Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library Reader Advisory Blog: Best New Romance Books

Looking for romance books with smart women and vivid, compelling story lines? Look no further than your Community Library where we have the BEST new romance titles that have been published in the past few months!

Bedding Lord Ned by Sally MacKenzie is the first in a new historical series about long separated childhood friends Nell and Ned and Ned's matchmaker mother, Lady "Venus" Valentine.

In The Night is Mine, M.L. Buchman sends chef and helicopter pilot Emily on special assignment to the White House where she encounters a surprise villain and a forbidden love.

Rainshadow Road is the first in a new paranormal romance trilogy by Lisa Kleypas. Emotionally riveting, it follows the relationship between romance leery glass artist Lucy and Sam, who is not now and may never be ready, for a committed relationship.

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5

"Being Mortal is about the limitations of what modern medicine can provide for people as their lives draw to a close. Gawande argues that the objective of medicine should not merely be treatment and survival; medical care should also ensure dignity in death and having control over one's final moments. He argues that instead of aggressively fighting the inescapable realities of aging, we should ask the hard questions of ourselves and our loved ones -- What makes life worth living? When should we try to extend our lives, and when should we choose a better quality of our remaining days over extending their quantity?

This book is difficult to read. Not because of the way Gawande writes -- his style is highly engaging, and he never lapses into excessively scientific jargon or overly simplistic explanations -- but because of the tough subject matter. Gawande draws on his own experiences as a doctor and peppers his book with honest and humane stories of his patients, friends, and family; the stories he tells make the book more accessible, and also more heartbreaking. (And that's not a bad thing.)

No one likes to think about their loved ones', or their own, impending mortality. But it's important to have these hard conversations, because as Gawande says, "endings matter." - Amanda

Best New Romance Books

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