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This week brings 10 notable new books including four memoirs and a thriller from Don Winslow.
Enjoy!
Davina, BookBrowse Publisher
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This Week's New and Notable Books |
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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”. |
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The Apartment on Calle Uruguay: A Novel by Zachary Lazar
On sale Apr 26 from Catapult
Genre: Novels. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A haunting new novel by the author of Vengeance in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a complicated romance that reveals their buried histories and vulnerabilities against the backdrops of an America in chaos and Mexico.
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| Kaikeyi: A Novel
by Vaishnavi Patel
Debut Author
On sale Apr 26 from Redhook
Genre: Historical Fiction. 496 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A stunning debut from a powerful new voice, Kaikeyi reimagines the life of the infamous queen from the Indian epic the Ramayana, weaving a tale of fate, family, courage, and heartbreak - of an extraordinary woman determined to leave her mark in a world where gods and men dictate the shape of things to come.
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| City on Fire: A Novel
by Don Winslow
On sale Apr 26 from William Morrow
Genre: Thrillers. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border), The Force, and Broken comes the first novel in an epic crime saga about the Irish and Italian crime syndicates in America during the 1980s and 1990s.
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| The Children on the Hill
by Jennifer McMahon
On sale Apr 26 from Gallery/Scout Press
Genre: Thrillers. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley's masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.
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| Nettle & Bone
by T. Kingfisher
On sale Apr 26 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure.
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| Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood
by Stephen Mills
On sale Apr 26 from Metropolitan Books
Genre: Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker intent on becoming his friend. Stephen, whose father died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who first grooms and then molests him for two years.
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Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains by Steph Jagger
On sale Apr 26 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild. In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are.
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Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes
Debut Author
On sale Apr 26 from Celadon
Genre: Memoir. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
From the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America's toughest cold cases and the rewards – and toll – of a life solving crime.
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Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable by Zain E. Asher
Debut Author
On sale Apr 26 from Amistad
Genre: Memoir. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy.
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| The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
by Riley Black
On sale Apr 26 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Science. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life's losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now.
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