Title: The Night SwimAuthor: Megan Goldin Genre: Mystery, ThrillerPublished On: August 4, 2020Publisher: St. Martin’s PressSource: ebookPages: 352 Synopsis: (CW: Rape, sexual assault, murder) After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name―and the last hope for thousands of …
Title: The VacationAuthor: T.M. Logan Genre: ThrillerPublished On: July 21, 2020Publisher: St. Martin’s PressSource: ebookPages: 384 Synopsis: Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday – a group of families enjoying a week together in the sun. Four women who have been best friends for as long as they can …
Hello Readers! We’ve made it past the middle of the year. As Covid-19 is ramping back up here in our area, it feels like this is a year that may never end. But it will! Someday we will be able to see our friends, family, and favorite bookstores again. It’s important that we don’t grow …
Title: Dear Emmie BlueAuthor: Lia Louis Genre: Contemporary RomancePublished On: July 14, 2020Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler BooksSource: ebookPages: 320 Synopsis: At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, …
Title: Girl, Serpent, ThornAuthor: Melissa Bashardoust Genre: Young Adult, FantasyPublished On: July 7, 2020Publisher: Flatiron BooksSource: physicalPages: 336 Synopsis: A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse… There was and there was not, as all stories …
Title: The Invincible Summer of Juniper JonesAuthor: Daven McQueen Genre: Young Adult, Historical FictionPublished On: June 16, 2020Publisher: Wattpad BooksSource: ebookPages: 312 Synopsis: It’s the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he’s sent to spend the summer with his …
Title: Ordinary GirlsAuthor: Jaquira Díaz Genre: MemoirPublished On: October 29, 2019 (Paperback on June 16, 2020)Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: ebookPages: 336 Synopsis: One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping “There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than …
Hello Readers! I hope you’re safe and well during these distressing times. I’m a few days late with my June TBR (to-be-read), but it gave me more time to shift a few books around. Wanting to contribute whatever positivity I can right now, I decided to add more black authors and/or books with black characters …
Title: Again AgainAuthor: E. LockhartGenre: Young AdultPublished On: June 2, 2020Publisher: Delacorte PressSource: digital copyPages: 304 Synopsis: In this novel full of surprises from the New York Timesbestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud, E. Lockhart ups the ante with an inventive and romantic story about human connection, forgiveness, self-discovery, and possibility. If you could live your …
Title: Hollywood ParkAuthor: Mikel JollettGenre: MemoirPublished On: May 26, 2020Publisher: Celadon BooksSource: physical copyPages: 384 Synopsis: “Hollywood Park is a triumph.” ~O, The Oprah Magazine Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and …
