Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West)
by
Elliott West
University of Nebraska Press, 02/01/2023
In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Meru (The Alloy Era)
by
S.B. Divya
47North, 02/01/2023
For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
by
Bruce Schneier
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/07/2023
A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn't computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All
by
Adam Benforado
Crown, 02/07/2023
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a bright new age for children appeared on the horizon, with progress on ending child labor, providing public ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Abyss
by
Pilar Quintana
World Editions, 02/07/2023
Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But her hardworking father...
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B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found
by
Christie Tate
Avid Reader Press, 02/07/2023
After more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Christie Tate has reclaimed her voice and settled down. Her days of ...
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Big Swiss: A Novel
by
Jen Beagin
Scribner, 02/07/2023
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full ...
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Cold People
by
Tom Rob Smith
Scribner, 02/07/2023
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, ...
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Daughters of Oduma
by
Moses Ose Utomi
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 02/07/2023
Eat. Dance. Fight.
This is the life of the girls who compete in the Isle's elite, all-female fighting sport of Bowing. But it isn't really Dirt's ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Eastbound
by
Maylis De Kerangal
Archipelago Books, 02/07/2023
Eastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds.
In mysterious, winding sentences gorgeously translated by Jessica ...
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I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
by
Barbara Rae-Venter
Ballantine Books, 02/07/2023
For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing without remorse. Then he simply disappeared, for the next...
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Critics' Consensus:
True Crime
Debut Author
Looking for Jane: A Novel
by
Heather Marshall
Atria Books, 02/07/2023
2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel
by
Rachel Joyce
Dial Press, 02/07/2023
Only she can finish the journey her husband started.
Maureen and Harold Fry have settled into a quiet life, but when an unexpected message from the...
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My Nemesis
by
Charmaine Craig
Grove Press, 02/07/2023
Tessa is a successful writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and ...
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Saying It Loud: 1966 - The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
by
Mark Whitaker
Simon & Schuster, 02/07/2023
In gripping, novelistic detail,
Saying It Loud tells the story of how the Black Power phenomenon began to challenge the traditional civil rights ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Someone Else's Shoes: A Novel
by
Jojo Moyes
Pamela Dorman Books, 02/07/2023
Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes?
Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her ...
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Stone Blind: A Novel
by
Natalie Haynes
Harper, 02/07/2023
They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster.
The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike ...
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The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir
by
Priscilla Gilman
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/07/2023
Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla ...
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The Spite House: A Novel
by
Johnny Compton
Tor Nightfire, 02/07/2023
Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls
by
Miriam Darlington
Tin House Books, 02/07/2023
Owls have existed for over sixty million years, and in the relatively short time we have shared the planet with these majestic birds they have ignited...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Western Lane: A Novel
by
Chetna Maroo
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/07/2023
Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
When Trying to Return Home: Stories
by
Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Counterpoint Press, 02/07/2023
Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in
When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Short Stories
Debut Author
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy
by
Steven Powell
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/09/2023
Love Me Fierce In Danger is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular figures in American literature. The so-called "Demon ...
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Biography/Memoir
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
by
Erin Sharkey
Milkweed Editions, 02/14/2023
What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In...
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Always the Almost
by
Edward Underhill
Wednesday Books, 02/14/2023
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year's resolutions: 1) win back his ex-boyfriend (and star of the football team) Shane McIntyre,...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Wolf: A Novel
by
Kathleen Kent
Mulholland, 02/14/2023
It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents—none of ...
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Bloody Martini: Felonious Monk Mysteries #2
by
William Kotzwinkle
Blackstone Publishing, 02/14/2023
Coalville is on fire—from below. The old mines are burning, and everyone has poison gas in their brain. Maybe that's why the town is so corrupt....
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Gone Like Yesterday: A Novel
by
Janelle M. Williams
Tiny Reparations, 02/14/2023
Gone Like Yesterday follows two Black women—Zahra, a listless college prep coach, and Sammie, a teenage girl and budding activist soon off to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Iron Curtain: A Love Story
by
Vesna Goldsworthy
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/14/2023
Milena Urbanska is a red princess living in a Soviet satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the ...
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Lying Beside You: Cyrus Haven Series #3
by
Michael Robotham
Scribner, 02/14/2023
If I could tell you one thing about my brother, it would be this. Two days after his nineteenth birthday, he killed our parents and twin sisters ...more
My Flawless Life
by
Yvonne Woon
Katherine Tegan Books, 02/14/2023
At the most elite private school in Washington, DC., whenever anyone has a problem that they need to go away, they hire Hana Yang Lerner.
Hana is a...
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On the Savage Side: A Novel
by
Tiffany McDaniel
Knopf, 02/14/2023
Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their ...
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Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
by
Joanna Schwartz
Viking, 02/14/2023
In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Stone Cold Fox
by
Rachel Koller Croft
Berkley Books, 02/14/2023
Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she's worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she deserves is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
by
Matthew Connelly
Pantheon Books, 02/14/2023
Before World War II, transparent government was a proud tradition in the United States. In all but the most serious of circumstances, classification, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride: A Novel
by
Roshani Chokshi
William Morrow, 02/14/2023
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Sun Walks Down: A Novel
by
Fiona McFarlane
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/14/2023
In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
World Running Down
by
Al Hess
Angry Robot, 02/14/2023
Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Arch-Conspirator
by
Veronica Roth
Tor Books, 02/21/2023
Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end.
Passing ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Don't Know Tough
by
Eli Cranor
Soho Crime, 02/21/2023
In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes...
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Critics' Consensus:
Mysteries
Debut Author
Empty Theatre: A Novel: or The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
by
Jac Jemc
MCD, 02/21/2023
History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
French Braid: A novel
by
Anne Tyler
Vintage, 02/21/2023
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been ...
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I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History
by
Emmanuel Iduma
Algonquin Books, 02/21/2023
In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the author and winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize Emmanuel Iduma tells the story of his return to Nigeria...
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Last Chance Dance
by
Lakita Wilson
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 02/21/2023
Leila is crushed when Dev, her boyfriend of four years, breaks up with her right before graduation. Just when she's thinking she wasted her entire ...
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Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century
by
Youssef Daoudi
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/21/2023
On the morning of July 4, 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the...
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
by
Michael Schulman
Harper, 02/21/2023
America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery
by
Margot Douaihy
Gillian Flynn Books/Zando, 02/21/2023
When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans ...
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Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death, and Marriage
by
James Runcie
Bloomsbury Publishing, 02/21/2023
In early 2020, as the world sunk into the pandemic, James Runcie and his wife Marilyn Imrie were going through a different, far more personal tragedy....
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Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
by
Christopher J. Preston
MIT Press, 02/21/2023
The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir
by
Kendrick Perkins
St. Martin's Press, 02/21/2023
Abandoned by his father, then orphaned after the murder of his mother, Perk was raised by his grandparents in a small Texas town. He left their home ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
by
Oksana Masters
Scribner, 02/21/2023
Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine—in the shadow of Chernobyl—seemingly with the world against her. She was born with one kidney, a ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Red Balcony: A Novel
by
Jonathan Wilson
Schocken Books, 02/21/2023
It's 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of...
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The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone (Adapted for Young Readers)
by
Heather McGhee
Delacorte Press, 02/21/2023
The future
can be prosperous for everyone, but only if we address the problems of racial and economic inequality.
McGhee believes that all people, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Woman with the Cure
by
Lynn Cullen
Berkley Books, 02/21/2023
She gave up everything — and changed the world.
In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics
by
Ulf Danielsson
Bellevue Literary Press, 02/21/2023
Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf Danielsson, an ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Writing Retreat: A Novel
by
Julia Bartz
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 02/21/2023
Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
by
Raja Shehadeh
Other Press, 02/21/2023
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
A First Time for Everything
by
Dan Santat
First Second, 02/28/2023
Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a ...
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
by
Simon Garfield
William Morrow, 02/28/2023
The encyclopedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
An Autobiography of Skin: A Novel
by
Lakiesha Carr
Pantheon Books, 02/28/2023
Heat. Fire. Rain so blue. The blackness. The color of our hue.
A middle-aged woman feeds slots at a secret, back-room parlor. A new mother descends...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Black Candle Women: A Novel
by
Diane Marie Brown
Graydon House, 02/28/2023
Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry
by
Kathleen McLaughlin
Atria Books, 02/28/2023
Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin knew she'd found a treatment that worked on her rare autoimmune disorder. She had no idea it had been drawn from the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
by
Sathnam Sanghera
Pantheon Books, 02/28/2023
Empire—whether British or otherwise—informs nearly everything we do. From common thought to our daily routines; from the foundations of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Go as a River: A Novel
by
Shelley Read
Spiegel & Grau, 02/28/2023
Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado—the sole surviving ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Homestead: A Novel
by
Melinda Moustakis
Flatiron Books, 02/28/2023
Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately drawn together. But when they decide to marry, days ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
by
Cristina Rivera Garza
Hogarth Books, 02/28/2023
I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister... . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a ...more
She Is a Haunting
by
Trang Thanh Tran
Bloomsbury YA, 02/28/2023
When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A Novel
by
Shannon Chakraborty
Harper Voyager, 02/28/2023
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Magician's Daughter
by
H. G. Parry
Redhook, 02/28/2023
Off the coast of Ireland sits a legendary island hidden by magic. A place of ruins and ancient trees, sea salt air, and fairy lore, Hy-Brasil is the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Wicked Bargain
by
Gabe Cole Novoa
Random House Books for Younger Readers, 02/28/2023
On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Woman Who Climbed Trees: A Novel
by
Smriti Ravindra
HarperVia, 02/28/2023
"Is this a ghost story?" Meena asked the barber's wife who told the tale. "I don't want to hear scary stories one night before I marry."
"Not all ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories
by
Thomas Mann
Liveright/W.W. Norton, 02/28/2023
A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer―"the ...
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We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
by
Ms. Sally Adee
Hachette Books, 02/28/2023
You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome: the bacterial fauna that populate our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In
We Are ...more
Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
by
Tanya Frank
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/28/2023
One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach―gentle and full of promise―in the grip of what the psychiatrists ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
