Some fantastic books are coming out next month. There have been quite a few that I have been lucky enough to read about as ARCs through Netgalley and some that I am looking forward to release date. All book covers are clickable and will take you to their Goodreads profiles.
The first books are those I have not read and am looking forward to:
Author: T.J.Newman
Publication Date: Jul. 6, 2021
Publisher: Avid Reader Press/Simon Schuster
Pages: 304
143 passengers. 1 pilot. 1 family taken hostage. The passengers don't know that the pilot has to make the hardest choice of his life: crash the plane and save his family or allow his family to die to save his passengers.
Author: Sara Ackerman
Publication Date: Jul. 27, 2021
Publisher: Mira
Pages: 368
Historical fiction based on the Women's Air Raid Defense (WARDs). After the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of women was gathered to help replace men in the warzone. In order to ward off attack, these brave women guide pilots to blacked-out landing strips and also keep track of unidentified planes flying overhead.
Author: Kristin Harmel
Publication Date: Jul. 6, 2021
Publisher: Gallery Books
Pages: 384
Set during World War II, Yona, a young German woman who was kidnapped as a child whose captor has recently passed away, uses her knowledge of the forest she grew up in to help save Jewish refugees from the Nazis. She teaches them to survive in the forest to avoid capture and in return, they teach her about caring for others. Yona's secret is betrayed and her worlds collide when she is forced to escape to a nearby German-occupied village and her life is forever changed. As with all Kristin Harmel historical fiction, this book is based on actual events with fictional characters.
Author: Grady Hendrix
Publication Date: Jul. 13, 2021
Publisher: Berkley Books
Pages: 352
Lynnette Tarkington is what Hollywood refers to as a "final girl" - the girl who is left standing after a horrific event in horror movies, only her horror really happened. Over the past ten years, Lynnette has gathered with other survivors and a therapist to attempt to piece their lives back together. When one of their members goes missing, Lynnette thinks someone has discovered the group and is coming to finish off the survivors. Will the Final Girls defeat their stalker or will this be the last support group meeting?
Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Publication Date: Jul. 27, 2021
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages: 352
Famous Women's Suffragette Alice Paul has returned home to New Jersey to recover from her work in Great Britain. Although she has come home to rest, her work isn't done. In an effort to further women's rights in America, Paul organizes a march down Pennsylvania Avenue during the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, a staunch anti-suffragist. Alice Paul joins forces with other famous suffragists Maud Malone and Ida B. Wells to help get the 19th Amendment passed and women the right to vote.
These are the books I was lucky enough to receive ARCs for. I am linking to their Goodreads profiles as well as my reviews.
Author: Karin Tanabe
Publication Date: Jul. 20, 2021
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
A well-bred New York wife is recruited by the FBI to befriend her Russian ex-boyfriend, who they believe is a higher up in the Russian government. As an intelligent woman who had previously worked at the United Nations then made to be a stay-at-home mother, this was a much-needed reawakening of purpose.
Author: Kristin Miller
Publication Date: Jul. 20, 2021
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
The lives of three women become entwined when one's fiance goes missing shortly before the wedding. One of those women has been previously believed of killing her husbands and people now wonder if she has struck again.
Author: Amanda Skenadore
Publication Date: Jul. 27, 2021
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp
Pages: 384
Mirielle West is a 1920s socialite who goes to the doctor when an odd patch of skin appears on her hand only to be diagnosed with leprosy. People who were diagnosed with leprosy were sent away to leper colonies despite their status in life. Mirielle must learn to live with her illness and decide what is best for her life.