Author: Liv Stratman Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: May 25, 2021 Book Description: Kit and David were college sweethearts. Now married and twelve years older, they live in Kit’s childhood home in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. While David has a successful career, jetting off on work trips to exotic destinations, Kit is stuck in…
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Author: Mary Dixie Carter Genre: General Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: May 25, 2021 Book Description: Mary Dixie Carter’s The Photographer is a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that seeing is ever believing.…
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Author: Paul Rudnick Genre: LGBTQIA/Romance Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Publication Date: May 25, 2021 Book Description: THEIR LOVE STORY CAPTIVATED THE WORLD…THE CROWN PRINCE AND THAT GUY FROM NEW YORKWhen a lonely American event planner starts dating the gay Prince of Wales, a royal uproar ensues: is it true love or the ultimate meme? Find…
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Author: Steven Rowley Genre: General Fiction Publisher: G.P. Puntnam’s Son Publication Date: May 25, 2021 Book Description: From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the…
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Author: Claire Fuller Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Tin House Publication Date: May 18, 20201 Book Description: From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, and Bitter Orange comes a brilliant novel about an unusual family held together by a string of lies, a small town with too many questions, and a sudden death…
Read MoreThe Plot – Mini Book Review
Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Genre: Mystery & Thrillers Publisher: Celadon Books/Macmillan Audio Publication Date: May 11, 2021 Book Description: Hailed as “breathtakingly suspenseful,” Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive audiobook about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist…
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Author: Katherine St. John Genre: Women’s Fiction Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: May 4, 2021 Book Description: From Katherine St. John, author of The Lion’s Den, comes another sublimely escapist thriller: When Hollywood heartthrob Cole Power hires his ex-wife, Stella Rivers, to act in his son’s film, he sparks a firestorm on an isolated…
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Author: Mary Kay Andrews Genre: Mystery & Thrillers/Romance/Women’s Fiction Publisher: St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan Audio Publication Date: May 4, 2021 Book Description: Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her next page-turner for the summer with The Newcomer. In trouble and on the run… After she discovers…
Read MoreThe Last Thing He Told Me – Review
Author: Laura Dave Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Women’s Fiction Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: May 4, 2021 Book Description: A gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her life—until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite…
Read MoreAnna K: Away – Mini Book Review
Author: Jenny Lee Genre: YA Publisher: Flatiron Books/Macmillan Audio Publication Date: April 27, 2021 Book Description: The sequel to Anna K, set over the course of the next summer, as the characters come to terms with Vronsky’s tragic death How the mighty have fallen. Anna K, once the golden girl of Greenwich, CT, and New…
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