{"id":301709,"date":"2025-06-19T07:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/spring-into-summer-with-new-books-this-june-book-nation-by-jen\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T07:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:22:47","slug":"spring-into-summer-with-new-books-this-june-book-nation-by-jen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=301709","title":{"rendered":"Spring Into Summer with New Books this June! ~ Book Nation by Jen"},"content":{"rendered":"


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So Much To Choose From\u2026<\/h2>\n

Fiction, romance, nonfiction and thrillers all have a place with me! This month I am excited to check out the latest Wally Lamb book as well as Bianca Marais\u2019s new mystery! My cup runneth over when it comes to 2025 releases so I am curious and want to know what you are reading!<\/p>\n

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The Poppy Fields<\/a><\/strong> by Nikki Erlick (science fiction)<\/p>\n

From the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author of the smash-hit\u00a0The Measure<\/em>\u2014a runaway bestseller and a Read with Jenna\u00a0TODAY\u00a0<\/em>Show pick\u2014comes a stunning speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness, and found friendship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA masterful, tender exploration of love, loss, and poignant echoes of memory\u2026A profoundly moving read.\u201d \u2014 Jamie Ford,\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0The Many Daughters of Afong Moy<\/em><\/p>\n

Welcome to the Poppy Fields, where there\u2019s hope for even the most battered hearts to heal.<\/p>\n

Here, in a remote stretch of the California desert, lies an experimental and controversial treatment center that allows those suffering from the heartache of loss to sleep through their pain\u2026and keep on sleeping. After patients awaken from this prolonged state of slumber, they will finally be healed. But only if they\u2019re willing to accept the potential shadowy side effects.<\/p>\n

On a journey to this mystical destination are four very different strangers and one little dog: Ava, a book illustrator; Ray, a fireman; Sasha, an occupational therapist; Sky, a free spirit; and a friendly pup named PJ. As they attempt to make their way from the Midwest all the way west to the Poppy Fields\u2014where they hope to find Ellis, its brilliant, enigmatic founder\u2014each of their past secrets and mysterious motivations threaten to derail their voyage.<\/p>\n

A high-concept speculative novel about heartache, hope, and human resilience\u00a0The Poppy Fields<\/em>\u00a0explores the path of grief and healing, a journey at once profoundly universal and unique to every person, posing the questions: How do we heal in the wake of great loss? And how far are we willing to go in order to be healed?<\/p>\n

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Murder Takes a Vacation<\/a><\/strong> by Laura Lipman (mystery\/fiction)<\/p>\n

Highly acclaimed\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>bestseller Laura Lippman returns with an irresistible mystery featuring Muriel Blossom, a former private investigator and middle-aged widow whose vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery\u2026that only she can solve.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mrs. Blossom is not the kind of woman to play the lottery. She is practical, a devoted grandmother, and has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when Mrs. Blossom finds a winning ticket in a parking lot, everything changes\u2026including Mrs. Blossom. She is determined to see the world that sometimes feels as if it\u2019s passing her by.<\/p>\n

But when Mrs. Blossom booked her cruise through France on the MS\u00a0Solitaire,<\/em>\u00a0she did not expect to meet Allan on her transatlantic flight. He is the first man who\u2019s sparked something inside her since her beloved husband passed.<\/p>\n

She also didn\u2019t expect Allan to be found, dead, twenty-four hours later in Paris, a city he wasn\u2019t supposed to be in.<\/p>\n

Now Mrs. Blossom doesn\u2019t know who to trust on board the ship, especially when a new, mystifying man, Danny, keeps popping up around every corner, always present when things go awry. He claims that Allan was involved in the transport of a stolen, precious piece of art, and he\u2019s convinced that Mrs. Blossom knows more than she lets on, regarding both the artifact and Allan\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Blossom\u2019s questions only increase as the cruise sails down the Seine. Why does it feel like she is being followed? Who was Allan, and why was he killed? Most alarmingly, why do these mysterious men keep flirting with her?<\/p>\n

What follows is a charming one-of-a-kind mystery from one of\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u2019s \u201cessential crime writers of the last 100 years.\u201d The perfect combination of cozy and thrilling, this novel and the delightful Mrs. Blossom are sure to be unforgettable.<\/p>\n

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Eat Post Like<\/a><\/strong> by Emily Arden Wells<\/p>\n

Eat Post Like\u00a0<\/em>is a heartwarming debut novel of self-discovery, resilience, and the transformative power of food.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cassie Brooks has her life all figured out.<\/p>\n

Make partner at the prestigious law firm she works at by age 35Prioritize making plans with friends on the weekends\u2026 not workingSpend as much time as possible with her boyfriend, James ColwellWork might be exhausting, but for now she\u2019s satisfied making good money and enjoying New York City with James. He\u2019s an accountant but has surprisingly eclectic taste in food. Cassie is starting to think he could be the one when her life flips upside down with one James has died tragically.<\/p>\n

Months into her grief, she uncovers a worn diary belonging to James and stumbles upon a remarkable James was the mastermind behind the hottest, anonymous foodie account in the city. With detailed food reviews, lists of new restaurants, and a tantalizing plan to involve Cassie, James had been preparing for an adventure of a lifetime.<\/p>\n

When Cassie unwittingly accepts a dinner reservation on behalf of James\u2019s viral account, she embarks on a whirlwind journey filled with unforgettable meals and unexpected connections. She goes from endless hours on-call as a lawyer to savoring exquisite pasta in Italy and indulging in the finest French cuisine in Paris.<\/p>\n

But as Cassie navigates the demands of being an influencer and embracing her newfound passions, she struggles to find balance. Does she have what it takes to maintain her secret identity while pursuing her own dreams? Can she balance her grief of losing James with the thrilling possibilities that lie ahead?<\/p>\n

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The Baker of Lost Memories<\/a><\/strong> by Shirley Russak Wachtel<\/p>\n

From the author of\u00a0A Castle in Brooklyn<\/em>\u00a0comes an epic novel spanning decades about the broken bonds of family, memories of war, and redemption and hope in the face of heartbreaking loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Growing up in 1960s Brooklyn, Lena wants to be a baker just like her mother was back in Poland prior to World War II. But questions about those days, and about a sister Lena never even knew, are ignored with solemn silence. It\u2019s as if everything her parents left behind was a subject never to be broached.<\/p>\n

The one person in whom Lena can confide is her best friend, Pearl. When she suddenly disappears from Lena\u2019s life, Lena forges college, love and marriage with a wonderful man, the dream of owning a bakery becoming a reality, and the hope that someday Pearl will return to share in Lena\u2019s happiness\u2014and to be there for her during the unexpected losses to come.<\/p>\n

Only when Lena discovers the depth of her parents\u2019 anguish, and a startling truth about her own past, can they rebuild a family and overcome the heart-wrenching memories that have torn them apart.<\/p>\n

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Family and Other Calamities <\/a><\/strong>by Leslie Gray Streeter<\/p>\n

A successful journalist returns to her hometown just as her biggest mistake becomes headline news in this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt novel about facing life and the past, and its secrets, head-on.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work a widow\u2019s grief, betrayals of family and friends, and scandals that almost tanked her reputation. Not that Dawn dwells on the past. Well, hardly. When she returns to Baltimore with her husband\u2019s ashes, she can\u2019t avoid it. In fact, she\u2019s diving into decades of backstabbing and treachery for her first trip home in years.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s looking at you, Joe Perkins. Her former mentor, whose explosive expos\u00e9 about big-city corruption is being turned into a slanderous movie, is also back in town. The villain of the piece? Dawn. The good news is that this could all be a chance to reset\u2014heal family wounds, admit to her own mistakes, and maybe even reconnect with the one who got away. Oh, and get even with Joe any way she can.<\/p>\n

With the surprising help of an up-and-coming journalist and a legendary R & B diva, Dawn will finally set the record straight. Returning home might just be the biggest story in Dawn\u2019s life, a fresh start\u2014and happy ending\u2014she never expected.<\/p>\n

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The Summer We Ran<\/a><\/strong> by Audrey Ingram (romance\/fiction)<\/p>\n

Does your past define your destiny? Told through multiple perspectives, rich with emotion and immersive dual timelines,\u00a0The Summer We Ran<\/em>\u00a0weaves together a story of lost love, devastating secrets, shocking sabotage, and the painstaking decision two people must make in order to fulfill the futures they each desire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the summer of 1996, teenage Tess Murphy\u2019s mom gave her two rules to abide keep quiet and stay out of trouble. Her mother landed a new job as a cook at an affluent Virginia estate and didn\u2019t want anything to risk the opportunity, least of all her outspoken daughter. What no one saw coming was Tess falling deeply in love with the boy next door, high-society Grant Alexander.<\/p>\n

Over a few wondrous and heat-filled months, Tess and Grant\u2019s love blooms so ferociously it feels utterly impossible that anything can keep them apart, until tragedy strikes and the teenagers find themselves pained by betrayal with little hope to repair the damage that\u2019s been done.<\/p>\n

Now, two decades after their epic teenage romance abruptly ended in heartbreak, Tess and Grant are both running for Governor of Virginia, where secrets from that summer threaten to shatter their families, futures, and the love they once shared.<\/p>\n

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Her First Mistake<\/a><\/strong> by Kendra Elliot<\/p>\n

When a very personal cold case murder is reopened, a detective\u2019s secrets come to light in a novel of shocking twists and suspense by a\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thirteen years ago, Assemblyman Derrick Bell was murdered in his home by an intruder. His wife, Noelle Marshall, was left for dead. The crime was unsolved, but it wasn\u2019t forgotten.<\/p>\n

Today the FBI is tackling a fresh perspective on the case and looking to Noelle, now a detective for the Deschutes County sheriff\u2019s office, for new clues. It is reopening everything Noelle thought was behind her. Memories of her escape from a traumatic childhood. A marriage that wasn\u2019t the perfect love story she\u2019d been promised. And a husband whose charm and privilege hid a dark side. But Noelle has been hiding something a secret about the night Derrick died that she has never told anyone.<\/p>\n

As past and present and leads and misleads collide, one thing is frighteningly clear. Derrick\u2019s murder wasn\u2019t just unsolved. It\u2019s unfinished. And only the truth\u2014no matter the risk\u2014can save the next victim.<\/p>\n

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The River is Waiting<\/a><\/strong> by Wally Lamb (fiction)<\/p>\n

Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin\u2014and that\u2019s before he causes the tragedy that tears apart his family. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he witnesses frightful acts of brutality. But he also experiences small acts of kindness and kinship. Buoyed by those and by his mother\u2019s enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can those he loves ever forgive his crimes?<\/p>\n

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A Beautiful Family<\/a><\/strong> by Jennifer Trevelyan (mystery\/suspense)<\/p>\n

Over the course of one sunbaked summer vacation, a family is pulled into a web of mysteries that the younger daughter sets out to solve. A tense, page-turning debut of childhood, innocence, and evil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At ten years old, she catches more than her parents and older sister suspect. Over their summer break, her mother plans to finish her novel, her father wants to grill and watch cricket, and her fifteen-year-old sister hopes to catch the eye of a local lifeguard. With everyone around her distracted, she teams up with a new friend to solve a mystery that haunts this vacation they\u2019ll close the case of what happened to Charlotte, a child who was presumed drowned two years earlier.<\/p>\n

But things aren\u2019t quite as they seem, and as the children look for clues, they inadvertently dislodge information they wish they\u2019d never uncovered. Are her parents happy together? Is her sister putting her trust in the wrong people? Is their vacation rental as safe as it seems? And when someone else goes missing, the family find themselves at the center of an urgent police investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Debut novelist Jennifer Trevelyan viscerally captures the confusion and frustration of childhood, the fraught but unshakeable bond between sisters, and the dangers that lurk in the white lies we tell\u2013especially about the people we love most.<\/p>\n

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A Most Puzzling Murder<\/a><\/strong> by Bianca Marais (mystery)<\/p>\n

How do you solve a murder that hasn\u2019t happened yet?<\/p>\n

Destiny Whip is a former child prodigy, world-renowned enigmatologist and very, very alone. A life filled with loss has made her a recluse, an existence she\u2019s content to endure until a letter arrives inviting her to interview for the position of Scruffmore family historian. Not only does an internet search for the name yield almost nothing, it\u2019s a role she never applied to in the first place!<\/p>\n

After she decodes the invitation\u2019s hidden message with ease, the promise of her family secrets being revealed is too powerful a draw for the orphaned Destiny, who soon finds herself on Eerie Island. It\u2019s a place whose inhabitants are almost as inhospitable as the tempestuous weather. The Scruffmores themselves turn out to be not much better, a snarled mess of secrets and motives connected by their mistrust for one another.<\/p>\n

Their newly arrived guest proves to be just as much an enigma to them as they are to her. While Destiny slowly works to unravel the mysteries hidden throughout the ominous castle, she struggles to interpret disturbing nightly visions of what is to come. In the midst of cryptic ciphers, hidden passages, and the family\u2019s magical heritage and line of succession, Destiny is certain of two things: one of the Scruffmores is going to die and she\u2019s running out of time to stop it.<\/p>\n

Interspersed with riddles and puzzles that both Destiny and the reader must solve,\u00a0A Most Puzzling Murder<\/em>\u00a0is a one-of-a-kind mystery that will leave you guessing and gasping until the very last page!<\/p>\n

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A Gardin Wedding<\/a><\/strong> by Rosey Lee (romance)<\/p>\n

One of the Gardin women must navigate a season rich with unexpected challenges in the follow-up to\u00a0The Gardins of Edin<\/em>, a heartwarming story about love, forgiveness, new beginnings, and what it takes to get there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Martha Gardin is a mess. And everyone in the Gardin family knows it. A successful physician, Martha is usually the source of the Gardin family drama, but her heart is in the right place\u2026 sometimes. So, the Gardins are pleasantly surprised when Martha mellows out after she begins dating Oji Greenwald, one of the most eligible bachelors in town.<\/p>\n

As Martha\u2019s relationship with Oji deepens, she thinks she\u2019s finally about to have the life she\u2019s always wanted. But when Martha attempts to intervene in a health crisis in Oji\u2019s family, she draws the ire of Oji\u2019s mother, Eve Greenwald, which jeopardizes everything. Suddenly, Martha finds herself on a journey full of challenges that force her to deal with her previous mistakes, reconcile her past, and forge a path forward.<\/p>\n

Will she be able to look beyond the superficial to find what she\u2019s really needed all along?<\/p>\n

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Madame Queen<\/a><\/strong> by Mary Kay McBrayer (nonfiction)<\/p>\n

The astonishing little-known history of Harlem racketeer Madame Stephanie St. Clair, one of the only female crime bosses and a Black, self-made businesswoman in early twentieth-century New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In her heyday, Stephanie St. Clair went by many names, but one was best known by Madame Queen. The undeniable queen of the Harlem numbers game, St. Clair redefined what it meant to be a woman of means. After immigrating to America from the West Indies, St. Clair would go on to manage one of the largest policy banks in all of Harlem by 1923. She knew the power of reputation, and even though her business was illegal gambling, she ran it like any other respectable entrepreneur. Because first and foremost, Madame Queen was a lady.<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop her from doing what needed to be done to survive. St. Clair learned how to navigate the complex male-dominated world of crime syndicates, all at a time when Tammany Hall and mafia groups like the Combination were trying to rule New York. With her tenacity and intellectual prowess, she never backed down. Madame Queen was a complicated figure, but she prioritized the people of Harlem above all else, investing her wealth back into the neighborhood and speaking out against police corruption and racial discrimination.<\/p>\n

St. Clair was a trailblazer, unafraid to challenge societal norms. But for far too long she\u2019s been a footnote in more infamous characters\u2019 stories, like Bumpy Johnson, Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano. Now, in this masterful portrayal of a woman who defied the odds at all costs, she finally gets her due.<\/p>\n

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