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This week brings 11 new and notable books with a particularly strong lineup of current affairs titles, including Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels by Ioan Grillo and The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS by Margaret Coker. We have substantial excerpts of both, which I recommend.

Very best,

Davina
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”.
Infinite Country
by Patricia Engel

On sale Feb 23 from Avid Reader Press
Genre: Novels. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
For readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian family fractured by deportation, offering an intimate perspective on an experience that so many have endured - and are enduring right now.

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Like Home
by Louisa Onome

Debut Author
On sale Feb 23 from Delacorte Press
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
Fans of Netflix's On My Block and readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Angie Thomas will love this debut novel about a girl whose life is turned upside down after one local act of vandalism throws both her relationships and neighborhood into turmoil.

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The Blizzard Party
by Jack Livings

Debut Author
On sale Feb 23 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Novels. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
A panoramic novel set in New York City during the catastrophic blizzard of February 1978.

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The Slaughterman's Daughter
by Yaniv Iczkovits

On sale Feb 23 from Schocken Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 528 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
An irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, filled with "boundless imagination and a vibrant style" (David Grossman), and enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Coen brothers.

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Those Who Are Saved
by Alexis Landau

On sale Feb 23 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Historical Fiction. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and We Must Be Brave, a heartbreaking World War II novel of one mother's impossible choice, and her search for her daughter against the odds.

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The Valley and the Flood
by Rebecca Mahoney

Debut Author
On sale Feb 23 from Razorbill
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
Debut author Rebecca Mahoney delivers an immersive and captivating novel about magical places, found family, the power of grief and memory, and the journey toward reconciling who you think you've become with the person you've been all along.

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Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
by Ioan Grillo

On sale Feb 23 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Current Affairs. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico's powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade.

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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
by Ritchie Robertson

On sale Feb 23 from Harper
Genre: History. 1008 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.

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The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS
by Margaret Coker

Debut Author
On sale Feb 23 from Dey Street Books
Genre: Current Affairs. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS.

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The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage
by Jonathan Cohn

On sale Feb 23 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Current Affairs. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.

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We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
by Justin Fenton

Debut Author
On sale Feb 23 from Random House
Genre: Current Affairs. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" (the New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city.

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