Hot Off The Shelf: July 11th New Releases
Happy July everyone! It’s a hot one out there and that means more books to enjoy in the sun.
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 the second week of July!
July 11th
Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming. One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life — placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition — the next, she’s lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a “probably temporary” condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected features.
But, as she struggles to cope, hang on to her artistic dream, work through major family issues, and take care of her beloved dog, Peanut, she falls into —love. Lust? A temporary obsession to distract from the real problems in her life? — with one man but two very different ones. The timing couldn’t be worse.
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. In addition to the long hours, toxic bosses, and unethical projects, she struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty. Though isolated, Cassie is never alone. From her earliest memory, a miniature black hole has been her constant companion. It feeds on her depression and anxiety, it’s size changing in relation to her distress. The black hole watches, but it also waits.
When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister’s old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests’ belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it’s the closest she’s felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister, Rosie.
After her newest lodger, Arran takes the room, Tess finds his salaciously detailed diary, which chronicles his infatuation with a beautiful stranger. The diary, which appears harmless at first, slowly takes a darker, more menacing tone with each new entry. Is this a crush or an obsession?
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World. There are fifteen pieces in this collection. If you like horror and psychological suspense then Paul Tremblay delivers.
When Sarah Taylor arrives at the exclusive St. Ambrose School, she’s carrying more baggage than just what fits in her suitcase. St. Ambrose's queen bee, Greta Stanhope, picks Sarah as a target from day one. And the most popular, powerful, horrible girl at school is relentless in making sure Sarah knows what the pecking order is. Sarah is determined not to give Greta the satisfaction of breaking her. But when scandal unfolds, and someone ends up dead, her world threatens to unravel in ways she could never have imagined.
On the fictional island of Patusan — and much to the ire of the Patusan natives — the Korean conglomerate LK is constructing an elevator into Earth’s orbit, gradually turning this one-time tropical resort town into a teeming travel hub: a gateway to and from out planet. Up in space, holding the elevator’s “spider cable” taut, is a mass of space junk known as the Counterweight. And it’s here that lies the key — a trove of personal data left by LK’s former CEO, of dire consequence to the company’s, and humanity’s future.
It’s 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward — loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters — and their days are a mix of boredom and dread. The Brits they’re replacing delight in telling them the history of the old barracks just off base, a Soviet-era militia house they claim is haunted, and Loyette and his men don’t need much convincing to make a clandestine trip outside the wire to explore it.
When Lilah becomes a counsellor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind, her plan is to brush up on her ASL. Once there, she also finds a community. There are cute British lifeguards who break hearts but not rules, a YouTuber who’s just a bit desperate for clout, the campers Lilah’s responsible for — and then there’s Isaac, the dreamy Deaf counsellor who volunteers to help Lilah with her signing.
The world is waking up to new wildfires that are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic are melting fast. Heat is the first-order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. This book is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days hit record numbers. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic.
Ama Torres loves being a wedding planner. But with a mother who has been married more times than you can count on your fingers, Ama has decided that marriage is not the route for her. But weddings? Weddings are amazing. As a small business owner, she knows how to match her clients with the perfect vendor to give them the wedding of their dreams.
Her ex-boyfriend Elliot hates being a florist, most of the time. His father left him the flower shop, but he considers it a burden. He’s stuck with it. And stuck on the fact that he proposed to Ama three years ago, and she ran off never speaking to him again.
When Ama is hired to plan a celebrity wedding that will bring her national exposure, there’s a catch: Elliott is already contracted to design the flowers.
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