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 Becky Albertalli, Jay Kristoff, Kit Frick, and many more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
Looking for some new biography and memoir books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new books from Eddie S. Glaude, Arshay Cooper, Shannon Reid, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
The month of June was a great time for readers with a host of exciting releases from bestselling authors. There were so many page-turning novels that captivated us from cover to cover this month. If you want to catch up on the books everyone was talking about, here are our choices for the buzziest books of June. Happy reading!
Release Date: June 2, 2020
A Reese’s Book Club Pick from the bestselling author of The Hunting Party… Guests are gathering on an island off the coast of Ireland to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom is a rising television star and the bride is an ambitious magazine publisher. The cell phone service may be spotty but every detail of the wedding has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed… Then someone turns up dead.
Release Date: June 16, 2020
When Link receives deathbed instructions from his mother, Mallory Blessing, to call a number on a slip of paper in his desk drawer, he's not sure what to expect. He definitely didn't expect Jake McCloud to answer on the other end. Jake's wife is the frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election, how do Mallory and Jake know each other?
Release Date: May 31, 2020
The 7th book in The Fae War Chronicles by bestselling author Jocelyn Fox…”Awesome book! Definitely the storyline I’ve been waiting for. If you are a fan of sea-going adventures, this is the read for you!” In the world of the Fae, the Seafarers, Merrow, Sidhe, wolf-warriors, and not-quite mortals who fight alongside them have a new enemy beyond the horizon of the Known Seas. As the Wolves of the North choose their first battle-partners since the war, and the Seafarers set sail, a deadly curse is set loose.
Release Date: June 8, 2020
The latest novel from New York Times Bestselling Author James Patterson… The Summer House used to be a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake. It was then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad. Now it is a grisly scene of mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to the Night Ninjas, four Army Rangers that recently returned from Afghanistan. The Army sends Major Jeremiah Cook to investigate. But the Major and his elite team had no idea their grim jobs would be made exponentially harder by local law enforcement.
Release Date: June 2, 2020
An instant New York Times Bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick... The Vignes twins will always be identical. But after growing up in a small, southern black community and running away at sixteen, it's not just their daily lives that are different as adults. Their families, their communities, and their racial identities are different.
Release Date: June 23, 2020
John Bolton was President Trump's National Security Advisor for 453 days. This is his account of his time in the room where it happened... In this White House Memoir, you will get one of the most comprehensive and substantial accounts of the Trump administration. It is one of the few to date by a top-level official.
Release Date: May 29, 2020
The fourth book in the Harry Hunter Mystery Series by bestselling author Willow Rose… The world is on lockdown and a woman has been kidnapped from her apartment. Detective Harry Hunter is on the case. At the same time, his sister shows up after not seeing each other for a year. It seems Harry’s sister knows more about the virus than she lets on. Soon he starts to think the virus is connected to the missing woman.
Release Date: June 23, 2020
The first book in the Brilliance Trilogy by New York Times Bestselling Author Lisa Renee Jones… Seduction, passion, and my family’s secret that could change everything. I was searching for my missing brother but I found Kace August instead. He is dark and dangerous… and he makes me want things I can’t have. He brings me into a world of forbidden seduction.
We wanted to share with you some of our favorite audiobooks we’ve been listening to in June. Our playlist includes a little something for everyone from mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and romance. Grab your headphones and happy listening!
Release Date: June 19, 2020
The first book in The Savannah Series by Tom Turner… The Farrell sisters are an unlikely duo of gumshoes. Tired of following cheating husbands to motels, the two catch a case that could make their bones or get them killed. To solve the case, the sisters will have to dive into a murky demimonde of crooked cops, low-rent thugs and high-class brothels.
Release Date: June 4, 2020
The latest release from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Tricia O’Malley… From the outside, Tess Campbell seemingly has it all. She is happily married, has a successful career as a novelist, and has an exciting cross-country move coming up. She has always played by the rules and it seemed like life was good. But it turns out life is a bitch… and suddenly Tess is as well.
Release Date: June 9, 2020
Yvette Lenoir was abandoned as a child in turn-of-the-century Paris. She has longed to uncover the secrets of her magical heritage and tap her suppressed powers. Yvette clings to a memento from her past-a grimoire inherited from the mother she never knew. In order to unlock the secrets from her past, she will have to solve the arcane riddles among its charmed pages.
Release Date: June 16, 2020
The third book in the Northhampton County series by Karen Katchur… Another dead girl has been pulled from a lake in the Appalachian foothills. She is the latest victim in a series of murders with very few leads. Detective Geena Brassard and her partner, Parker Reed, have finally found a break when they get a tip about a previously unknown survivor of the so-called Spring Strangler.
Release Date: June 9, 2020
The fifth book in the Wynn Hockey Series by USA Today Bestselling Author Kelly Jamieson… I don’t want anything to do with my crazy family’s drama. I’ve been watching it all unfold from a distance over the last year, but now that my grandfather has Alzheimer’s I feel like I have to at least make a quick visit. All I have to do is get through my teammate Steve’s wedding and I can do my family duty.
Release Date: May 26, 2020
After many years apart, Mike Mitchell has reunited with old friends on a fishing trip in New Orleans. Suddenly, worldwide GPS signal goes out. Communications go down and cell phones stop working. Within hours, almost all international borders are closed and the conflict starts to spread. This is only the beginning.
Take a look at this month’s selection of bestsellers now in paperback! June had a great selection of bestselling books to check out from thrilling mysteries to enthralling literary reads, and insightful biographies. Pick up these latest paperback books by bestselling authors Louise Penny, J.D. Robb, David Baldacci, John Sandford, Colson Whitehead, Rainbow Rowell, and many more!
Have you stocked up on new romance books for your summer reading list? Now is the perfect time to find your next favorite love story thanks to so many amazing new releases hitting stores! Don't miss our new recommendations from Lisa Renee Jones, Anastasia Alexander, J. Saman, Jen Talty, Kris Jayne, and Jasmine Guillory. Happy reading!
Release Date: June 23, 2020
The first book in the Brilliance Trilogy by New York Times Bestselling Author Lisa Renee Jones... Seduction, passion, and my family's secret that could change everything. I was searching for my missing brother but I found Kace August instead. He is dark and dangerous... and he makes me want things I can't have. He brings me into a world of forbidden seduction.
Release Date: June 19, 2020
The third book in the Millionaire Romance Series by Anastasia Alexander... Darlene Britain lives a quiet life in Island Park, Idaho. That was until she takes a trip to Tucson, Arizona, at the request of her boyfriend, Austin. While on the plane she meets a sexy race car driver Cactus Ronnie. He takes risks, is bold, and follows his passion. This chance meeting upsets all of their worlds and forces them to see their lives very differently.
Release Date: June 22, 2020
The third book in the Las Vegas Sin Series by USA Today Bestselling Author J. Saman... Everyone has an ex that haunts them. Well, mine shot me in the arm and told me to run or he would kill everyone I ever loved... And then he would kill me. He's made good on that promise and I'm the last one standing. He's searching for me and my places to hide are quickly running out.
Release Date: June 22, 2020
Nothing happens in the city of Langley. This is exactly how newly assigned Chief of Police, Jagar Bowie prefers it. He served for years as a homicide detective in Seattle and solved more murders than anyone in his department. It was the one case that remained open that ruined his career. No matter how hard he tries, he can't stop looking for the Trinket Killer... And he can't get Callie Dixon out of his heart.
Release Date: June 18, 2020
With a divorce, raising a daughter, and a corporate job behind her, Delilah Johnston is ready to indulge herself with passion and a new life. Although she did agree to help her ex-boss Griffin launch his new business, that is just temporary. What she hopes isn't temporary is the tantalizing heat between them. Griffin is ten years younger than Delilah but he has his sights set on her.
Release Date: June 23, 2020
The new romance from New York Times Bestselling Author Jasmine Guillory... When Olivia Monroe moves to LA to start her own law firm, dating is the last thing on her mind. But when she bumps into a gorgeous stranger at a hotel bar spend the entire night flirting, she discovers that he is none other than junior senator Max Powell.
Here at NewInBooks, we believe that it is incredibly important to support black-owned businesses and black authors in the literary industry. Last week we brought you a list of some amazing Black Authors to Support in Your Favorite Genres and now we're continuing our series of resources with a list of black-owned bookstores that you can support right now. Happy reading!
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By Jeffrey Mechling
I will come right out and say it. I love the City of San Francisco! I have visited the city many times over the years and have even considered moving there. I have always wanted the city as a backdrop to one of my stories and my new novel, The Decoys, gave me the opportunity.
Now that Tim and Mary Ann are married, they were hoping that their lives would settle down to something that resembled “normal”. Fat chance that would happen. After the two find out that a “contract” has been taken out on their lives (by mistake). The two are sent to the city by the bay in order “lay low.” Tim’s manager also asks the two, as a favor, to interview an old colleague of Tim’s during his days in Central America. Just routine but as the readers of my first two novels The Adults in the Room and The Safe House can attest, nothing with Tim and Mary Ann Hall is just routine.
That is all I really want to say about the plot but I will say that one of the undercurrents of The Decoys is the adiposity between the CIA and FBI which has existed since World War Two (when the CIA was then known as the OSS). Tim and Mary Ann are constantly at loggerheads over which department has jurisdiction over domestic cases. Although it does appear that the easy answer would be The FBI, Mary Ann finds that there are some disturbing connections that cannot be overlooked. She may have to make a choice between her loyalty to the FBI or her marriage to her husband Tim.
One more thing that I would like to mention. If you find yourself visiting San Francisco, it is worth staying at the Fairmount Hotel on Mason Street. It is a grand hotel located on the cable car line. You may even find that you could lose your heart there.
Jeffrey Mechling is the author of the new book The Decoys.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Two to Tangle?
Two to Tangle is a sexy, seasoned interracial romance with family drama. Delilah and Griffin’s story began in a holiday novella, Christmas for Two, that I wrote for an author anthology. I’d given the hero, Griffin, a deep back story that needed to play out. I won’t give all the details, but Griffin’s college sweetheart ended up marrying his father. Once I’d written that detail, I knew there was more drama to mine, so I started plotting a full-fledged book with those characters. Even though I introduce the pair in a novella, the novel can be read as a stand-alone.
Delilah is the forty-something heroine who used to work as an executive assistant for thirty-something Griffin. She leaves the company and starts her own business. A few months later, Griffin reaches out to get her help for one of his projects, and they end up connecting—in more ways than one—over the holidays. A family emergency pulls Griffin away and kicks off complications that threaten to keep them apart. They have to deal with the secrets and hurts of the past to find their way to each other.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I’ve always loved reading, and as a child, that love of reading sparked the desire to create my own stories. I wrote my first complete story in the fifth grade about how the old Chicago Bear Refrigerator Perry got so fat. That was circa 1985. I’ve been writing ever since.
I write romance because I loved reading romance. I used to read all my mother’s Harlequin cast-offs and her collection of Danielle Steele novels. Reading those books helped me fall in love with books about people falling in love.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
This is an impossible question, but I’ll go with five books I love and could re-read over and over in no particular order:
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Destiny's Surrender by Beverly Jenkins
The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
Unmasking Miss Appleby by Emily Larkin
Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask
Since this is fantasy, I’m going to assume I can have a guest living or dead, and I’d go with Toni Morrison. I’d ask her if there any stories she left untold when she die.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
I love the endless possibilities of a story. I love getting a spark of a premise or a character and exploring what the story is going to be—the ups and downs, the banter, and the surprises. I also love getting to the end of a story and seeing how the characters have transformed. Everything in between alternately thrills me and yet gives me a headache.
What is a typical day like for you?
When I’m in drafting mode, I write best first thing in the morning. I might roll over and grab my phone to dictate a scene or my computer and start typing away. On my best days, I’ll finish a chapter before I even get out of bed. Once the day gets going, I have less freshness for the creative aspects of writing. I work from home as a freelancer, so I’ll turn to my other writing projects later in the day. I’m lucky to be able to work from home and control my calendar based on what I have to get done, so my schedule varies from day to day.
What scene from Two to Tangle was your favorite to write?
I have a love scene that centers around a Kenny G song that was popular in the ‘80s. You might have to be a person of a certain age to appreciate it, but I can re-read that scene over and over, and it makes me laugh. I like having humor in a love scene.
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” I believe that’s George Bernard Shaw. I like the idea that our future isn’t a puzzle with one answer or a single, set outcome. There’s not only one way to live. At any moment, we can choose differently and re-invent ourselves.
Kris Jayne is the author of the new book Two to Tangle.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Tangles of the Heart?
My two youngest children and my husband helped me plot out the story as we were waiting for fireworks to start on the fourth of July. It centers around Darlene Britain, who has to choose between two men-- one who is safe and her best friend and the other who is a race car driver, takes risks, and committed to his passion. The beginning of the story takes place in Island Park, Idaho, which was my family's favorite place to go on the weekends. My mom said Island Park would stay in my heart when I grow up, and she was right.
What books are currently on your nightstand?
After You by JoJo Moyes, Creation of Eve by Lynee Cullen, Daring Greatly by Brene Brown and A Lamp in the Darkness by Jack Kornfield.
What advice would you give your teenage self?
You are loved and enjoy your freedom.
If you had an extra hour each day, how would you spend it?
Reading a good novel.
What makes your world go round? Why does it bring you joy?
I really love hanging out with my two youngest girls. They make me laugh. They are very loving to me, and we have a great time being creative and doing projects together.
What scene in Tangles of the Heart was your favorite to write?
Wow. That is hard. Probably the race car scenes. I worked side-by-side with my husband creating those scenes. He used to be a racer so he advised me to make those scenes true to real life.
Anastasia Alexander is the author of the new book Tangles of the Heart.
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