A Place for Us: A Memoir
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Brandon J. Wolf
Little A, 07/01/2023
You never forget your first. First kiss. First love. First heartache. They all burrow their way into your subconscious, destined to reshape how you ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
A Good House for Children: A Novel
by
Kate Collins
Mariner Books, 07/04/2023
Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment ...
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One Summer in Savannah: A Novel
by
Terah Shelton Harris
Sourcebooks, 07/04/2023
It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following ...
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Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
by
Beth Nguyen
Scribner, 07/04/2023
At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. ...
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President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
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CW Goodyear
Simon & Schuster, 07/04/2023
In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
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Starve Acre: A Novel
by
Andrew Michael Hurley
Penguin Books, 07/04/2023
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by ...
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Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
by
Alex Wheatle
Akashic Books, 07/04/2023
Abandoned as a baby to the British foster care system, Alex Wheatle grew up without any knowledge of his Jamaican parentage or family history. ...
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Temple Folk
by
Aaliyah Bilal
Simon & Schuster, 07/04/2023
In
Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in ...
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Short Stories
Debut Author
The Beasts of Paris: A Novel
by
Stef Penney
Pegasus Books, 07/04/2023
A diverse group of memorable characters find themselves in Paris during the build up to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Dreamer Anne is half-Haitian,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Ice Harp: The American Novels
by
Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press, 07/04/2023
In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Long Ago: A Novel
by
Michael McGarrity
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/04/2023
Growing up in Montana, siblings Raymond and Barbara Lansdale held their chaotic world together through their shared childhood fantasy of
The Long Ago:...
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Mysteries
Alchemy of a Blackbird: A Novel
by
Claire McMillan
Atria Books, 07/11/2023
Desperate to escape the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her lover, poet Benjamin Peret, flee Paris for Villa Air Bel, a safe house for artists on the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Do Tell: A Novel
by
Lindsay Lynch
Doubleday, 07/11/2023
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig after an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
by
Gloria Dickie
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/11/2023
Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Elsewhere: Stories
by
Yan Ge
Scribner, 07/11/2023
In twenty years, Yan Ge has authored thirteen books written in Chinese, working across an impressive range of genres and subjects. Now, Yan Ge ...
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Eventide, Water City: The Water City Trilogy #2
by
Chris Mckinney
Soho Press, 07/11/2023
Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City's renowned scientist and anointed "God," the nameless antihero who tracked down ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent
by
Lorissa Rinehart
St. Martin's Press, 07/11/2023
"I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power."
From the beginning of World War II through the early...
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Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Flags on the Bayou: A Novel
by
James Lee Burke
Atlantic Monthly Press, 07/11/2023
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care
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Ilana Yurkiewicz MD
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/11/2023
There's an unspoken assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
High Time: A Novel
by
Hannah Rothschild
Knopf, 07/11/2023
Eight years have passed and in 2016 many things have changed for the eccentric Trelawney family. In the months leading up to the Brexit referendum, ...
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I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom
by
Shannon C. F. Rogers
Feiwel & Friends, 07/11/2023
Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no ...
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Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
by
Kim Wickens
Ballantine Books, 07/11/2023
The early days of American horse racing were grueling. Four-mile races, run two or three times in succession, were the norm, rewarding horses who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It
by
Daniel Simons
Basic Books, 07/11/2023
From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Nothing Special
by
Nicole Flattery
Bloomsbury Publishing, 07/11/2023
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Ripe: A Novel
by
Sarah Rose Etter
Scribner, 07/11/2023
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley start-up, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic...
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Sunrise: Radiant Stories
by
Erika Kobayashi
Astra House, 07/11/2023
Sunrise is a collection of interconnected stories continuing Erika Kobayashi's examination of the effects of nuclear power on generations of women. ...
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Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
by
John McPhee
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/11/2023
Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss ...
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The Best Possible Experience: Stories
by
Nishanth Injam
Pantheon Books, 07/11/2023
Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting,
The Best Possible Experience brings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
The Carnivale of Curiosities
by
Amiee Gibbs
Grand Central Publishing, 07/11/2023
In Victorian London, where traveling sideshows are the very pinnacle of entertainment, there is no more coveted ticket than Ashe and Pretorius' ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
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Jeff Goodell
Little Brown & Company, 07/11/2023
"When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived…. The sun feels like ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Militia House: A Novel
by
John Milas
Henry Holt and Company, 07/11/2023
It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Murder Wheel: A Locked-Room Mystery
by
Tom Mead
Mysterious Press, 07/11/2023
In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence that his client Carla Dean wasn't the one who shot ...
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The Ocean Above Me: A Novel
by
Kevin Sites
Harper, 07/11/2023
Former war correspondent Lukas Landon is alone, trapped under 150-feet of water in an overturned shrimp trawler at the bottom of the ocean. The only ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Sea Elephants: A Novel
by
Shastri Akella
Flatiron Books, 07/11/2023
Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Splinter in the Sky
by
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Gallery Books, 07/11/2023
The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Stolen Coast: A Novel
by
Dwyer Murphy
Viking, 07/11/2023
Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the down-at-the-heels, if picturesque, village of Onset, Massachusetts, ...
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Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
by
Jaha Nailah Avery
Levine Querido, 07/11/2023
Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
by
Laura Cumming
Scribner, 07/11/2023
As a brilliant art critic and historian, Laura Cumming has explored the importance of art in life and can give us a perspective on the time and place ...
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Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
by
Colin Dickey
Viking, 07/11/2023
The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
by
Donovan X. Ramsey
One World, 07/11/2023
The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. Beginning with the myths inspired by Reagan's war...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy
by
Nora Neus
Beacon Press, 07/18/2023
On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Blade of Dream: The Kithamar Trilogy #2
by
Daniel Abraham
Orbit, 07/18/2023
Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories endure.
This...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
by
Emily Monosson
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/18/2023
Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Crook Manifesto: A Novel
by
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 07/18/2023
It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out ...
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Cutting Teeth: A Novel
by
Chandler Baker
Flatiron Books, 07/18/2023
Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood—their careers, their sex lives, ...
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Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person
by
Andy Field
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/18/2023
The light touch of a hairdresser's hands on one's scalp, the euphoric energy of a nightclub, huddling with strangers under a shelter in the rain, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Head above Water: Reflections on Illness
by
Shahd Alshammari
Feminist Press, 07/18/2023
Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist that she would not make it past age ...
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I Am Not Alone
by
Francisco X. Stork
Scholastic, 07/18/2023
Alberto's life isn't easy: He's an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister's abusive boyfriend—but he'd always accepted his...
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Immortal Longings: Flesh & False Gods #1
by
Chloe Gong
Gallery Books, 07/18/2023
Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
by
Karen Pinchin
Dutton, 07/18/2023
In 2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and marked one Atlantic bluefin tuna off New England's coast with a plastic fish tag. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
No One Prayed Over Their Graves: A Novel
by
Khaled Khalifa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/18/2023
On a December morning in 1907, two close friends, Hanna and Zakariya, return to their village near Aleppo after a night of drunken carousing in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Onlookers: Stories
by
Ann Beattie
Scribner, 07/18/2023
Onlookers is an astute new story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways. Peaceful ...
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Small Worlds
by
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Grove Press, 07/18/2023
One of the most acclaimed and internationally bestselling "unforgettable" (
New York Times) debuts of the 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson's London-set love ...
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Strange Sally Diamond
by
Liz Nugent
Gallery/Scout Press, 07/18/2023
Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now she's the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and ...
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The Deep Sky: A Novel
by
Yume Kitasei
Flatiron Books, 07/18/2023
They left Earth to save humanity. They'll have to save themselves first.
It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Jasad Heir: The Scorched Throne #1
by
Sara Hashem
Orbit, 07/18/2023
Ten years ago, the kingdom of Jasad burned. Its magic was outlawed. Its royal family murdered. At least, that's what Sylvia wants people to believe. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The King Is Dead
by
Benjamin Dean
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 07/18/2023
Heavy is the crown James has been born to wear, especially as the first Black heir to the British throne. But with his father's recent passing, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romantic Thrillers
Debut Author
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
by
Christopher Miller
Bloomsbury USA, 07/18/2023
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Tropicalia: A Novel
by
Harold Rogers
Atria Books, 07/18/2023
Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind.
He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend, his grandfather just dropped dead, and on the anniversary of the raid...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Walking the Ojibwe Path: A Memoir in Letters to Joshua (Seedbank)
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Richard Wagamese
Milkweed Editions, 07/18/2023
We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new ...more
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
by
Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Hachette Books, 07/18/2023
In
Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
An Honest Man: A Novel
by
Michael Koryta
Mulholland, 07/25/2023
Israel Pike was a killer, and he was an honest man. They were not mutually exclusive.
After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht &#...
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Emergent Properties
by
Aimee Ogden
Tor.com, 07/25/2023
A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Mrs. Plansky's Revenge
by
Spencer Quinn
Forge Books, 07/25/2023
Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding ...
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Rana Joon and the One and Only Now
by
Shideh Etaat
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 07/25/2023
Perfect Iranian girls are straight A students, always polite, and grow up to marry respectable Iranian boys. But it's the San Fernando Valley in 1996,...
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Somebody's Fool: A Novel (North Bath Trilogy)
by
Richard Russo
Knopf, 07/25/2023
Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald "Sully" Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its ...
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The Last Ranger: A Novel
by
Peter Heller
Knopf, 07/25/2023
Officer Ren Hopper is an enforcement ranger with the National Park Service, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: Breaking up fights at ...
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The Sun and the Void: The Warring Gods # 1
by
Gabriela Romero Lacruz
Orbit, 07/25/2023
Reina is desperate.
Stuck on the edges of society, Reina's only hope lies in an invitation from a grandmother she's never met. But the journey to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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