Publishing This Week: Emma Donaghue, Jennifer Weiner and Alice Feeney

Publishing This Week

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Among this week's 18 new and notable books are novels from Emma Donaghue, Jennifer Weiner, LaToya Watkins, Angie Kim and Alice Feeney. You'll find brief information on 10 titles below and more on all the books, including early reviews, in our New This Week section. The New section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, where you can look ahead to see what's publishing soon and back to previous months; debuts are indicated by a yellow highlight.

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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.

Learned by Heart
by Emma Donoghue

On sale Aug 29 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.

The Breakaway: A Novel
by Jennifer Weiner

On sale Aug 29 from Atria Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and the power of a trip to change your life.

Where There Was Fire
by John Manuel Arias

Debut Author
On sale Aug 29 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias

Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare
by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Debut Author
On sale Aug 29 from Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre: Short Stories. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood.

The Deadline: Essays
by Jill Lepore

On sale Aug 29 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: Essays. 640 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best.

Happiness Falls: A Novel
by Angie Kim

On sale Aug 29 from Hogarth Books
Genre: Mysteries. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another in this thrilling page-turner, a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle Creek.

Good Bad Girl: A Novel
by Alice Feeney

On sale Aug 29 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises.

Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir
by Alice Carrière

Debut Author
On sale Aug 29 from Spiegel & Grau
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman's coming-of-age in the bohemian '90s, as her adolescence gives way to a struggle with dissociative disorder.

Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
by Steve Sheinkin

On sale Aug 29 from Roaring Brook Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion (Young Adult). 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust - one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape.

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
by Jenni Nuttall

On sale Aug 29 from Viking
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language - and what we can learn from the vivid vocabulary that English once had for women's bodies, experiences, and sexuality

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