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This week's 11 new and notable books include a cross section of genres from sci-fi to current affairs. One title of particular note is At the Edge of the Haight, a debut novel by Katherine Seligman which won the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (which is always awarded ahead of publication); you can see all previous winners on BookBrowse.


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Davina Morgan-Witts, Editor

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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. For more about our process, click the two right hand links below.
At the Edge of the Haight
by Katherine Seligman

Debut Author
On sale Jan 19 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Novels. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 3.9/5
 
The Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, At the Edge of the Haight follows Maddy Donaldo, who is homeless at twenty, and the lives of those who depend on makeshift homes and communities in a rapidly changing San Francisco.

Girl on the Line
by Faith Gardner

On sale Jan 19 from HarperTeen
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
A story that begins where too many others end, this stunningly written and unflinchingly authentic #ownvoices tale of love, loss, and hope will touch fans of All the Bright Places and Girl in Pieces.

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo

On sale Jan 19 from Dutton for Young Readers
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult). 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s.

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The City of Tears: A Burning Chambers Novel
by Kate Mosse

On sale Jan 19 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 560 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war.

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Before She Disappeared
by Lisa Gardner

On sale Jan 19 from Dutton
Genre: Thrillers. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten.

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Knock Knock: Grens and Hoffman #4
by Anders Roslund

On sale Jan 19 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Thrillers. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
The #1 international-bestselling thriller that tells the electrifying story of a police inspector and a former criminal informant in a race against time as they attempt to unravel past and present secrets.

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Remote Control
by Nnedi Okorafor

On sale Jan 19 from Tor.com
Genre: Sci-Fi. 160 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor.

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Sanctuary
by Emily Rapp Black

On sale Jan 19 from Random House
Genre: Memoir. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World comes an incisive memoir about how she came to question and redefine the concept of resilience after the trauma of her first child's death.

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Craft: An American History
by Glenn Adamson

On sale Jan 19 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: History. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day.

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Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War
by Jessica Donati

On sale Jan 19 from Public Affairs
Genre: Current Affairs. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
The Wall Street Journal's national security reporter - formerly based in Kabul from 2013-2017 - takes readers into the lives of U.S. Special Forces on the front lines against the Taliban and Islamic State, where a new and covert war is keeping Afghanistan from collapse.

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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
by Janice P. Nimura

On sale Jan 19 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History & Science. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood.

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