Hot Off The Shelf: June 20th New Releases
Can you believe it’s the middle of June? There have been many new releases for the summer to add to your TBR. 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 20th
Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was not responsible, the police were never able to prove it. It is now 1983, and home health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse left in the middle of the night.
Rae Winter should be dead. Some say that. walking away from the car crash that killed her dad is a miracle, but seventeen-year-old Matthew Watts knows that the forces of Good aren’t the only ones at work. The devil, Lucifer himself, can make a soul about to pass on, sending it back to the land of the living to carry out his evil will.
Kathleen Cheng has gone through a humiliating breakup, dropped out of her graduate program, and left everything behind. Now she's back in her childhood home in Oakland wondering what's next. Grasping for direction, Kathleen takes a job at a start-up that specializes in an unconventional form of therapy based on touch. She then makes an unforeseen attachment to someone at work which pushes her to rethink her relationships.
Kelly's new life in Philadelphia has turned into a nightmare: She's friendless and jobless, and the lockdown has her trapped in a tiny apartment with the man she gave up everything for, who has just called off their wedding. When her best friend Sabrina and her husband Nathan offer Kelly their spare room in their mansion, things take a spicy turn.
Spring, 1877. Sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned. She's exhausted from caring for her ne'er-do-well alcoholic father, but when she's killed by a snakebite as they cross the Kansas prairie, she knows she has only her wits to keep her alive. Bridget takes to brotherly life, appreciating what it has to offer, and she forms friendships with her fellow "sporting women."
Savannah Sav Henry is almost the person she wants to be, or at least she's getting closer. It's the second semester of her sophomore year. She's finally come out as bisexual, is making friends with the other queers in her dorm, and has just about recovered from her disastrous first queer "situationship." But when she learns that Izzie, her childhood best friend, has gotten engaged, Sav faces a crisis of confidence.
The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbours are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night. The story spins out over the course of one week, in the alternating voices of the women in each family as they are forced to face the secrets within the walls of their own homes.
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She finds herself unable to stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, clamouring for a time when things were normal. So when a mysterious letter in her mother’s handwriting arrives in the mail with the words, “Come and find me”, pointing to a town called Backravel, Beck hopes that it may hold the answers.
Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl”, at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. But the last weekend of the season, Charity’s co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity’s role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real.
Synopsis
Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on the subject - her.
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