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Publishing This Week
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This week brings 15 notable new books including River Sing Me Home by debut novelist Eleanor Shearer. Set in 1834, in the immediate aftermath of the Emancipation Act (which nominally marked the end of slavery in the British colonies, but condemned many to a further six years of "apprenticeship") it tells an extraordinarily compelling story of a mother who escapes her plantation to travel across the islands to find her five children who were sold away from her, one by one, years before.

Also, The Exiles, Jane Harper’s third and final Aaron Falk mystery (following The Dry and Force of Nature) finds Detective Falk in the South Australian wine country investigating the disappearance of a woman the previous year. Will he solve the murder and bring some peace to her family, and perhaps find some himself? You’ll have to read to find out!

Lastly, Rosie Walsh has a new novel out, Love of My Life (her first in five years since her bestselling Ghosted, which was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick. I meant to include it a couple of weeks ago when it first published but forgot to do so, so, I'm slipping it in here as we've just opened up a discussion of this love story wrapped in a mystery. If you've read it, do join us! If not, I suggest avoiding the discussion which will be full of spoilers, and instead click the "Read More" link to browse a range of reviews and the jacket copy.

You'll find 10 of this week's books below, and full information on all 15 in our New This Week section.

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.

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River Sing Me Home book jacket
River Sing Me Home
by Eleanor Shearer


Debut Author
On sale Jan 31 from Berkley Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.7/5

Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a remarkable debut.

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Reader Reviews
Exiles book jacket
Exiles: Aaron Falk Mystery #3
by Jane Harper


On sale Jan 31 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Mysteries. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.7/5

New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper is back with Exiles, a new mystery featuring Aaron Falk, the detective from the bestseller and major motion picture The Dry.

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Reader Reviews
The Love of My Life book jacket
The Love of My Life: A Novel
by Rosie Walsh


On sale Jan 17 from Penguin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick from the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted—a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its core.

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Collected Works book jacket
Collected Works
by Lydia Sandgren


Debut Author
On sale Jan 31 from Astra House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 608 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A compelling mystery and poignant bildungsroman for readers of Karl Ove Knausgård, Collected Works is a novel about love, power, and art—and what leads us to make the pivotal decisions that change the course of our lives.

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Maame book jacket
Maame: A Novel
by Jessica George


On sale Jan 31 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Smart, funny, and deeply affecting, Jessica George's Maame deals with the themes of our time with humor and poignancy: from familial duty and racism, to female pleasure, the complexity of love, and the life-saving power of friendship. Most important, it explores what it feels like to be torn between two homes and cultures―and it celebrates finally being able to find where you belong.

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My Father's House book jacket
My Father's House: The Rome Escape Line Trilogy #1
by Joseph O’Connor


On sale Jan 31 from Europa Editions
Genre: Historical Fiction. 440 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era "great escape" novel set in the Vatican

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The Davenports book jacket
The Davenports
by Krystal Marquis


Debut Author
On sale Jan 31 from Dial Books
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The first in a breathless YA series set in 1910 Chicago, The Davenports offers a glimpse into a period of African American history often overlooked, while delivering a totally escapist, swoon-worthy read

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Quiet book jacket
Quiet: Poems
by Victoria Adukwei Bulley


On sale Jan 31 from Knopf
Genre: Poetry & Novels in Verse. 112 pages
Critics' Opinion:

A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of "quiet" in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.

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The Terraformers book jacket
The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz


On sale Jan 31 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future.

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Reckoning book jacket
Reckoning
by V (formerly Eve Ensler)


On sale Jan 31 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues - political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making.

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Cobalt Red book jacket
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
by Siddharth Kara


On sale Jan 31 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation - and the moral implications that affect us all.

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