Hot Off The Shelf: June 27th New Releases
It’s hard to believe that it is already the end of June! There are still two months of summer and plenty of books to read! Time to soak up the sun with some new releases.
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 at the end of June.
June 27th
This is a collection of Outlander short fiction — including two never-before-published novellas — featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more. Readers will get more from their favourite characters by Gabaldon and the world she so expertly crafted.
Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her small English township. She is terrible at needlework, has absolutely no musical ability, and her artwork is so bad it frightens people.
Nevertheless, she lives a perfectly agreeable life with her marriage-scheming mother, prankster father, and two younger sisters — beautiful Louisa and forgettable Mary. But Beatrice harbours a dark secret: she’s obsessed with the true crime cases in the paper. In order to find a suitor to save her family legacy, she must put all that aside.
Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her deceased son’s bedroom, she’s perplexed. She’s never heard of it before but soon learns it’s a tiny island off of Wisconsin’s Door County peninsula, 200 miles from Willow’s home. She is determined to find answers and sets out for the island.
After a few days there, she realizes that this place is not normal. It seems that people are stuck on a particular day in 1994. They wear outdated clothing, avoid modern technology and watch the OJ Simpson car chase every evening. Willow meets a local who questions the twisted mythology of the island, and they both plan on learning the truth.
Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke’s help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium, Luke quickly finds she was right. A shadow team of highly-trained operatives is there on the hunt. In a race from Belgium, to Luxembourg, to the bayous of Louisiana and the Wyoming wilderness, to a final confrontation in the Bahamas, Luke daniel confronts a series of shocking truths, which not only rewrite history but will forever change his own life — as he comes face to face with the ninth man.
Andre Jackson is determined to reclaim his identity. But returning from juvie doesn’t feel like coming home. His Portland, Oregon, neighbourhood is rapidly gentrifying, and COVID-19 shuts down school before he can return. And Andre’s suspicions about his arrest for a crime he didn’t commit even taint his friendships. It’s as if his whole life has been erased.
Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: stay busy, work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone — she isn’t sure her heart can take it.
And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again. Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she lives seven years in his future.
When the love of her life left without any explanation, Annabeth Winfield moved on despairingly, knowing she’d never have a love as thrilling as her first ever again. Sloane Rutherford was roguish and daring, but as Annabeth grew up, she realized that their reckless romance was just a passing adventure, never meant for stability. Twelve years later, Annabeth is engaged to someone new, ready to start her life with a dependable man.
After spending the past dozen years working as a spy, Sloane thought he’d left espionage behind him. But now a dangerous blackmailer is after Annabeth. Sloane offers to hide his former lover at Stonecliffe, the Rutherford estate, but stubborn Annabeth demands to be part of the investigation.
Kit’s father had always told her he had no family, but four months ago his sudden death revealed the truth. Now she has a grandmother she never knew she had — Agatha Starling — and an invitation to visit her father’s hometown, Rosemont. The longer Kit’s there, the stranger it all feels. There has been something off about how the Starling women seem to be at the center of the town’s important history. Kit can’t shake that everyone seems to be hiding something from her.
Liv’s best friend disappears on their first night aboard heir dream semester-at-sea program — but is he really sick, like everyone says, or is something darker lurking beneath the water?
When Liv lands an all-expenses-paid opportunity to study aboard luxury cruise ship The Eos for a semester, she can’t believe her luck. Especially since it will offer her the chance to spend time with Will, her ex-best friend, who’s barely spoken to her since the night their friendship changed forever.
Liv quickly discovers that the only reason she was invited to join the trip is because another girl disappeared shortly after enrolling—and no one seems to know why. She wonders if The Eos is hiding a dark secret in its watery depths.
The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and as an educator and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance. Intiially draen together because of their shared belief in women’s rights and the power of education, Mary and Eleanor become fast friends confiding their secrets, hopes and dreams.
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