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 Aurora M. Winter, Emma Noyes, I. V. Marie, and 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 Brian Gray, Ali Ingersoll, S. Lee Davis, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
Looking for some new business and finance 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 Yekaterina Lex, Arthur Goldstuck, and Gordon Lownds. Enjoy your new business and finance books. Happy reading!
Dive into six books that explore strategy, management, and market dynamics. Each one combines real-world examples with expert guidance to sharpen your business acumen.
Release Date: July 14, 2025
A boardroom essential, The Cybersecurity Power Play equips leaders with clear, strategic insights to tackle today’s digital threats. No jargon—just real-world examples, smart frameworks, and practical guidance to lead cybersecurity from the top with confidence.
Release Date: August 12, 2025
Imagine if your life were a startup. How would you lead it and shape it to be most successful? That's the question behind The Happiness Files, a rich selection of enlightening and instructive essays by Arthur C. Brooks, known worldwide for his inspiring yet practical wisdom and advice in his weekly column for The Atlantic and in his bestselling books, From Strength to Strength and Build the Life You Want (coauthored with Oprah Winfrey).
Release Date: July 30, 2025
In A Richer Retirement: Supercharging the 4% Rule to Spend More and Enjoy More, entrepreneur, researcher, and financial planner William P. Bengen delivers a straightforward, soup-to-nuts guide for maximizing your withdrawals from your investment accounts during your retirement. The author explains how you can draw heavily on your retirement accounts without spending yourself into premature poverty.
Release Date: August 12, 2025
Mistakes That Made Me a Millionaire is your permission slip to fail forward, dream bigger, and discover that behind every mistake is a million-dollar lesson. Through powerful stories, proven strategies, and real-world advice, self-made millionaire Kim Perell reveals the untold truth: Success is built in the messy middle, between your worst moments and your best decisions.
Release Date: August 12, 2025
We’re living in a time of great societal change. People are seeking new ways of living and working. Whether you’re stuck in a soul-draining job, feeling adrift in your career, longing for more freedom, or desiring more fulfilling work, this book will guide you toward a new way of thinking. Through actionable strategies and thought-provoking exercises, you’ll discover meaningful ways to identify and support the life you truly want. The Life First, Work Second method is an invitation to redefine success in a way that aligns with your values, passions, and well-being, and what it means to thrive in life.
Release Date: July 29, 2025
What sets the most successful people apart? You may think that the correct answer is hard work (and it’s certainly part of it), but in her interviews of the most accomplished individuals—from entrepreneurs and investors to Olympic athletes and Pulitzer Prize winners—Distinguished Professor of Management Laura Huang discovered that what they called their gut feel, the product of their intuition, played the most important role.
From flirty encounters to charming misunderstandings, these six novels deliver laughter and love in equal measure. Each story will leave you smiling and swooning. Perfect for feel-good reading.
Release Date: August 12, 2025
Vicky is an outlier, even in her own family. Her cold beauty doesn’t appeal to Mike, and her obvious crush irritates him. But when the fireworks start, and she buries into his chest, shaking in fear, he’s not so annoyed by her anymore… An opposites attract, enemies-to-lovers romance with a neurodiverse heroine and a grumpy, but protective hero.
Release Date: August 12, 2025
I made a deal with the devil to save my mother… But is it really hell if I love the way it burns? Handsome Devil is a mafia-themed, enemies-to-lovers standalone romance.
Release Date: July 17, 2025
Struggling with the novelty of their engagement, Constance and Solomon are delighted to dig their teeth into a new mystery – the vanishing of a treasure hoard from a locked strong room. The treasure, only just been brought home by adventurer Barnabas Lloyd, was supposed to pay off his debts and rebuild the family’s finances. Since no one broke into the house, suspicion inevitably falls on Lloyd’s own household - his beautiful wife, his dotty maiden sister, and his spirited children. Or perhaps a friend who is not above a bit of fortune hunting on his own.
Release Date: August 7, 2025
My best friend’s brother needs help. And not just because he’s the most annoying man on the face of the earth. Brock Jones is the definition of a workaholic. He’s constantly on his phone and barely leaves his office. This makes everyone who loves him worry—namely, his twin and my best friend, Sutton. She sends me to check on him, and I find out he’s worse off than anyone thinks.
Release Date: August 5, 2025
She's been searching for her father for fifteen years... Maria Sanchez has spent her entire career as a CIA operative searching for her father, and she’s not going to let some tough, arrogant former-soldier-turned-hotshot stand in her way. His life was upended on a single fateful mission...
Release Date: August 8, 2025
In my defense, I wasn’t trying to spy on Owen. I was just curious about the handsome, tool-belt-wearing guy with the easy smile and perfectly scruffy face who moved into the townhome next door. But then a water line breaks, the wall between my kitchen and Owen’s gets taken down, and suddenly I’m experiencing next-door-neighboring at an alarmingly close range.
These six thrillers take you down winding paths of deceit, danger, and betrayal. Each story hides secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end. Get ready for tension that never lets up.
Release Date: June 27, 2025
Hollywood's brightest star is dead. Now, struggling actress Christine Dreyer has her shot. But her mysterious agent's obsession with revenge threatens everything. As she uncovers a decades-old conspiracy that killed her father, Christine must decide: become another victim or expose the truth—a psychological thriller of ambition and betrayal.
Release Date: August 11, 2025
Former detective Harper Adams is only days into sobriety when she realizes her mother’s car accident wasn’t an accident at all. The faded skid marks on the bridge. The drugs in her tox screen. The packed suitcase in the trunk, for a trip her homebody mother never mentioned. Something sinister happened—and Harper is determined to uncover the truth.
Release Date: August 8, 2025
The words on the mysterious letter were simple. Read Me, Now. Josie thought she had married the perfect man. But as their love grows cold, she can’t shake the feeling that he’s hiding something‒or someone. Then the first letter arrives at her door. It demands that she read it immediately. He’s lying to you.
Release Date: July 29, 2025
Ten years ago, 17-year-old high school volleyball star Callie Jones vanished from her quiet Wisconsin lake community. A highly publicized search followed, but her body was never found. The case went cold, but the echoes still linger. Ethan Hall, a former renegade detective turned ER doctor, left law enforcement to escape the horrors of the kid crime division.
Release Date: August 12, 2025
Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are the weekly bingo games at the local church and gossiping with her friends. When investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up on her doorstep asking questions about Lottie’s past and specifically her involvement with numerous unsolved cases, well, Lottie just can’t have that.
Release Date: July 31, 2025
Lana loves her job as a therapist, listening to other people’s worries, fears, and secrets. She tries never to get too close to her patients… Until she meets Sandy, whose beautiful green eyes – eyes that Lana is sure look familiar – tear up as Sandy talks about her husband Mike. She swears the bruise on her face was just an accident. But when Sandy leaves the session, Lana notices marks on the tissue she was dabbing her eyes with. It looks like make-up: blue, yellow, purple. There’s no way Sandy’s black eye was fake – is there?
Step into the lives of six unforgettable characters, each facing their own struggles and moments of growth. These novels explore their inner worlds with depth, emotion, and nuance. Their stories will linger in your mind long after you close the book.
Release Date: July 9, 2025
What is life? A biochemist mischievously reimagines the lives of the cell’s biomolecules. We fancy that we are reciprocally alive with the proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids inhabiting our bodies. Yet we can sense that paramount insights—vital truths that the biomolecules warily guard from our scrutiny—still elude us.
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.
Release Date: August 12, 2025
Simone is the star of Edwards University’s creative writing department: renowned Woolf scholar, grief memoirist, and campus sex icon. Her less glamorous and ostensibly devoted husband, Ethan, is a forgotten novelist and lecturer in the same department. According to Simone and Ethan, and everyone on campus, their marriage is perfect. That is, until Ethan sleeps with the department's administrative assistant, Abigail, and the couple’s faith in their flawless relationship is rattled.
Release Date: August 4, 2025
The war at sea is petering out, the French building for the future but sending very little to sea for the while. Prize money is something of the past. Hungry sailors are rescued by the American declaration of war, their President unwisely responding to British provocation. The opportunity is there to cripple the American merchant marine and provide a last great outpouring of rich prizes.
Release Date: August 21, 2025
Berlin, 1933: As Aurelia grasps her husband Max’s sleeve so as not to be separated in the crowd of torch-bearing people, a shiver slides down her spine. She sees wild-faced people all around her, their hands waving leaflets full of hateful slogans, and knows deep in her heart that she and her husband are no longer safe in the city they’ve always called home.
Release Date: August 3, 2025
The year is 2500 BC. Thousands of years before the rise of Rome…before the marauding Norsemen, the Celts, or the wandering barbarians, Europe was a very different place. Halós was born in the fertile Rhine River valley to a settled warrior. Growing up, his father told him incredible stories of his forefathers. How a few centuries ago, they had swept westward from the steppe, driven onward by the beating war club of the thunder god.
Step inside the lives of six remarkable individuals whose stories reflect the hopes, struggles, and experiences that shape a generation. Each memoir offers a unique perspective that resonates universally.
Release Date: July 30, 2025
Hitler: His Rise, Reign, and Ruin tells the story of Adolf Hitler from his early life in Austria to the fall of the Third Reich. This biography explains how he rose to power, led Nazi Germany, and made the decisions that caused its destruction, giving readers a clear look at one of history’s darkest chapters.
Release Date: August 8, 2025
Dying Ways unveils the raw, tender truths of life’s final journeys through the eyes of palliative nurse Dale Heim. With stories of courage, absurdity, and grace—from swimming with dolphins to a couple’s last shower—this memoir reframes death not as an end, but as a profound, shared human experience. A testament to finding beauty in the inevitable.
Release Date: July 15, 2025
At the turn of the century, the Central Intelligence Agency was in crisis. The end of the Cold War had robbed the agency of its mission. More than thirty overseas stations and bases had been shuttered, and scores that remained had been severely cut back. Many countries where surveillance was once deemed crucial went uncovered. Essential intelligence wasn’t being collected. At the dawn of the information age, the CIA’s officers and analysts worked with outmoded technology, struggling to distinguish the clear signals of significant facts from the cacophony of background noise.
Release Date: August 5, 2025
We are all touched by pain in some way. While many of us refuse to let it break us, we all need guidance and strength along the way. Are you in the middle of a storm, unsure how you'll find your way through? Do you feel anchorless—drifting in the chaos of grief, change, or challenge? Are you searching for the kind of grounded faith and resilience that can't be shaken?
Release Date: August 12, 2025
In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends. He left behind a small, curated oeuvre of 154 poems, along with fragments and drafts of incomplete works. Throughout his life, Constantine had kept a tight grip on the distribution of his poetry, but after his death his reputation grew and Constantine became the august C. P. Cavafy, a writer known not only as a great composer of Hellenic verse—the man whose poems reshaped the Greek language—but also as a global poet whose writing transcends its geographic origins and is to this day widely loved and translated.
Release Date: July 14, 2025
As a teenager, Joe Tarantino set out on a naïve but ambitious quest to ride 100 miles on a bicycle. It did not go well. He counted every click of the odometer, battled flat tires, ran out of food, and hit the proverbial wall. He ultimately had to call his dad for a ride home.
What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Cybersecurity Power Play: A Boardroom Guide to Digital Defense?
I've spent years watching brilliant executives make multimillion-dollar decisions with confidence, only to freeze when cybersecurity comes up in the boardroom. They would defer to their IT teams or treat security as a necessary evil rather than understanding it as a business imperative. The breaking point came during a board meeting where I watched a CEO dismiss a cybersecurity investment proposal just weeks before their competitor suffered a devastating breach that cost them $50 million and years of customer trust. I realized there was a fundamental disconnect: cybersecurity professionals speak in technical jargon, while business leaders think in terms of risk, opportunity, and competitive advantage. This book bridges that gap. It's not about teaching executives to become security experts—it's about empowering them to make informed strategic decisions that can transform cybersecurity from a cost center into a business differentiator.
If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of The Cybersecurity Power Play: A Boardroom Guide to Digital Defense, what would they be?
While my book doesn't have traditional characters, it does have distinct "personas" that emerge throughout:
- The Reactive Executive: "Under Pressure" by Queen & David Bowie—always scrambling after the breach happens.
- The Proactive Leader: "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor—sees cybersecurity as a competitive advantage and stays ahead of threats.
- The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO): "The Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel—often speaking wisdom that goes unheard in the boardroom.
What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?
I'm drawn to books that blend strategic thinking with real-world application—think Malcolm Gladwell meets Harvard Business Review. I devour business biographies, especially those that reveal how leaders navigated crises, and I'm fascinated by books on behavioral economics and decision-making under uncertainty. Writing-wise, I gravitate toward what I call "executive education"—taking complex, critical topics and making them accessible to decision-makers who need to act on the information immediately. It's part business strategy, part risk management, with a heavy dose of practical wisdom.
What books are on your TBR pile right now?
"The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel (I'm curious about how financial decision-making parallels cybersecurity investment choices), "Atomic Habits" by James Clear (building security-conscious organizational cultures requires understanding behavior change), and "The Infinite Game" by Simon Sinek (cybersecurity is definitely an infinite game—there's no final victory, just continuous adaptation).
What scene in your book was your favorite to write?
I had an absolute blast writing the chapter on CISO personas, where I map different Chief Information Security Officer personality types to MBTI and DISC profiling frameworks. After working with hundreds of CISOs across different industries and cultures, I realized they fall into distinct archetypal patterns, and understanding these patterns is crucial for board members who need to evaluate and work effectively with their security leaders.
Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)
I write like I investigate—I start with the evidence and work backward to the story. My office looks like a detective's war room, with attack timelines, threat actor profiles, and breach case studies covering every wall. When I'm stuck on explaining a concept, I'll often pull out actual forensic evidence from past investigations (properly anonymized, of course) and use that as my starting point. My most productive writing actually happens on planes when I'm traveling for work—there's something about being trapped at 30,000 feet with no Wi-Fi that forces me to focus. My wife jokes that I should thank the airlines for their terrible internet service in my book acknowledgments.
At home, I have a rather crowded "editorial team"—two dogs and four cats who seem to have strong opinions about my work. The cats, in particular, have mastered the art of strategic keyboard walking just when I'm on a roll. My dogs seem to sense when I'm working through a complex cybersecurity framework and choose that exact moment to demand attention. I'm convinced my pets are either secret agents trying to sabotage my productivity or they're just really committed to keeping me grounded when I get too deep into the technical weeds. My wife has become an expert at translating my cybersecurity rants into plain English—she's probably responsible for making half the book actually readable by normal humans!
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
"In cybersecurity, as in business, the cost of prevention is always less than the cost of reaction." I also believe deeply that complexity is the enemy of security. The best cybersecurity strategies—like the best business strategies—are elegant in their simplicity and ruthless in their focus.
If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?
Cybersecurity is not an IT problem—it's a business opportunity. Every organization that gets this right gains a competitive advantage over those that don't. In today's digital economy, the companies that will thrive are those whose leaders understand that robust cybersecurity enables business agility, builds customer trust, and creates sustainable competitive moats. Stop thinking of cybersecurity as something that slows you down, and start seeing it as something that lets you move faster than your competitors with confidence.
Krishna Rajagopal is the author of the new book The Cybersecurity Power Play: A Boardroom Guide to Digital Defense
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What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Understudy?
My favorite thing growing up was the Phantom of the Opera musical, and I’ve always wanted to do a retelling of that story in a modern setting. I wanted to bring back the classic gothic themes of the original novel and felt that setting it in Hollywood was the right choice.
If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of The Understudy, what would they be?
The Phantom of the Opera soundtrack, of course!
What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?
My favorite genre to read is definitely psychological thrillers. While I am currently writing a psychological thriller series, I started out on my writing journey writing sci-fi and fantasy, and I may go back to those genres after I finish this series.
What books are on your TBR pile right now?
I’ve been reading a lot of romance novels lately. It’s not my usual genre, but since it’s so popular, I wanted to see what all the fuss is about!
What scene in your book was your favorite to write?
When the protagonist visits her father’s grave. That scene in the musical always stayed with me. My father has had such an influence on me; some good, some bad. This scene was a way for me to process a lot of my own emotions.
Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)
Tang Seng is my pen name, named after the monk from The Journey to the West. To show her support, my wife made me this hand-stitched Tang Seng doll that I keep on my writing desk to remind me to focus on the journey, not the destination.
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
I come from a screenwriting background, and in screenwriting, done is better than perfect. I think it applies to novel writing as well.
If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?
Be the author of your own story.
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