Publishing This Week: Matt Goldman, Ann Leary and Many Debuts

Publishing This Week

Hello,

In this issue we cover 11 books, all publishing this Tuesday. They include five debuts and Matt Goldman's new novel, Carolina Moonset, which is his first standalone novel following four books in his Nils Shapiro series. We'll be discussing it in our book club forum starting June 4, do join in if you wish.

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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”.

Carolina Moonset
by Matt Goldman

On sale May 31 from Forge Books
Genre: Thrillers. 272 pages

Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award–winning author, Matt Goldman.

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An Olive Grove in Ends
by Moses McKenzie

Debut Author
On sale May 31 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An electrifying debut about a young man faced with a fraught decision: escape a dangerous past alone, or brave his old life and keep the woman he loves.

How to Be Eaten
by Maria Adelmann

Debut Author
On sale May 31 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Novels. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa

On sale May 31 from Balzer + Bray
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A witchy, atmospheric lesbian contemporary romance set in Salem - from the acclaimed author of Fans of the Impossible Life. Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Becky Albertalli.

Love Radio
by Ebony LaDelle

Debut Author
On sale May 31 from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this witty and romantic teen novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates.

Man o' War
by Cory McCarthy

On sale May 31 from Dutton for Young Readers
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans swimmer fighting to keep their head above water in a landlocked Midwestern town.

Planes
by Peter C Baker

Debut Author
On sale May 31 from Knopf
Genre: Novels. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An urgent, fiercely intelligent debut novel about "two couples, an ocean apart - one wounded by a war crime, the other just starting to reckon with being implicated in it...An insightful book about the slow, zigzag work of healing that nonetheless moves at the speed of a thriller" (Caleb Crain, author of Necessary Errors).

The Foundling
by Ann Leary

On sale May 31 from Scribner
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution - one as an employee; the other, an inmate.

The Favor
by Nora Murphy

Debut Author
On sale May 31 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Thrillers. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, Nora Murphy's thrilling The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can happen when women pushed to the limit take matters into their own hands.

Together We Burn
by Isabel Ibañez

On sale May 31 from Wednesday Books
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Isabel Ibañez's Together We Burn is a lush, enchanting standalone fantasy inspired by medieval Spain, filled with romance, adventure and just the right amount of danger.

African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
by David Hackett Fischer

On sale May 31 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: History. 960 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.

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