Harlem ShuffleColson Whitehead. Doubleday, $28.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-54513-6
Two-time Pulitzer winner Whitehead (The Nickel Boys) returns with a sizzling heist novel set in civil rights–era Harlem. It’s 1959 and Ray Carney has built an “unlikely kingdom” selling used furniture. A husband, a father, and the son of a man who once worked as muscle for a local crime bos... Continue reading »
Die for MeJesper Stein, trans. from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund. Mirror (IPG, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-912624-19-5
Set in 2008, Stein’s searing second outing for Det. Chief Insp. Axel Steen (after 2018’s Unrest) finds the workaholic Danish homicide cop still obsessed with the unsolved rape and murder case of 18-year-old Marie Schmidt, whose naked body was fished out of a lake in a Copenhagen park in 200... Continue reading »
The Seventh QueenGreta Kelly. Harper Voyager, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-295699-6
Picking up right where The Frozen Crown left off, Kelly’s latest feminist epic fantasy is even better than her debut. After death witch Askia, Queen of Seravesh, witnesses the assassination of her new husband, Emperor Armaan of Vishir, before the marriage is even consummated, she is abducte... Continue reading »
It’s Better This WayDebbie Macomber. Ballantine, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-984818-78-2
Bestseller Macomber (Cottage by the Sea) wows with this heartwarming romance between middle-aged divorcées. Six years after Julia Jones’s divorce from her husband of 31 years, Julia, now approaching her 60th birthday, is “easing into retirement.” She’s sold her interior design business and ... Continue reading »
BubbleJordan Morris, Sarah Morgan, and Tony Cliff. First Second, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-24555-7
Barely ever stopping for a breath, this sci-fi adventure comedy (adapted from the popular podcast) bounds from one escapade to another while keeping up a running satirical patter. The setting is an alien planet where human settlers are divided between cosseted urbanites living in corporate-controlle... Continue reading »
The Essential June JordanJune Jordan, edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller. Copper Canyon, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-55659-620-9
Wide in scope and singular in their articulation of atrocities, Jordan’s poems shine in this thoughtfully curated volume. Ordered so that each era of her work speaks to the next, her poems contemplate war (“What will we do/ when there is nobody left/ to kill?”) on a national, interpersonal, and inte... Continue reading »
Along a Storied TrailAnn H. Gabhart. Revell, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-8007-3721-4
Gabhart (An Appalachian Summer) introduces two strong women who persevere without the help of men in 1930s Appalachia. As a packhorse librarian, Tansy Calhoun delivers books, magazines, and newspapers to townsfolk living across the rugged terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. When Damien Fe... Continue reading »
Did I Say That Out Loud?: Midlife Indignities and How to Survive ThemKristin van Ogtrop. Little, Brown Spark, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-31649-749-7
Van Ogtrop (Just Let Me Lie Down), former editor of Real Simple magazine, takes a humorous look at middle age in this insightful outing. Written “for the woman who has perhaps stopped caring about things,” van Ogtrop’s essays are eminently relatable, covering the dangers of eating ... Continue reading »
The Vegan Meat Cookbook: Meatless Favorites. Made with Plants. Miyoko Schinner. Ten Speed, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-1-984-85888-7
Chef Schinner (The Homemade Vegan Pantry), known as the “Queen of Vegan Cheese,” proves she knows her way around vegan meat as well, in this stellar recipe collection. She notes that despite an increasing number of vegetarians and vegans, meat consumption is on the rise in America. At the s... Continue reading »
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament Terry M. Wildman. IVP, $20 (576p) ISBN 978-0-83081-350-6
In this excellent work, Ojibwe storyteller Wildman (Sign Language) translates the New Testament into the “way of speaking” and worldview of “English-speaking First Nations people of North America.” The result is a stimulating rendering of the life of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) and his Good R... Continue reading »
On the HookFrancisco X. Stork. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-338-69215-0
Throughout Stork’s (Illegal) unflinching, fully fleshed out novel centering a 16-year-old chess aficionado turned reformatory school student, his introspective Mexican American protagonist wrestles with an unimaginable question: “How could he live with himself knowing that he let his brothe... Continue reading »
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