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Publishing This Week
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This week nine new and notable books including The Lost Ticket by Freya Sampson, her sophomore novel following The Last Chance Library (2021) which our First Impressions reviewers rated a very positive 4.4-stars.

Enjoy!

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. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

More about how we pick and rate books.
The Lost Ticket book jacket
The Lost Ticket
by Freya Sampson


On sale Aug 30 from Berkley Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Strangers on a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the heartwarming new novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Chance Library.

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The Portraitist book jacket
The Portraitist: A Novel of Adelaide Labille-Guiard
by Susanne Dunlap


On sale Aug 30 from Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Genre: Historical Fiction. 296 pages

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Adélaïe Labille-Guiard's fight to take her rightful place in the competitive art world of eighteenth-century Paris.

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Tomorrow in Shanghai book jacket
Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories
by May-lee Chai


On sale Aug 30 from Blair
Genre: Short Stories. 166 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.

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Vanished book jacket
Vanished: Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
by Karin Lin-Greenberg


On sale Sep 1 from University of Nebraska Press
Genre: Short Stories. 202 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them.

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Nothing More to Tell book jacket
Nothing More to Tell
by Karen M. McManus


On sale Aug 30 from Delacorte Press
Genre: Thrillers (Young Adult). 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying comes a new page-turning mystery. Be sure to keep your friends close...and your secrets closer.

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Broken Summer book jacket
Broken Summer: A Novel
by J.M. Lee


On sale Sep 1 from AmazonCrossing
Genre: Thrillers. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A death, a lie, a secret. For twenty-six summers he didn't have the courage to face the past.

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A Taste of Gold and Iron book jacket
A Taste of Gold and Iron
by Alexandra Rowland


On sale Aug 30 from Tor.com
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 512 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, where a queer central romance unfolds in a fantasy world reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire.

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Diary of a Misfit book jacket
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
by Casey Parks


Debut Author
On sale Aug 30 from Knopf
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life.

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Napoleon book jacket
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821
by Michael Broers


On sale Aug 30 from Pegasus Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 496 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life - from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile - as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him.

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