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 »
Her Last Breath Taylor Adams. Morrow, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-339413-1
This intricate thriller from Adams (The Last Word) kicks off with a daring attempt to rescue a young woman trapped in a remote Washington State cave system known as the Devil’s Staircase. Meanwhile, aging detective Layla Washington of the Stevens County Sheriff’s Department grapples with th... Continue reading »
The People’s LibraryVeronica G. Henry. 47North, $16.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-662520-29-7
Henry (the Scorched Earth series) shows off her impressive gift for worldbuilding in this striking dystopian novel set in the near future. Echo London loves working at Cleveland’s Lewis library. Then her branch is permanently closed and the powers that be appoint her as head librarian at the People’... 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 »
Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s GameC. Thi Nguyen. Penguin Press, $32 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-65565-8
Score-keeping fosters creativity in games, but in real-life institutions it makes for rigid policies and distorts values, according to this trenchant philosophical investigation. University of Utah philosophy professor Nguyen (Games) explores scoring systems in games and sports, from diffic... Continue reading »
The Lucky Egg: Understanding Your Fertility and How to Get Pregnant NowLucky Sekhon. St. Martin’s, $35 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-40871-6
Reproductive endocrinologist Sekhon debuts with an accessible and reassuring manual for navigating fertility treatments. She begins by laying out the basics of the reproductive system—and the many ways it can go awry in women and men—and then dives into contemporary fertility treatments, explaining ... 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 »
Ramadan Rain Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, illus. by Aliaa Betawi. Random House Studio, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-70544-5
A child grapples with “needs and wants and wishes” during Ramadan in this quietly moving picture book from Thompkins-Bigelow and Betawi. As Momma and Haneen take the bus in the rain, the child grumbles, “I miss having a car. I’m getting all wet.” Momma responds, “Duas, or prayers, said on a rainy da... Continue reading »
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