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Publishing This Week
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This week brings a dozen new and notable books.

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”.
Kate in Waiting book jacket
Kate in Waiting
by Becky Albertalli


On sale Apr 20 from Balzer + Bray
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and rom-com queen Becky Albertalli comes a buoyant new novel about daring to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight in love, life, and, yes, theater.

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The Happiest Girl in the World book jacket
The Happiest Girl in the World
by Alena Dillon


On sale Apr 20 from William Morrow
Genre: Novels. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the acclaimed author of Mercy House comes a gripping new novel about a young woman's dreams of Olympic gymnastic gold - and what it takes to reach the top.

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Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? book jacket
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?
by Jenny Diski


On sale Apr 20 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (the New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers.

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World Travel book jacket
World Travel : An Irreverent Guide
by Anthony Bourdain


On sale Apr 20 from Ecco
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain.

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Popisho book jacket
Popisho
by Leone Ross


On sale Apr 20 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An uproarious, sensual novel, Leone Ross's Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits.

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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within book jacket
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within : Wayfarers #4
by Becky Chambers


On sale Apr 20 from Harper Voyager
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos - one often mentioned, but not yet explored - in this absorbing entry in the Wayfarers series, which blends heart-warming characters and imaginative adventure.

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And Now I Spill the Family Secrets book jacket
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets : An Illustrated Memoir
by Margaret Kimball


Debut Author
On sale Apr 20 from HarperOne
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In the spirit of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Roz Chast's Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Margaret Kimball's And Now I Spill the Family Secrets begins in the aftermath of a tragedy.

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Crying in H Mart book jacket
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner


Debut Author
On sale Apr 20 from Knopf
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

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I Am a Girl from Africa book jacket
I Am a Girl from Africa
by Elizabeth Nyamayaro


Debut Author
On sale Apr 20 from Scribner
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The inspiring journey of a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world.

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The Unfit Heiress book jacket
The Unfit Heiress : The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
by Audrey Clare Farley


Debut Author
On sale Apr 20 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, a page-turning drama of fortunes, eugenics and women's reproductive rights framed by the sordid court battle between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her socialite mother.

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The Free World book jacket
The Free World : Art and Thought in the Cold War
by Louis Menand


On sale Apr 20 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 880 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years.

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The Glitter in the Green book jacket
The Glitter in the Green : In Search of Hummingbirds
by Jon Dunn


On sale Apr 20 from Basic Books
Genre: Travel & Adventure. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An acclaimed natural history writer follows the trail of the remarkable hummingbird all over the world.

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