June 2020 Publication – Lacey's Library

Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein

Publication Date: June 23, 2020Publisher: Atria BooksRating: ★★★ The past seven years have been hard on Avery Abrams: After training her entire life to make the Olympic gymnastics team, a disastrous performance ended her athletic career for good. Her best friend and teammate, Jasmine, went on to become an Olympic champion, then committed the ultimateContinue reading “Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein”

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Publication Date: June 2, 2020Publisher: Riverhead BooksRating: ★★★ The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racialContinue reading “The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett”

She’s Faking It by Kristin Rockaway

Publication Date: June 30, 2020Publisher: Graydon HouseRating: ★★★★ You can’t put a filter on reality. Bree Bozeman isn’t exactly pursuing the life of her dreams. Then again, she isn’t too sure what those dreams are. After dropping out of college, she’s living a pretty chill life in the surf community of Pacific Beach, San Diego…ifContinue reading “She’s Faking It by Kristin Rockaway”

No One Saw by Beverly Long

Publication Date: June 30, 2020Publisher: MIRA BooksRating: ★★★ Nobody saw a thing. Or so they say… Baywood police department detective A.L. McKittridge is no stranger to tough cases, but when five-year-old Emma Whitman disappears from her day care, there isn’t a single shred of evidence to go on. Neither the grandmother who dropped her off,Continue reading “No One Saw by Beverly Long”

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Pubilication Date: June 30, 2020Publisher: Dutton BooksRating: ★★★★★ Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted inContinue reading “Home Before Dark by Riley Sager”