Title: A Summer to RememberAuthor: Erika Montgomery Genre: RomancePublished On: May 11, 2021Publisher: St. Martin’s PressSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 320 Synopsis: Erika Montgomery’s A Summer to Remember is “an unforgettable tale of love, loss and finding your place that glitters as brightly as the golden age of Hollywood.”–Kristy Woodson Harvey, USA Today Bestselling author of Feels Like Falling Best Debut Novels of …
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Highlight Book Review | Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Title: MoxieAuthor: Jennifer MathieuGenre: Young AdultPublished On: September 19, 2017Publisher: Roaring Brook PressSource: digitalPages: 335 Synopsis: MOXIE GIRLS FIGHT BACK! Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with an administration at her high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment, and gross comments from …
ARC Book Review | Sunshine Girl by Julianna Margulies
Title: Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected LifeAuthor: Julianna Margulies Genre: Memoir, NonfictionPublished On: May 4, 2021Publisher: Ballantine BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 256 Synopsis: Known for her outstanding performances on the groundbreaking television series The Good Wife and ER, Julianna Margulies deftly chronicles her life and her work in this deeply powerful memoir. “At once a tender coming-of-age story and a deeply …
ARC Review | Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Title: Project Hail MaryAuthor: Andy WeirGenre: Science FictionPublished On: May 4, 2021Publisher: Ballantine BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 496 Synopsis: Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let …
ARC Book Review | Hurricane Summer by Asha Bromfield
Title: Hurricane SummerAuthor: Asha Bromfield Genre: Young AdultPublished On: May 4, 2021Publisher: Wednesday BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 400 Synopsis: CW: classism, racism, sexism, physical and verbal abuse, sexual assault, rape, abortion (mentioned), infidelity, grief, and deathTilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves their family and …
ARC Book Review | Anchored Hearts by Priscilla Oliveras
Title: Anchored HeartsAuthor: Priscilla Oliveras Genre: RomancePublished On: April 27, 2021Publisher: Kensington BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 352 Synopsis: Award-winning photographer Alejandro Miranda hasn’t been home to Key West in years–not since he left to explore broader horizons with his papi’s warning echoing in his ears. He wouldn’t be heading there now if it wasn’t for an injury …
Highlight Book Review | We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Title: We Are Not FreeAuthor: Traci CheeGenre: YA, Historical FictionPublished On: September 1, 2020Publisher: HMH Books for Young ReadersSource: physical (Book HookUp Subscription Box)Pages: 400 Synopsis: βAll around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us. We are not …
ARC Review | Brat: An ’80s Story by Andrew McCarthy
Title: Brat: An ’80s StoryAuthor: Andrew McCarthyGenre: MemoirPublished On: May 11, 2021Publisher: Grand Central PublishingSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 240 Synopsis: Fans of Patti Smith’sΒ Just KidsΒ and Rob Lowe’sΒ Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an ’80s Brat …
ARC Review | The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Title: The Last Thing He Told MeAuthor: Laura DaveGenre: Mystery ThrillerPublished On: May 4, 2021Publisher: Simon SchusterSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 320 Synopsis: We all have stories we never tell.Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to …
ARC Review | The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
Title: The Soulmate EquationAuthor: Christina LaurenGenre: RomancePublished On: May 18, 2021Publisher: Gallery BooksSource: digitalPages: 368 Synopsis: Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents–who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno–Jess has been …