July! Based on my selections down below, I would like to refer to this month as the month of beautiful book covers. Like number 3 and 4 (chefs kiss). Am I right or am I right? Well, I’m super excited for July and have some great things coming this month! Have my entire dad’s side, 4th of July celebration as this post comes out, and it’s always a good time when you get 30+ of us all together. Visiting a friend in DC later this month and hopefully going to spend a lot of time on a lake. Doesn’t matter which one just any lake will do. As like most months, I will probably read more than the 8 below, or have one that I just did not vibe with, so I like to give myself options. Definitely check out my Instagram for content that I often don’t post here. What are you looking to read this month?
1. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
A story of two women who form an unlikely friendship. 91-year-old Vivian lives a quiet life in Maine, rarely talking about her past. Her attic is filed with memories she would love to get rid of but can’t seem to. Almost eighteen-year-old Molly, has one more chance of redemption before she is kicked out of her latest foster home. She is assigned community service and must assist Vivian clean out her home. As Molly begins the cleanup in Vivian’s home, they come to realize that they are not as different as one might think. They were both seen as outsiders in this country they now call home. Overtime, they come to realize they can help each other overcome these barriers they have both been facing for so many years.
2. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
In 1665 before witch, Agnes Nutter exploded, she wrote down a list of prophecies that are the only completely accurate ones of its kind. And according to the prophecies, the world will be ending on a Saturday. Next Saturday actually. The Good and Evil are arising, Atlantis is no longer the sunken city, frogs are falling and tempers are rising. It’s looking well for the Divine Plan except for one angel and one demon who have lived amongst mortals since the beginning and have grown quite found of this way of life. They don’t really want change to come. Plus someone seems to have misplaced the antichrist…
3. On a Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark
Following two generations in Argentina, a young couple who live through the Dirty War in the 1970s and their daughter 20 years later looking for answers. Santiago Larrea is living as a wealthy Argentine diplomat when during a party an uninvited guest from his past shows up and starts bringing up the long buried secrets. On their way to Buenos Aires to anoint his UN ambassador promotion, his daughter Paloma decides to take it into her own hands to try and find out who her dad was 20 years ago. Paloma begins to uncover family secrets that will have her questioning her family while also putting her own life in danger.
4. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Nahr is a young Palestinian refugee currently locked away in solitary confinement reflecting on the past that led her to sitting in this prison in this country she barely knows. The story shared her life story from being born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugees, thinking she found her soul mate, being betrayed by the man she loves, going into poverty and eventually prostitution. After trekking her way through Jordan, she finds herself in Palestine where she makes a home for herself while under Israeli occupation.
5. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Welcome to Charon’s Crossing. Don’t worry the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his funeral, Wallace is thrown off to realize he may be dead. And then when Hugo the charming tea owner offers to help him cross over, Wallace know’s he is definitely dead. But he is not ready to be dead. So when he is given 7 more days before he crosses over, he decides to make the most of it and live more in these 7 days than he has ever done before.
6. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human Centered Planet by John Green
The Anthropocene is the current geological age that we are in. An age that has been changed drastically by man kind. In his first nonfiction book ever, John Green takes to essay format to share some of the most prolific human changes over the past few years. How we has humans have more power than ever before but still find ourselves powerless in certain situations. That we are able to find things that separate us but also have brought us together.
7. State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
A novice Secretary of State has joined the administration for a President who she could not be more different from. A series of terrorist attacks throws the world into chaos and she is now in charge of creating a team to help unravel the deadly conspiracists. She must figure out the root before the country she loves suffers any more loses. A political thriller that includes some behind the scene details you could only get from an insider.
8. The One by John Marrs
A DNA test is all that it takes to find THE ONE. At least that is the promise from Match Your DNA. Millions of people have found their match through this program but lately there’s been more complications than originally planned. In the next 5 couples, not all of them will live happily ever after. Because everyone has a secret. Some more shocking than others. Is your soul mate really your soul mate?
Until Next Time, The Library Abroad
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