These are all September books. I’ve been kind of hanging onto this stack – although not in the literal sense because books are heavy – because I knew there were a couple of weekends coming up where I’d be away and this stack would give me the opportunity to get it done ahead and have it ready to go on the day.

Today is that day. One of those days, anyway.

The prettiest cover – although the book inside seems a bit dark – is Next Stop. The two books I’m most intrigued by are First Lady of Laughs – because I think I remember seeing Jean Carroll on TV when I was a child – and Night Owls because it looks like a really cool fantasy. We’ll see, sooner or later, in the months ahead!

For Review:
Bad Jew by Piotr Smolar, translated by Anthony Roberts
First Lady of Laughs by Grace Kessler Overbeke
The Genizah by Wayne Karlin
An Improbable Life by Karine Rashkovsky
Moguls by Michael Benson and Craig Singer
Next Stop by Benjamin Resnick
Night Owls by A.R. Vishny
Nothing Is for Everyone by Eden Pearlstein
A Place to Hide by Ronald H. Balson
Rachel Weiss’s Group Chat by Lauren Appelbaum
A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg
There Was Night and There Was Morning by Sara Sherbill

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Yet another short stack. They’ll start getting bigger/taller soon, I think. I’m starting to accumulate candidates for the stack that do not yet have covers, pretty or otherwise, to liven up this post. (It kind of feels like I’m saying that Xmas is coming. More books! YAY!)

A short stack doesn’t mean that there aren’t pretty and/or interesting books in the stack. This week’s pretty cover is But Not Too Bold. The book I’m most looking forward to is Shattering Dawn, because I adore the author’s Arcane Society/Harmony series(es) and all of the spinoffs and tangents thereof. The one I’m most curious about  is Our Rotten Hearts, because the author’s previous book, A Tip for the Hangman, was utterly fantastic and I’m hoping for something equally so. I’m also really curious about the premise, the idea of seeing Oliver Twist‘s story through the ‘villain’ Fagin’s perspective.

We’ll certainly see in the months ahead!

For Review:
But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
Einstein’s Tutor by Lee Phillips
On Vicious Worlds (Kindom Trilogy #2) by Bethany Jacobs
Our Rotten Hearts by Allison Epstein
Seeing Through by Ricky Ian Gordon
Shattering Dawn (Lost Night Files #3) by Jayne Ann Krentz

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Yet another short stack. ‘Tis the season, clearly. This is a stack that generates more curiosity and anticipation than it invokes pretty – at least for moi – but your mileage may vary. The two books I’m anticipating the most are Blood and Magic and The Hermit Next Door. The one that has my curiosity bump itching is Camp Jeff.

For Review:
Blood and Magic (Goddess with a Blade #8) by Lauren Dane
The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner
Camp Jeff by Tova Reich
Heavyweight by Solomon J. Brager

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
The Hermit Next Door by Kevin Hearne (ebook and audio)

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This week’s stack is short. Like really, REALLY short. Summer just isn’t a big time for new books. Two of the books in this stack won’t be published until 2025 – in the winter.

The two with the prettiest covers this week are also two of the creepiest – A Harvest of Hearts and Out of the Drowning Deep. OTOH, Dead in the Frame is the book I’m most anticipating as the Pentecost and Parker series is ALWAYS a treat!

For Review:
Dead in the Frame (Pentecost and Parker #5) by Stephen Spotswood
A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames
Out of the Drowning Deep by A.C. Wise
Stone (Sentinel Security #7) by Anna Hackett

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Hex Sells (Babylon Boy #2) by T.A. Moore

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Occasionally, Amazon’s attempts to match something-a-likes to whatever you’re searching for gets a bit, well, odd. The first entries for a search for Lightfall by Ed Crocker, I searched for “Lightfall Crocker” figuring that would be enough. The top entry for that search is a The Betty Crocker Cookbook. I get the “Crocker” part but can’t figure out where the “Lightfall” comes in.

Mr. Crocker’s not-a-cookbook aside, the prettiest covers in this week’s stack are The Bones Beneath My Skin and Remember When, and, as usual, they’re both pretty but not pretty the same at all. The books I’m most intrigued by are Earthlight and When Women Ran Fifth Avenue – of course for entirely different reasons.

Galen is particularly curious about The Elements of Marie Curie. I heard the author, Dava Sobel, speak at the ALA Conference last weekend, so I was interested, but when I told him about the book he was REALLY intrigued.

And the two books I’m most definitely looking forward to – and one of those immediately – are Penric and the Bandit and Shoestring Theory. I adore the Penric and Desdemona series, and Shoestring Theory, well, there’s a cat.

For Review:
Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #5) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune
Earthlight by J. Michael Straczynski (audio)
The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel
Jackpot Summer by Elyssa Friedland
Lightfall (Everlands #1) by Ed Crocker
Remember When: Clarissa’s Story (Ravenswood #4) by Mary Balogh
Shoestring Theory by Mariana Costa
Trajectory by Cambria Gordon
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow
Wooing the Witch Queen (Queens of Villainy #1) by Stephanie Burgis

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

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