Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the DeadOlga Tokarczuk, trans. from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Riverhead, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-54133-2
Tokarczuk follows her Man Booker International winner Flights with an astounding mystical detective novel. Narrator Janina Duszejko, an English teacher and winter caretaker for a few summer houses in an isolated Polish hamlet near the Czech border, is awakened one night by her neighbor, who... Continue reading »
SmokescreenIris Johansen. Grand Central, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5387-1308-2
Early in this riveting standalone from bestseller Johansen (Vendetta), journalist Jill Cassidy, who has recently returned from Maldara, an African nation torn apart by civil war, arranges to see forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, the heroine of the author’s main series, at Eve’s home in Atlanta.... Continue reading »
A Choir of LiesAlexandra Rowland. Saga, $26.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5344-1283-5
Rowland unleashes formidable skills in this worthy follow-up to 2018’s A Conspiracy of Truths. Heartbroken and disillusioned by his master’s treachery and lies, young storyteller Ylfing wanders the world trying to find peace. Settling in the prosperous market town of Heyrland, Ylfing finds ... Continue reading »
Say You Still Love MeK.A. Tucker. Atria, $17 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3344-2
This nostalgic cross-class romance will hook readers from start to finish. When wealthy 16-year-old Piper Calloway arrives at Camp Wawa in upstate New York, she immediately falls for counselor Kyle, who’s tattooed, mischievous, and gorgeous. Thirteen years later, Piper is preparing to assume leaders... Continue reading »
Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of SpaceflightJonathan Fetter-Vorm. Hill and Wang, $35 (132p) ISBN 978-0-374-90451-7
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is given a gloriously epic and even philosophical treatment in this standout graphic history by Fetter-Vorm. Starting with portraits of Neil Armstrong (terse, cerebral) and Buzz Aldrin (emotive, voluble) as they wrestle the Lunar Module to the moon’s sur... Continue reading »
To the Wren: Collected & New PoemsJane Mead. Alice James, $29.95 (600p) ISBN 978-1-948579-01-8
With lyric candor and emotional precision, Mead (World of Made and Unmade) offers her family history, meditations on loss and madness, and the landscape of California wine country in this collected volume. Bringing together seven collections written over three decades, this book makes room ... Continue reading »
A Reluctant Bride Jody Hedlund. Bethany House, $15.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7642-3295-4
Hedlund (With You Always) opens the Bride Ships series with a lively story about the Victorian class system; the workings of bride ships, which traveled to the English settlement of Vancouver Island; and the place of women in that society. In 1862, Mercy Wilkins lives in the London slums, a... Continue reading »
Blood: A Memoir Allison Moorer. Da Capo, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-306-92268-8
In this beautiful, heart-wrenching memoir, country music singer-songwriter Moorer describes how her life changed at 14 when her father shot her mother and himself dead in their front yard in Mobile, Ala. In lyrical prose, Moorer earnestly confronts an early childhood in the 1970s spent tiptoeing aro... Continue reading »
Hong Kong Food CityTony Tan. Murdoch, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-76052-771-6
Tan, who runs a cooking school in Melbourne, Australia, takes readers on an immersive and wildly informative food tour of Hong Kong. Tan’s artful selection includes recipes for such street-food staples as curry fish balls; popular restaurant items such as prawn toast, Peking duck, and steamed pork a... Continue reading »
The Twentysomething Soul: Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young AdultsTim Clydesdale and Kathleen Garces-Foley. Oxford Univ., $29.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-19-093135-3
Sociologist Clydesdale (The Purposeful Graduate) and religious studies professor Garces-Foley (Crossing the Ethnic Divide) combine their respective expertise in this persuasively argued empirical study of the spiritual beliefs and practices of America’s 42.7 million adults in their... Continue reading »
For Black Girls Like MeMariama J. Lockington. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-30804-9
In this outstanding middle grade debut (told without commas in a mix of narration, letters, and poetry), Lockington (The Lucky Daughter for adults) introduces budding poet Makeda Kirkland, 11, a black girl adopted by a white family. Her cellist father and former violin prodigy mother move t... Continue reading »
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