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| | Several exciting novels have gone around the sun enough to wind up in new paperback editions. Tilt (Scribner) by Emma Pattee features an expectant mother returning home from the labyrinth of an IKEA, after a harrowing earthquake. "Tilt may sound like a nightmare..." our reviewer wrote, "yet Pattee's surprisingly tender portrait of motherhood is enough to buoy even the most fearful reader."
Private Rites (Flatiron Books) by Julia Armfield explores in prose "as mesmerizing as it is cathartic" the existential dread of staying afloat in a drowning world with Shakespearean overtones. And Such a Bad Influence (Quirk Books) by Olivia Muenter delves into the machinations of the influencer economy when a social media star goes missing, for a riveting thriller sure to leave readers' heads spinning.
Read on for even more great recommendations! --Dave Wheeler, senior editor, Shelf Awareness |
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 | | Sheer | | | Vanessa Lawrence |
| | | Thoughtful and provocative, Vanessa Lawrence's propulsive novel examines the dark side of the beauty industry.
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| | The Moon Without Stars | | | Chanel Miller |
| | | Chanel Miller's sophomore middle-grade novel brilliantly discusses popularity in a way that invites in every reader--no matter their (perceived) status.
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| | A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction | | | Elizabeth McCracken |
| | | Longtime writer and teacher Elizabeth McCracken shares a few (okay, 280) insights on writing fiction in this funny, thoughtful, and pithy collection of her observations.
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| | The Heir Apparent | | | Rebecca Armitage |
| | | Loaded with nearly as much drama as the real British royal family, The Heir Apparent introduces readers to a new yet very familiar version of the monarchy.
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| | | | | | Ashley Winstead's gritty, glamorous seventh novel follows the changing fortunes of a rock band struggling to stay together after their manager's death.
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| | | | Among the sturdiest and drollest books in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, First Do No Harm finds the private investigators looking into a murder rap against a Manhattan hospital's morgue assistant.
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| | | | Cameroonian documentary filmmaker Osvalde Lewat's brisk, crisp debut novel tackles disturbing subjects in its excoriating focus on grief, friendship, and injustice.
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| | | | In Departure(s), Julian Barnes writes about an author named Julian Barnes who, at 77, has an incurable form of blood cancer and shares memories of college friends who have reappeared after 40 years.
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| | | | In Ruth Mancini's dexterously plotted second thriller, one Englishwoman accuses another of kidnapping her two-year-old son.
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| | | | Set in the English countryside, this horror-inflected, mordantly funny thriller finds a journalist trying to figure out how a dead influencer appears to have revived an old group chat.
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| | | | Val McDermid offers seductive, lighthearted reflections on her favorite time for thought and memory in this cozy, contemplative handbook written in lyrical prose as crisp as the winter season.
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| | | | Samantha Ellis's insightful memoir explores the joys and complexities of passing on her Iraqi Jewish heritage--and language--to her London-born son.
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| | | | This posthumous memoir-in-essays spins funny stories from volunteer cat and dog rescue work and ponders the special, unexpected friendships such work fosters with animals and people alike.
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| | | | Robert Mgrdich Apelian crafts a heartwarming YA fantasy graphic novel about family, food, and culture that celebrates Armenian and Persian cultures.
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| | | | In this warm and uplifting picture book, a young girl in Makkah shares Zamzam water.
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| | | | This middle-grade picture book is a delightful, educational, and bite-sized celebration of Black hair care throughout history.
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| | |  Poet Mary Oliver lovingly described trees as giving off "such hints of gladness," and today's feature surveys a joyous array of literary works whose deep appreciation for nature showcases the many lessons to be found there, whether through scientific inquiry, historical research, or quiet contemplation. Appreciating our arboreal surroundings can reveal so much more than what meets the eye. (continued)
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| | | |  Historian Daniel Walker Howe, "who sought to dethrone Andrew Jackson as the defining figure of his era of American history, arguing instead for the central importance of technological advances and the rise of journalism and a women's rights movement, among other turning points in the country's early life," died on December 25 at age 88, the New York Times reported.
Howe was best known for his book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007), which won... (continued)
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| |  It might be true that no one would do what the Lamberts have done, as the title of Sophie Hannah's contemporary mystery suggests, but it's equally true that the Lamberts have, in fact, done it. It's just not entirely clear what exactly "it" is, which forms the crux of Hannah's impossibly clever murder mystery as she explores just how far a family might go to protect one of their own.
Detective Connor Chantree is in receipt of... something. A document? A manuscript? A book, perhaps, or a "spruced-up rectangularized heap" of a story he's managed to assemble out of the box of "maimed and defeated pages" he's been sent by an unknown person. Whatever "it" is, it offers new details into the closed case of Tess Gavey, the teen whose autopsy "ruled out any deliberate action," though her death remained something of a mystery even to the detectives assigned to it months earlier.
The rest of No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done is presented within this frame, presumed to be the content of those mysterious pages. (continued) |
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