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Publishing This Week
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This week brings 14 new and notable books. If I include them all here it will make the email too big to be delivered in full to some email providers such as Gmail. So, to avoid the newsletter annoyingly cutting off midway, here are ten titles, with a link at the bottom to see all on BookBrowse.

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Davina, BookBrowse Publisher



This Week's New and Notable Books
There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.
Footnotes book jacket
Footnotes : The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way by Caseen Gaines

On sale May 25 from Sourcebooks
Genre: History; Arts & Theater
Members' Rating: 4.6/5

For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the very first Broadway show with an all-black cast and creative team to succeed―and the indelible mark on our popular culture.

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Heaven book jacket
Heaven
by Mieko Kawakami

On sale May 25 from Europa Editions
Genre: Novels. 192 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity in our contemporary societies.

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Revival Season book jacket
Revival Season
by Monica West

Debut Author
On sale May 25 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Novels. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The daughter of one of the South's most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this "tender and wise" (Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth) debut novel.

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A Sitting in St. James book jacket
A Sitting in St. James
by Rita Williams-Garcia

On sale May 25 from Quill Tree Books
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult). 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A tour-de-force from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia, this story of an antebellum plantation - and the enduring legacies of slavery upon every person who lives there - is essential reading for both teens and adults grappling with the long history of American racism.

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Love and Fury book jacket
Love and Fury : A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft by Samantha Silva

On sale May 25 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the acclaimed author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol, a richly-imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollstonecraft – arguably the world's first feminist.

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A Peculiar Combination book jacket
A Peculiar Combination : Electra McDonnell Series #1
by Ashley Weaver

On sale May 25 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Mysteries. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author's signature wit.

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City on the Edge book jacket
City on the Edge
by David Swinson

On sale May 25 from Mulholland
Genre: Thrillers. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An American teen living abroad discovers the truth about himself and his family in this thrilling novel from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (New York Times Book Review).

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How to Mars book jacket
How to Mars
by David Ebenbach

On sale May 25 from Tachyon Publications
Genre: Sci-Fi. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality TV nightmare? This debut science-fiction romp with heart follows the tradition of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles with a dash of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Big Vape book jacket
Big Vape : The Incendiary Rise of Juul by Jamie Ducharme

Debut Author
On sale May 25 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Current Affairs. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A propulsive, eye-opening work of reporting, chronicling the rise of Juul and the birth of a new addiction.

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The Day the World Stops Shopping book jacket
The Day the World Stops Shopping : How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
by J.B. MacKinnon

On sale May 25 from Ecco
Genre: Current Affairs. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet - but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping.

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