Hello !
Vous êtes sûrement étonnés de voir un article sur les sorties VO du mois de mai. L'explication est très simple : je suis horriblement en retard dans mes articles de sorties de livres, que ce soit en français ou en anglais.
Le dernier que j'avais fait, pour la VO, c'était le 6 juin, et il concernait les sorties de novembre 2019 à Avril 2020. Et pourquoi tant de retard ? Parce que ces articles sont très longs à préparer, si l'on veut être à peu près sûr d'avoir fait le tour de la question (et encore, on ne peut jamais en être sûr et certain).
Heureusement, il y a quelques sites et blogs qui m'aident dans mes recherches, mais malgré tout, je dois fureter un peu partout.
Celui d'aujourd'hui ne concerne que les sorties de mai car, comme vous allez le voir, il est assez long, surtout en raison du nombre de cozy mysteries qui a explosé, grâce (ou à cause) d'un blog génial - mjbreviewers - qui répertorie absolument TOUTES les sorties de cozy mysteries, que ce soient en papier ou en e-books.
Donc même si, en principe, je ne note que les tomes 1 ou alors les suites de séries dont j'ai déjà au moins un tome dans ma PAL, ou alors ceux qui font partie de séries dont j'ai parlé des tomes précédents dans des articles "Sorties VO" antérieurs, cela en fait quand même beaucoup.
Les sorties de Juin, Juillet et Août feront l'objet d'autres articles.
Cozy Mysteries
- Mousse and Murder (Alaskan Diner Mystery #1), de Elizabeth Logan
When Chef Charlie Cooke is offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Elkview, Alaska, to take over her mother's diner, she doesn't even consider saying no. After all--her love life has recently become a Love Life Crumble, and a chance to reconnect with her roots may be just what she needs.
Determined to bring fresh life and flavors to the Bear Claw Diner, Charlie starts planning changes to the menu, which has grown stale over the years. But her plans are fried when her head cook Oliver turns up dead after a bitter and public fight over Charlie's ideas--leaving Charlie as the only suspect in the case.
With her career, freedom, and life all on thin ice, Charlie must find out who the real killer is, before it's too late.
304 pages
Éditeur : Berkley
5 mai 2020
- Killer Chardonnay (Colorado Wine Mystery #1), de Kate Lansing
Parker Valentine has always dreamed of opening her own winery in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado. But she gets more than she bargained for when a food and wine critic unexpectedly shows up at Vino Valentine on opening day. A negative review could be fatal for her business, and not only does he seem to hate her chardonnay, he also collapses and dies shortly after drinking it.
Although Parker hoped that the attendees would put a cork in it, soon her winery is at the center of a social media firestorm. With #killerchardonnay trending online, Parker's business is in danger of closing, and she has no choice but to investigate the murder herself.
To restore her reputation, catch a killer, and keep her struggling business open, Parker needs only one thing: some good proof.
304 pages
Éditeur : Berkley
26 mai 2020
- Tomes and Terriers (A Magic Library Mystery #1), de Hillary Avis
In the tiny town of Remembrance, Oregon, Allison Rye guards of a library of memories. Her only job? Keep the library hidden. Because the magic books could be dangerous in the wrong hands, and the wrong hands are definitely interested.
But when a resident at her husband’s care facility is murdered—and a sweet old lady is blamed—Allison finds herself drawn into the investigation. She knows something that police don’t, something she can’t reveal without becoming a murder suspect herself.
With her intrepid foster Yorkie to keep her from barking up the wrong tree, Allison sets out to find the killer on her own. But as she combs the enchanted library for the killer’s identity, she uncovers more questions than answers…and secrets deeper than she ever imagined.
First in a new series, Tomes & Terriers is a magical realism mystery that will change the way you think about memory and magic, fidelity and friendship.
Will Allison catch the culprit—or will she get lost in a forest of memories? Click the Buy Now button at the top and enter the world of Remembrance today.
324 pages
Éditeur : Independently published
24 mai 2020
- The Vampire Book Club (Vampire Book Club #1), de Nancy Warren
I was a divorced, middle-aged witch banished to Ireland. My life could be summed up in a limerick...There once was a misguided witchWho tried a man’s fate to switchHer punishment setTo Ireland she must getBut better than feathers and pitch!With a name like Quinn Calahan I sounded as Irish as a leprechaun dancing a jig on a four leafed clover, but the truth was, I’d never been closer to the emerald isle than drinking green beer at the St Patrick’s day street party in Boston until I messed up so badly I had to leave the US. I was offered a job in a tiny village in Ireland that no one’s ever heard of. And I think that was the point in sending me there. How much trouble could a divorced, middle-aged witch get into in a village that boasted very few residents, one crumbling castle that attracted no tourists, and a post office that was only open Mondays and Thursdays? You’d be surprised.You will fall in love with this series about second chances, magical mayhem, and a book club unlike any other. From the author of the best-selling Vampire Knitting Club series.
246 pages
Éditeur : Ambleside Publishing
6 mai 2020
- Macchiatos and Murder (Cup of Jo Book #1), de Kelly Hashway
Joanna Coffee is living up to her name, planning the grand opening of her coffee shop in Bennett Falls. At least until local millionaire Sherman Cromwell winds up dead in the street holding a macchiato from Jo’s shop. Not exactly the kind of press she wanted for her new business.
Now the prime suspect in Cromwell’s murder, Jo is determined to prove her innocence, even if it means donning her own detective cap and solving this mystery herself. If she doesn’t clear her name soon, she’ll be turning in her apron for an orange jumpsuit.
186 pages
Éditeur : Independently published
12 mai 2020
- A Deadly Inside Scoop (An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery #1), de Abby Collette
Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to basics. Win is renovating Crewse Creamery to restore its former glory, and filling the menu with delicious, homemade ice cream flavors—many from her grandmother’s original recipes. But unexpected construction delays mean she misses the summer season, and the shop has a literal cold opening: the day she opens her doors an early first snow descends on the village and keeps the customers away.
To make matters worse, that evening, Win finds a body in the snow, and it turns out the dead man was a grifter with an old feud with the Crewse family. Soon, Win’s father is implicated in his death. It's not easy to juggle a new-to-her business while solving a crime, but Win is determined to do it. With the help of her quirky best friends and her tight-knit family, she'll catch the ice cold killer before she has a meltdown...
384 pages
Éditeur : Berkley
12 mai 2020
- Body at the Crossroads (The Viking Witch Cozy Mysteries Book 1), de Cate Martin
When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother's small town in northern Minnesota.
The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother.
All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day.
If not for her beloved cat Mjolner, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her.
But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes. And finds trouble in the form of a dead body before she even finds her grandmother's little town. How much can a town of stoic fishermen possibly be hiding?
As Ingrid is about to find out, quite a lot.
196 pages
Éditeur : Ratatoskr Press
12 mai 2020
- Cruising for a Bruising (A Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery #1), de M.E. Harmon et Paula Lester
Poppy Legend, forty years old and feeling just a touch behind in life, is sailing back to the last place she wants to go . . . home.
Sure, she snagged a fantastic concierge gig on the inaugural voyage of a billionaire’s cruise line, which promises to revitalize her island home, Celebration Cay—the place she ran away from years ago.
Not that she has time to worry about what’s waiting in the future. A spoiled billionaire, rich and demanding cruise guests, and two of the world’s top boxers plus their eccentric entourages are doing everything they can to dominate every single second of Poppy’s present.
That is, until a killer delivers a fatal sucker punch that threatens to sink the cruise line on its maiden journey.
With the livelihood of Poppy’s hometown (and her own business) about to be left dead in the water—the personal concierge dives in to hunt down a murderer.
Will an amateur sleuth be able flush out a homicidal loose cannon, or will a devil cast Poppy into the deep blue sea?
272 pages
Éditeur : Independently published
19 mai 2020
- A Fairy Situation (Wicked Hollow Fairies #1), de Misty Bane
Miles away from Blackwood Bay, in the deepest depths of the forest, is a bustling community named Wicked Hollow. It’s where I live and where a lot of other fairies live too. Yup, fairies.
Cute, right? Except most of what you think you know about fairies is wrong. We aren’t sweet little things that flutter around singing songs and throwing fairy dust around. Okay, okay … some fairies fit this stereotype— not me. It might be because of the whole curse thing, but I’ll explain that later. Right now, I’ve got a dead body on my hands.
Someone killed our mayor. And since I’m an agent for the Fairy World Bureau of Investigations, I kind of have to deal with it as part of the job description.
Add in my best friend who owns the local salon, my eccentric grandmother and her doubly eccentric twin sister, and my oldest friend—a vampire cursed to live out the rest of his existence as a bumblebee bat—and you can see my life has all of the promises of a typical cozy paranormal story … except it’s a little more complicated than that.
I’m Jade Honeyblossom: half witch, half wicked, full fairy. Welcome to my world.
223 pages
Éditeur : Kindle
23 mai 2020
- The Strongman's Spell (Marley the Witch #1), de Amorette Anderson
Amateur witch Marley Greene has just opened her magical retreat center.
Her guest speaker, Neil the Strongman,has lots of wisdom to share with his admirers.
But before the weekend can get started...one of the guests is found murdered.
Who did it?
Why?
And what's up with the monster in the mud bath?
Follow along with amateur sleuth Marley as she casts spells, questions suspects, and dances her way through her first case!
235 pages
Éditeur : Independently published
22 mai 2020
- Witch Doggone Killer? (Superior Bay Witch #1), de Paula Lester
Willow Morgan lives a quiet life in Superior Bay. Winter lasts for up to nine months there, and the biggest event of the year is the summer dog show. People come from all over to attend. It brings money and prestige to town.
But when Willow’s landlord is poisoned to death, she quickly finds herself in a tricky situation. People are canceling their appointments, afraid when they learn someone was murdered in her clinic. And one of her employees is acting super strange.
Then she’s asked to take over the dead man’s spot as a dog show judge, and she gets even more nervous. After all, she’s the town veterinarian, so is it even okay for her to be a judge? And, oh yeah, she’s a witch who can talk to animals, but only her elderly aunt is in the know on that point.
Before long, Willow is in way over her head. She has to learn the rules for judging the dog show, save her business from financial ruin, and juggle a couple of potential love interests.
But that’s not the worst of it. Willow is pretty sure she may be on the short list for the killer’s next victim. Now, she’s racing the clock to catch the murderer and finds herself having to choose between revealing her secret and possibly losing her life.
208 pages
Éditeur : Independently published
22 mai 2020
- Cupcakes and Crime (Gold Valley Mysteries #1), de April Browne
The grand opening of Magnolia Winery is sure to make a splash until the General Manager is found dead in the wine cellar. Sophia Bell, owner of Mama Ginger's Bakery and a not very skilled kitchen witch, is hired to cater the highly anticipated event.
But the job is no icing on the cake, especially when she winds up as the prime suspect in the murder investigation.
Her mother's legacy on the line, Sophia launches her own investigation. With the help of her southern assistant, some honesty magic, and two fluffy dogs, Sophia uncovers a secret she never thought possible.
A murderer is living in Gold Valley, and Sophia is next on the list.
140 pages
Éditeur : Independently published
31 mai 2020
- No Filter (Barks & Beans Cafe Cozy Mystery #1), de Heather Day Gilbert
Welcome to the Barks & Beans Cafe, a quaint place where folks pet shelter dogs while enjoying a cup of java...and where murder sometimes pays a visit.
Fed up with her go-nowhere job, newly single Macy Hatfield moves back to her small hometown in West Virginia. She joins forces with her brother Bo in his crazy new venture—the Barks & Beans Cafe, which caters to dog lovers and coffee drinkers alike.
When a golf instructor is murdered at the nearby spiritual center, Macy winds up adopting his Great Dane. Just after Macy finds a mysterious message sewn under the dog's collar, her Dane is dognapped. She launches into a relentless search for her newfound canine friend, but along the way, she digs up a cruel and confident killer.
242 pages
Éditeur : WoodHaven Press
26 mai 2020
- Murder at St Margaret (Oxford Key Mysteries #1), de Lynn Morrison
When Natalie Payne accepts the Head of Ceremonies role at the University of Oxford, her first assignment is planning the spectacular autumn gala at St Margaret College. However, her plans are dashed when she finds their famed chef dead in the kitchen.
If that discovery isn’t enough, the cat following her around is actually a four-hundred-year-old wyvern. He’s got news for her: Nat’s a prefect, with the magic of Oxford running in her veins.
Nat’s got to solve the murder, find a new chef for the gala and get to the bottom of why Oxford’s magic is acting up. With the help of her wyvern, a band of Eternals and the savviest assistant who ever existed, Nat is sure to be a success.
But can she do it before St Margaret loses its connection to the magic of Oxford?
264 pages
Éditeur : Marketing Chair Press
31 mai 2020
- The Witch Who Settled the Account (Pixie Point Bay #1), de by Emma Belmont
An amateur sleuth who’s also a witch, a lighthouse that’s alive, and a cat who hears the spirits. Murder has met its match.
As the new owner of the Pixie Point Bay Lighthouse and B&B, Maris Seaver is finally ready to organize her finances. But while she’s at the town’s credit union, the manager mysteriously dies.
Although suspects abound, the murderer has been clever. No one even knows how the man was killed.
151 pages (édition Kindle)
12 mai 2020
- Scones and Scoundrels (Scheming Spires Mysteries #1), de Charlotte Graham
Georgina Strange is just like any other Oxford University freshman. She suffers from imposter syndrome, loathes exams, and doesn’t know what she’ll do after graduation. Oh, one small difference: Georgina is 55 years young. Laid off and recently widowed, Georgina trades her posh London digs for a dormitory in the fabled City of Dreaming Spires. But trouble abounds when Georgina spars with a most disagreeable fellow student, whose enemies include academic rivals and jilted lovers. And when Georgina discovers the obnoxious ne’er-do-well choked to death with one of her homemade scones, she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. The only suspect without an alibi, Georgina vows to clear her name by finding the culprit herself. Georgina’s Oxford career and freedom are on the line, and, if the killer has anything to say about it, so is her life.
190 pages (édition Kindle)
12 mai 2020
- A Fatal New Year (Tipperary Carriage Company Mystery #1), de J.A. Whiting
This is book 1 in the Tipperary Carriage Company cozy mystery series by USA TODAY Bestselling Author J A Whiting and Nell McCarthy.
Mae Monahan owns a horse-drawn carriage service and on New Year’s Eve, she’s out for her very first night of business. Everything is going smoothly until the end of the night when she finds a dead man on the floor of her carriage.
Who could have done this? Was it his friends, drunk and rowdy as Mae drove them back to their hotel? Or could it have been the sorority girl who seemed to be expecting the man at one of the carriage stops?
With the help of her friend, Ross, the stable owner and retired lawman from Texas, and her big grey horse called Steel, Mae is determined to find out who is responsible for the death, but she soon learns that some people are equally determined to make sure she never does.
238 pages
Éditeur : J A Whiting Books and Whitemark Publishing
14 mai 2020
- Death of an Editor (The Cabin by the Lake Mysteries Book 1), de Linda Norlander
Jamie Forest, a native New Yorker, has escaped the city for the quiet of a Minnesota Northwoods lake only to become the prime suspect in a murder. After the death of her father, a divorce and a traumatic experience with the New York police, Jamie settles into the old family cabin to eke out a living as a freelance editor.
As a member of a local environmental group, she clashes with the editor of the county newspaper over the development of a copper and nickel mining operation. Her peace is shattered when the editor is murdered, and her business card is found with the body.
276 pages
Éditeur : Level Best Books
19 mai 2020
- The Painted Ladies, de Sylvia Dickey Smith
Old houses...do they celebrate happy times with us? Do they hurt when we hurt? Or do they have their own stories to whisper in the night, their own dark secrets to hide?
In this fifth book in the award-winning Sidra Smart Mystery Series, slightly psychic private investigator Sidra Smart has a new female client who has inherited not one but three mysterious Victorian houses in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The moment Sidra walks into the Painted Ladies, she senses something is off-kilter. As autumn transforms to winter, Sidra needs to protect her client, young Belle Anderson, from being drawn too deeply into a tangled web of odd stories, spectral visitors, unsettling mysteries, and possible evil deeds committed.
As the snow falls, the two women, with their faithful sidekicks (dogs Slider and Jenkins), must try to get to the bottom of what lies beneath the facade of the beautiful painted Victorians.
248 pages
Éditeur : White Bird Publications
12 mai 2020
- Murder at the Abbey (Redmond and Haze Mysteries #2), de Irina Shapiro
When the body of a young woman is found near the ruins of a haunted abbey, everyone assumes she died of fright. A postmortem examination tells a different story. Not only was Elizabeth Barrett poisoned, but the lethal dose of cyanide must have been administered by someone close to her—someone she trusted, who may have known her secret.
As Captain Redmond and Constable Haze delve into the victim’s seemingly ordinary life, they learn she wasn’t the proper, biddable wife everyone believed her to be. With no clear motive for the murder and no obvious suspects, the trail soon grows cold. But the killer is closer than they imagined, waiting to strike with deadly force should they discover the truth.
This is the second installment of the exciting Redmond and Haze mysteries, perfect for fans of Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne Perry, and C.S. Harris.
255 pages
Éditeur : Independently published
13 mai 2020
- Sprinkles of Suspicion (Cupcake Catering Mystery #1), de Kim Davis, K.A. Davis
One glass of cheap California chardonnay cost Emory Gosser Martinez her husband, her job, and her best friend. Unfortunately, that was only the beginning of her troubles.
Distraught after discovering the betrayal by her husband and best friend, Tori, cupcake caterer Emory Martinez allows her temper to flare. Several people witness her very public altercation with her ex-friend. To make matters worse, Tori exacts her revenge by posting a fake photo of Emory in a compromising situation, which goes viral on social media. When Tori is found murdered, all signs point to Emory being the prime suspect.
With the police investigation focused on gathering evidence to convict her, Emory must prove her innocence while whipping up batches of cupcakes and buttercream. Delving into the past of her murdered ex-friend, she finds other people had reasons to want Tori dead, including Emory’s own husband. Can she find the killer, or will the clues sprinkled around the investigation point the police back to her?
274 pages
Éditeur : Cinnamon & Sugar Press
31 mai 2020
Chick-Lit/Romances
- Stealing Home (The Sweet Magnolias #1), de Sherryl Woods
Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity and have the best friends a woman could ask for, but her life is overturned when her husband leaves her for a younger woman. With her three children heartbroken from the change, Maddie has a lot to contend with. On top of it all, after years outside the workforce, she must dust off her business skills to take charge of her best friends' newest project--planning the town's only fitness spa for women.
When her son's developing anger issues begin to affect his passion for baseball, Maddie knows she must step in to help. She didn't expect to develop feelings for her son's coach, the handsome Cal Maddox, and to learn he has feelings for her, too. But gossip travels quickly in a small town, and Maddie and Cal's relationship may threaten both their reputations and careers.
Then again, he could be the one man in all of South Carolina who can help her find serenity after all.
416 pages
Éditeur : Mira Books
26 mai 2020
- The Banty House, de Carolyn Brown
In the fading town of Rooster, Texas, all that’s really left is a service station, a church…and the Banty House, a long-ago Depression-era brothel. For more than seventy-five years, Betsy, Connie, and Kate Carson have called their mama’s house a home. The three eccentric sisters get by just fine with their homemade jams and jellies, a little moonshine on the side, and big hearts always open to strangers. Like Ginger Andrews.
An abandoned teen with a baby on the way and nowhere to go, she’s given a room to call her own for as long as she wants. The kind invitation is made all the sweeter when Ginger meets the sisters’ young handyman, Sloan Baker. But with a past as broken as Ginger’s, he’s vowed never to get close to anyone again. As a season of change unfolds, Ginger and Sloan might discover a warm haven to heal in the Banty House, a place to finally belong, where hope and dreams never fade.
287 pages
Éditeur : Montlake
26 mai 2020
- Queen Bee, de Jane Fallon
Welcome to The Close - a beautiful street of mansions, where gorgeous Stella is the indisputable Queen Bee . . . It is here that Laura, seeking peace and privacy after her marriage falls apart, rents a tiny studio. Unfortunately, her arrival upsets suspicious Stella - who fears Laura has designs on her fiance, Al. When Laura stumbles on the big secret Al is hiding, suddenly Stella's perfectly controlled world, and Laura's future, are threatened. Taking a chance on beating Al at his own twisted game, these two former strangers are fast becoming friends. But has Laura forgotten that revenge always comes with a sting in the tail?
400 pages
Éditeur : Penguin Books Ltd
28 mai 2020
- Clover Cottage (Love Heart Lane #3), de Christie Barlow
Love Heart Lane - where friends are there for you no matter what. When Vet Rory Scott inherits ramshackle Clover Cottage in the quaint village of Heartcross, Allie MacDonald just knows this is their happy ever after. A place to call home with the man she loves - it's her dream come true! Until Rory drops a bombshell. He loves Allie but he has dreams of his own to follow - to live and work in Africa. Clover Cottage will have to wait just a little longer... Allie can't imagine life without Rory, but she loves him too much to hold him back. And as he embarks on his adventure, Allie begins to rethink her own plans. She loves Rory and knows she wants him in her life, but maybe she can follow her own dreams too? And always there, nestled in the beautiful village of Heartcross, surrounded by the people she loves, will be the place that will always bring them back to each other. Their forever home, Clover Cottage.
352 pages
Éditeur : One More Chapter
28 mai 2020
- The Little Village of New Starts, de Donna Ashcroft
Evie Stuart is playing it safe. She lives on her family’s remote farm in the Scottish Highlands and never ventures beyond the local village of Lockton. The most unpredictable events in her life are the antics of Miss Daisy, her grandmother Agnes’s pygmy goat. She’s learned that bad things happen when she’s impulsive, and she’s determined not to get burned again.
Callum Ryder is exactly the opposite of what Evie wants in her ordered world. Six foot two of reckless energy with twinkling eyes and a dangerously charming smile, he’s a thrill-seeking American firefighter with no idea how to slow down. Callum enters Lockton like a whirlwind, fleeing his problems in New York City in search of the truth about his Scottish family.
Yet the pair might have more in common than they think… When the well-meaning Agnes persuades her to help Callum find his grandfather, Evie finds herself being challenged more than she has in years: from swimming in the fabled Bonnie Lochan to exploring an ancient castle and even entering the village jam-making championships. Turns out it’s easy for Evie and Callum to connect when they let go of their fears and enjoy the most surprising summer of their lives.
But getting close to Callum so quickly soon starts to look like it might ruin everything for Evie: she’s heading for a disaster exactly like the one that destroyed her a year ago when she fell for the wrong man and let him change her life. Maybe a fresh start isn’t going to be so simple after all… Is the safe haven Evie’s built about to crumble down around her?
302 pages
Éditeur : Bookouture
7 mai 2020
- The Summer of Falling in Love, de Liz Davies
The thought of having a dog hasn’t crossed Theo Martin’s mind. It’s not that he doesn’t like dogs – he does – but the idea has simply never occurred to him.
It has occurred to his mother, though. When she decides to buy him a puppy because she thinks it will “liven him up a bit”, his life is turned completely upside down, and not for the better as far as he’s concerned. But when he discovers that having a cute dog on the end of a lead attracts a great deal of female attention, he soon changes his mind. All kinds of women stop to pet the pup and while they coo over Poppy, they talk to him. A lot. And for Theo, it looks like his love life is taking a very welcome turn for the better.
But what about Josie Wilde, his dog sitter?
Forced to employ someone to walk his dog when he’s in work, he finds himself increasingly attracted to her, but unfortunately Josie’s interest in him appears to be purely professional. As the summer unfolds and he falls head over heels in love with the sweet and vulnerable pup, he finds himself falling for Josie, too.
For Theo, it’s not so much ‘love me, love my dog’, but more like ‘love my dog, love me, too’. Please…
323 pages
Éditeur : Independently published
7 mai 2020
- The Summer Island Swap, de Samantha Tonge
After a long and turbulent year, Sarah is dreaming of the five-star getaway her sister has booked them on. White sands, cocktails, massages, the Caribbean is calling to them. But the sisters turn up to tatty beaches, basic wooden shacks, a compost toilet and outdoor cold water showers. It turns out that at the last minute Amy decided a conservation project would be much more fun than a luxury resort. So now Sarah's battling mosquitos, trying to stomach fish soup and praying for a swift escape. Life on a desert island though isn't all doom and gloom. They're at one with nature, learning about each other and making new friends. And Sarah is distracted by the dishy, yet incredibly moody, island leader she’s sure is hiding a secret. Perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Mandy Baggot and Heidi Swain.
368 pages
Éditeur : Aria
7 mai 2020
- The Cornish Cream Tea Summer (The Cornish Cream Tea #2), de Cressida McLaughlin
Charlie has a new helper on her bus, her free-spirited and loveable cousin, Delilah, who’s paid a visit to the charming Cornish village of Porthgolow and is helping out on Charlie’s adorable cream tea bus.
When the Director of a new TV series filming further along the coast tells Delilah that the bus would be the perfect addition to their onsite catering, she takes him a bit too literally. Charlie and Delilah find themselves caught up in the filming of a lavish period drama and it isn’t long before Delilah finds herself drawn to the handsome male lead.
But Delilah has made a habit of making rash decisions and it’s one of the reasons she’s hiding out in Cornwall. Could this be one impulsive step too far, or is a change of direction the start of something quite unexpected…
394 pages
Éditeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
14 mai 2020
- Spring Tides at Swallowtail Bay (Swallowtail Bay #1), de Katie Ginger
Licking her wounds from her divorce, Stella impulsively buys a gift shop and two holiday lets in glorious Swallowtail Bay, hoping for a fresh start with her King Charles Spaniel Frank. When the neighbours meet her with a warm welcome, Stella knows she's found the new home she was looking for. Even gorgeous but grumpy local Miles can't take the shine off things. But then her ex-husband announces he's getting married again, and someone in the village starts gossiping about Stella... Is Stella's dream over already? Or, with her new friends behind her, can Stella fight back and save her new life - and find the happy ever after she's been waiting for?
384 pages
Éditeur : HarperCollins
14 mai 2020
- Spring at Lavender Bay (Lavender Bay #1), de Sarah Bennett
Beth Reynolds loved growing up close to Eleanor's Emporium - a bric-a-brac shop full of wonders on Lavender Bay. Devastated to learn that Eleanor has died, she returns home from London immediately and is shocked to discover that the elderly lady has left the shop to her! Vowing to restore it to its former glory, she only intends to stay until the end of the season. Although the longer she spends in the colourful seaside town, the more she falls back in love with everything she left behind...and quite possibly, with her best friend Eliza's older brother, local chef Sam Barnes! Why didn't she notice he was quite this gorgeous before? And will their spring fling be enough to convince her to stay?
256 pages
Éditeur : HQ Digital
14 mai 2020
- Of Literature and Lattes, de Katherine Reay
After fleeing her hometown three years earlier, Alyssa Harrison never planned to return. Then the Silicon Valley start-up she worked for collapsed and turned her world upside down. She is broke, under FBI investigation, and without a place to go. Having exhausted every option, she comes home to Winsome, Illinois, to regroup and move on as quickly as possible. Yet, as friends and family welcome her back, Alyssa begins to see a place for herself in this small Midwestern community.
Jeremy Mitchell moved from Seattle to Winsome to be near his daughter and to open the coffee shop he’s been dreaming of for years. Problem is, the business is bleeding money—and he’s not quite sure why. When he meets Alyssa, he senses an immediate connection, but what he needs most is someone to help him save his floundering business. After asking for her help, he wonders if something might grow between them—but forces beyond their control soon complicate their already complex lives, and the future they both hoped for is not at all what they anticipated.
With the help of Winsome’s small-town charm and quirky residents, Alyssa and Jeremy discover the beauty and romance of second chances.
336 pages
Éditeur : Thomas Nelson
12 mai 2020
- Real Men Knit, de Kwana Jackson & K.M. Jackson
Jesse Strong is known for two things: his devotion to his adoptive mom, Mama Joy, and his reputation for breaking hearts. When Mama Joy unexpectedly passes away, he and his brothers have different plans for what to do with Strong Knits, their neighborhood knitting store. Jesse wants to keep the store open. His brothers want to tie off loose ends and close shop....
Part-time shop employee Kerry Fuller has kept her crush on Jesse a secret. When she overhears his impassioned plea to his brothers to keep the knitting shop open, she volunteers to help. Unlike Jesse, Kerry knows the “knitty-gritty” of the business, and together they make plans to reinvent Strong Knits for a new generation.
But the more time they spend together, the stronger the chemistry builds between them. Kerry, knowing Jesse’s history, doesn’t believe their relationship can last longer than she can knit one, purl two. But Jesse is determined to prove to her that he can be the man for her forever and always. After all, real men knit.
336 pages
Éditeur : Berkley
19 mai 2020
Jeunesse (Middle Grade & YA)
- Gargantis (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea #2), de Thomas Taylor & Tom Booth (illustrator)
There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town where legends have a habit of coming to life. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder. With the help of the daring Violet Parma, ever-reliable Herbie will do his best to figure out what the Gargantis wants and who stole her treasure in the first place. In a town full of suspicious, secretive characters, it could be anyone!
352 pages
Éditeur : Walker Books US
26 mai 2020
- Maya and the Rising Dark (Maya and the Rising Dark #1), de Rena Barron
Twelve-year-old Maya is daydreaming about summer break in her southside Chicago neighborhood when she witnesses the color bleed from the world. She’s the only one who sees it and other weird occurrences like werehyenas stalking the streets at night. Not to mention, there’s a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams. Her best friends try to find a reasonable explanation—perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom pudding experiment gone awry. But to Maya, it sounds like something from one of Papa’s fantastical stories or her favorite Oya comics.
304 pages
Éditeur : HMH Books for Young Readers
5 mai 2020
- The Chaos Loop (Throwback #2), de Peter Lerangis
Ever since Corey Fletcher found out that he’s the world’s first “throwback,” with the power to not only visit history, but change it, he’s been spending as much time in the past as possible. Corey loves using his skills to fix problems and help his friends and family. But as Corey becomes more and more addicted to rewriting history, he learns that time travel might change him in ways he may never be able to reverse.
Aware now that he can’t keep going into the past forever, Corey decides to use the trips he still has to change history in the most meaningful way he can imagine: by stopping Adolf Hitler. But when Corey travels back to World War II-era Germany, he quickly learns that the forces of history are strong and that it’s going to take a lot more than his good intentions to turn back the tides of evil—or even to survive them.
304 pages
Éditeur : Harper Collins
5 mai 2020
- The Witches of Willow Cove, de Josh Roberts
It’s not easy being a teenage witch. Seventh grader Abby Shepherd is just getting the hang of it when weird stuff starts happening all around her hometown of Willow Cove. Green slime bubbling to life in science class. Giant snakes slithering around the middle school gym. Her best friend suddenly keeping secrets and telling lies.Things only begin to make sense when a stranger named Miss Winters reveals that Abby isn’t the only young witch in town—and that Willow Cove is home to a secret past that connects them all. Miss Winters, herself a witch, even offers to teach Abby and the others everything she knows about witchcraft.But as Abby learns more about Miss Winters’ past, she begins to suspect her new mentor is keeping secrets of her own. Can Abby trust her, or does Miss Winters have something wicked planned for the young witches of Willow Cove?
310 pages
Éditeur : Owl Hollow Press
26 mai 2020
- The One and Only Bob (The One and Only Ivan #2), de Katherine Applegate
Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family.
352 pages
Éditeur : Harper Collins
5 mai 2020
- The Unadoptables, de Hana Tooke
In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1886, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances: one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket.
Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem and Milou; who were swiftly and firmly deemed 'the unadoptables'. Twelve years on the children still have each other - until the fateful night a most sinister gentleman appears and threatens to tear them apart. The gang decide to make a daring escape, fleeing the frozen canals of Amsterdam for an adventure packed with puppets and pirate ships, clock-makers and cruel villains - and with only a scrap of a clue to guide them to their mysterious new home . . .
400 pages
Éditeur : Puffin
26 mai 2020
- The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, de Maggie Tokuda-Hall
The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always done whatever it takes to survive—including sailing under false flag on the Dove as a marauder, thief, and worse. Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, a highborn Imperial daughter, is on board as well—accompanied by her own casket. But Evelyn’s one-way voyage to an arranged marriage in the Floating Islands is interrupted when the captain and crew show their true colors and enslave their wealthy passengers.
Both Florian and Evelyn have lived their lives by the rules, and whims, of others. But when they fall in love, they decide to take fate into their own hands—no matter the cost.
Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s sweeping fantasy debut, full of stolen memories, illicit mermaid’s blood, double agents, and haunting mythical creatures conjures an extraordinary cast of characters and the unforgettable story of a couple striving to stay together in the face of myriad forces wishing to control their identities and destinies.
368 pages
Éditeur : Candlewick
5 mai 2020
- Hello From Renn Lake, de Michele Weber Hurwitz
Annalise Oliver's family has owned and run lakeside cabins in Renn Lake, Wisconsin, for generations. This summer, she gets to help out while her younger sister focuses on being an actress and her best friend is babysitting rambunctious twin boys. It's the perfect opportunity for Annalise to work and spend more time by her beloved lake.
When she was three years old, Annalise discovered that she could sense what Renn Lake was thinking and feeling. Now, at twelve, she still turns to Renn for comfort. But when a small patch of algae quickly becomes a harmful bloom, Annalise can no longer hear Renn, and the lake is closed. She and her friends must find a way to save the lake.
Writing from the perspectives of both the lake and Annalise, acclaimed author Michele Weber Hurwitz tells a sensitive and heartfelt story about community, activism, and fighting for the things you love.
256 pages
Éditeur : Wendy Lamb Books
26 mai 2020
- Jack's Secret Summer, de Jack Ryder
Jack has been dreading the summer holidays - his dad works long hours, and so all he has to look forward to is an empty house. But when his boisterous neighbours, Bruno and Rocco, make it their mission to pull him into an adventure, his life will never be the same again.
Together they decide to explore the strange old house at the top of the hill, long abandoned and overgrown with ivy. But they soon discover the ivy hides more than just walls... the house is full of magical secrets, including a strange girl with no memory, who may hold the key to it all, if only she can remember...
224 pages
Éditeur : Hodder Children's Books
28 mai 2020
Je sais que ça en fait vraiment beaucoup, et je sais aussi que je n'en achèterai sûrement aucun (ou juste un ou deux) dans l'immédiat, mais ça me fait rêver. Et puis ça me motive à lire ceux que j'ai déjà. 😉
Et si certains livres vous font aussi envie, n'hésitez pas à m'en parler !
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N'hésitez pas à laisser un petit mot, ça fait toujours plaisir ! :-)