Hot Off The Shelf: June 13th New Releases
June has been filled with more new releases, and it’s because everyone is gearing up for their summer reading list. It’s important to always have your next book in line, so you can cycle through it whenever you finish one. The sun is shining and it’s time to read outside and get a nice tan wherever you are!
There are books from new authors, second books from acclaimed authors, and stories you may seem interested in just by the synopsis. Here at Maude’s Book Club, we want our community to broaden their horizons and try new genres!
Here are the new books being released in the second week of June.
June 13th
By day, Elsie Hannaway is an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. On the side, Elise makes up. for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
When Jack Smith steps into the picture - the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favourite client - he turns out to be a cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career. Now, Jack sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.
High above the jungle planet float the last refuges of humanity - plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. In these living cities, architects are revered above anyone else. If not for their ability to psychically manipulate the architecture, the cities would plunge into the devastating earth rage storms below.
Iravan is one of the architects. In his city, his word is nearly law. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his wife, they are a way for survival to be reliant on the privileged few. After being accused of pushing his abilities to forbidden limits, she must help clear his name. As their paths become increasingly intertwined, deadly truths emerge, challenging everything each of them believes.
New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion is over the moon to have been selected to be one of the Rockettes. It’s an honour to perform in the world’s most spectacular theatre, an art deco masterpiece. But with four shows a day and gruelling rehearsals, she realizes that the life of a Rockette has both highs and lows.
Then one night, a bomb explodes in the theatre. It’s only the latest in a string of explosions around the city orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the “Big Apple Bomber.” Marion finds herself pulled deeper into the investigation, and she realizes that as much as she’s been training herself to blend in if she hopes to catch the bomber, she’ll need to stand out and take a risk.
Ringmaster - Rin, to those who know her best - can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. And the circus they lead is a rare home and safe haven for magical misfits and outcasts, known as Sparks. With the world still reeling from World War l, Rin and her troupe - the Cicus of the Fantasticals - travel the midwest, offering a single night of enchantment and respite to all who step into their Big Top.
The future holds an impending war, and threats come at Rin from all sides. Rin’s past creeps closer every day, and she can’t fully escape it. The dark shadow of her past forms another circus with a Ringmaster who rules over his troupe with dangerous power.
It’s not all sugar and spice at Basil’s Bakery, where seventeen-year-old Aurelie is an overworked, underappreciated apprentice. Still, the job offers stability, which no-nonsense Aurelie values highly, so she keeps her head down and doesn’t dare to dream big - until a stranger walks in and hands her a set of Seeking stones.
In a country where Seeking was old-fashioned even before magic went out of style, it’s a rare skill, but Aurelie has it. The stranger, who turns out to be a remarkably bothersome bounty hunter named Illiana, asks for Aurelie’s help rescuing someone from the dangerous Underwood. When that someone turns out to be Prince Hapless, Aurelie’s careful life is upended.
A part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author’s life. Sarah’s story begins as she’s researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who taught her and her classmates to question everything.
As she digs into the effects of his teachings, her life takes a turn into the fantastical when her wife, Marta, is notified that she’s been investigated for sexual misconduct at the university where they both teach.
Josslyn Drake is in over her head—again. After fleeing the Queen’s palace with Prince Elian in tow, she’d hoped to finally find a way to solve both of their magical problems in one fell swoop, with the help of criminal-turned-ally Jericho Nox. But Valery, Jericho’s boss— and a notoriously powerful mage — has other plans.
Amid high tensions, Joss sets out to learn to control the memory magic — along with her own natural powers. As the struggle between Lord Banyon and the Queen threatens the people Joss cares about, she stumbles onto hints of a monumental royal secret.
Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at the violin. She has peers, but she doesn’t have friends. Until Maddelena. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls’ orchestra and become a protege of the great Antonio Vivaldi. After a scandal threatens her noble family’s reputation, Maddalena is sent to the Pietà to preserve her marriage prospects. When she meets Luisa, Maddalena feels the stirrings of a friendship, unlike anything she has known.
Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends - or were, as children. Despite drifting apart in adulthood, shared secrets have kept them bonded for better or worse, even as their childhood dreams haven’t quite turned out as they’d hoped. Then one day they receive a wholly unexpected - but not entirely unwelcome — invitation from another old friend.
Poppy Greer has invited them all to her extravagant bachelorette party: a first-class plane ticket to three days of white sand, cocktails, and relaxation on a luxe private island in the Bahamas. Curiosity gets the better of them, and they get on that first-class flight. It’s quite remote, with no cell service and no other guests. All their secrets are revealed and it turns into a nightmare.
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