Women Talking: A Novel by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury) was voted BuzzBooks contest winner at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Trade Show in Tacoma, Wash., at the end of September. About 200 punch cards were handed out to attendees who visited seven exhibits for publisher pitches on recent and upcoming titles across several genres. Attendee booth stops were verified with a stamp from the rep. Once all stamps were received, participants then voted for the book they were most excited about recommending to patrons of Northwest libraries and bookstores.
Bloomsbury described the book as "Eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft for a secret meeting to decide their futures." Women Talking will be published April 2, 2019.
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In a year when no Nobel Prize will be given in literature, it's heartening to see that several prize winners in other categories have books available.
Nadia Murad, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is the author of The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State (Tim Duggan Books), originally published here in hardcover last November, now coming out in paperback October 16.
William D. Nordhaus, co-winner of the Nobel in economic sciences, has two timely books: The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World and A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, both published by Yale University Press.