Here are some of the books releasing this week!
Books for Kids
Goodnight, Veggies – A bedtime story starring vegetables
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything – A picture book biography of Jennifer Keelan regarding the fight for accommodations for those with disabilities.
The Voice that Won the Vote: How One Woman’s Words Made History – The fight for women’s suffrage hinged on a vote in Tennessee. And the deciding vote was cast because of a mother’s letter urging her son to vote for suffrage.
Beatrice Zinker: Upside Down Thinker – Sabotage – Book 3 in the Beatrice Zinker series. Someone mimics Beatrice and her friends’ Upside Award, but they can’t figure out who did it.
Creature Campers: Surprise Under the Stars – Creature Campers, Book 2. The Creature Campers are working to pass their map and compass skills test.
Houndsley and Catina at the Library – Houndsley and Catina find out the library will close if the town can’t find someone to replace the retiring librarian.
Time Dogs: Barry and the Great Mountain Rescue – Book 3 in the Time Dogs series. A group of older dogs is transported back in time and become puppies again.
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
The Blackbird Girls – Historical fiction set around the Chernobyl disaster
City Spies – First in a new series from the fantastic James Ponti. Five kids from around the world join forces as spies in a secret MI6 agency. This is at the top of my wish list for this week.
The Copycat – A girl in a new home and new school discovers a family magic that allows her to transform into a copy of any living creature.
Thunder Girls: Skade and the Enchanted Snow – Book 4 in the Thunder Girls series. The goddess of skiing is chosen by Odin to be an alternate on the team, rather than a starter, when some giants challenge the Asgardians to a skiing contest.
Worse Than Weird – Mac participates in a food truck scavenger hunt to win the money she needs to go to coding camp.
What Is the Story of Batman? AND What Is the Story of Looney Tunes? – Readers can learn the stories of popular characters like Batman and the Looney Tunes.
Hidden Knights (e-book) – The third and final book in the Knights of the Realm series. After the events of Shadow Knights (♥♥♥♥½), Reid may be the only one who has any chance of saving the people of Marsden. I have loved this series from the start! This will be at the top of my reading list for the week.
Most Likely – Four teens negotiate their senior year, not realizing that some day one of them will be president.
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope – A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories starring Black girls.
The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton – A tough teen, back from reform school, tries to negotiate the whispers around town, the changes she is trying to make in her life, and the secret she’s never shared.
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You – An adaptation of Stamped From the Beginning for teens.
Books for Adults
Death on the Page (Hardcover) – Book 2 in the Castle Bookshop Mystery series. Bayside Books has hosted true-crime writer Savannah Page for two signings, but now that she’s been found dead in a secret passage in the castle, Shelby is sleuthing again to find a killer.
Girl Can’t Help It (Trade Paperback) – Book 2 in the Krista Larson series. When the band Hot Rod and the Pistons reunite for their induction into the Iowa Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, two of the band members wind up dead. While both deaths are deemed suicide, Police Chief Krista Larson is keeping a close eye on the rest of the band, as well as their replacement players, because she thinks the deaths might be murders. This book, as well as book one, Girl Most Likely, are both available to read for free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers at the time of this writing.
In Five Years (Hardcover) – A woman who answers the “Where do you see yourself in five years?” question in the most important job interview of her life has a vision of a very different life in 2025. While she tries to put the vision behind her as she doesn’t really believe in such things, she encounters the man she saw herself with in the vision.
Mimi Lee Gets a Clue (Trade Paperback) – First in the new Sassy Cat Mystery series. Mimi Lee’s pet grooming shop, Hollywoof, leads her to an encounter with a talking cat. Using the cat’s inside scoop, Mimi confronts an unethical breeder who is later killed. Mimi’s public argument with him makes her the prime suspect. This sounds so fun!
Mint Chip and Murder (e-book) – Book 4 in the Cambria Clyne Mystery series. When Cambria is up for a new job as a building manager, it is essential for her to stay out of trouble. A dead body in the attic of her current building is all kinds of trouble. To keep the discovery from ruining her new opportunity, Cambria is going to have to track down what happened so the trouble will go away.
Murderous Relation (Hardcover) – Book 5 in the Veronica Speedwell Mystery series. Veronica and Stoker go undercover at a high class brothel to protect the royal family from Prince Albert’s indiscretions, except their task is compounded by a murder.
Star Trek TOS: The Higher Frontier (Trade Paperback) – Captain Kirk teams up with a powerful telepath and a mysterious race to help the crew battle seemingly unstoppable killers.
The Starr Sting Scale (Trade Paperback) – First in the new Candace Starr series. A former hitwoman, recently released from prison, is contacted about a new target who happens to be a teenage boy. That’s a line Candace won’t cross, but the boy ends up dead anyway. So Starr teams up with a police detective to find out what really happened to the kid.
Undercover Bromance (Trade Paperback) – Book two after The Bromance Book Club (♥♥♥♥♥). When Liv is fired and blackballed after confronting her boss for harassment of another employee, Braden and the rest of the Bromance Book Club try to help her take her life back.I’ll be reviewing this later this week.
Yours in Scandal (Trade Paperback) – Book 1 in the new Man of the Year series from Lauren Layne. An up and coming politician asks the wild-child daughter of his rival to plan the party of the season.
The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress (Hardcover) – A closer look at the women who joined the House of Representatives in 2018.
Untamed (Hardcover) – The latest from Glennon Doyle (Love Warrior) is a message of liberation for women.
The XX Brain: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease (Hardcover) – The first book to address women’s brain health and Alzheimer’s prevention.