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This week brings 18 new and notable books for your reading delight, all publishing this Tuesday, May 17. They include Metropolis, a new novel from B.A. Shapiro that BookBrowse members reviewed for our early reader program First Impressions, and The Colony by Audrey Magee which we have already reviewed. Also, new novels from Emma Straub and Maggie Shipstead.
Enjoy! 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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| Metropolis: A Novel
by B. A. Shapiro
On sale May 17 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Novels. 368 pages
Members' Rating: 4.3/5
This masterful novel of psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of The Art Forger follows a cast of unforgettable characters whose lives intersect when a harrowing accident occurs at the Metropolis Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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| The Colony: A Novel
by Audrey Magee
On sale May 17 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Novels. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers, despite what it may cost the islanders.
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| This Time Tomorrow: A Novel
by Emma Straub
On sale May 17 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Novels. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes, and a different kind of love story.
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| We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
by Tsering Yangzom Lama
Debut Author
On sale May 17 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Novels. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
For readers of Homegoing and The Leavers, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family's journey through exile.
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| You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
by Maggie Shipstead
On sale May 17 from Knopf
Genre: Short Stories. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range.
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| Serious Face: Essays
by Jon Mooallem
On sale May 17 from Random House
Genre: Essays. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the discovery of the author's face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from "one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today" (Elizabeth Gilbert).
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| His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
Debut Author
On sale May 17 from Viking
Genre: Biography. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy - from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing - telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for change.
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| Ma and Me: A Memoir
by Putsata Reang
Debut Author
On sale May 17 from MCD
Genre: Memoir. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
When Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding sanctuary at an American naval base in the Philippines. Holding what appeared to be a lifeless baby in her arms, Ma resisted the captain's orders to throw her bundle overboard. Instead, on landing, Ma rushed her baby into the arms of American military nurses and doctors, who saved the child's life.
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| Mother Noise: A Memoir
by Cindy House
Debut Author
On sale May 17 from Scribner
Genre: Memoir. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A poignant and beautiful memoir told in essays and graphic shorts about what life looks like twenty years after recovery from addiction - and how to live with the past as a parent, writer, and sober person - from a regular opener for David Sedaris, Cindy House.
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| Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
by Serhii Plokhy
On sale May 17 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History, Current Affairs, Science. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly.
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