Publishing This Week: Charles Duhigg, Barbara Weisberg & 12 More

Publishing This Week

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We have 14 new and notable books this week, including Strong Passions by Barbara Weisberg, a novel centered on a scandalous divorce in 1860's New York, which receives a starred review from Publishers Weekly ("a page-turning glimpse into the lives of 19th-century New York's upper crust"). We also have a new novel from Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, A Fire So Wild, which centers on a wildfire threatening Berkely, CA, with emotional echos of Little Fires Everywhere.

You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section. For more soon to publish books, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section.

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The BookBrowse Team

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.

Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
by Barbara Weisberg

On sale Feb 20 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.2/5

Shocking revelations of a wife's adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets.

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A Fire So Wild: A Novel
by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

On sale Feb 20 from Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

With the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth, a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices lying beneath the city's surface.

Ours: A Novel
by Phillip B. Williams

Debut Author
On sale Feb 20 from Viking
Genre: Literary Fiction. 592 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedom

The Trouble with You: A Novel
by Ellen Feldman

On sale Feb 20 from St. Martin's Griffin
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

In an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose between the safe and the ethical, and the men who represent each.

The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
by Joan Acocella

On sale Feb 20 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Essays. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection.

A Tempest of Tea: Blood and Tea # 1
by Hafsah Faizal

On sale Feb 20 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion:

From the New York Times–bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame comes the first book in a hotly-anticipated fantasy duology teeming with romance and revenge, led by an orphan girl willing to do whatever it takes to save her self-made kingdom.

Sun of Blood and Ruin: A Novel
by Mariely Lares

Debut Author
On sale Feb 20 from Harper Voyager
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving justice. This reimagining of Zorro—featuring a heroic warrior sorceress—weaves Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history two decades after the Spanish conquest into a swashbuckling, historical debut fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, and romance.

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
by Ross Perlin

On sale Feb 20 from Atlantic Monthly Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet

Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
by Miriam Darlington

On sale Feb 20 from Tin House Books
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Full of wonder, hope, and an abiding love for the natural world, Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World is a beautiful and captivating work of nature writing, pursuing one of nature's most endearing and endlessly fascinating creatures.

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
by Charles Duhigg

On sale Feb 20 from Random House
Genre: Advice. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.

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