Books for Older Kids/ Teens/Young Adults
Who Is Carol Burnett?
Embergold – A young woman finds herself “sacrificed” to a dragon, but that’s only the first secret she uncovers. This could be cool – feels a little like Beauty and the Beast or Damsel.
True Life in Uncanny Valley – A young woman applies for a job as a summer nanny to her half-brother in order to get a glimpse of the father she’s never known.
Books for Adults
Code Word Romance (Trade Paperback) – In order to get out of soul-crushing debt, a young woman agrees to pose as a powerful prime minister who has become the target of assassins. But her in-room bodyguard is an old flame. Yes, please!
Fake It Like You Mean It (Trade Paperback) – A young woman and the pain-in-the-ass nurse caring for her grandmother go along with a dementia-induced delusion that they are madly in love, certain that her grandmother will forget the ruse in the morning. But she doesn’t, and they have to keep faking it.
A Geek Girl’s Guide to Arsenic (ebook, REISSUE)- This completed series from Julie Anne Lindsey is being REISSUED, and I am here for it. I loved the whole series! Book 2 is out this week.
The Library Game (Hardcover) – Book 4 in the Secret Staircase Mystery series. Tempest is hired to help turn an old home into a public library, but problems keep cropping up – like disappearing dead bodies – and it seems like someone is recreating classic crime novels in real life.
Pomona Afton Can SO Solve a Murder (Hardcover) – An heiress finds her trust fund frozen when her grandmother is killed. If she wants her lifestyle back, she is going to have to investigate a murder. Yes, please!
The Third Rule of Time Travel (Trade Paperback) – A scientist finds a way to time travel that does not allow for any changing or interfering with the timeline, but then finds her own time observations changing her present life.
Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry (Hardcover) – From the author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood. Considers what the rise of the “pastor’s wife” role in traditional evangelicalism cost the Church in terms of female leadership, ordination, etc.. I need to catch up on both of these books!