Publishing This Week: 16 Notable New Books

Publishing This Week

Hello,

This week brings 16 notable new books including Widowland by C. J. Carey which BookBrowse members read for our First Impressions Program; it is set in a terrifying but believable version of 1950s England which, due to Britain surrendering to the Nazis in 1940, is under the control of the Third Reich. It is a society where women are rigidly classified into hierarchal groups and literature isn't just censored but rewritten, so as to suppress any subversive thoughts.

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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”.

Widowland: Book #1
by C. J. Carey

On sale Aug 9 from Sourcebooks
Genre: Alt. History. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.0/5

For readers of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle comes a thrilling feminist dystopian novel set in an alternative history that terrifyingly imagines what a British alliance with Germany would look like if the Nazis had won WWII.

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How You Grow Wings
by Rimma Onoseta

Debut Author
On sale Aug 9 from Algonquin Young Readers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An emotionally riveting novel for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Erika L. Sánchez about two sisters in Nigeria on their journey to break free of an oppressive home.

Moth: A Novel
by Melody Razak

Debut Author
On sale Aug 9 from Harper
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Melody Razak makes her literary debut with this internationally-acclaimed saga of one Indian family's trials through the tumultuous partition - the 1947 split of Pakistan from India - exploring its impact on women, what it means to be "othered" in one's own society, and the redemptive power of family.

The War Librarian
by Addison Armstrong

On sale Aug 9 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Historical Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The Paris Library meets The Flight Girls in this captivating historical novel about the sacrifice and courage necessary to live a life of honor, inspired by the first female volunteer librarians during World War I and the first women accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy.

Dead-End Memories: Stories
by Banana Yoshimoto

On sale Aug 9 from Counterpoint Press
Genre: Short Stories. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life.

Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
by Randall Kenan

On sale Aug 9 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Essays. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction.

A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
by Edward Chisholm

On sale Aug 9 from Pegasus Books
Genre: Memoir. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light.

I'm Glad My Mom Died
by Jennette McCurdy

Debut Author
On sale Aug 9 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor - including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother - and how she retook control of her life.

Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
by Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green

On sale Aug 9 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Biography. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The memoirs of Mary Rodgers - writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything."

This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
by Elizabeth Crane

On sale Aug 9 from Counterpoint Press
Genre: Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.

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