Hot Off The Shelf: July 4th New Releases
Happy July everyone! A new month means new books to add to your TBR list!
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 first week of July!
July 4th
Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she’s made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge.
Meet LA darling Evra Scott. The Daughter of an Oscar-winning director and a Brazilian bombshell actress, Evra is the city’s reigning style queen. By day, she’s at the helm of Sunset on Sunset, the store beloved by Hollywood’s young and beautiful.
By night, she’s on the arm of Kai de la Faire, Hawaii’s hottest export, and the screenwriter of the moment. But in Hollywood, no one stays on top forever. And it’s not long before some new starlet with unrelenting ambition sets in motion a dramatic quest for power in an industry that is as glamorous as it is duplicitous.
Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in “ghostwriter” until she attends a signing for a book she wrote — and the author doesn’t even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man at the bar and immediately connects with him. But when all their sexual tension culminates in a spectacularly awkward hookup, she decides this is one night better off forgotten.
The kingdom of Mercia has been at war with the Shadow King and his dark army for ten years. To escape the seer’s vision of her capture, Mercia’s heir to the throne, Princess Norah Andell, is secreted away by her father to keep her safe. But when he dies in battle, so too dies the knowledge of where she’s hidden. She’s lost to the world — until three years later when she’s found with no memory of who she is or the kingdom that now rests on her shoulders.
At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth’s mother stayed — or was left — behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together.
It is a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother.
Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, “Lord Jesus if it ain’t the blackest little baby born this side of heaven.” Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestors’ promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippi’s red clay tobacco fields.
Once upon a time, Orla was a woman, a painter, and a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives. Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated Georgian house on the Dorset cliffs — a good house for children he says. But as the family settles into the mansion — Nick absent all week, commuting to the city for work — Orla finds herself unsettled. She hears voices when no one is around; doors open and close on their own.
It has been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional wounds Sara would do anything to forget. But when Sara’s father falls ill, she’s forced to return home and face the ghosts of her past.
Delphi has spent years working at a vast and iconic theme park in California after fleeing her childhood trauma in her rural hometown. But after the disturbing death of a beloved Hollywood starlet on the park grounds, Delphi is tasked with shuttering The Park for good.
Seventeen-year-old Olivia Chang is at her fourth school in seven years. Her self-imposed solitude is lonely but safe. At Plainstown High, however, Olivia’s usual plan of anonymity fails when the infamous Mitzi Clarke (influencer queen bee, bully) makes a pointed racist comment in class. Olivia is tired of ignoring things just so she can survive. This time, she defends herself. Soon, Olivia discovers and joins forces with, the Nerd Net: a secret society that has been thwarting Mitzi’s reign of terror for months.
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