49 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out June 15 - 28
Welcome back to New & Hot Reads, where we gather up some of the most anticipated eBooks and audiobooks coming out now
In My Policeman British novelist Bethan Roberts crafts a story from a period in the life of one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century, E. M. Forster. Living in Britain when homosexuality between men was a criminal offense, Forster’s sexuality had to be kept under wraps, in real life and in his fiction. In Roberts’ novel, we peer into a love triangle between three young people: a woman, Marion, her eventual husband Tom, who is a policeman, and the artistic Patrick, whom Tom and Marion love; the characters are based on Forster and a policeman and his wife with whom Forster had an affair. It’s a novel full of ache and longing, recalling Forster’s own fiction, as the trio must find a balancing point for their unique relationship while keeping it all a secret. If you like your love stories melancholy and complicated, this might be the book for you.
Hakeem Oluseyi’s career in astrophysics was far from written in the stars. For one thing, he grew up in circumstances that have historically not produced many scientists: poor New Orleans and Mississippi neighbourhoods where his innate bookishness was not an asset for survival. Against the odds, he was able to gain admittance to the Stanford physics PhD program. It was there, aided by the mentorship of the only Black professor in the department, that he was able to see himself and the circumstances of his achievement, the ingrained racism and classism of the scientific establishment -- and now in A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars he shares those insights and the story that brought him to them. His book joins another book published this year by a Black physicist, The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, as we change our conception of what a scientist looks like, and where great minds come from.
As we start to spend more time with people again, renegotiating relationships that might have lain dormant during the pandemic, it’s a good time for a refresher course in self-care -- and we’re not talking about bath bombs and matcha. In Fierce Self-Compassion, Dr. Kristin Neff follows up her bestseller Self-Compassion a decade later with a (fierce) call to arms in defense of ourselves. She coaches readers on the skills required to say no to others when our own needs are not being met, with the understanding that we owe it to ourselves to not accept harm or injustice when it’s in our power to do so. Though the book is aimed at women, focusing specifically on gendered behavioural expectations about self-sacrifice and non-confrontation, there’s a lot here for every reader. And wouldn’t we all benefit from being a little bit more accepting and kinder to ourselves?
Speaking of looking after ourselves, perhaps you picked up a yoga habit during the pandemic. If so, you might have heard of yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley, whose new book Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance includes her view of yoga as a practice that goes far beyond just the mat. She’s funny and self-deprecating, and also incisive and forthright about body image and race, and how yoga as a culture and industry are in need of calling out on matters of inclusivity and representation. Whether you’re a yogi master or still working on breathing through your downward dog, there’s plenty to flex your mind around.
More books coming out June 15 - 28
💭 Big Ideas
- Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive by Dr. Kristin Neff
- The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less by Christine Platt
- Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
- Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley
- Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael Knowles
- Leap of Faith: Finding Love the Modern Way by Cameron Hamilton and Lauren Speed
- Universal Human: Creating Authentic Power and the New Consciousness by Gary Zukav
🗣 True Stories
- Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero by Amanda Kloots
- A Writer Prepares by Lawrence Block
- Our Pandemic Times: A Journal in Times of Pandemic and Lockdown by Northumberland Festival of the Arts
- A Lifer's Journey: Prison Chaplaincy from the Inside Out by Hank Dixon
- My So Called, Gay Schizophrenic Life: Introspection by Aaron Stickney
- A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz
- She Memes Well: Essays by Quinta Brunson
💘 Romance
- Jerricho by Dale Mayer
- Hello, Rogue by Sasha Cottman, Lauren Smith, Amanda Mariel, Dawn Brower, Nadine Millard, and Anna St. Claire
- Celestial Magic by T.M. Cromer
- The Perfect Murder by Kat Martin
- Subtle Blood by KJ Charles
- Cobb by Maryann Jordan
- Secret Enemy by Katie Reus
- Don't Hate the Player by Alexis Nedd
🗡️ Thrillers, Crime fiction, and Mystery
- Bunburry - Murder at the Magnolia Inn by Helena Marchmont
- The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
- One Child Alive by Ellery Kane
- Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
- The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
- A Racing Murder by Frances Evesham
- The Abduction of Pretty Penny by Leonard Goldberg
- The Witching Place: A Vanished Volume (A Curious Bookstore Cozy Mystery—Book 4) by Sophie Love
- Darling by K. Ancrum
🖊️ Literary Fiction
- The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi
- Sunrise by the Sea by Jenny Colgan
- Home Stretch by Graham Norton
- My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
- Sugar Falls by David A. Robertson
- Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
- What a Happy Family by Saumya Dave
- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
✨ Fantastical tales of Other Worlds and Other Times
- Catalyst Gate by Megan E. O'Keefe
- Treoir Dragon Chronicles of the Belador World: Book 8 by Dianna Love
- Boundless by Jack Campbell
- Voro's Return by Ariele Sieling
- Million Dollar Demon by Kim Harrison
- Beyond by Mercedes Lackey
- The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
- Witchshadow by Susan Dennard
- Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
- Rising Like a Storm by Tanaz Bhathena
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