#BookHaul – Rosepoint Publishing

Impossible to Pause

Catching recommendations from Goodreads and good buddies, thought it might be time to share some of the wealth. Do you like historical fiction, literary fiction, police procedurals, or perhaps a memoir? Here are audiobooks in the queue from my library with an eye of what might look good to you also. (Book links are to Amazon-US.)

On My Audiobook Shelf

Just Finished:

Lorne by Susan Morrison (scheduled for my review on June 18 – Editors’ pick Best Biographies and Memoirs)

Currently listening to:

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan (I also listed this in February then ran out of time. Editors’ pick Best Books of 2025)

Up Next:

The Keeper by Tana French (Editors’ pick Best Books of the Year So Far 2026)

Currently on library hold:

Wait time on these holds is anywhere from 2 weeks to 16 weeks and they represent a few different genres, including two of my favorites, historical and crime fiction.

Four audiobooks

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (Editors’ pick Best Books of the Year 2025 and a Reese’s Book Club pick.) 1^st in line
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke – 4 weeks (second try on this one, too)
Whistler by Ann Patchett – 6 weeks
The Final Target by Nora Roberts – 8 weeks

I’d be willing to bet you’ve read at least one of these! I can’t vouch for those on my hold list, but a wait of two months is down from four and I can’t wait to get into them. Which one have you already read or listened to? Did one of these catch your attention? So what did you think?

Grab those earbuds! — Graphic from Bitmoji

Rosepoint Publishing Book Haul

I love it when I get publisher’s requests to read their digital galley’s and ARCs, and usually download, read, and review the books, particularly if they fit my favorite genres.

This past week, however, I got three within a day or two of each other and was so excited by the invitations, I thought I’d have to let my readers in on each of these exciting new books, now available through NetGalley, to be released next year.

After reading the blurb of the first one, I promptly downloaded it for the CE as it appeared to be something he’d love. Keep an eye out for his thoughts and mine for the remaining two to follow soon.

Worse Than a Lie by Ben Crump (will be a CE review)

Release Date: February 17, 2026

Genre: Political Thrillers, Science Fiction Crime & Mystery

Publisher: Bantam – Dan Denning, Senior Marketing Manager, Ballantine Bantam Dell, Penguin Random House, NY

Hollis Montrose, a Black ex-police officer, is the latest victim of a brutal attack but survives. When the Chicago police department spins the narrative in its favor, it’s up to attorney Beau Lee Cooper to keep Hollis from a wrongful prison sentence.

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June Baby by Shannon Garvey

Release Date: May 19, 2026

Genre: Women’s Friendship Fiction, Coming of Age Fiction, Mothers & Children Fiction

Publisher: Random House Marketing – Madison Dettlinger

Having been shipped off as a teenager to Block Island after the loss of her mother by her father, Ruth now at twenty-seven is faced with a new revelation of the women who raised her. “Both a heartfelt coming-of-age story and a tender exploration of love and grief…”

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Killing Me Softly by Sandie Jones

Release Date: March 31, 2026

Genre: Domestic Thrillers, Murder Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers

Publisher: Minotaur Books – Angelica Pietrakowski – St Martin’s Press

“What do you do when love turns deadly?”

Charlie and Freya are supposed to be the picture-perfect couple but a tragedy of monumental proportions will change that. Can they survive this “wickedly twisty tale of obsession…”?

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These are all new authors for me, so I’m excited to discover their writing styles and talents and should be no problem to have them read and reviewed within the next couple months, the first by the end of December.

Of course, these are all currently listed in Goodreads. I hope you see one here that piques your interest!

Thank you so much to each of the above publishers for the opportunity to read their promotions. As always, our reviews will be our own honest opinions.