A Girl Called Samson: A Novel
by
Amy Harmon
Lake Union Publishing, 04/01/2023
In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support...
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Literary Fiction
An Appetite for Miracles
by
Laekan Zea Kemp
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 04/04/2023
Danna Mendoza Villarreal's grandfather is slowly losing himself as his memories fade, and Danna's not sure her plan to help him remember through the ...
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Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
by
Robert 'Mack' McCormick
Smithsonian Institution Press, 04/04/2023
When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise...
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Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation
by
Nancy Schoenberger
Harper, 04/04/2023
Ever since Jessica Tandy glided onto the stage in Tennessee Williams's
A Streetcar Named Desire at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1947, Blanche DuBois...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Blood Debts: Blood Debts #1
by
Terry J. Benton-Walker
Tor Teen, 04/04/2023
Gods meddle and magic will betray you, but this time justice will reign.
Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Camp Zero: A Novel
by
Michelle Min Sterling
Atria Books, 04/04/2023
In the far north of Canada sits Camp Zero, an American building project hiding many secrets.
Desperate to help her climate-displaced Korean ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
by
Peter Heather
Knopf, 04/04/2023
In the fourth century AD, a new faith grew out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome and resoundingly defeating a host of other rival belief...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Enter Ghost
by
Isabella Hammad
Grove Press, 04/04/2023
After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine ...
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Forget Me Not
by
Alyson Derrick
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 04/04/2023
What would you do if you forgot the love of your life ever even existed?
Stevie and Nora had a love. A secret, epic, once-in-a-lifetime kind of ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
by
Cherie Dimaline
Tundra Books, 04/04/2023
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave....
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing
by
Dionne Ford
Bold Type Books, 04/04/2023
Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Homecoming: A Novel
by
Kate Morton
Mariner Books, 04/04/2023
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of the grand and mysterious house, a local ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
by
Wendy Dean
Steerforth Press, 04/04/2023
Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve,
If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
Natural Beauty: A Novel
by
Ling Ling Huang
Dutton, 04/04/2023
Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The All-American: A Novel
by
Joe Milan Jr.
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/04/2023
A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
The People Who Report More Stress: Stories
by
Alejandro Varela
Astra House, 04/04/2023
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxieties of people who retreat into themselves while ...
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The Society of Shame
by
Jane Roper
Anchor Books, 04/04/2023
Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband on the front lawn in his underwear. But the...
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The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
by
Chad L. Williams
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/04/2023
When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
by
Rory Carroll
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 04/04/2023
A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
This is Not Miami
by
Fernanda Melchor
New Directions Publishing, 04/04/2023
Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz,
This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories―spiraling from real events―that...
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You Know Her: A Novel
by
Meagan Jennett
MCD, 04/04/2023
Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Thrillers
Debut Author
From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]
by
Craig Santos Perez
Omnidawn Publishing, 04/05/2023
This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
by
Anjan Sundaram
Catapult, 04/11/2023
After ten years of reporting from central Africa for
The New York Times,
Associated Press, and others, Anjan Sundaram finds himself living a quiet ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
by
Benjamin Balint
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/11/2023
The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, ...
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Calling Ukraine: A Novel
by
Johannes Lichtman
Marysue Rucci Books, 04/11/2023
Shortly after his thirtieth birthday, John Turner receives a call from an old college friend who makes him an odd job offer: move to Ukraine to teach ...
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Harvest House
by
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Candlewick Press, 04/11/2023
Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Last House Before the Mountain
by
Monika Helfer
Bloomsbury USA, 04/11/2023
Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Historical Fiction
Debut Author
Life and Other Love Songs
by
Anissa Gray
Berkley Books, 04/11/2023
It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh birthday. At home, his wife ...
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Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader
by
Mark Bowden
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/11/2023
Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David ...
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Pomegranate: A Novel
by
Helen Elaine Lee
Atria Books, 04/11/2023
Ranita Atwater is "getting short."
She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. With ...
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Some Desperate Glory
by
Emily Tesh
Tor Books, 04/11/2023
While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Debut Author
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
by
Jonathan Healey
Knopf, 04/11/2023
The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Dead are Gods
by
Eirinie Carson
Melville House, 04/11/2023
After an unexpected phone call on an early morning in 2018, writer and model Eirinie Carson learned of her best friend Larissa's death. In the wake of...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
The Lioness of Boston: A Novel
by
Emily Franklin
David R. Godine, 04/11/2023
By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, ...
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Literary Fiction
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Novel
by
Paterson Joseph
Henry Holt and Company, 04/11/2023
It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man. Charles Ignatius Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse, and his main ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Essays
Debut Author
This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
by
Daniel Wallace
Algonquin Books, 04/11/2023
If we're lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For acclaimed novelist Daniel Wallace, he had one hero ...
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Throwback
by
Maurene Goo
Zando, 04/11/2023
Moms.
More complicated than an origin story ...
Samantha Kang has always butted heads with her mom. Priscilla is first-generation Korean American...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times
by
Robert Greenfield
Crown, 04/11/2023
True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times is the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those...
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A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England
by
Vanessa Wilkie
Atria Books, 04/18/2023
Alice Spencer was born in 1560 to a family on the rise. Her grandfather had amassed a sizeable estate of fertile grazing land and made a small fortune...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Adelaide: A Novel
by
Genevieve Wheeler
St. Martin's Press, 04/18/2023
In love...
For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes was like a lightning bolt out of the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Alondra
by
Gina Femia
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/18/2023
Sixteen-year-old Alonda loves professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
City of Dreams: A Novel (City, 2)
by
Don Winslow
William Morrow, 04/18/2023
Hollywood.
The city where dreams are made.
On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the ...
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Fire Rush: A Novel
by
Jacqueline Crooks
Viking, 04/18/2023
Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she goes raving with her friends, the "Tombstone Estate gyals," at The Crypt, an underground dub reggae club in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
by
Hadley Freeman
Simon & Schuster, 04/18/2023
In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: "I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????"
...
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Greek Lessons: A Novel
by
Han Kang
Hogarth Books, 04/18/2023
"Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night."
In a classroom ...
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I Kick and I Fly
by
Ruchira Gupta
Scholastic, 04/18/2023
On the outskirts of the Red Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowed time until her father sells her into the sex...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
If We're Being Honest: A Novel
by
Cat Shook
Celadon, 04/18/2023
When Gerry, the beloved Williams patriarch, dies suddenly, his grandchildren flock from across the country to the family home in Eulalia, Georgia. But...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Juno Loves Legs: A Novel
by
Karl Geary
Catapult, 04/18/2023
Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, ...
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Kantika: A Novel
by
Elizabeth Graver
Metropolitan Books, 04/18/2023
A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries,
Kantika—"song" in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of ...
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My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir
by
Vanessa Schneider
Scribner, 04/18/2023
The late French actress Maria Schneider is perhaps best known for playing Jeanne in the provocative film
Last Tango in Paris, directed by Bernardo ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
by
Jonathan Kennedy
Crown, 04/18/2023
According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Debut Author
Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth
by
Megan Nix
Doubleday, 04/18/2023
After a seemingly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second daughter, Anna, was born very small and profoundly deaf. Megan and her husband, Luke, ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Biography/Memoir
Debut Author
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club: A Novel
by
J. Ryan Stradal
Pamela Dorman Books, 04/18/2023
Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother...
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Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
by
David Mas Masumoto
Red Hen Press, 04/18/2023
She then became a "ward" of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years later found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How ...
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Sisters of the Lost Nation
by
Nick Medina
Berkley Books, 04/18/2023
Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino…and for ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Symphony of Secrets: A novel
by
Brendan Slocumb
Anchor Books, 04/18/2023
Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world's preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick ...
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The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
by
Jonathan Rosen
Penguin Press, 04/18/2023
When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
by
Peter Frankopan
Knopf, 04/18/2023
Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Marigold
by
Andrew F. Sullivan
ECW Press, 04/18/2023
The Marigold, a gleaming Toronto condo tower, sits a half-empty promise: a stack of scuffed rental suites and undelivered amenities that crumbles ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
by
Jaime Green
Hanover Square Press, 04/18/2023
One of the most powerful questions humans ask about the cosmos is: Are we alone? While the science behind this inquiry is fascinating, it doesn't ...
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Science, Health and the Environment
Debut Author
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by
David Grann
Doubleday, 04/18/2023
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Weeds: A Novel
by
Katy Simpson Smith
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/18/2023
A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the ...
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Who Cries for the Lost: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
by
C. S. Harris
Berkley Books, 04/18/2023
June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united against him hurtle toward their final reckoning at ...
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Ascension: A Novel
by
Nicholas Binge
Riverhead Books, 04/25/2023
An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
For You and Only You: A Joe Goldberg Novel
by
Caroline Kepnes
Random House, 04/25/2023
Joe Goldberg is ready for a change. Instead of selling books, he's writing them. And he's off to a good start. Glenn Shoddy, an acclaimed literary ...
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Happy Place
by
Emily Henry
Berkley Books, 04/25/2023
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. ...
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Romance
Hungry Ghost
by
Victoria Ying
First Second, 04/25/2023
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, knows that she has been binging and purging for years. ...
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Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
by
Larry Rohter
W.W. Norton & Company, 04/25/2023
Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped ...
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
by
Simon Winchester
Harper, 04/25/2023
With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowledge ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Science, Health and the Environment
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
by
Claire Dederer
Knopf, 04/25/2023
In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral
Paris Review essay, "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
by
Ava Chin
Penguin Press, 04/25/2023
As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family's origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her ...
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Ordinary Notes
by
Christina Sharpe
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 04/25/2023
A singular achievement,
Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248...
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Salvage This World: A Novel
by
Michael Farris Smith
Little Brown & Company, 04/25/2023
There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.
In the hurricane-ravaged ...
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Small Mercies: A Novel
by
Dennis Lehane
Harper, 04/25/2023
In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived ...
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Star Splitter
by
Matthew J. Kirby
Dutton for Young Readers, 04/25/2023
2199. Deep-space exploration is a reality and teleportation is routine. But this time something seems to have gone very, very wrong. Seventeen-year-...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Eden Test: A Novel
by
Adam Sternbergh
Flatiron Books, 04/25/2023
Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed.
Daisy and Craig's marriage is in serious trouble. That's why Daisy has signed up for The Eden Test, a...
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The Gifts: A Novel
by
Liz Hyder
Sourcebooks, 04/25/2023
It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are ...
October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the ...
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The Last Word: A Novel
by
Taylor Adams
William Morrow, 04/25/2023
Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden retriever Laika, house-sitting an old beachfront home on the rainy Washington coast. Her only human ...
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
by
Ned Blackhawk
Yale University Press, 04/25/2023
The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Skin and Its Girl: A Novel
by
Sarah Cypher
Ballantine Books, 04/25/2023
In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
With My Little Eye: A Novel
by
Joshilyn Jackson
William Morrow, 04/25/2023
It started with the letters…
For actress Meribel Mills, disturbing fan mail is part of the price of fame. So when she starts getting creepy ...
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Thrillers
