Happy May! Please remember I am taking a bit of a review break for the next couple of weeks, but I’ll be posting again soon. Here are some of the new books out this week:
Books for Kids
Have You Seen an Elephant? – First in the Alex’s Field Guides series. A girl is on the hunt for her favorite animal – an elephant. I’ll be reviewing this one when I wrap up my review break, so watch for this one!
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
Always Anthony (Graphic Novel) – Book 8 in the Emmie & Friends series focuses on a popular athlete and a shy nerd.
Fortune Tellers – Three girls who lost their friendship over a fight start finding the fortune tellers they made in strange places where they offer sound advice.
The Minor Miracle – When a middle schooler discovers he has super powers his life gets super complicated.
The Secret Library – The map her late grandfather left her leads Dally to a secret library.
The Things We Miss – A middle schooler who feels out of step discovers a way to avoid all the bad and unpleasant things in life by skipping ahead 3 days into the future.
Unicorn Crush – Book 19 in this delightful series.
Beastly Beauty – A Beauty and the Beast retelling.
Blood at the Root – A teen who discovers he has magical powers attends a magical HBCU to discover things about his family and their history.
Burning Crowns – Book 3 in the Twin Crowns series.
This Book Won’t Burn – A girl in a new town for the last quarter of her senior year of high school debates if she should get involved when she discovers the school board has a new policy where books by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ authors are being removed from the library for being “obscene.”
Books for Adults
The Best Life Book Club (Trade Paperback) – Four women in difficult stages in life connect through a book club.
Bigtime Series, Volume 1 (ebook) – Check out the first two books plus a holiday novella from Jennifer Estep’s Bigtime series about superheroes and villains.
Chloe Baker’s Lost Date (Trade Paperback) – After an amazing blind date, Chloe’s date has disappeared. This sounds so fun!
Five Broken Blades (Hardcover) – Five liars are on the hunt to take down a cruel god king.
An Intrigue of Witches (Hardcover) – New from Esme Anderson. A history teacher on the hunt for a missing treasure finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy.
Lavash at First Sight (Trade Paperback, LGBTQ+) – Daughters of rival business owners meet at a convention, but the chemistry between them might not be enough to overcome the family drama.
Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie (Trade Paperback) – When her parents start pushing her toward the son of their friends. the two young adults decide to fake date to get their parents to leave them along.
Mistakes We Never Made (Hardcover) – A couple who were never really a couple after a string of near misses team up to find a missing bride and save their friends’ happily ever after.
Murder at Tanton Towers (Hardcover) – First in a new series. A café owner becomes an amateur sleuth when a friend and neighbor asks for help when she finds someone dead. This looks like a fun series!
Red Side Story (Hardcover) – A sequel to Fforde’s Shades of Grey.
The Silverblood Promise (Trade Paperback) – First in a new fantasy series about a gambler searching for who killed his estranged father.