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This week's 11 new and notable books cover a range of genres from mystery to memoir. The opening title, A Theater for Dreamers was published in the UK last year to wide aclaim and was included in many newspaper and magazine "best of" lists. Swimming Back to Trout River and The Plot also look particularly good. We'll be reviewing both on BookBrowse over the next few weeks.

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”.
A Theater for Dreamers book jacket
A Theater for Dreamers
by Polly Samson

On sale May 11 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 3.6/5

A spellbinding tour-de-force about the beauty between naïveté and cruelty, chaos and utopia, artist and muse—and about the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius.

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Swimming Back to Trout River book jacket
Swimming Back to Trout River
by Linda Rui Feng

Debut Author
On sale May 11 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Novels. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls "one of the most beautiful debuts I've read in years."

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Where the Rhythm Takes You book jacket
Where the Rhythm Takes You
by Sarah Dass

On sale May 11 from Balzer + Bray
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, Where the Rhythm Takes You is a romantic, mesmerizing novel of first love and second chances.

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The Rock Eaters book jacket
The Rock Eaters
by Brenda Peynado

Debut Author
On sale May 11 from Penguin Books
Genre: Short Stories. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia.

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The Granite Coast Murders book jacket
The Granite Coast Murders : Brittany Mystery Series #6
by Jean-Luc Bannalec

On sale May 11 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Mysteries. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

In the sixth installment of Jean-Luc Bannalec's bestselling mystery series, Commissaire Dupin returns to investigate a murder at a gorgeous Brittany beach resort.

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The Plot book jacket
The Plot
by Jean Hanff Korelitz

On sale May 11 from Celadon
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.

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A Master of Djinn book jacket
A Master of Djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark

On sale May 11 from Tor.com
Genre: Fantasy. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn.

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Heartwood book jacket
Heartwood : The Art of Living with the End in Mind
by Barbara Becker

Debut Author
On sale May 11 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Memoir. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

"We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love," Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut memoir Heartwood.

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Why Peacocks? book jacket
Why Peacocks? : An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird
by Sean Flynn

On sale May 11 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An acclaimed journalist seeks to understand the mysterious allure of peacocks—and in the process discovers unexpected and valuable life lessons.

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The Holly book jacket
The Holly : Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
by Julian Rubinstein

On sale May 11 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Current Affairs. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An award-winning journalist's dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future

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Winning Independence book jacket
Winning Independence : The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781
by John Ferling

On sale May 11 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: History. 736 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From celebrated historian John Ferling, the underexplored history of the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of ­fighting, American independence often seemed beyond reach.

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