Top 5 Of New May Books To Continue Your Literary Journey
- Erkiulis
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The blooming flowers and warming weather create the perfect backdrop for diving into new stories, allowing readers to escape into different worlds and explore fresh ideas. A new wave of book releases is on the horizon, promising to enrich your literary journeys, so make use of our suggested Top 5 of new May releases:
by Ocean Vuong
Time for a powerful and stunning novel, which hits with its profoundness. A nineteen-year old Hal is about to jump off the bridge when he hears a voice on the other bank of the river. The voice belongs to an elderly widow Grazina who prevents him from committing a suicide. Instead she invites Hal to her house and, as Grazina suffers from dementia, he quickly becomes her caretaker. The year spent with the widow will alter Hal's relationship to himself, his family and the whole world.
by Stephen King
Holly Gibney is back for her fourth novel. When the police department receives a threatening letter from an unknown person to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” police detective Izzy Jaynes is forced to turn to her friend Holly for help. Simultaneously Holly is hired as a bodyguard to a women's rights activist Kate McKay who is persecuted by a stalker. When both narratives intertwin, you get a thrilling and chilling Stephen King-style page-turner.
by John Tottenham
This one is for those who still have plans to write a novel themselves. Sean, a former journalist in his late forties, works in a bookstore surrounded by a younger generation with whom he has little in common. But still he has an ambition to write a novel, though all he describes is just an endless contempt of his present circumstances. Till one day he discovers that despite his contemplations on the matters of form and style, he has actually written a book.
by Ashley Flowers
Keen on a simply engaging mystery thriller? Nicole's happy life ended seven years ago when her sister Kasey vanished without a trace. Her car was found empty far away from home. Another young woman - Jules - has disappeared the same way two weeks before. The cases went cold. But one day Jules' sister Jenna meets Nicole, and both sisters will do anything to find their missing halves.
by Amanda Hess
This time our nonfiction part features a topic of parenting in a digital age. An internet culture critic for The New York Times, Amanda Hess started this topic when in 2020 a routine ultrasound examination detected a mysterious abnormality in her baby. Of course, she started to search the internet for answers and hence her journey began through a network of fertility apps, rare-disease Facebook groups, prenatal genetic tests, hospital reality shows and what not, revealing how technologies fracture and reconstitute our lives.
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