The dog days of summer are truly here! If you are vacationing this month, get your name on the reserve lists for these HOT titles so you have something to read. If you’re staying home but need a cool place to relax for a few hours, visit us anytime! We’d love to see you hear about what you’re reading this month!
Laurie Gelman. Smells Like Tween Spirit
This is the 4th book in Gelman’s hilarious “Class Mom” series. Drawn into the somewhat-terrifying new social dynamics of wrestling moms, Jen Dixon, armed with her sense of humor, between school events and teaching spin classes, becomes immersed in sports mom competitiveness and middle-school drama while dealing with Maxs newfound misogynistic behavior.
Jillian Medoff. When We Were Bright and Beautiful
When her brother, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old Cassie Quinn, as reporters converge on her family's Upper East Side landmark building, vows to prove his innocence, which means exposing her own darkest secrets to the world.
James Patterson. Diana, William and Harry
The world's best-selling author examines the heartbreaking story of Princess Diana, taken from her sons William and Harry at a painfully young age, and how they carried on her name and spirit into adulthood.
Sandie Jones. The Blame Game
After her client's file goes missing, a psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, wonders if her own dark past is coming back to haunt her and if her clients aren't the only ones in danger.
Joyce Carol Oates. Babysitter
The lives of three individuals, including the wife of a prominent businessman who is having an affair, a street hustler seeking to right an injustice and a serial killer called Babysitter, intersect in a Detroit suburb in the 1970s.
Catherine Ryan Howard. Run Time
Stepping in to replace the original actress in Final Draft, a psychological horror movie being filmed at a house deep in the forest, former soap star Adele Rafferty hopes that this will be her big break until she realizes that this role just might be the death of her.
Jenny Colgan. Rules at the School By the Sea
Engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Maggie Adair, a teacher at Downey House in Cornwall, must stop thinking about her colleague at the boys school down the road, while her boss must confront a scandalous secret she thought she'd buried forever.
Check out the full list here: August New Books