This Book Made Me Think of YouLibby Page. Berkley, $30 (416p) ISBN 979-8-217-18699-0
This painfully beautiful story of love and loss from Page (Mornings with Rosemary) is an emotional tour de force. Six months after her American husband Joe Carter’s death from cancer, London book editor Matilda “Tilly” Nightingale copes by throwing herself into her work. She then receives a... Continue reading »
The Politician: A DS Cross ThrillerTim Sullivan. Atlantic Crime, $17 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6773-6
Sullivan’s triumphant fourth whodunit featuring George Cross of the Avon and Somerset police (after The Patient) finds the neurodivergent sleuth investigating the suspicious death of an ex-mayor. Cross is called in after Peggy Frampton, the former mayor of Bristol, is found bludgeoned to de... Continue reading »
Wolf WormT. Kingfisher. Nightfire, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-25082-982-5
Hugo and Nebula award winner Kingfisher (Snake-Eater) adds a heaping helping of David Cronenberg’s style to her signature blend of humor and horror in this striking Southern gothic set in 1885. Illustrator Sonia Wilson once worked with her naturalist father, but after his death, she ekes ou... Continue reading »
How to Kill a Guy in Ten DatesShailee Thompson. Gallery, $18 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-6682-0671-3
Like a rom-com twist on Scream, debut author Thompson’s unputdownable slasher-romance mash-up gets a meta edge from protagonist Jamie Prescott’s passion for both genres. Jamie, a grad student at work on a thesis about the similarities between horror films and rom-coms, attends a speed datin... 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 »
Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About WomenSarah Ruden. Liveright, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-324-07590-5
St. Augustine’s advocacy of celibacy to avoid the dangers of female sexuality and Charles Dickens’s cautioning against putting off marriage for economic reasons are among the questionable pieces of literary advice about women on offer in this expansive study. Classicist Ruden (Perpetua) sur... 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 »
The Queen’s GranddaughterDiane Zahler. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-36311-4
A precocious princess must contend with ethical and physical peril in this immersive historical adventure from Zahler (Wild Bird). Twelve-year-old Princess Blanca prefers playing with her best friend Suna, whose hearing was impaired by a childhood illness, to devoting herself to her royal s... Continue reading »
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