Here are some of the new books out this week:
Books for Kids
Taylor Swift (Little People Big Dreams) – A picture book biography.
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
The Cookie Crumbles – When best friends discover they are set to go to different high schools, one enters a bakeoff to go to a special boarding school where her friend could also attend for journalism. And when a mystery strikes the bakeoff alongside a huge storm, she might have her chance at a big story. This looks great!
Jupiter Nettle and the Seven Schools of Magic (Graphic Novel) – When Jupiter fails to get accepted into any of the Seven Schools of Magic, she gets a special invitation to attend anyway, but finds it harder than she expected. While doubting her abilities to make it at the Seven Schools, someone tries to attack them and Jupiter has a chance to show her stuff. This sounds great, too!
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman (Older Middle Grade) – When his mom goes missing for longer than usual, Hank has to reach out to the stranger listed as their emergency contact – for his sake and for his little sister’s. But asking for help, while the right thing to do, has unexpected consequences. I enjoy stories like this, so this one is on my list for June.
You Are Not Alone: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxious Thoughts and Believing What’s True – An edition of Get Out of Your Head for kids.
Icon and Inferno – Book 2 in the Stars and Smoke series for teens. A global pop star and a young secret agent team up again for a new mission. I have book 1 on my TBR, so I need to catch up on this series, soon!
The Shadows Between Us – If you haven’t already read The Shadows Between Us (it’s AMAZING), now’s the time to pick it up with these gorgeous sprayed edges. And then you will be ready when the companion book, The Darkness Within Us, releases in July.
The Wilderness of Girls – When Rhi is placed in foster care and starts working at a wilderness preserve, she discovers four feral girls who say they are lost princesses from another land. Could that be true, or are the victims of something much darker? Fascinating!
Books for Adults
Bigtime Series, Vol 2 (e-book) – Collects books 3-5 of the Bigtime series by Jennifer Estep into one volume.
Books and Broadswords (e-book) – Collects “Books and Broadswords” as well as “Rocks and Rapiers,” two fantasy stories by Jessie Mihalik, previously available online. I adored both, so of course I have already pre-ordered this collection.
Curvy Girl Summer (Trade Paperback) – Tired of her family’s insinuations that her big personality and/or her body are what is keeping her from finding a man, Aaliyah creates a fake boyfriend who loves her curves. Now, she just has to find such a man before a big family gathering where they are going to want to meet this “boyfriend.” Yes, please!
Natural Born Outlaws (e-book) – First in a new series by my friend Gini Koch, writing as A. E. Stanton. After watching her husband gunned down by people they thought were their friends, outlaw Belle Stark and her friends are looking for paybacks. I’m looking forward to picking this one up!
Not in Love (Hardcover) – A biotech engineer starts a steamy, secret relationship with the man trying to buy out her employer.
Rogue Sequence (Hardcover) – An incarcerated super soldier is given a chance at freedom if he will help the powers that be capture one of his former team members.
The Rom-commers (Hardcover) – An amateur screenwriter gets the chance to work on a romcom with her screenwriting idol, except he turns out to be a jerk who doesn’t believe in love and is only writing the script (which is horrible) as a means to an end. My husband and I have both enjoyed Katherine Center’s last couple books, and I’m looking forward to reading this one!
The Stars Too Fondly (Trade Paperback, LGBTQ+) – Four young adults exploring a space ship tied to the missing crew of the Providence find themselves on a space adventure.