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This issue highlights a dozen notable books publishing this coming Tuesday, gleaned from the many thousands of books that will publish this week. You'll find all 12 below, with more information one click away on BookBrowse, including the book jacket description and all the pre-publication reviews we were able to find.
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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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| Bitter Orange Tree
by Jokha Alharthi
On sale May 10 from Catapult
Genre: Novels. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
An extraordinary novel from a Man Booker International Prize-winning author that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships that have made her from a "remarkable" writer who has "constructed her own novelistic form" (James Wood, the New Yorker).
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The Garden of Broken Things: A Novel
by Francesca Momplaisir
On sale May 10 from Knopf
Genre: Novels. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A novel about one family wading through the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, from the acclaimed author who has been compared to Toni Morrison "at the height of her power" (Harper's Bazaar)—a haunting and astonishing story of restoration and disaster, motherhood, and the bonds that carry through generations.
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| The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
by Jen Ferguson
Debut Author
On sale May 10 from Heartdrum
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person - and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth.
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| The Lioness: A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian
On sale May 10 from Doubleday
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant.
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| Hollow Fires
by Samira Ahmed
On sale May 10 from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: Thrillers (Young Adult). 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths, and the undeniable power of hope, by New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed. Perfect for fans of Sadie and Dear Martin.
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| 2 A.M. in Little America
by Ken Kalfus
On sale May 10 from Milkweed Editions
Genre: Speculative. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world.
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| Siren Queen
by Nghi Vo
On sale May 10 from Tor.com
Genre: Sci-Fi. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes a dazzling new novel where immortality is just a casting call away.
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| The Ghosts of Rose Hill
by R. M. Romero
On sale May 10 from Peachtree Publishers
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
With spellbinding verse prose, R.M. Romero channels the spirit of myth into a brilliantly original tale, inspired by her experiences restoring Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe.
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| I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir
by Sara Kruzan
Debut Author
On sale May 10 from Pantheon Books
Genre: Memoir. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
At once disturbing and empowering, the memoir of a courageous woman who was abused, groomed, and trafficked for sex from age eleven to age sixteen, who then killed her trafficker/father figure and was sentenced as a juvenile to life in prison without parole.
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The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride by David J. Dennis Jr.
Debut Author
On sale May 10 from Harper
Genre: Memoir. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter.
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| Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
by Kelly Lytle Hernández
On sale May 10 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.
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| Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
by Marissa R. Moss
Debut Author
On sale May 10 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Current Affairs. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The full and unbridled inside story of the last twenty years of country music through the lens of Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraves - their peers and inspirations, their paths to stardom, and their battles against a deeply embedded boys' club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive place for all (and not just white men in trucker hats), as told by award-winning Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss.
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