Booksology But for the new month it’s enough. We’ll talk about books and all new titles that are featured on the shelves in the first week of July. As has been foreseen over the past few weeks, things are beginning to slow down in the publishing world until late August. This means there are fewer titles to highlight each week. But it’s also an opportunity to catch up with the absolute prize money we’ve seen so far in 2025.
A new hardcover YA will be released this week
Call your boyfriend with Olivia A. Cole and Ashley Woodfork
Bo wants to know if Maia will reciprocate her emotions. Certainly, she and Maia are secretly connected, but that doesn’t mean that the emotions are really there.
So when Bo appears at a huge party and sees Maia kissing the charm, she intervenes. This isn’t the only thing that’s happening.
Now, Bo and Charm work together to get Maia back. First, by gaining charm as Maia collapses so hard that her boyfriend breaks up with her. Next, turn the table and turn Maia into the abandoned person.
Of course, there is a hitch. Charm and Bo may start playing it.
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Alternative Universe Coffee Shop by CB Lee
If you’ve seen this title already highlighted in the roundup of a new release, you’re not imagining it. The release date for this seems to have moved a bit since I first had it in the release documentation (or I wrote the wrong date). Good news? This week we’re actually slamming the shelves!
Brenda is determined to change the world through her scientific mind, but when her internet comes out just before the deadline for a major scholarship, she heads to the Cat’s family cafe to get things done. Soon, she becomes obsessed with Cat. Cat also captured her emotions. And Cat’s particularly delightful blender doesn’t bother him that Cat’s future will include being chosen.
There is one big problem, like a big problem. Cat and Brenda come from different universes. So when their worlds collide, things start to spiral in ways neither could they imagine.
This strange, cozy fantasy is released simultaneously in both hardback and paperback so you can choose your preferred format.
Night Blood Prince by Molly X. Chan
Fay was born under the prophecy that she would become the empress of all empresses. However, this has meant for her throughout her young life, that she was raised in a palace while waiting for time to marry the Crown Prince. It’s solitude to put it calm.
Fay has the opportunity to put her fate into her own hands, knowing it is dangerous. But she intends to hunt the legendary tiger, even though she knows the potential costs.
What she didn’t expect was to meet Yexue, the runaway prince of her rival kingdom. But it wasn’t just that he hadn’t been unexpected. Faye falls for him and for him. Yexue is full of dangerous magic and has the power to command an army of dead vampires (really!). But evading prophecy is not easy, and not only between two rival partners and two rival kingdoms, the FEI is torn apart.
Pretty Girl County by Lakita Wilson
Leiya Samuels lives in Prince George County, which puts her in the financial stratosphere. She can do whatever she wants at any time. Despite this, Reya is still working hard.
Summer comes from Seat Pleasant. It’s not a rich area and Somer has to work very hard to help her family get along. She works her at her father’s bookstore and saves every penny she can so that she can attend her Dream School of Spellman.
The problem is that Leya and Somer were best friends. That was when Layer lived in Sheet Pleasant. The girls have been dropped and are now exacerbated by a biased social class. But now, Leiya needs Somer’s help to enter the Fashion Institute. And Leia promises to help her return the favor by paying Somer so that she can work to buy Spellman.
The girls start to trust each other again. At least they do so until adsorbent dad’s bookstore is in trouble. The bay between the girl and their financial situation begins to grow again. How can they build a bridge between them again?
New Hardcover Series Release
More hardcover releases this week
A new paperback YA will be released this week
For the game by Heather Buchta
Texas football is big, and a big thing in Finn Jellinger’s life, he moves to East Page height where he can play for a stronger team and win the eye of a college scout. The scholarship helps him and his family more than he can explain.
Finn’s girlfriend Megan begins to realize that something strange is happening. Every time I think a member of a rival soccer team goes missing and might get closer to understanding why something strange happens to her. Is she really creeping up or is she paranoia?
For Britt, Finn’s cousin and head of the cheerleading team, the death of the footballer suddenly wonders why her fellow cheerleaders keep so many secrets from her. Now, Megan, Britt and Finn have to work together to reveal what’s going on in the school. They are trying to find out pretty quickly that the school may be trying to hide more secrets than they imagined.
Most enthusiastic Gabe Cole Novoa
In London in 1812, Oliver Bennett feels constrained by the world around him. He doesn’t want a ball or a flashy gown. But at least for now, that’s a lot of him, as everyone in his world believes he is Elizabeth.
But Oliver finds joy when he comes out of a house dressed like a boy. He has a glow to Darcy, the young man he’s come across on the street. When Oliver believes that he is Elizabeth, the glow comes despite Darcy being rude to Oliver. As Oliver comes to know Darcy as his true self, he discovers that Darcy is far more than he looks.
The challenge is that the suitor becomes bolder and hopeless, and Oliver’s mother is ready to find his perfect partner. Now it’s up to Oliver to decide whether to live a safe life for the boring, unfulfilled and untruthful things, or to risk living as his true self.
This greedy fate by Hailey Denning
It was 1926, a former human vampire, who took him to the streets of New York City. Luckily, there are Grim Reaper Hunters all over the city to keep people safe. The Holy Family (arguably) means that the saints have a monopoly on the Grim Reaper hunt, meaning that the 18-year-old Elise Saint, the heir to the family’s business, is the main target of the Harlem Reaper.
Leila Hunter is a Grim Reaper with a dark past and a desire to return to Elise Saint, who betrayed her. As more Reapers are resurrected into humans again and leaving bloody marks with them, Elise realizes she needs to team up with Leila to find out what’s going on. Even if that means her own life, and Leila’s life, it means she is at risk in such a partnership.
Even if that means that the two of them may find more in common than either of them imagined.
New Paperback Series Release
More paperbacks will be released this week
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Some people are book nerds (including myself) from the start, but that’s not the case for everyone. When I was in college, my partner didn’t consider himself a reader, despite me reading more in magazines every week than in books. One day he said he felt like he was reading a book and asked if he could recommend it to him.
y’all: The pressure was real. I suspected that finding a good match might set something on fire for him, but if you choose more adequately, you could alienate him further from the book world.
This story has a happy ending. I set him on the book date with a popular sci-fi reading that appealed to his logical mind and love for adventure. He never looks back. Now he’s reading all sorts of books I don’t think I’ll pick up, and it’s pretty cool to see how different our reading preferences are.
So how do you read it? How do you start reading as an adult? There are so many books that are published every year. It ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions depending on whether you include self-published books or audiobooks. How can aspiring readers find books that work for them?
Don’t let the numbers threaten you. Here are some pointers to help you get started.
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