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Publishing This Week
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This week’s new and notable books include two titles our members reviewed for BookBrowse’s early reader program, First Impressions: The Poet's House by Jean Thompson and Francesca Manfredi's debut The Empire of Dirt.

In total this week we cover 25 books including new works from Minette Walters, Blake Crouch and Dan Fesperman. You can explore all of them in our Publishing This Week page (under the "New" menu tab in our main menu); and below are the two First Impressions titles plus eight other books which are all debuts.

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. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.
The Empire of Dirt book jacket
The Empire of Dirt: A Novel
by Francesca Manfredi

Debut Author
On sale Jul 12 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 3.4/5

In this captivating English-language debut, three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens.

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The Poet's House book jacket
The Poet's House
by Jean Thompson

On sale Jul 12 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.4/5

A smart and witty story of a young woman who gets swept up in the dramatic and passionate world of writers.

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Our Wives Under the Sea book jacket
Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel
by Julia Armfield

Debut Author
On sale Jul 12 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Fathomlessly inventive and original, Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea is a portrait of marriage as we've never seen it before.

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Sirens & Muses book jacket
Sirens & Muses: A Novel
by Antonia Angress

Debut Author
On sale Jul 12 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this magnificent debut for fans of Writers & Lovers and The Goldfinch.

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Fire Season book jacket
Fire Season: A Novel
by Leyna Krow

Debut Author
On sale Jul 12 from Viking
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists - a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift - whose lives collide in the wake of a devastating fire in the American West.

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Death and the Conjuror book jacket
Death and the Conjuror: Joseph Spector #1
by Tom Mead

Debut Author
On sale Jul 12 from Mysterious Press
Genre: Mysteries. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes.

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Wake the Bones book jacket
Wake the Bones: A Novel
by Elizabeth Kilcoyne

Debut Author
On sale Jul 12 from Wednesday Books
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil is dead under her hands, and her bone pile just stood up and walked away.

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Illegally Yours book jacket
Illegally Yours: A Memoir
by Rafael Agustin

Debut Author
On sale Jul 12 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Memoir. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane The Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down.

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My Boy Will Die of Sorrow book jacket
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines
by Efrén C. Olivares

Debut Author
On sale Jul 12 from Hachette Books
Genre: Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer - whose work on the front lines of the fight against family separations in South Texas intertwines with his own story of immigrating to the United States at thirteen - reframes the United States' history as a nation of immigrants but also a nation against immigrants.

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Normal Family book jacket
Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
by Chrysta Bilton

Debut Author
On sale Jul 12 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Biography. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A riveting, nuanced portrait of unforgettable characters thrown together by chance and DNA, Normal Family is a story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance.

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