Mothers and Other StrangersCorey Ann Haydu. Little, Brown, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-59747-0
Haydu’s wonderful adult debut (after the middle grade fantasy One Jar of Magic) explores the interwoven lives of two families. After free-spirited Joni Dyer moves from Manhattan to suburban Sommersette, Mass., with her husband and their three-year-old daughter, Mae, she becomes best friends... Continue reading »
A Lie for a LieRen DeStefano. Berkley, $19 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-43834-3
A suburban homemaker who moonlights as a vigilante falls for one of her targets in this pulse-pounding thriller from DeStefano (How I’ll Kill You). Margaux Blue leads a glittering life in Connecticut as an interior decorator, wife to book editor Waylen, and mother to preteen Collette. For y... Continue reading »
To Ride a Rising StormMoniquill Blackgoose. Del Rey, $20 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-593-49830-9
The smart and exciting sequel to Blackgoose’s Nebula Award–winning debut, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, digs into the colonialism and classism of magic academy and dragon rider tropes. Indigenous heroine Anequs’s Naquisit community on the island of Masquapaug faces increased surveillance from... Continue reading »
The Night We MetAbby Jimenez. Forever, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5922-6
Bestseller Jimenez (Say You’ll Remember Me) puts a Cyrano de Bergerac twist on a friends-to-lovers relationship in this sparkling contemporary. Best friends Chris and Mike met beautiful and plucky Larissa at a concert and she and Mike started dating. Two months later, pharmacist Ch... Continue reading »
A Brief History of a Long War: Ukraine’s Fight Against Russian DominationMiriam Naiem, Yulia Vus, and Ivan Kypibid. Ten Speed Graphic, $19.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-593-84015-3
The informative and inspiring graphic nonfiction debut by Ukrainian researcher and podcaster Naiem assumes that most readers outside Ukraine know little of its history. In a framing device, a woman named Vika takes shelter from bomb blasts and finds solidarity with her fellow evacuees. From there, N... Continue reading »
Bakandamiya Saddiq Dzukogi. Univ. of Nebraska, $18.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-4962-4427-7
The masterful second collection from Dzukogi (Your Crib, My Qibla) draws on the mythic and poetic traditions of northern Nigeria for a lyrical reimagining of the legend of Bayajidda, a prince whose exile from Baghdad leads to his founding of the Hausa States in what is today Nigeria’s predo... Continue reading »
The Long March HomeMarcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Revell, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8007-4275-1
In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »
Judy Blume: A LifeMark Oppenheimer. Putnam, $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-593-71444-7
Journalist Oppenheimer (Squirrel Hill) contends in this impressive biography that Judy Blume “rewired the English-speaking world’s expectations of what literature for young people could be.” Born into a progressive, Jewish family in New Jersey in 1938, Blume followed a traditional path to c... Continue reading »
99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid ThemAshely Alker. St. Martin’s, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-35964-3
Emergency medicine doctor Alker (Goodnight Grandma Angel) explores in this witty yet indispensable guide 99 of the “most terrifying, interesting, and unfortunate ways to die.” Drawing on her experience as a “board-certified death escapologist,” Alker assumes the role of a medical translator... Continue reading »
Light for the Way: Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a Broken WorldEdited by Rose Marie Berger. Broadleaf, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 979-8-88983-541-7
These stimulating essays and interviews from the first 50 years of Sojourners magazine, collected by poetry editor Berger (Who Killed Donte Manning?), seek “sabbath rest, contemplation, solitude, simplicity, and communal resilience” in today’s world. Franciscan priest Richard Rohr ... Continue reading »
Navigating NightJulie Leung, illus. by Angie Kang. Random House/Schwartz, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-593-89769-0
In a touching familial picture book from Leung (The Truth About Dragons) and Kang (Our Lake), a rainy evening sees a child considering two nighttime journeys—one past and one present. In a pre-GPS era, an unnamed narrator dutifully navigates their father’s takeout delivery route wi... Continue reading »
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