France, Paul advances through liberated villages and confronts the unspeakable realities of a hidden Nazi prison camp, fueling his mission with a fury that grows with every atrocity he uncovers. And in Colditz Castle, Lance is running out of time—and choosing to fight back. Lee Jackson delivers Book 9 of the After Dunkirk series. 📚
Jackson—a West Point graduate and former Army infantry officer who spent 38 months deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan—writes with the procedural accuracy and genuine respect for his historical subjects that has made the After Dunkirk series a WSJ bestseller. Each installment follows the same Littlefield family forward through the war, building emotional stakes across the full arc. Best read in sequence. 🔍
Jackson is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the After Dunkirk series and the Reluctant Assassin spy thrillers. Crossing the Rhine was published June 9, 2026. New release. ⭐
Why this matters: A pilot, a cryptologist, a soldier liberating prison camps, and a POW in Colditz—the Littlefield family’s WWII saga reaches the final push toward Germany—new release.