Indice dei contenuti per June 2024 in Booklist Reader

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. By Shannon Chakraborty. 2023. Harper Voyager. An unusually tall, middle-aged, Muslim pirate captain with a bad knee and a gold tooth has her retirement interrupted when a late crewman’s wife asks her to rescue her kidnapped granddaughter. The Black God’s Drums. By P. Djèlí Clark. 2018. Tor. Fifteen years after an armistice between the Union and the Confederacy, a scrappy young teenager secures passage on a smuggler’s airship in New Orleans when she hears Confederates discussing a powerful, uncontrollable weapon. Cry of Metal & Bone. By L. Penelope. 2020. St. Martin’s. The third book in Penelope’s Earthsinger Chronicles features a sexy romance involving Tai, a blue-haired tattooed pirate, and Lizvette, a prim and proper socialite who wants to atone for the wrongs she’s done against her…

Fiction Eruption. By Michael Crichton and James Patterson. Little, Brown. Crichton plus Patterson. Need we say more? Okay, we will: Patterson wrote the novel based on the late Crichton’s notes, resulting in a breakneck thriller about a catastrophic volcanic eruption on the big island of Hawai’i. Farewell, Amethystine. By Walter Mosley. Mulholland. Evoking classic noir and 1970s Los Angeles, Mosley’s latest Easy Rawlins novel has the private investigator looking into two different missing-persons cases, one involving the disappearance of a friend of a friend, and one an LAPD commander. For the Love of Summer. By Susan Mallery. MIRA. When a divorced woman’s teenage daughter asks her to take in the estranged, pregnant wife of her ex-husband (it’s complicated!), she has to rethink the meaning of friendship and family in Mallery’s…

Adult Patricia Wants to Cuddle. By Samantha Allen. Read by a full cast. 2022. 6.5hr. Recorded Books. A reality dating show cuts expenses by filming on a remote Pacific Northwest island known both as a lesbian retreat and as the site of the mysterious disappearances of several women. The contestants get more than they bargained for as the island’s secrets are revealed with gusto. This full-cast debut is a horror-filled rom-com gone wrong in all the best ways. Second Chances in New Port Stephen. By TJ Alexander. Read by Aden Hakimi and Feodor Chin. 2023. 11hr. Simon & Schuster Audio. Recently unemployed comedy-writer Eli returns to his parents’ Florida home years after transitioning and reconnects with his childhood best friend and first ex, Nick. Nick is a total DILF, but…

Fiction Blackouts. By Justin Torres. 2023. Farrar. Torres, author of We the Animals, illuminates the relationship between two gay men of different generations. Ailing Juan will never leave the Palace, a “desert building fallen into disrepair,” but he’s hoping his younger companion might help him complete his mission to reveal the truth about the author of Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, published in 1948. Countries of Origin. By Javier Fuentes. 2023. Pantheon. Twenty-four, gay, and one of Manhattan’s finest pastry chefs, Demetrio is undocumented and reluctantly returns to Spain. On the flight, he meets NYU student Jacobo and their attraction is mutual. When Demetrio falls ill at the airport, Jacobo takes him to his parents’ lavish Madrid penthouse, which puts their fledgling relationship on a very different…

Connect to a Podcast Podcasts are becoming a ubiquitous element of car rides; these books bring the spirit of that format into the audiobook realm. The Anthropocene Reviewed. By John Green. Read by the author. 2021. 10hr. Books on Tape. Green’s thoughtful and gentle voice makes for good company as he rates and reviews slices of life in our modern era. With cross-generational appeal, this audio and the accompanying podcast will get families talking. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. By Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams. Read by the authors. 2021. Macmillan Audio. This uplifting listening experience is an antidote to our sense of global doom. Much of Goodall’s hope comes from her faith in the younger generation. Connect with The Jane Goodall Hopecast for more…

Older The Color of a Lie. By Kim Johnson. Random. Gr. 9–12. It’s 1955, and Calvin and his family have settled in a new neighborhood where they have to pass to fit in. Calvin struggles to keep up the façade of whiteness, especially as racist violence escalates. The Deep Dark. By Molly Knox Ostertag. Art by the author. Scholastic/Graphix. Gr. 9–12. In Ostertag’s latest, Mags has a secret in her basement, and when an old friend comes back to town, keeping that secret gets tougher and tougher. Four Eids and a Funeral. By Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar. Feiwel and Friends. Gr. 9–12. Two ex-friends contend with complicated feelings in this sweet romance by best-selling authors Àbíké-Íyímídé and Jaigirdar. Moonstorm. By Yoon Ha Lee. Delacorte. Gr. 7–10. Hwa Young trains…

Books about Book People We love readers who love reading about readers who love reading. That’s why we selected the memoirs of two booksellers, one in Italy and one in San Francisco; a novel about a woman ditching her “dream job” in publishing; a lively history of books, authors, and librarians; and feel-good fiction about a Korean bookstore. • Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop. By Alba Donati. 2023. Scribner.• Must Love Books. By Shauna Robinson. 2022. Sourcebooks/Landmark.• Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. By Irene Vallejo. Tr. by Charlotte Whittle. 2022. Knopf.• Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale. By Paul Yamazaki. 2024. Ode.• Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop. By Hwang Bo-reum. Tr. by Shanna Tan. 2024. Bloomsbury. Classics Afresh Clever writers make the oldest stories new again…

Who is Nicholas George when he is at home? My actual name is Nick Duruttya, but hardly anyone can pronounce it, including me (it’s Hungarian). George is my middle name and sounds more British, which is where my series is set. When I’m not writing, you can find me on the many walking trails and footpaths of L.A. (there are a surprising number of them nearby in the mountain foothills and in Griffith Park, the large rural space in the city’s center). I’m also a voracious reader, movie buff, and music lover. I also love listening to my husband play his piano in the other room as I write. What can you tell us about A Deadly Walk in Devon? The idea for the book came a few years back…

Find out more at www.LibraryReads.org/HOF Winter Lost Patricia Briggs (Ace Books) NoveList read-alike: S.P.E.A.R. Mission Files series by Ileandra Young Swan Song Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown and Co.) NoveList read-alike: Summer on Highland Beach by Sunny Hostin A Novel Love Story Ashley Poston (Berkley Books) NoveList read-alike: Eighty Days to Elsewhere by KC Dyer The Rom-Commers Katherine Center (St. Martin’s Press) NoveList read-alike: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan Tangled Up In You: A Meant to Be Novel Christina Lauren (Hyperion Avenue) NoveList read-alike: How to Find a Princess by Jasmine Guillory Middle of the Night Riley Sager (Dutton) NoveList read-alike: Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward The Next Mrs. Parrish Liv Constantine (Bantam) NoveList read-alike: The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark Incidents Around the House Josh Malerman…

Green Green: A Community Gardening Story. By Marie Lamba and Baldev Lamba. Illus. by Sonia Sanchez. 2017. Farrar. PreS–Gr. 1. When urban sprawl threatens neighborhood green space, the community preserves a garden and models how city spaces, including rooftops and fire escapes, can sustain small gardens. See also Jayden’s Impossible Garden (2021). Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood. By Tony Hillery. Illus. by Jessie Hartland. 2020. Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman. K–Gr. 3. A project that began by cleaning a vacant lot with students grew into an urban farming nonprofit that now thrives in multiple sites across Harlem, as the founder recounts in this lush and cheerful rendering. Mary Had a Little Plan. By Tammi Sauer. Illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton. 2022. Union Square. PreS–Gr. 2. Glamorous Mary turns…