Hello,
This week’s dozen notable new books, all publishing this Tuesday, include new works from Meg Grehan, Mary Pipher, Paul Doiron and Robert Jackson Bennett.
Enjoy!
Davina, BookBrowse Publisher
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This Week's New and Notable Books |
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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”. |
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| Elsewhere: A Novel
by Alexis Schaitkin
On sale Jun 28 from Celadon
Genre: Novels. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.
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| The Most Precious Substance on Earth
by Shashi Bhat
On sale Jun 28 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Novels. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat's sharp, darkly comic, and poignant story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15.
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| A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories
by Meron Hadero
Debut Author
On sale Jun 28 from Restless Books
Genre: Short Stories. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, Ethiopian American author Meron Hadero's gorgeously wrought stories in A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times offer poignant, compelling narratives of those whose lives have been marked by border crossings and the risk of displacement.
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| A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
by Mary Pipher
On sale Jun 28 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Essays. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia - a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality.
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| Bad Things Happen Here
by Rebecca Barrow
On sale Jun 28 from Margaret K. McElderry Books
Genre: Thrillers (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
I Killed Zoe Spanos meets The Cheerleaders in this haunting mystery about an island town with a history of unsolved deaths - and a girl desperate to uncover the mystery behind it all.
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| Hatchet Island: Mike Bowditch Mysteries #13
by Paul Doiron
On sale Jun 28 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The eerie, windswept Hatchet Island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappearance in this thriller from bestselling author Paul Doiron.
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| Baby Teeth
by Meg Grehan
On sale Jun 28 from Little Island Books
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 192 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the multi-award-winning author of The Deepest Breath (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), a Junior Library Guild Selection, comes a YA verse novel about LGBTQ+ desire, identity - and vampires.
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| Locklands: The Founders Trilogy #3
by Robert Jackson Bennett
On sale Jun 28 from Del Rey
Genre: Sci-Fi. 560 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The jaw-dropping conclusion to the acclaimed Founders Trilogy, from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and Shorefall.
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| Our Crooked Hearts: A Novel
by Melissa Albert
On sale Jun 28 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Secrets. Lies. Super-bad choices. Witchcraft. This is Our Crooked Hearts, a darkly gripping contemporary fantasy from Melissa Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood.
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| All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
by Jay Wellons
Debut Author
On sale Jun 28 from Random House
Genre: Memoir. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Tumors, injuries, ruptured vascular malformations - there is almost no such thing as a non-urgent brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain - in which a single millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human - every day presents the challenge, and the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet fully determined and all possibilities still exist.
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| I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
by Miranda Seymour
On sale Jun 28 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Biography. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.
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| The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
by Sally Denton
On sale Jun 28 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: Current Affairs. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
An investigation into the November, 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico - an event that drew international attention - The Colony examines the strange, little-understood world of a polygamist Mormon outpost.
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