Tripas: Poems (Georgia Review Books Ser.)
by
Brandon Som
Georgia Review Books, 03/01/2023
Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family memory, Som ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
by
Theresa Runstedtler
Bold Type Books, 03/07/2023
Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Confidence: A Novel
by
Rafael Frumkin
Simon & Schuster, 03/07/2023
At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally...
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Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir
by
Michelle Dowd
Algonquin Books, 03/07/2023
My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.
As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
From From: Poems
by
Monica Youn
Graywolf Press, 03/07/2023
"Where are you from …? No—where are you
from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
In Limbo: A Graphic Memoir
by
Deb JJ Lee
First Second, 03/07/2023
Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness.
For a while, her English wasn't perfect...
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Critics' Consensus:
Graphic Novels
Debut Author
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
by
Monica Edinger
Zest Books, 03/07/2023
Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's
The ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Sell Us the Rope
by
Stephen May
Bloomsbury USA, 03/07/2023
Instead, Koba, as he is known, arrives in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party where he - and many of his fellow Bolsheviks - ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Curator
by
Owen King
Scribner, 03/07/2023
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The God of Endings: A Novel
by
Jacqueline Holland
Flatiron Books, 03/07/2023
Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark truth: She is immortal. In 1834, Colette's grandfather granted her the gift of eternal life and since then, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Lost English Girl
by
Julia Kelly
Gallery Books, 03/07/2023
Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The Mimicking of Known Successes
by
Malka Older
Tor.com, 03/07/2023
On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
by
Larry Loftis
William Morrow, 03/07/2023
The Watchmaker's Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that readers haven't heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie...
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Tina, Mafia Soldier
by
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
Soho Crime, 03/07/2023
Sicily, 1980s: When she was just eight years old, Tina watched as her father, a member of Cosa Nostra, was murdered in cold blood. Now a teenager, she...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector
by
Amit Katwala
Crooked Lane Books, 03/07/2023
Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. But was he a grieving...
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Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
by
Leah Hazard
Ecco, 03/07/2023
The size of a clenched fist and the shape of a light bulb—with no less power and potential. Every person on Earth began inside a uterus, but how...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
by
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Knopf, 03/14/2023
The history of reportage has often depended on outsiders—Ryszard Kapuściński witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bitter Medicine
by
Mia Tsai
Tachyon Publications, 03/14/2023
As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a mediocre ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Romance
Debut Author
Dear Medusa: (A Novel in Verse)
by
Olivia A. Cole
Labyrinth Road, 03/14/2023
Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there's more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Different for Boys
by
Patrick Ness
Walker & Company, 03/14/2023
Anthony "Ant" Stevenson isn't sure when he stopped being a virgin. Or even if he has. The rules aren't always very clear when it comes to boys who ...
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Dust Child
by
Nguyen Phan Que Mai
Algonquin Books, 03/14/2023
In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become "bar girls" in Sài G&...
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Feed Them Silence
by
Lee Mandelo
Tor.com, 03/14/2023
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves?...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Flowerheart
by
Catherine Bakewell
HarperTeen, 03/14/2023
Clara's magic has always been wild. But it's never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in her father's chest.
The...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Hello Beautiful: A Novel
by
Ann Napolitano
The Dial Press, 03/14/2023
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets ...
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Kunstlers in Paradise
by
Cathleen Schine
Henry Holt and Company, 03/14/2023
For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with ...
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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
by
Oliver Darkshire
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/14/2023
Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, ...
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Our Best Intentions: A Novel
by
Vibhuti Jain
William Morrow, 03/14/2023
Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
by
Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/14/2023
Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Stateless
by
Elizabeth Wein
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/14/2023
When Stella North is chosen to represent Britain in Europe's first air race for young people, she knows all too well how high the stakes are. As the ...
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
by
Alexa Hagerty
Crown, 03/14/2023
"Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration—of building something new with the...more
Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
by
Patti McCracken
William Morrow, 03/14/2023
The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses—village wives, mothers, and...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
The Dog of the North: A Novel
by
Elizabeth McKenzie
Penguin Press, 03/14/2023
Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; ...
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The Flames: A Novel
by
Sophie Haydock
The Overlook Press, 03/14/2023
Amid an opulent society living under the shadow of war are four muses, women whose bodies were shown in intimate detail, depicted by the charming yet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Last Russian Doll
by
Kristen Loesch
Berkley Books, 03/14/2023
In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land...
...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
The Memory Eater
by
Rebecca Mahoney
Razorbill, 03/14/2023
For generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach, Maine, surviving off the unhappy memories of those who ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Next New Syrian Girl
by
Ream Shukairy
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/14/2023
Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
by
M.D. Ricardo Nuila
Scribner, 03/14/2023
First, we meet Stephen, the restaurant franchise manager who signed up for his company's lowest priced plan, only to find himself facing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland
by
Alexander Poots
Twelve Books, 03/14/2023
Northern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
by
Alexandra Robbins
Dutton, 03/14/2023
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Walking Practice: A Novel
by
Dolki Min
HarperVia, 03/14/2023
After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a shapeshifting alien finds themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet and disabled by Earth'...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
by
Roxanna Asgarian
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/14/2023
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Wolf Trap: A Thriller
by
Connor Sullivan
Atria Books, 03/14/2023
Set a trap... See who comes.
Under the direction of the Special Activities Center in the Operations Directorate of the CIA, over three hundred ...
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Thrillers
Brighter Than the Sun
by
Daniel Aleman
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/21/2023
Every morning, sixteen-year-old Sol wakes up at the break of dawn in her hometown of Tijuana, Mexico and makes the trip across the border to go to ...
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Literary Fiction
Commitment: A Novel
by
Mona Simpson
Knopf, 03/21/2023
When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to college at UC Berkeley, it will be her last parental act before falling into a deep...
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Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
by
Nathan Masters
Hachette Books, 03/21/2023
Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Flux
by
Jinwoo Chong
Melville House, 03/21/2023
Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice
by
Christine Kenneally
Public Affairs, 03/21/2023
For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events—abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths—took places inside ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
How I'll Kill You
by
Ren DeStefano
Berkley Books, 03/21/2023
Make him want you.
Make him love you.
Make him dead.
Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
Old God's Time: A Novel
by
Sebastian Barry
Viking, 03/21/2023
Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. ...
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Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
by
James T. Costa
Princeton University Press, 03/21/2023
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast ...
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The Lies of the Ajungo: The Forever Desert #1
by
Moses Ose Utomi
Tor.com, 03/21/2023
They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City of Lies. They say there are no friends beyond the City of ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
by
Bill Hammack
Sourcebooks, 03/21/2023
Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan award-winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Y/N: A Novel
by
Esther Yi
Astra House, 03/21/2023
It's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
A Brief History of Living Forever: A Novel
by
Jaroslav Kalfar
Little Brown & Company, 03/28/2023
When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in America with Tereza, the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Death in Denmark: The First Gabriel Præst Novel
by
Amulya Malladi
William Morrow Paperbacks, 03/28/2023
Everyone in Denmark knew that Yousef Ahmed, a refugee from Iraq, brutally murdered the right-wing politician Sanne Melgaard. So, when part-time blues ...
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Mysteries
A Door in the Dark
by
Scott Reintgen
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 03/28/2023
Ren Monroe has spent four years proving she's one of the best wizards in her generation. But top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future
by
Mya-Rose Craig
Celadon, 03/28/2023
Meet Mya-Rose – otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Girl Forgotten
by
April Henry
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 03/28/2023
Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray who is determined to reopen Layla's ...
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Mysteries
Hang the Moon: A Novel
by
Jeannette Walls
Scribner, 03/28/2023
Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans.
Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Her Deadly Game
by
Robert Dugoni
Thomas & Mercer, 03/28/2023
Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the ...
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How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
by
Clancy Martin
Pantheon Books, 03/28/2023
"If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because ...more
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
by
Sarah Bakewell
Penguin Press, 03/28/2023
Humanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. The...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Infinity Gate (The Pandominion, 1)
by
M. R. Carey
Orbit, 03/28/2023
INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds – except that they're really just the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Lone Women: A Novel
by
Victor LaValle
One World, 03/28/2023
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
by
Abraham Riesman
Atria Books, 03/28/2023
Even if you've never watched a minute of professional wrestling, you are living in Vince McMahon's world.
In his four decades as the defining ...
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Saints of the Household
by
Ari Tison
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 03/28/2023
Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
by
Alex Mar
Penguin Press, 03/28/2023
On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of...
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Spin
by
Rebecca Caprara
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 03/28/2023
Sixteen-year-old Arachne is ostracized by all but her family and closest friend, Celandine. Turning to her loom for solace, Arachne learns to weave, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Strictly No Heroics
by
B. L. Radley
Feiwel & Friends, 03/28/2023
A Normie's guide to staying alive in Sunnylake City:
- Keep your head down.
- Don't make enemies.
- Strictly no heroics.
The world is run by those ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
by
Dr. Arline T Geronimus
Little Brown & Company, 03/28/2023
America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
by
Ashley Ward
Basic Books, 03/28/2023
Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the sound of laughter, the touch of a lover. But ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
by
Kelly Link
Random House, 03/28/2023
Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into ...
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
by
Jesse Q. Sutanto
HQ Digital, 03/30/2023
Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy 'detective' work on ...
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Mysteries
