Here are some of the new books out this week:
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
The Codebreakers Club: Solve the Mystery of the Missing Puzzle Professor – A collection of 150 logic puzzles for readers to solve to help the book characters find the missing professor.
Secret Society of Rebel Girls: Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox – When she gets punished for spying on another student, Nina has to write a letter to a famous woman from history, and she chooses Cleopatra. In fact, she and her friend Maya find an old mailbox in the woods and the drop the letter inside. Just for fun. And then Cleopatra writes her back!
History Smashers: Salem Witch Trials – Kate Messner’s History Smashers look at the Salem Witch Trials.
Sports Superheroes: Stephen Curry (Graphic Novel) – First in a new nonfiction series.
Books for Adults
Big Witch Energy (Trade Paperback) – Book 2 in the Starfall Point series after Witches Get Stuff Done. Caroline’s family curse keeps her on Starfall which cost her the love of her life. Now he’s back on the island. But she’s not sure he’s ready to accept the work she and her friends do with ghosts. I checked out the first book recently, and loved it. Looking forward to reading this one!
The Break-Up Pact (Trade Paperback) – Two ex friends are both humiliated in breakups that go viral. When folks see the two of them together and think they are a copule, they decide to lean into the rumor and fake date in order to help each of them out. Yes, please!
Can’t Buy Me Love (Trade Paperback, LGBTQ+) – A journalist travels to St Kitts with a media mogul for a story. The mogul’s ex notices the journalist, but she thinks the two are traveling together because they are a couple.
Companion to the Count (ebook, August 16) – Book one in the Seductive Sleuths series. When she sees her presumed-dead brother in a piece of artwork, a young woman who has lost everything is determined to find the artist – and the truth.
Haunted Ever After (Trade Paperback) – First in a new Boneyard Key series from Jen DeLuca. Cassie buys a cottage in Boneyard Key that seems to be haunted. I’m curious to check out this new series.
Miranda in Retrograde (Trade Paperback) – A young physics professor who is denied tenure decides to let her horoscope lead her life and decisions for the next year. Sounds fascinating!
Phoenix Keeper (Trade Paperback) – A new “cozy fantasy” about a phoenix keeper at a zoo for magical creatures who has to brave her archrival, the griffin keeper, to ask for help to save a phoenix breeding program.
What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to the West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service (Hardcover) – A look back at the hit TV show, West Wing.