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This week's hottest 🔥 new books, writer birthdays, and more.
Nicholas Barron
April 30, 2024
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This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Fiction
Mystery & Thriller
Granite Harbor by Pete Nichols
Logline: A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Peter Nichols, bestselling author of The Rocks
Publisher: Celadon Books
Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
Logline: Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Romance
Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner
Logline: Recommended by The TODAY Show, this "story of love, healing, and second chances " (Emily Henry) from an award-winning author follows a down on his luck country musician who, in the throes of grief after a shocking loss, moves back home and rekindles a relationship with his high school sweetheart.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Happy Medium by Sarah Adler
Logline: A clever con woman must convince a skeptical, sexy farmer of his property's resident real-life ghost if she's to save them all from a fate worse than death in this delightful new novel from the author of Mrs. Nash's Ashes.
Publisher: Berkley Books
The Roads We Follow by Nichole Reese
Logline: A cross-country road trip. A secretive box of journals. An unforgettable summer romance.
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Reviews:
Debb Hackett
GoodeyReads
In Universes by Emet North
Logline: For fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a profoundly imaginative debut novel set in numerous universes, which follows a queer physicist's search for belonging across time and space.
Publisher: Harper
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Locus
Karenika
Historical
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
Logline: The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the "captivating, richly drawn" (Woman's World) The Paris Library returns with a brilliant new novel based on the true story of Jessie Carson--the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France.
Publisher: Atria Books
The Order of the Furies: 1795 by Niklas Natt Och Dag
Logline: The spellbinding and eerie finale to the #1 internationally bestselling "cerebral, immersive" (The Washington Post) historical trilogy follows two unlikely allies as they struggle to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm.
Publisher: Atria Books
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly
Literary
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Logline: From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
Mean Boys: A Personal History by Geoffrey Mak
Logline: A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed present.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn
Logline: A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights.
Publisher: Heyday Books
Reviews:
No reviews available
A Life Impossible: Living with Als: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence by Steve Gleason with Jeff Duncan
Logline: From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Reviews:
Kirkus
New York Journal of Books
Biography
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby
Logline: The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history--until now.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
History
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
Logline: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War--a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code by Jason Bell
Logline: The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis, and the first spy to crack Hitler's deadliest secret code: the framework of the Final Solution.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Foreign Affairs
Health
ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD by Kim Holderness and Penn Holderness
Logline: The engaging, uplifting antidote to traditional ADHD books (which, let's be honest, if you have ADHD you'd never read anyway).
Publisher: Harper Horizon
Reviews:
No reviews available
Bookish Trivia 🤔
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
April 30
Jeroen Brouwers
Jaroslav Hašek
Hugh Hood
Erni Krusten
Larry Niven
John Crowe Ransom
May 1
Sterling Allen Brown
Joseph Heller
May 2
Gottfried Benn
Martha Grimes
Jerome K. Jerome
May 3
Margaret Mitchell wins a Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind (1937)
Juan Gelman
May Sarton
Dodie Smith
May 4
Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is published (1948)
George Cooper
Richard Graves
David Guterson
Richard Hovey
Nick Joaquin
Thomas Kinsella
Amos Oz
Graham Swift
Gillian Tindall
May 5
The first published John Keats poem, "O Solitude," appears (1816)
Nellie Bly
Charles Exbrayat
Bret Harte
Ervin Lázár
Leo Lionni
Helen Maud Merrill
Christopher Morley
Miklós Radnóti
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Scott Westerfeld
May 6
John Steinbeck wins a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Guy des Cars
Jeffery Deaver
Ariel Dorfman
Erich Fried
Harry Golden
Ingrid Jonach
Gaston Leroux
Alain-René Lesage
Harry Martinson
Frank Dempster Sherman
See you next week!
