Here are a few books that caught my eye that are released in May 2022.
1-The Book Woman’s Daughter
Overview From GoodReads
In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good.
Picking up her motherโs old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. Honey is looking to prove that she doesnโt need anyone telling her how to survive, but the route can be treacherous, and some folks arenโt as keen to let a woman pave her own way. If Honey wants to bring the freedom that books provide to the families who need it most, sheโs going to have to fight for her place, and along the way, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world.
2-Hide
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The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught.
The prize: enough money to change everything.
Even though everyone is desperate to win–to seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts–Mack feels sure that she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that.
It’s the reason she’s alive, and her family isn’t.
But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes this competition is more sinister than even she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.
Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide, but nowhere to run.
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White.
3-The Lioness
Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guestsโincluding Katieโs best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor who stars alongside Katie in the highly controversial film โTender Madnessโโwill spend their days taking photos, and their evenings drinking chilled gin and tonics back at camp, as the local Tanzanian guides warm water for their baths. The wealthy Americans expect civilized adventure: Fresh ice from the kerosene-powered ice maker, dinners of cooked gazelle meat, and plenty of stories to tell over lunch back on Rodeo Drive.
What Katie and her glittering entourage do not expect is this: A kidnapping gone wrong, their guides bleeding out in the dirt, and a team of Russian mercenaries herding them into Land Rovers, guns to their heads. As the powerful sun gives way to night, the gunmen shove them into abandoned huts and Katie Barstow, Hollywood royalty, prays for a simple thing: To see the sun rise one more time. A blistering story of fame, race, love, and death set in a world on the cusp of great change, The Safari is a vibrant masterpiece from one of our finest storytellers.
4 Just Like Mother
Overview found on GoodReads
A girl would be such a blessing…
The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everythingโand everyoneโat a safe distance.
When Andrea suddenly reappears, Maeve regains the only true friend sheโs ever had. Soon sheโs spending more time at Andreaโs remote Catskills estate than in her own cramped apartment. Maeve doesnโt even mind that her cousinโs wealthy work friends clearly disapprove of her single lifestyle. After all, Andrea has made her fortune in the fertility industryโbaby fever comes with the territory.
The more Maeve immerses herself in Andreaโs world, the more disconnected she feels from her life back in the city; and the cousinsโ increasing attachment triggers memories Maeve has fought hard to bury. But confronting the terrors of her childhood may be the only way for Maeve to transcend the nightmare still to comeโฆ
5 The Patient
The bestselling phenomenon returnsโฆ
When Rachel meets Luc, the attraction is instant.
But she is a doctor, and he is her patient.
She gives him the drugs he needs โ but in doing so, risks everything.
And when a secret is exposed, theyโre both in the firing line.
Not all patients are telling the truth.
6-How to Be Eaten
This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.