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Publishing This Week
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Among this week’s 22 new and notable books are three titles that BookBrowse members read and reviewed for our First Impressions Program.

Two are debut novels: Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas, which connects five characters caught in the conflict between North and South Sudan (which, in 2011, separated into two countries); and Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks, winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (a biennial award administered by Barbara Kingsolver and PEN America for a work in progress).

The third is Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch's historical nonfiction The Nazi Conspiracy, about the secret plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill at the end of World War II.

It's not possible to include all books in this newsletter as overly long messages are truncated by some email providers, so I've included 10 below and you'll find information on all 22, including pre-publication reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu).

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.
Ghost Season book jacket
Ghost Season: A Novel
by Fatin Abbas

On sale Jan 10 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.5/5

A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.

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Moonrise Over New Jessup book jacket
Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks

On sale Jan 10 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.4/5

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.

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The Nazi Conspiracy book jacket
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch

On sale Jan 10 from Flatiron Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.7/5

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II.

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Ghost Music book jacket
Ghost Music
by An Yu

On sale Jan 10 from Grove Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musician

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In the Upper Country book jacket
In the Upper Country
by Kai Thomas

Debut Author
On sale Jan 10 from Viking
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act--intertwine in this sweeping, deeply researched debut set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad.

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City Under One Roof book jacket
City Under One Roof
by Iris Yamashita

Debut Author
On sale Jan 10 from Berkley Books
Genre: Mysteries. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter.

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Bad Cree book jacket
Bad Cree: A Novel
by Jessica Johns

Debut Author
On sale Jan 10 from Doubleday
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.

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The Edge of the Plain book jacket
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
by James Crawford

On sale Jan 10 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an exploration of their role in shaping our world today.

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The Half Known Life book jacket
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
by Pico Iyer

On sale Jan 10 from Riverhead Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world.

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The Matter of Everything book jacket
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
by Suzie Sheehy

Debut Author
On sale Jan 10 from Knopf
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A surprising, fascinating journey through the experiments that not only unlocked the nature of matter and shaped our understanding of the cosmos but also forever changed the way we live within it.

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