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BookTrib’s Bites: Four Riveting Summer Reads
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May Day by Jess Lourey
A waitress turned librarian just wants a new life. What she ends up with is a killer change of pace in a funny, snappy, and suspenseful mystery by Edgar Award–nominated author Jess Lourey.
With a cheating boyfriend, a thankless career in waitressing, and her BA in English going to waste, Mira James jumps at the chance for a fresh start in rural Battle Lake, Minnesota.
She lands a job as a librarian, another as an on-call reporter, and is swept off her feet by Jeff Wilson, a handsome archaeologist unearthing the town’s storied history. All is coming together — until she finds Jeff’s body between the library’s reference stacks. It seems Mira didn’t really know her new lover at all. But someone surely did.
Behind this quirky town’s polite exterior are decades-old grudges and murderous secrets best kept hidden. Now it’s Mira’s turn to start digging. Purchase at https://bit.ly/4dySIxh.
The Bucharest Legacy by William Maz
In this second of the multi-award-winning spy thriller series, CIA agent Bill Hefflin is back in Bucharest — immersed in a cauldron of spies and crooked politicians.
The CIA is rocked when a KGB defector reveals there is a KGB mole inside the Agency. They learn the mole’s handler is a KGB agent called Boris. Hefflin recognizes that name — Boris is the code name of Hefflin’s longtime KGB asset.
If the defector is correct, Hefflin realizes Boris must be a triple agent, and his supposed mole has been passing false intel to Hefflin and the CIA. This makes Hefflin the prime suspect as the KGB mole inside the Agency.
Hefflin returns to Bucharest to find Boris and expose the mole. He finds spies, crooked politicians, and a country controlled by the new oligarchs, all of whom want to find Boris. But Hefflin knows a secret: Boris is dead. Purchase at https://bit.ly/3xzmQrU.
A Grain of Hope by Melissa Cole
Thirteen-year-old Oksana Kovalenko leads a simple life with her family in the rolling fields and rustic charm of her small farming village in the Ukraine. That is, until the Soviet Union takes power and her world is turned upside down.
As increasing authoritarianism and threats of land and food confiscation loom, Oksana fights to protect her loved ones from hunger and the loss of everything they hold dear. Threatened with being labeled an Enemy of the State, her family and friends endure persecution. She watches in horror as her village is reduced to starvation and despair. She then joins an underground movement that plans covert operations to feed starving villagers.
Oksana grows from a hopeful schoolgirl into someone determined to protect her heritage. A Grain of Hope reminds us of the human toll of war and oppression and celebrates the human spirit. Purchase at https://bit.ly/3JskIEN.
On Being Human by Ghazala Alam
A compilation of original poems, written in modern Urdu and English, with each poem introduced by an English preamble detailing the author’s inspirations and insights. Accompanied by English transliteration, Alam’s poetry is informed by her experiences as an immigrant, woman, and a person of color. This distinct lens on life's challenges also reaffirms her faith in the human capacity to empathize, overcome, and seek justice.
With a sensitive, sometimes satirical style, her poems touch upon social issues pertinent to modern, everyday life. Each poem uses simple but elegant language to comment insightfully on fundamental aspects of the human struggle for meaning in the face of adversity and turmoil. Tackling issues such as ego, PTSD, and rejection, as well as true love and generosity, Ghazala's poems include a rallying cry for racial justice, a depiction of inner struggles of the mind, and much more. Purchase at https://bit.ly/3wCKtzB.
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