Best books of June, 2019
Top 10 Best books of June, 2019
: Storm and Fury, Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs, The Dreaming Vol. 1: Pathways and Emanations, Some Like It Scandalous, The Spies of Shilling Lane, Aug 9 - Fog, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, The Perfect Date
| Author | Jennifer L. Armentrout |
| ISBN | 1335218793 |
Eighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. Her unique gift is part of a secret so dangerous that she’s been in hiding for years in an isolated compound fiercely guarded by Wardens—gargoyle shape-shifters who protect humankind...
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
| Author | Amber Scorah |
| ISBN | 0735222541 |
A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries.
A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message...
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
| Author | Katherine Howe |
| ISBN | 1250304865 |
New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse
Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft....
The Dreaming Vol. 1: Pathways and Emanations
| Author | Simon Spurrier |
| ISBN | 1401291171 |
One of four books expanding Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman Universe. There is a place where gods are born and stories are spun. Today its walls lie slashed and bleeding. Twenty-three years after he was anointed as its master, the lord of dreams has inexplicably abandoned his domain.
Lord...
| Author | Maya Rodale |
| ISBN | 0062838814 |
They are sworn enemies…
Theodore Prescott the Third, one of Manhattan’s Rogues of Millionaire Row, has really done it this time. The only way to survive his most recent, unspeakably outrageous scandal is marry someone respectable. Someone sensible. Someone like Daisy Swan. Of all...
The Spies of Shilling Lane
Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left—her...
| Author | Kathryn Scanlan |
| ISBN | 0374106878 |
A Paris Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune's 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019
A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons
Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger's five-year diary...
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?
Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous....
Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life
| Author | Darcey Steinke |
| ISBN | 0374156115 |
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up against a culture of silence. Throughout history, the natural physical transition of menopause has been viewed as something to deny, fear,...
| Author | Evelyn Lozada |
| ISBN | 1250204887 |
When a single mom ends up playing an unwilling fake girlfriend to a charming playboy baseball player, love suddenly turns everything upside down in this fun, heartwarming multicultural romance.
Angel Gomez has never lived by the book. A Bronx-based unwed mother by the time she was 16, Angel’s...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
| Author | Ocean Vuong |
| ISBN | 0525562028 |
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...
| Author | Susan Wittig Albert |
China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual ''Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop,'' always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs...
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0525559736 |
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique...
| Author | Lisa Grunwald |
| ISBN | 0812993438 |
A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond, in the spirit of The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
On a clear December morning in 1937, at the famous gold...
Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
| Author | Ayaz Virji |
| ISBN | 0525577203 |
A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear.
In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage...
| Author | Liza Wieland |
| ISBN | 1501197215 |
The acclaimed, award-winning author of A Watch of Nightingales imagines in a sweeping and stunning novel what happened to the poet Elizabeth Bishop during three life-changing weeks she spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II.
June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young...
What happens when you open your home to the perfect stranger?
Anna Klein is ready to return to work as a literary agent for the first time since having children. She and her husband, Josh, decide to hire a live-in nanny with some trepidation, but all their misgivings disappear as soon as they meet...
| Author | Jean Kwok |
| ISBN | 0062834304 |
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling author...
| Author | Lauren Acampora |
| ISBN | 0802129412 |
An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riveting knife-edge story of two women's dark friendship of twisted ambition set against the backdrop of contemporary Hollywood In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once a bright...
