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Nicholas Barron
February 27, 2024
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This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Fiction
Thriller
Dark Arena: The Frenchman Returns by Jack Beaumont
Logline: A high-stakes thriller that could be ripped from today's headlines--from the bestselling author of The Frenchman.
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Reviews:
Kirkus
Pile by the Bed
Fantasy
A Fate Inked in Blood: Book One of the Saga of the Unfated by Danielle L. Jensen
Logline: A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king--while fighting her growing desire for his fiery son--in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance duology from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series.
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Prank
Logline: A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this young adult fantasy perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens and House of Salt and Sorrows.
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Romance
The Partner Plot by Kristina Forest
Logline: Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance by Kristina Forest, author of The Neighbor Favor.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Right on Cue by Falon Ballard
Logline: From the beloved author of Just My Type and Lease on Love comes a new romantic comedy in which a former actress-turned-screenwriter finds herself back in the spotlight, only for her romantic lead to be the one man she can't stand.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Historical
The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Logline: A gripping historical novel about a spirited girl who joins a sisterhood working to undermine the Confederates--from the award-winning author of We Cast a Shadow.
Publisher: One World
The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes
Logline: A "beautifully written" (Hilary Mantel) story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renowned 1700s English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Literary
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Logline: A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Logline: An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life.
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Reviews:
Kirkus
The New York Times
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
Logline: For fans of Never Let Me Go and The Giver, an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.
Publisher: Atria Books
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Logline: Anna Quindlen's trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and One True Thing.
Publisher: Random House
This Week’s Hottest 🔥 New Nonfiction
Memoir
Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
Logline: Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.
Publisher: MCD
Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Taffa
Logline: Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition.
Publisher: Harper
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
American Negra: A Memoir by Natasha S. Alford
Logline: Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.
Publisher: Harper
Reviews:
Kirkus
Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm by Emmeline Clein
Logline: A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
Vogue
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson
Logline: A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real.
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Biography
American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by Katie Rogers
Logline: The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden--from a White House correspondent for The New York Times.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano
Logline: A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Reviews:
Kirkus
Publishers Weekly
4Columns
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn
Logline: The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America's greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Technology
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher
Logline: From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Reviews:
The New York Times
Bookish Trivia 🤔
This Week’s Literary Birthdays & Events
February 27
Kenneth Koch
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Steinbeck
February 28
Calum McCann
Stephen Spender
Walter Tevis
February 29
Howard Nemerov
March 1
Richard Wright's Native Son is published (1940)
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Nevada Barr
Jim Crace
Robert Hass
William Dean Howells
Robert Lowell
Richard Wilbur
March 2
Sholem Aleichem
John Jay Chapman
John Howard Finder
Theodor Geisel
John Irving
Peter Straub
Tom Wolfe
March 3
Stephen Budiansky
Ron Chernow
Artur Lundkvist
James Merrill
March 4
Takeo Arishima
Giorgio Bassani
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Katherine Center
Meindert DeJong
William Deverell
Jacques Dupin
James Ellroy
Barbara Newhall Follett
Khaled Hosseini
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Francis King
Enrique Larreta
David Plante
Emilio Prados
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Alan Sillitoe
Thomas Sigismund Stribling
Daniel Woodrell
Richard B. Wright
Johann Rudolf Wyss
See you next week!
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