Here are some of the books releasing this week:
Books for Kids
A Ben of All Trades: The Most Inventive Boyhood of Benjamin Franklin – A picture book biography of Ben Franklin
Write! Write! Write! – Poetry collection
Swim, Mo, Swim! – Book 5 in this early reader series starring Mo, who is at summer camp in this book.
Hattie in the Spotlight – Book 16 in the Adventures of Sophie Mouse series. Hattie auditions for a play. This series is DARLING!
Lily to the Rescue AND Lily to the Rescue: Two Little Piggies – The first two books in this new early chapter book series from the author of the Dog’s Purpose series. Lily the rescue dog helps her person, Maggie Rose, and her mom rescue other animals.
Vera Vance, Comics Star – Book 2 in the After-School Superstars series. Vera loves all things comics, so she signs up for comics camp at school. But Vera’s mom doesn’t think comics are academically rigorous enough. I would like to read this one and see how it all works out.
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
DC Super Hero Girls: Powerless – The second graphic novel based on the Cartoon Network DC series. The power is out at Metropolis High which impacts the various heroes in different ways.
Ronan Boyle and the Swamp of Certain Death – Book 2 in the Ronan Boyle series about a teen who helps the Irish police deal with magical creatures.
Stand Up, Yumi Chung! – A girl who longs to be a comedian stumbles into a comedy camp, and lets everyone believe she is someone else.
Wondrous Rex – Grace’s Aunt Lily is a writer who is struggling. When Lily advertises for a writer’s assistant, Rex the dog arrives for the position.
What Are the Paralympic Games? AND What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
All the Pretty Things – When Ivy’s friend Morgan finds the body of one of their amusement park coworkers and is taken into the psych ward at the hospital, Ivy starts looking into what happened to the dead teen.
All Your Twisted Secrets – Six teens invited to a scholarship dinner find themselves trapped in a room where they are told they have to kill off one of the group for the rest to survive. WOW!
Frozen Beauty – The Malloy sisters are the subject of town gossip as one of the sisters is killed and no one knows exactly what happened that night.
Girls with Razor Hearts – Book 2 in the Girls With Sharp Sticks series. The girls have escaped Innovations Academy and the twisted experimentation they endured there. But now they only have each other as they seek a way to take down the corporation responsible for what they went through. This series sounds amazing.
Super Adjacent – Two “regular” teens connected to the superheroes of Warrior Nation have enough going on in their own lives to keep them plenty busy, but when the heroes all go missing, these two are left to save the day. I have this on my list for this week!
Dragon Hoops (Graphic Novel Memoir) – A non-sporty teacher teaching at a school having a stellar basketball year gains a new perspective as he gets to know the guys on the team.
Books for Adults
Bound to Execute (e-book) – Book 3 in the St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery series. The bookshop-owning star of the series stumbles across the body of a much-despised bank manager.
Cross Her Heart (Trade Paperback) – First in the new Bree Taggert series. A homicide detective who survived her parents’ murder-suicide find herself investigating a similar crime when her sister is killed and her brother-in-law goes missing.
Crush the King (Trade Paperback) – Book three in the fantastic Crown of Shards series (Book one is Kill the Queen – my favorite book of 2018). Queen Everleigh has survived many assassination attempts, but she’s done playing defense. As all of the area kings and queens gather for an event, she’s determined to eliminate the King of Morta for all he has done to her and to her family. I will be reviewing this one later this week. It’s fantastic!!
The Earl Not Taken (Trade Paperback) – First in the new Wallflowers of West Lane series. Four young women make a pact to protect one another from disreputable matches, so Poppy teams up with her nemesis, the Earl of Marsden, to investigate a duke intent on marrying her friend who has never met him before.
In Bed with the Earl (Trade Paperback) – Book one in the new Lost Lords of London series. Reporter Verity Lovelace discovers a lost heir in the sewers of London and exposes him to the world. When he becomes the focus of attention for all manner of matchmakers, it seems only fair that the woman who caused all this trouble pretend to be his wife until he can get a handle on this new life.
Jerusalem Assassin (Hardcover) – Book 3 in the Marcus Ryker series. Former Secret Service Agent Marcus Ryker is called upon to investigate violent deaths surrounding the President’s peace efforts in the Middle East. In the course of his investigation, Marcus discovers a plot to assassinate the American President.
Father, Friend and Judge: Three Dimensions of Prayer that Receive Answers from Heaven (Hardcover) – Discover Biblical strategies for prayer based on the identities of God as Father, Friend, and Judge
How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books (Hardcover) – The two authors share what they discovered when they followed various pieces of self-help advice including getting off your device, downsizing, and meditation.