11 NetGalley ARCs I’ve Been Approved For

Happy Tuesday y’all! How is January working out for you? For me, it hasn’t been too bad so far. Work is a bit stressful with the new viral restrictions in place. For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, Jana has asked us to share the most recent additions to our collections. I haven’t added much in the way of books or swag to my collection in a while. And last week, I added a few books to my TBR thanks to TTT. So instead, this week, I’m going to share 11 NetGalley ARCs I’ve been approved for.

I have been approved for a couple of other ARCs that I haven’t listed here because I have mentioned them previously. And I just wanted to share some love with other books.

I will try to have the titles sorted by release date. All synopsis will be from Goodreads.

Now, let’s check out 11 NetGalley ARCs I’ve been approved for in 2022!

Put Out to Pasture by Amanda Flower

• Anticipated Release Date: February 22, 2022
• Genre: Cozy Mystery

There’s fowl play afoot on the farm.

Shiloh Bellamy has saved her family’s farm from financial ruin—but now what? She’s barely scraping by on the farm’s new organic business model, and the fall festival she organized to drum up business comes to a screeching halt when the body of a prominent townswoman is discovered underneath a scarecrow in a nearby field. Worst of all, the evidence points to Shiloh’s childhood best friend, Kristy, as the prime suspect.

Between cooking up delicious treats made with her farm’s produce, convincing her cantankerous father to let her do things her own way, and dealing with a newcomer in town who could be serious competition for her customers, Shiloh doesn’t have time to wade into a murder investigation. But with a killer on the loose and suspicious activity circling closer and closer to Shiloh and the people she loves, she realizes there’s nothing to do but roll up her sleeves and get down to the dirty work of finding the killer and clearing Kristy’s name once and for all.

Gridiron Girl by Tamara Girardi

• Anticipated Release Date: March 3, 2022
• Genre: YA Contemporary

Julia Medina, dubbed Jules by her closest friends, wants to be the new starting quarterback of Iron Valley High School’s football team, and no one is going to stand in her way. That is—until her boyfriend, Owen Malone, steps up to the challenge. Wanting to maintain her relationship with her boyfriend, Jules is torn. But while Owen is in her heart, football is in her blood.

Once the idea takes root to quit her championship volleyball team and join the leagues of Iron Valley’s toughest teenage boys, there’s no stopping Jules from pursuing her dream. In her mind, expectations that the position will go to a male player have gone on long enough. Even as her decision creates controversy among the booster parents, school coaches, family members, and team members themselves, Jules holds strong in her beliefs.

Which is good—because when parents hear that Jules plans to participate in overnight pre-season camp with a staff of male coaches and eighty high school boys, her tryout is threatened more than ever before. Yet, nobody can deny Jules’ skills. As the youngest sister of three former high school quarterbacks, Jules knows the game. She knows what it takes to outsmart opponents, and she’s not about to let anyone count her out for being a girl.

But as the competition intensifies, Jules must choose what she wants more—to embrace girl power and lead her team on the field or be a girlfriend on the sidelines.

Under Lock & Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian

• Anticipated Release Date: March 15
• Genre: Cozy Mystery

After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather’s Indian home-cooked meals. Though she resists, every day brings her closer to the inevitable: working for her father’s company. Secret Staircase Construction specializes in bringing the magic of childhood to all by transforming clients’ homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, backyard treehouses, and hidden reading nooks.

When Tempest visits her dad’s latest renovation project, her former stage double is discovered dead inside a wall that’s supposedly been sealed for more than a century. Fearing she was the intended victim, it’s up to Tempest to solve this seemingly impossible crime. But as she delves further into the mystery, Tempest can’t help but wonder if the Raj family curse that’s plagued her family for generations—something she used to swear didn’t exist—has finally come for her.

Out of His League by Caroline Richardson

• Anticipated Release Date: April 5, 2022
• Genre: Romance

Gretchen Harper didn’t expect to meet her favorite baseball player, Joshua Malvern, on her way to Vegas for a wine event, especially seeing as he’s not headed there by choice. Having been sent down from the major leagues, Joshua is worried about the future of his career, but as they get to know each other over the course of one weekend, there’s no denying the fire between them burns hot. But they’re from completely different worlds, and their affair isn’t meant to last. With his career up in the air and her job her primary focus, can they find a way to round the bases towards love? 

The Brownie Diaries by Leah Hyslop

• Anticipated Release Date: April 12, 2022
• Genre: Cookbook

Fun and user-friendly, The Brownie Diaries offers brownie-based solutions to all life’s challenges, big and small. From brownies for comfort, like the “Feeling Lonesome Tonight” brownie (an indulgent concoction made from pantry staples such as peanut butter and crumbled cookies), to brownies for celebration, such as the “I Think I Love You” Brownie (with raspberry cheesecake swirl), you’ll find the perfect brownie for every occasion among these pages. Stuck indoors on a rainy Sunday afternoon? There’s a brownie for that, too, along with brownie-inspired twists on classic recipes for cookies and ice-cream sundaes. Complete with a cocoa-dusted smattering of brownie trivia and quick fixes to stop your brownies from sinking, The Brownie Diaries is the perfect book for brownie lovers everywhere.

Kids Cook Dinner by Deanna F. Cook

• Anticipated Release Date: May 24, 2022
• Genre: Cookbook

It’s kids’ cooking night—and they’re in charge of making dinner! This selection of 25 easy, budget-friendly dinner recipes from the best-selling Cooking Class series teaches kids to make tasty, healthy meals with easy-to-follow step-by-step photos. The recipes feature a range of kid favorites, including Popcorn Chicken, Easy Cheesy Quesadillas, Pasta with Tomatoes & Fresh Mozzarella, Black Beans & Rice, Pizza, Meatballs with Creamy Sauce, Super Sliders, and Supper Salad have been specially selected for their budget-friendliness (averaging $2 a serving) and use of easy-to-find pantry staples, as well as their nutritional value. With instructions on basic cooking skills, like chopping vegetables and stir-frying, grocery shopping, and kitchen safety,  Kids Cook Dinner offers aspiring chefs ages 8 to 12 everything they need to know to successfully–and proudly– put a healthy, homecooked meal on the table that the whole family will love. 

Beef It Up! by Jessica Formicola

• Anticipated Release Date: May 24, 2022
• Genre: Cookbook

Where’s the beef? It’s on the dinner table tonight! This focused collection of recipes offers 50 tasty ways to serve up protein-rich beef meals without a lot of fuss. Flavorful beef suppers (Cheeseburger Soup, Shepard’s Pie Mac & Cheese) are featuring along with new classics (Sheet Pan Steak Fajitas, 20-Minute Mongolian-style Beef ), salads (Southwest Steak Salad w/ Chipotle Ranch and Steakhouse Salad w/ Blue Cheese), quick hits (Empanada Hand Pies and Beef Satay with Peanut Sauce), and the tried-and-true burgers, steaks, and chili. Juicy photos provide the inspiration and confidence cooks of all levels need to deliver on the promise of a great meal every time.

As Seen On TV by Meredith Schorr

• Anticipated Release Date: June 7, 2022
• Genre: Romance

Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. If she’s learned anything from made-for-TV romance movies, it’s that she’ll find love in a small town – the kind with harvest festivals, delightful but quirky characters, and scores of delectable single dudes. So when a big-city real estate magnate targets tiny Pleasant Hollow for development, Adi knows she’s found the perfect story – one that will earn her a position at a coveted online magazine, so she can finally start adulting for real…and maybe even find her dream man in the process.

Only Pleasant Hollow isn’t exactly “pleasant.” There’s no charming bakery, no quaint seasonal festivals, and the residents are more ambivalent than welcoming. The only upside is Finn Adams, who’s more mouthwatering than the homemade cherry pie Adi can’t seem to find – even if he does work for the company she’d hoped to bring down. Suddenly Adi has to wonder if maybe TV got it all wrong after all. But will following her heart mean losing her chance to break into the big time?

Collage Your Life by Melanie Mowinski

• Anticipated Release Date: June 21, 2022
• Genre: Crafts

In Collage Your Life, artist, and teacher Melanie Mowinski teaches a variety of core techniques, including lettering, stamping, stenciling, transfers, and adhesive methods, and provides dozens of prompts to jumpstart the creative process and encourage crafters to explore the versatility of collage, such as make a self-portrait; disrupt your routine instincts; incorporate text; assemble mementos from a trip; process anger or anxiety; collage with others; or try creating block-out poetry with pages from a magazine.

In Too Steep by Kate Kingsbury

• Anticipated Release Date: August 9
• Genre: Cozy Mystery

It seemed like a simple case: the murder of Lewis Trenton, a beachcomber who lived alone in a cabin in the Oregon hills. But the newspaper article piques the interest of Vivian Wainwright, owner of the British-style Misty Bay Tearoom. The photo accompanying the article shows Lewis’s cluttered living room, and on the shelf is a replica of Big Ben. Vivian is sure she sold the clock a week before in her shop. Who could have given the replica to Lewis?

Unable to keep from doing a bit of sleuthing, Vivian hunts down the replica in a local thrift shop, noticing that the base is missing, rendering it worthless, but just as Vivian is about to throw it in, the trash, a sparkle catches her eye. It’s a diamond, hidden away in a crevice in the clock. Vivian takes the diamond to Detective Tony Messina, who identifies it as part of a jewelry heist in Portland a month earlier. Portland police think Lewis was the fence who sold the jewels and was killed after double-crossing the thieves—but Messina doesn’t believe the story.

What was the true motive behind Lewis’s murder? How did he come upon the diamond? And what secrets can the clock tell—before the killer strikes again?

Die Around Sundown by Mark Pryor

• Anticipated Release Date: August 16, 2021
• Genre: Historical Fiction

Summer 1940: In German-occupied Paris, Inspector Henri Lefort has been given just five days to solve the murder of a German major that took place in the Louvre Museum. Blocked from the crime scene but given a list of suspects, Henri encounters a group of artists, including Pablo Picasso, who know more than they’re willing to share.

With the clock ticking, Henri must uncover a web of lies while overcoming impossible odds to save his own life and prove his loyalty to his country. Will he rise to the task or become another tragic story of a tragic time?

Five days. One murder. A masterpiece of a mystery.

That concludes the list of 11 NetGalley ARCs I’ve been approved for so far in 2022. Do you use NetGalley to get sneak peeks at books? Did you find any on my list that you’re curious to know more about?

Looking for some more ideas to read? Check out my monthly reading wrap-ups and bookish lists.