{"id":46843,"date":"2019-08-06T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=46843"},"modified":"2019-08-06T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T06:35:13","slug":"10-books-to-read-this-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/08\/06\/10-books-to-read-this-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Books to Read This August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make August the time to look for your new favorite book because numerous bestselling authors are serving us with exciting book releases this month! Check out our list of 10 must-reads this August.<\/p>\n

Life and Other Inconveniences<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>Kristan Higgins<\/span><\/p>\n

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Life and Other Inconveniences\u00a0<\/b>by <\/span>Kristan Higgins<\/b>\u00a0is about the relationship between a blue-blood grandmother and her black-sheep granddaughter and how they\u00a0discover they possess something in common. Learn how that similarity changes their relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Romance\/Domestic Fiction
\n<\/span>Release date:<\/strong> August 6<\/span><\/p>\n

Swipe Right for Murder<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>Derek Milman<\/span><\/p>\n

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Inspired by a Hitchcock classic, <\/span>Derek Milman<\/b>\u2019s <\/span>Swipe Right for Murder<\/b> follows an epic case of mistaken identity after a red-blooded seventeen-year-old Aidan ended up in a room with a dead guy and a mysterious flash drive. Now with the authorities and a murderous cult on his back, he is on the run to escape the case and his own troubled past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Young Adult, Thriller, Suspense<\/span>
\n<\/span>Release date:<\/strong> August 6<\/span><\/p>\n

Say You Still Love Me<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>K.A. Tucker\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Piper Calloway is an ambitious and high-powered 29-year-old executive. She lives a high single life with her two best friends after breaking up with her narcissistic ex-fiance. Being the only girl in a world dominated by men in suits, she strives to prove them her worth. Things seem to be okay until she coincidentally runs into her first love, Kyle Miller, who doesn\u2019t even remember her name.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Keep Her Safe<\/span>, <\/span>Say You Love Me<\/b> is a sizzling romance novel about second chances that will hook your hopeful heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Romance
\n<\/span>Release date:<\/strong> August 6<\/span><\/p>\n

Nottingham<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>Nathan Makaryk<\/span><\/p>\n

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When a king left his kingdom, it succumbed to the verge of anarchy with no rules being followed. As the leaves turn gold in the Sherwood Forest, the lives of six different people become intertwined.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A combination of history and myth, <\/span>Nathan Makaryk<\/b>\u2019s <\/span>Nottingham<\/b> is a gripping deconstruction of the Robin Hood classic that surpasses the traditional tale of Sherwood Forest\u2019s iconic thief.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Historical Fiction
\n<\/span>Release date:<\/strong> August 6<\/span><\/p>\n

House of Salt and Sorrows<\/b><\/span>
\nErin A. Craig<\/span><\/p>\n

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Be ready to get swept away in a mysterious fantasy retelling of a classic story about 12 sisters haunted by a curse. Erin A. Craig<\/b>\u2019s House of Salt and Sorrows<\/b> follows Annaleigh as she unravels the curse that\u00a0plagues her family.<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Fantasy
\nRelease date:<\/strong> August 6<\/p>\n

Let’s Call It a Doomsday<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>Katie Henry<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ellis Kimball has made note of all the possible scenarios on how the world would end, and she is prepared for each one. But an unexpected meeting with Hannah Marks, a girl who saw a premonition of the doomsday, will create a carefree friendship between them. Their search for answers about their fears will raise more questions about their own lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Call It a Doomsday<\/b> is an engrossing contemporary tale of faith, friendship, family, and anxiety from the acclaimed author of Heretics Anonymous, Katie Henry<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Young adult Fiction
\n<\/span>Release date:<\/strong> August 6<\/span><\/p>\n

100 Days of Sunlight<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b>Abbie Emmons<\/span><\/p>\n

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A 16-year-old girl\u2019s life turned upside-down after a car accident that made her lose her eyesight for 100 days. Terrified that her vision might never return, Tessa feels like she has nothing left to be happy about. That is until she meets Weston Ludovico, a boy her age with bright eyes, an optimistic smile,\u00a0and\u00a0has no legs.<\/span><\/p>\n

See how two teens with a disability cope with life\u2019s challenges and overcome their fears. <\/span>100 Days of Sunlight<\/b> is a heartfelt novel by <\/span>Abbie Emmons <\/b>which will teach you hope, healing, and getting up when life knocks you down.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Young Adult Fiction
\n<\/span>Release date:<\/strong> August 7<\/span><\/p>\n

Things You Save in a Fire<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>Katherine Center\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes a new heartfelt novel about Cassie Hanwell, one of the only few female firefighters in Texas firehouse. With her estranged mom asking her to move to Boston, Cassie is set to face an unexpected emergency and learn how to love against all odds in the process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Things You Save in a Fire<\/b> will surely fill you in with new courage and hope about love and life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Domestic Fiction<\/span>
\n<\/span>Release date:<\/strong> August 13<\/span><\/p>\n

The Downstairs Girl<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>Stacy Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

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Seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan lives a double life. She works as a lady\u2019s maid for Atlanta’s wealthiest man\u2019s cruel daughter by day, but she moonlights as \u201cDear Miss Sweetie,\u201d the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column in the 1890s, by night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With her strong power to address society\u2019s ills, her opponents clamor to discover her identity. A mysterious letter then sets Jo on a search for her own past but ends up face-to-face with Atlanta\u2019s most notorious criminal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stacy Lee<\/b>\u2019s <\/span>The Downstairs Girl<\/b> is a compelling story of heartbreak, history, and triumph.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Fiction
\n<\/span>Release date:<\/strong> August 13<\/span><\/p>\n

Pumpkinheads<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>Rainbow Rowell<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rainbow Rowell<\/b> collaborates with Eisner Award-winning artist Faith Erin Hicks<\/strong> to bring a hilarious, yet tender teen story about two seasonal best friends set to spend their last Halloween together before saying their last goodbyes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pumpkinheads<\/strong> is a swoony graphic novel that will take you on a young heartwarming adventure of friendship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Juvenile Fiction<\/span>
\n<\/span>Release date:<\/strong> August 27<\/span><\/p>\n

Which of these books are you most excited to get your hands? We’d love to know in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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