Stacking The Shelves #84

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly haul meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews & Reading Reality. It is about sharing enthusiasm for the new books added to our shelves – be it physical, ebooks, galleys or borrowed from the library.

Some more new interesting titles this week…

Netgalley

The Language of Cherries by Jen Marie Hawkins

“When Evie Perez is cut off from everything she loves and forced to move to Iceland for the summer, she takes her canvas and paintbrushes into the picturesque cherry orchard behind her guesthouse. She stains her lips with stolen cherries in the midnight sun and paints a boy she’s never met.“

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

“Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience.“

Sparrow by Mary Cecilia Jackson

“about a ballerina who finds the courage to confront the abuse that haunts her past and threatens her future.“

Edelweiss

Accidental by Alex Richards

A story about gun violence, about a young teen who discovers that she had accidentally killed her mother with a gun when she was a toddler.

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Queer black girls team up to overthrow a kingdom in this Cinderella retelling where even 200 years after Cinderella’s death, the tradition of princes choosing their wives at a ball is alive.