Here are some of the books releasing this week.
Books for Kids
Make Your Mark: The Empowering True Story of the First Known Black Female Tattoo Artists – Picture book biography of Jacci Gresham.
Bad Kitty: Party Animal – It’s Puppy’s birthday, but Kitty keeps causing trouble.
Lila Greer and the Shrieking Shadow – Book 7 in the Questioneers series of chapter books based on the picture book series.
Books for Older Kids/ Teens/Young Adults
The Forgotten Magic of Zoey Turner (Older Middle Grade) – A grieving girl receives a pencil she uses to write stories that then come true.
Old School – A kid homeschooled at a retirement community is forced to go to a regular middle school. I adore Korman’s books and can’t wait to read this one!
PAWS: Hazel Has Her Hands Full (Graphic Novel) – Book 4 in the PAWS series. Hazel takes on a new summer pet sitting job – and the home is even wheelchair acceptable! But when her friends’ busy schedules mean she would be doing the job alone, she’s afraid her overprotective mom will balk.
Same Page (Older Middle Grade) – Something new from Elly Swartz. Two girls launch a project to get a book vending machine for their school, but one of their mom’s objects to some of the books that are supposed to be in the machine. I’m looking forward to this one!
Liar’s Kingdom – Tired of life with her step-family, Ell takes her shot at a different life by lying to a prince, saying she danced with him at a ball she never attended. What a fun twist on a familiar story!
The Queen’s Spade – Queen Victoria’s goddaughter, kidnapped from her African home and family, plots revenge. Inspired by a true story.
Books for Adults
Death in the Downline (Trade Paperback) – First in the new Multi-level Marketing Murder Mystery series. A reporter starting her life over and living at home gets pulled into the LuminUS MLM. When a LuminUS distributer is found dead, she starts investigating.
Extreme Romancing in Idaho (Trade Paperback) – Book 2 in the Clear Springs Romance series. A woman hoping to connect with a new guy lies and tells him she’s into extreme sports.
The In-Between Bookstore (Hardcover) – Darby finds himself in the bookstore he worked in as a teen when he moves back to his hometown. But he doesn’t expect to walk in and find himself back in 2009, face to face with his teenaged self.
Let’s Call a Truce (Trade Paperback) – Two work rivals are forced to work on a project together and find potential for a different kind of relationship.
Murder in the Dressing Room (Trade Paperback, LGBTQ+) – First in the Misty Divine Mystery series. When a drag queen is poisoned by a box of chocolates, the other drag performers are the top suspects. Crushed by the death of their “drag mother” and frustrated by police bias, Misty decides to solve the mystery.
Once Smitten Twice Shy (Trade Paperback) – Book 3 in the Wilmot Sisters series. Based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Two people who feel like they will never find love decide to help each other “practice” romance.
Playing Flirty (Trade Paperback) – A woman and her gaming rival work together to launch her new board game design.
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage (Hardcover) – Two married killers walked away from the life when they had a baby. But Hazel is finding the mom life dull – so she kills someone and doesn’t tell her husband. Then the police show up at their door. Quirky!
The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds (Trade Paperback) – A new widow buys her family home to fix up. When she finds and replaces the original door, she is transported 100 years into the past. Her experiences there put her at risk of slipping out of existance.
Work in Progress (Trade Paperback) – A woman who lost both her career and her fiancé impulsively signs on for a UK literary bus tour that doesn’t go at all like she imagined.
Write Your Own Cake (e-book – essay) – “Book” 2 in this writing series by Jennifer Estep. This one is focused on writing a long series.
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman (Hardcover) – A memoir from actress and model Brooke Shields about women enjoying the prime of their lives.
In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some (Hardcover) – A memoir from actor Josh Gad.
This Changes Everything: A Surprisingly Funny Story About Race, Cancer, Faith and Other Things We Don’t Talk About (Hardcover) – A new memoir from the author of I Take My Coffee Black (♥♥♥♥).