Hello,
This week brings 18 notable new books, split almost equally between fiction and nonfiction, including Colleen Hubbard's debut Housebreaking which our members reviewed for our First Impressions Program.
As always, to make sure that this email gets delivered to your mail box in full (rather than being abbreviated as Gmail in particular has a habit of doing), I've included 10 books below and you'll find the full list on our "New This Week" page at bookbrowse.com/ptw (under the "New" tab in our main menu).
Enjoy!
Davina Morgan-Witts
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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| Housebreaking
by Colleen Hubbard
Debut Author
On sale Apr 19 from Berkley Books
Genre: Novels. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion:
Members' Rating: 4.4/5
Following a long-standing family feud and looking to settle the score, a woman decides to dismantle her family home—alone and by hand—and move it across a frozen pond during a harsh New England winter in this mesmerizing debut.
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| The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
by Janelle Monáe
Debut Author
On sale Apr 19 from Harper Voyager
Genre: Short Stories. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation - queerness, race, gender plurality, and love - become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape.
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| Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore
by Lawrence Jackson
On sale Apr 19 from Graywolf Press
Genre: Essays. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. It would all be unremarkable but for the fact that he had grown up in West Baltimore and now found himself teaching at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides fodder for this captivating memoir in essays.
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| Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service
by Tajja Isen
Debut Author
On sale Apr 19 from Atria Books
Genre: Essays. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A fearless and darkly comic essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.
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| Fevered Star: Between Earth and Sky #2
by Rebecca Roanhorse
On sale Apr 19 from Gallery Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Return to the Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse's sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sun - finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and Locus awards.
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| Flint and Mirror
by John Crowley
On sale Apr 19 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From award-winning author John Crowley comes a novel that masterfully blends history and magic in Flint and Mirror.
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| Deaf Utopia: A Memoir - and a Love Letter to a Way of Life
by Nyle DiMarco
On sale Apr 19 from William Morrow
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international Deaf community.
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| Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
by Lauren Kessler
On sale Apr 19 from Sourcebooks
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
95 percent of the millions of American men and women who go to prison eventually get out. What happens to them?
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| The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898
by Dominic Green
On sale Apr 19 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The late nineteenth century was an age of grand ideas and great expectations fueled by rapid scientific and technological innovation. In Europe, the ancient authority of church and crown was overthrown for the volatile gambles of democracy and the capitalist market.
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| The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
by Paul Fischer
On sale Apr 19 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: True Crime. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A page-turning history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious man behind it - detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy.
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