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New Young Adult Books to Read | August 12

Are you an avid reader of Young Adult books? This week, you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite book to add to your reading list. This week includes new novels from bestselling authors Ann Liang, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Danielle L. Jensen, and more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!



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This Could Be Something: 6 Love Stories Worth the Risk

This Could Be Something: 6 Love Stories Worth the Risk

Love is messy, unpredictable, and completely worth it. These characters take the leap, whether into a new relationship, a long-awaited confession, or a forbidden attraction. For readers who believe the best things happen when you risk everything.



Darkest Sin (The Dark Mafia Book 1)

by Ivy Davis

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Mikhail Novikoff, a powerful Bratva leader, claims me the moment he lays eyes on me. I’m powerless to stop him. We marry for my own protection, but is it him I need protecting from? I start to wonder if he’s the man who can save my family or if he’s really the devil in disguise.

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Vows We Never Made

by Nicole Snow

Release Date: July 29, 2025

Big dreams come with bigger catches. Mine came wrapped in a merciless suit—Ethan Blackthorn. Billionaire tyrant. My bestie's older brother. Bane of my childhood and jackwagon of the century. Now he's my flipping fiancé. All thanks to a brutal six-month marriage clause in his grandfather's will. He promised me everything to play along.

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Forbidden Kisses (The Sterling Brothers Book 2)

by Layla Hagen

Release Date: August 1, 2025

She was supposed to care for his son, not steal his heart—but between bedtime stories, swim lessons, and stolen glances, saying goodbye is no longer an option.

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Bound in Violet Ink

by Charlotte Mallory

Release Date: August 1, 2025

Crave obsessive, fated love where he knows before she does? He’s an Unseelie High Lord, chained in a Seelie prison, and she’s the adopted daughter of the very court that locked him away. She writes to him out of boredom, rebellion, a hunger for more, and he answers, because his mate has found him, even if she doesn’t yet understand what she’s done.

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The Governess and the Rogue (Somerset Stories Book 6)

by Mimi Matthews

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Stranded in India after being dismissed without a reference, governess Beatrice Layton exchanges her freedom for passage home to England, taking a position with the only family that will hire her. But Bea hasn’t reckoned for just how dreadful her new employers will be. Stuck with them at sea in increasingly desperate circumstances, she finds an unlikely champion in the injured ex-soldier traveling aboard their ship.

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A Proposal to Wed (The Beautiful Barringtons Book 9)

by Kathleen Ayers

Release Date: July 31, 2025

Lucy Waterstone is being bartered. Gerald Waterstone, her father, is drowning in debt and would never sell his precious horse farm. He’d much rather trade his lisping spinster of a daughter to Lord Dufton in return for being made whole. But it isn’t Lucy Dufton who wants, rather the estate attached to her skirts. Marsden. She has no idea why Dufton covets Marsden or even what it is. The only thing Lucy cares about is avoiding Dufton.

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Clues in the Quiet: 6 Must-Read Mysteries & Thrillers

Clues in the Quiet: 6 Must-Read Mysteries & Thrillers

Not all books scream; some whisper. These stories build tension with missing minutes, half-truths, and glances that linger too long. For readers who crave slow-burn suspense, haunting reveals, and twists that echo after the final page.



Paydirt

by AJ Lewis

Release Date: July 19, 2025

In 1980s Pakistan, an underage girl is classified as an unidentified fatality in a traffic accident after she is thrown from her abductor's SUV. The wealthy landlord, politician, and cult leader who abducted her evades all responsibility… until an unscrupulous civil servant begins to investigate. Author of the Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries, AJ Lewis.

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Dark Things

by Kate Anslinger

Release Date: July 29, 2025

She wrote fiction for a living—until her own life became the plot twist. When bestselling author Amy Willows vanishes without a trace, her disappearance is written off as a publicity stunt—until her daughter, Rylie, a struggling journalist, uncovers a digital breadcrumb trail leading to an enigmatic social media group her mother recently joined.

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The River's Edge (Historical Memphis Book 1)

by Sabra Waldfogel

Release Date: July 15, 2025

In 1863, Union-occupied Memphis is a city full of dangerous secrets. When a Union officer is found murdered, Manhattan lawyer Elias Aronson and intrepid teacher Lydia Owens join forces to uncover the truth. As they delve into Memphis’s shadowy depths, they must unravel a web of treachery before they become the murderer’s next targets.

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The Usual Suspect (The Tony Valenti Thrillers Book 9)

by Neil Turner

Release Date: July 27, 2025

Special Forces operative Van Booker is charged with “The Easter Bunny Killings.” There was no sign of forced entry at the scene. She has the skills to kill, and with a troubled marriage and a weak alibi on top of her complex mental and emotional history, Van is suspect number one. Tony’s tenacity and courtroom wizardry will be tested to the limit in his toughest challenge yet.

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Not Quite Dead Yet

by Holly Jackson

Release Date: July 22, 2025

In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back home, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm. To her parents’ dismay, Jet rejects an extremely risky operation in order to guarantee herself at least a few more days.

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Bad Company (A Piper Harris Mystery Volume 7)

by Deany Ray

Release Date: July 23, 2025

Witness protection was supposed to make Piper Harris a boring civilian. Well . . . that didn’t quite work out. When Ryker—the hot could-be-something-more PI—gets shot outside a flower shop right before their first date, Piper knows someone’s going to pay. Big time! And it won’t be with senior citizen discounts.

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Letters to Who We Were: 6 Literary Fiction Picks

Letters to Who We Were: 6 Literary Fiction Picks

These novels feel like intimate conversations with your past self. Through reflection, conflict, and quiet grace, they chart the path from self-deception to clarity. Perfect for readers craving emotional truth wrapped in unforgettable prose.



The Kelpie's Bridle

by Emily Donoho

Release Date: July 12, 2025

Based on a true story, a captured wild horse from the Scottish Highlands travels through the human world, fighting for her lost freedom. Matt Mackay, an equine veterinarian from Glasgow, battles his demons and almost loses. Their lives intertwine, but can the wild horses show Matt what it means to love, to lose, and to move on?

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The Veritas Clause (Dark Academia Book 1)

by Livia Huntingdon-Jones

Release Date: July 14, 2025

Veritas vos liberabit. The truth will set you free.

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In Berlin

by Eric Silberstein

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Software engineer Anna Werner lives at a rapid clip, relishing her work and adopted city as much as her early morning runs. All comes undone on a sweaty August evening when, in the course of a 20-minute commute, Anna goes from worrying vaguely over a sore shoulder to staggering her way into an ambulance. She has suffered a spinal stroke.

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The Silent Sister

by Jan Baynham

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Greece, 1953. When a catastrophic earthquake reduces the beautiful island of Kefalonia to ruins, Cassia Makris risks everything to save a young girl buried beneath the rubble that was once her home. In that moment, Cassia makes a life-changing decision that will bind their fates forever but force her to carry a devastating secret...

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Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

by Katie Yee

Release Date: July 22, 2025

A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie. A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn’t just heartbreak—it’s cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie.

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People Like Us

by Jason Mott

Release Date: August 5, 2025

People Like Us is Jason Mott’s electric new novel. It is not a memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason’s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don’t let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt.

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Time Loops & Destiny Calls: Fantasy and Sci-Fi Picks

Time Loops & Destiny Calls: Fantasy and Sci-Fi Picks

Time is breaking, alliances are shifting, and someone always knows more than they should. These science fiction and fantasy books pit flawed heroes against complex systems with stakes that could rewrite entire worlds. Buckle in for mind-bending plots and cosmic-level twists.



Stoneslayer (Fallout Book 2)

by Candace Lynn Talmadge

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Between healing the king and her friend, Azgard outcast Helen Andros clashes with her powerful father—leaving her scarred for life. Can Helen tell him she loves him before he faces brutal reprisal for his relationship with her mother? Can she endure a loveless marriage and outwit the Stoneslayer’s relentless pursuit of her green gem?

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A Moth to the Flame

by Kata Čuić

Release Date: July 31, 2025

After a desperate wish at an ancient, cursed well, Cordelia and Duke swap bodies and are forced to walk a mile in their sworn enemy’s shoes literally. As their changed identities unravel long-buried secrets in their little Appalachian town, the thin line between love and hate blurs, and the battle between witches and fae reignites.

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Hex in the City (The Hex Files Book 1)

by Kelly Garcia

Release Date: August 4, 2025

Legally Blonde meets Ilona Andrews. After her two-timing ex—Chicago’s top divorce attorney—destroys her, 40-year-old Bella Hexley returns to the Enchanted District to reclaim her magic. With a demon loan to repay, her new law firm’s future hinges on winning her first case: reckless homicide. The charming defendant? Trouble in every way.

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Black Corrosion

by Costi Gurgu

Release Date: August 1, 2025

In Black Corrosion, Geo Woodman, the newly elected ruler of Silkers, alongside his loyal wife, remaining family, and close friends, tries to find his place in a corrosive dystopian world inhabited by Dream and Nightmare creatures—all the while struggling to prepare for the final battle against Han the Great, a powerful, genocide-driven warlord.

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Extraterrestrial Noir

by Rich Leder

Release Date: July 22, 2025

An extraterrestrial crashes into a cul-de-sac Colonial, presents itself as two film noir icons, displays an appetite for suburban debauchery, depravity, decadence, and destruction, and seduces the unsuspecting family into its psychopathic criminal orbit with irresistible panache, alluring sexual charisma, and inconceivable intergalactic powers.

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Sanctuary (The Dragon Mage Book 3)

by Rohan M. Vider

Release Date: July 31, 2025

A magic apocalypse. A new world. Elves, orcs, dragons. And at the center of it all: THE DRAGON MAGE. The long-awaited third installment in the Dragon Mage Saga is coming soon! Jamie and Sierra have managed to establish a foothold in Overworld, but legions are those who hungrily eye their territory. Will Jamie be able to hold them at bay? Or will the inexorable might of the other races prove too great to bear?

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Rewire to Rise: Business Books That Reshape Success

Rewire to Rise: Business Books That Reshape Success

The rules of business are changing, and so are the skills that matter most. These game-changing books challenge traditional thinking and offer bold new ways to lead, grow, and thrive in any industry. Whether you're rethinking your career or your company, this list is your blueprint for reinvention.



Billion Dollar Communication Skills

by John A. Brink

Release Date: July 11, 2025

In today’s hyper-connected world, effective communication isn’t just a nice skill to have—it’s the cornerstone of personal and professional success. Drawing from decades of entrepreneurial experience, John A. Brink reveals how mastering communication can transform your career, relationships, and life.

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The CX Imperative

by Mark Fithian & Jeff Rosenberg

Release Date: August 5, 2025

A strategic guide to embedding customer experience into all aspects of your business. For decades, a fundamental flaw has flourished in the strategic operating model of the modern corporation—a Great Distancing from the needs and expectations of customers. For some, such as Blockbuster, AOL, and Kodak, this flaw has been disastrous. Meanwhile, those that have woven the customer deeply into their culture have prospered—with increased revenues and more fulfilled employees.

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Yield: How Google Bought, Built, and Bullied Its Way to Advertising Dominance

by Ari Paparo

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Everyone knows Google as the world’s most iconic search engine. But over the past twenty years, it has also bought, built, and bullied its way to control of the online advertising market. It has cornered the market so completely that they are often the buyer, seller, and intermediary in a single transaction.

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unPACKED: Predict Packaging That Sells

by Alex Hunt & Matt Salem

Release Date: July 29, 2025

As an insights expert, you’re up-to-date on design, consumer behavior, and market trends—everything that influences success. But one wrong decision can quickly turn into a high-profile failure and, worse, loss of sales. With the endless options of structures, colors, copy, images, and fonts, it’s no wonder you’re overwhelmed.

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The Coach's Playbook

by Ray Brehm & Others

Release Date: July 21, 2025

This book isn't about rigid techniques or cookie-cutter approaches. It's about understanding the counterintuitive habits and mindsets that separate good coaches from truly exceptional ones. "The Coach's Playbook" is for coaches at all levels who are committed to continuous growth and making a profound impact on their clients. It shares stories and insights from leading coaches in various fields.

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Ten 7: When Your Shift Ends and Your Life Begins

by Mark Lamb

Release Date: July 14, 2025

In his latest book, Ten 7: Where Your Shift Ends and Your Life Begins, Sheriff Lamb, now retired, lays out not only the importance of starting a business after you hang up the uniform, but the essential, even potentially life-saving benefit of using the skills you already possess to continue in a purposeful future. Your shift may be over, but your calling isn’t.

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Interview with Kate Anslinger, Author of Dark Things

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Dark Things?

While researching my own books, I thought, "How far would one author go for research?"

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

Psychological thrillers, crime fiction, and domestic suspense, pretty much what I write!

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

Happy Marriage by A.R. Torre and Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby.

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

The final chapter. I loved tying it all together. 🙂

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

I have to write with my headphones on to silence the world around me; however, I can write in a busy coffee shop with all kinds of things going on around me.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

"Move slow to go fast."

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

You never know what is going on in someone’s mind.

 

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Interview with Costi Gurgu, Author of Black Corrosion

What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Black Corrosion?

I wrote the short story "Corrosion" for National Geographic Magazine. It won three awards and was resold five times. Then, an editor asked me to write the novel. Black Corrosion is Book 3 of the Corrosion series. We, as a species, are reaching a breaking point in our relationship with Nature. Earth will survive whatever may come, but will humanity? Take water, for instance. Indispensable for life and still abundant on Earth, it does its job to keep us alive and well. What if water changes its properties as a result of pollution? It could kill us—or transform us. Read the Corrosion series to find out how.

If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Black Corrosion, what would they be?

"Wild Boys" by Duran Duran.

What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

Yes, I love speculative fiction. Be it science fiction, fantasy, horror, or any sub-genre.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

"A Shift of Time" by Julie E. Czerneda and "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain.

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

There is a scene where one of my main characters, a scientist, is called to observe and find a solution to combat a plague that has hit the community. She’s used to the modern technologies from back home, but right there in the heart of the new world, there’s no modern technology, and she has to adapt to the primitive reality of her surroundings.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

I need my Star Wars mug filled with iced coffee and appropriate instrumental music to put me in the mood for writing. The music depends on what I’m writing at that time.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

If it's weird, write it down.

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

That no matter how different we are, our humanity is the common element.

 

Costi Gurgu is the author of the new book Black Corrosion

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