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Publishing This Week
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Among this week's 10 new and notable books are two that our members reviewed for our early reader program, First Impressions: Lady Sunshine by Amy Mason Doan set in 1970s California and The Personal Librarian, a historical novel from Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray that explores the little-known life of an extraordinary woman who defied all odds.

Enjoy!

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher


The Secret Keeper PS: Hundreds of books are published each week that could potentially be candidates for this newsletter and clearly we cannot cover them all. However, we did miss one book last week that I particularly wanted to bring to your attention, which is The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, book two in Alka Joshi's Jaipur Trilogy. We discussed The Henna Artist in our book club last year, and it proved to be a popular choice with much to talk about; and the reviews indicate that the second volume is living up to the standard of the first.



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”.
Lady Sunshine book jacket
Lady Sunshine
by Amy Mason Doan

On sale Jun 29 from Graydon House
Genre: Novels. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.1/5

One iconic family. One summer of secrets. The dazzling spirit of 1970s California.

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The Personal Librarian book jacket
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

On sale Jun 29 from Berkley Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.6/5

The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.

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Disquiet book jacket
Disquiet
by Zülfü Livaneli

On sale Jun 29 from Other Press
Genre: Novels. 176 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the internationally bestselling author of Serenade for Nadia, a powerful story of love and faith amidst the atrocities committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people.

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Hell of a Book book jacket
Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott

On sale Jun 29 from Dutton
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole.

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Lorna Mott Comes Home book jacket
Lorna Mott Comes Home
by Diane Johnson

On sale Jun 29 from Knopf
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a sly, subversive comedy of contemporary manners, morals, (ex)marriages, and motherhood (past, present, and future)--about an American woman, an art lecturer, in her sixties, leaving her 20-year marriage to her French second husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up a life (hardly recognizable) she left behind and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren, going slightly awry.

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Who They Was book jacket
Who They Was
by Gabriel Krauze

Debut Author
On sale Jun 29 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English Literature and the disregarded world of London gang warfare.

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The Vixen book jacket
The Vixen
by Francine Prose

On sale Jun 29 from Harper
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg - an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive, dangerous new world.

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Bad Moon Rising book jacket
Bad Moon Rising : Bad Axe County #3
by John Galligan

On sale Jun 29 from Atria Books
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A record heat wave suffocates remote rural Wisconsin as the local sheriff tracks down a killer hidden in the depths of the community in this atmospheric, race-to-the-finish mystery by the acclaimed author of the Bad Axe County series.

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Dead by Dawn book jacket
Dead by Dawn : Mike Bowditch Mysteries #12
by Paul Doiron

On sale Jun 29 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Maine game warden Mike Bowditch finds himself in a life-or-death chase in this next thriller in the bestselling mystery series by Edgar Award nominee Paul Doiron, Dead by Dawn.

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This Poison Heart book jacket
This Poison Heart
by Kalynn Bayron

On sale Jun 29 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.

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