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New Books Hitting Shelves This August!

SO MANY amazing new books come out this month! Don't miss a single page 📚📚📚

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HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER released this past week, and to celebrate, I’m featuring it on the blog today for the Weekend Aesthetic (link in bio)! Also, in cased you missed it, @vicky_skribenten stopped by the blog on Wednesday to talk about swimming! 🏊🏻‍♀️

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Tuesday’s Treats is a weekly blog post dedicated to newly released books that I’m most excited for. (Books are in no particular order.)

All books featured this week will be released: AUG 14th

1. Surviving Adam Meade: Shannon Klare (goodreads) (book depository)

Claire has a plan: get into college and get out of North Carolina. But one thing that she doesn’t have a plan for is how to get rid of Adam Meade. Adam is headstrong, arrogant, and usually gets what he wants. Well, except for Claire, that is. The two may think they know what they want, but they might not quite know what they need.

YA Contemporary Fiction, Romance; Swoon Reads/Macmillan, Hardcover (US)

2. How to Breathe Underwater: Vicky Skinner (goodreads) (book depository)

For her entire life, Kate’s father has pushed her to be perfect: in life, in school, and in swimming. But when it turns out that Kate’s father is far from perfect and has been cheating on her mom, Kate’s world is flipped upside down. Now, she’s forced to start over in a new school and a new home, she’s not sure if she wants to swim anymore. With her entire world crumbling around her, she finds solace in a new friend, Michael, and she realizes that starting over may have been just what she needed.

YA Contemporary Fiction; Swoon Reads/Macmillan, Hardcover (US)

3. Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America: Amy Reed [Editor] (goodreads) (book depository)

A collection of 21 feminist essays exploring women’s roles, lives, and hardships in a heavily patriarchal society, Our Stories, Our Voices is an anthology that has been missing from the YA canon. I cannot wait to read it.

YA Nonfiction, Anthology; Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster, Hardcover (US)

4. Fresh Ink: An Anthology: Lamar Giles [Editor] (goodreads) (book depository)

From the combined efforts of thirteen authors and We Need Diverse Books comes Fresh Ink, a YA anthology all about life, love, and bending some rules.

I was fortunate enough to read this anthology early, and I absolutely loved it. There’s not a single truly weak story in this book, and it’s not an anthology to miss. Just like Our Stories, Our Voices, Fresh Ink is an anthology that has been missing from the YA canon and I cannot wait for more like it.

YA Short Stories, Anthology; Crown/Random House, Hardcover (US)

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Ah, summer. Post-Memorial Day it's all about being outside in the sunshine, lazy pool days and exciting beach trips, warm weather treats, and — most important of all — tote bags packed to the brim with all of the biggest and best summer reads. Whatev…

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Character Profiles + Giveaway: All Our Worst Ideas

Character Profiles + Giveaway: All Our Worst Ideas

Happy book birthday to All Our Worst Ideas! I’m excited to partner with author Vicky Skinner today to share introduce the characters!

Release Date: August 11, 2019 Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound

Two teens who have nothing in common work together at a record store in All Our Worst Ideas, a powerful and voice-driven YA novel from Vicky Skinner.

When Amy, on her way to…

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Wishing an early happy book birthday to @vickyskribenten and ALL OUR WORST IDEAS! You’ll be able to get your very own copy of this book tomorrow!

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ALL OUR WORST IDEAS

by Vicky Skinner

(Swoon Reads, 8/11/20)

9781250195425

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When Amy, on her way to becoming valedictorian of her graduating class and getting accepted to her dream school, gets dumped by her long-term boyfriend, she takes a job at a record store to ease the pain. She needs a distraction, badly.

Oliver, Amy’s record store co-worker, isn’t so sure about Amy—his complete opposite—but what he is sure of is his decision not to go to college. He just can’t figure out how to tell his mother.

As they work late-night shifts at the record store, Amy and Oliver become friends and then confidantes and then something more, but when Amy has a hard time letting go of what she thought was her perfect future with her ex, she risks losing the future she didn’t even know she wanted with Oliver.