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AUGUST READS – starting the month off slow but with really great books
I haven’t read a whole lot of books so far this month (I’ve DNFed just as many as I read) but I’ve really enjoyed the ones I have read!
I would love to hear about what you have been reading!
BOOKS MENTIONED
Steelheart
![Steelheart Steelheart](https://heyreader.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/51bA2e3HUBL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Series: The Reckoners
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then…
Purchase on: Amazon
One for the Murphys
![One for the Murphys One for the Murphys](https://heyreader.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/514vYINs2-L._SX323_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Author: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carley the stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in their cookie-cutter-perfect household. Despite her resistance, the Murphys eventually show her what it feels like to belong--until her mother wants her back and Carley…
Purchase on: Amazon
Amari and the Night Brothers
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Author: B. B. Alston
Series: Supernatural Investigations
Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she’s certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton—if only she can…
Purchase on: Amazon
Wolf by Wolf
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Author: Ryan Graudin
Series: Wolf by Wolf
Her story begins on a train. The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Great Victory, they host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents. The prize? An audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler at the Victor's ball in Tokyo. Yael, a former death camp prisoner, has witnessed too much suffering, and the five wolves tattooed on her arm…
Purchase on: Amazon
American Royals
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Author: Katharine McGee
"In an alternate America, princesses Beatrice and Samantha Washington and the two girls wooing their brother, Prince Jefferson, become embroiled in high drama in the most glorious court in the world."--Provided by publisher.
Purchase on: Amazon
Aurora Rising
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Author: Amie Kaufman
Series: The Aurora Cycle
The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch . . . A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates A smart-ass tech whiz with…
Purchase on: Amazon
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
![A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream](https://heyreader.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/61cd3fGfq3L._SX346_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Author: William Shakespeare
Series: Manga Classics
One of Shakespeare's most famous comedies finds a brilliant new life with this incredible Manga Classic adaptation. A Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for…
Purchase on: Amazon
Kindred
![Kindred Kindred](https://heyreader.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/51E-UIeSb2L._SX335_BO1204203200_.jpg)
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain…
Purchase on: Amazon
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