August Book of the Month Books

 It has been awhile since I posted a book of the month pick. I was able to be with my daughter Tara for our picks this month. If you would like to give them a try here is my link for them. https://www.mybotm.com/0cxpwrpoiqlivn29?show_box=true

I hope you give them a try. Now onto the books.

This is how the books arrive.

This book is from the October 2019 pick. I wanted this book because my library book club was reading it for August. This is what the book cover says.

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When His mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her- but was gifted with a mysterious power.

Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he's ever known.

So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slaves and the enslaved, Hiram's resolve to rescue the family he lift behind endures.

This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children-the violent and capricious separation of families-and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved.

This is a young adult choice that I have read a couple of chapters as a preview that was sent to me. I really enjoyed what I read and so excited to see as a pick for August. This is what the book cover has to say about the book.

If the night sky holds many secrets, it holds Sheetal Mistry's secret the closest. A secret that explains why her hair is the silver of starlight, or why some nights the stars call Sheetal by name.

Stars like her mother, who returned to her place in the constellation Pushya years ago. Since t day, Sheetal has been forced to hide.

But as her seventeenth birthday draws near, the pull from the sky is growing stronger. So strong that Sheetal loses control, and a flare of starfire burns her human father-an injury only a full star's blood can heal.

Sheetal has no choice but to answer the starsong and ascend to the sky. But her celestial family has summoned her for a reason: to act as their human champion in a competition to decide the next ruling house of the heavens.

Desperate to save her father, Sheetal agrees. But nothing could have prepared Sheetal to face the stars' dark history-or the forces that are working to shut the gate between the realms for good.

This is the book that both Tara and I chose for the monthly pick. We read the Escape room together and really enjoyed it so we just had to pick this one. This is what the book cover has to say about the book.

A true-crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town's dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before.

Ever since her true-crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall has become a household name-and the last hope for people seeking justice. Bu she's used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help.

The new season of Rachel's podcast has brought her to a small town being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. A local golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. Under pressure to make Season 3 a success, Rachel throws herself into her investigation-but the mysterious letters keep coming. Someone is following her, and she won't stop until Rachel finds out what happened to her sister twenty-five years ago. Officially, Jenny Stills tragically drowned, but the letters insist she was murdered-and when Rachel stats asking questions, nobody in town wants to answer. The past and present start to collide as Rachel uncovers startling connections between the two cases-and a revelation that will change the course of the trial and the lives of everyone involved.

Electrifying and propulsive, The Night Swim asks: What is the price of a reputation? Can a small town ever right the wrongs of its past? And what really happened to Jenny?

Let me know what you think about these books. Have you read any of them or do you want to read them? 

I hope you give Book of the Month a try. You have five books a month to choose from at a low price with free shipping.