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Olympus, Texas

Stacey Swann

Doubleday

Hardcover

On sale: May 4th

ISBN-13: 9780385545211

$26.95

A bighearted debut with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg

of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever

wink toward classical mythology ("Wildly entertaining" --Richard Russo)

Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead

Alfred A. Knopf

Hardcover

On sale: May 4th

ISBN-13: 9780525656975

$28.95

An unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in

life, at any cost --- Great Circle spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest,

Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles.

There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love

Edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman

Vintage

Trade Paperback

On sale: May 11th

ISBN-13: 9780593314692

$16.95

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the COVID-19 pandemic, the soaring

and essential pieces presented in There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love give voice to the

cleavages that have shaken and uprooted American lives in an era of unthinkable grief.

The Brittanys

Brittany Ackerman

Vintage

Trade Paperback

On sale: June 15th

ISBN-13: 9780593311738

$16.00

Bursting with bittersweet nostalgia, a funny, poignant, perfectly voiced debut that brilliantly

captures what it's like to be a teenage girl.

Songs in Ursa Major

Emma Brodie

Alfred A. Knopf

Hardcover

On sale: June 22nd

ISBN-13: 9780593318621

$26.95

The year is 1969, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid.

Tall and soft-spoken, with eyes blue as stone-washed denim, Jesse Reid’s intricate guitar

riffs and supple baritone are poised to tip from fame to legend with this one headlining

performance. That is, until his motorcycle crashes on the way to the show.

Line imprint/house logo inside red box

Ghosts

Dolly Alderton

Alfred A. Knopf

Hardcover

On sale: August 3rd

ISBN-13: 9780593319857

$27.00

A smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents,

friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says "I love you."


Bloomsbury

Chasing Me to My Grave

Winfred Rembert

Bloomsbury Publishing

Hardcover

On sale: August 17th

ISBN-13: 9781635576597

$30.00

Vivid, confrontational, revelatory and complex, Chasing Me to My Grave is a searing

memoir in prose and painted leather that celebrates Black life and summons readers to

confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American history and society.

Real Estate

Deborah Levy


Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781635572216

$20.00

Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy and literary theory, Real Estate is a

brilliant, compulsively readable finale to Deborah Levy’s living autobiography series.

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

Hilma Wolitzer


Hardcover

On sale: August 31st

ISBN-13: 9781635577624

$26.00

An uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collection of stories from a critically

acclaimed, award-winning “American literary treasure” (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery

--- with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout.

Fight Night

Miriam Toews


Hardcover

On sale: October 5th

ISBN-13: 9781635578171

$24.00

From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate,

darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.

The Least of Us

Sam Quinones


Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781635574357

$28.00

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that

explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of

community repair.

The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak


Hardcover

On sale: November 2nd

ISBN-13: 9781635578591

$27.00

A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal,

from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.

Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

And Other Stories

Blair

Deep Vellum

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Haymarket Books

World Editions

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Foreword by Angela Y. Davis

Haymarket Books

Trade Paperback

On sale: June 1st

ISBN-13: 9781642594553

$19.95

In this stirring and insightful analysis, now updated and expanded, activist and New York

Times contributing writer Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and

contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass

incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle

against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.

Lone Star

Mathilde Walter Clark, Translated by Martin Aitken and K.E. Semmel

Deep Vellum Publishing

Trade Paperback

On sale: June 22nd

ISBN-13: 9781646050635

$17.95

An award-winning cross-continental novel that splices the vast expanse of Texas with a

daughter's desire to reconnect with her aging father.

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

Megan Milks

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Trade Paperback

On sale: September 14th

ISBN-13: 9781952177804

$17.95

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines ‘90s adolescence --- mashing

up girl group series, choose-your-own-adventures, and chronicles of anorexia --- in a queer

and trans coming-of-age tale like no other. An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia,

dysmorphia and dysphoria, this debut novel puzzles through the weird, ever-evasive

questions of growing up

The Gods of Green County

Mary Elizabeth Pope

Blair

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781949467710

$25.95

In 1926 in rural Green County, Arkansas, where cotton and poverty reign, young Coralee

Harper hopes for a family and a place in her community, but when her brother Buddy is

killed by a powerful sheriff, she can’t recover from his death or the injustice of his loss.

When she begins to spot her dead brother around town, she wonders --- is she clairvoyant,

mistaken, or is she losing her mind?

Pity the Beast

Robin McLean

And Other Stories

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781913505141

$24.95

Following in the footsteps of such chroniclers of American absurdity as Cormac McCarthy,

Joy Williams and Charles Portis, Robin McLean’s Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist

Western that pins a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas stretching back to

prehistory, sideways into legend, and off into a lonesome future.


The Tally Stick

Carl Nixon

World Editions

Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9781642860986

$16.99

After being in New Zealand for only five days, the English Chamberlain family vanished

into thin air. Thirty year later, the remains of the eldest Chamberlain child are discovered in

a remote part of the West Coast, showing he lived in the wilderness for four years. Where

is the rest of the family?

Harlequin Trade Publishing

Never Saw Me Coming

Vera Kurian

Park Row Books

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9780778311553

$27.99

Gone Girl meets You! A dynamic debut thriller about a young woman psychopath ---

seeking revenge on a college campus --- who goes from hunter to hunted.

We have advance praise from many booksellers already, and blurbs from Mary Kubica,

Robin Wasserman and many more to come!

The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

Josh Ritter

Hanover Square Press

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781335522535

$27.99

A lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age during the last days of the

lumberjacks, by singer-songwriter Josh Ritter.

This in-house favorite has been compared to the work of Mark Twain and John Irving.

Read this now!

The Matzah Ball

Jean Meltzer

MIRA Books

Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9780778311584

$15.99

What happens when a nice Jewish girl with a secret career as a bestselling Christmas

romance novelist is forced to write a Hanukkah romance?

"The Matzah Ball had me laughing out loud...an all-around terrific read."—Debbie Macomber

Last Girl Ghosted

Lisa Unger

Park Row Books

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9780778311041

$27.99

Think Twice Before You Swipe!

Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this utterly original thriller about an online

dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game, from the Queen of Thriller, Lisa Unger!

Tales from the Cafe

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Hanover Square Press

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781335630988

$19.99

From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a 1-million copy phenomenon in Japan,

and an Indie Next Pick and Library Reads Pick in the US, comes the sequel!

Tales from the Cafe features four new customers taking advantage of Cafe Funiculi

Funicula's time-travelling offer!

Sisters of the Great War

Suzanne Feldman

MIRA Books

Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9780778311225

$16.99

Inspired by real women, this powerful novel tells the story of two unconventional American

sisters who volunteer at the front during World War I.

Illuminating the critical role women played in the Great War, this is a remarkable story of

resilience, sacrifice and the bonds that can never be vanquished.

Hachette Book Group

Miseducated

Brandon P. Fleming

Hachette Books

Hardcover

On sale: June 15th

ISBN-13: 9780306925139

$28.00

An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout

to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate --- all by the age of

27.

The Sweetness of Water

Nathan Harris

Little, Brown and Company

Hardcover

On sale: June 15th

ISBN-13: 9780316461276

$28.00

A profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the

Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever.

The View Was Exhausting

Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta

Grand Central Publishing

Hardcover

On sale: July 6th

ISBN-13: 9781538734902

$27.00

The View Was Exhausting is a funny, wickedly observant modern love story set against the

backdrop of exotic locales and the realities of being a woman of color in a world run by

men.

All the Lonely People

Mike Gayle

Grand Central Publishing

Hardcover

On sale: July 13th

ISBN-13: 9781538720165

$27.00

If you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant

Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on this "warm, funny" novel (Good

Housekeeping).

The Rehearsals

Annette Christie


Hardcover

On sale: July 13th

ISBN-13: 9780316592994

$28.00

Fans of Josie Silver and Rebecca Serle will delight in this romantic debut novel --- that has

a Groundhog Day twist --- about a couple who call off their wedding after a disastrous

rehearsal dinner, only to wake up the next morning trapped in a time loop. Together.

Wildwood Whispers

Willa Reece

Redhook

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9780316591768

$28.00

A heartwarming and quietly moving novel of hope, fate and folk magic unfolds when a

young woman travels to a sleepy southern town in the Appalachian Mountains to bury her

best friend.

The Riviera House

Natasha Lester

Forever

Trade Paperback

On sale: August 31st

ISBN-13: 9781538717318

$15.99

The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Secret weaves a lush and engrossing

novel of World War II inspired by a true story and perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam

Jenoff.

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven

Nathaniel Ian Miller


Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9780316592550

$28.00

Set in the decades between the two World Wars, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is the

captivating story of one man who banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and

is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Punch Me Up to the Gods

Brian Broome


Hardcover

On sale: May 18th

ISBN-13: 9780358439103

$26.00

A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction.

Yes, Daddy

Jonathan Parks-Ramage


Hardcover

On sale: May 18th

ISBN-13: 9780358447719

$25.00

A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is

lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic

Hamptons home where things take a nightmarish turn.

Rachel to the Rescue

Elinor Lipman

Mariner Books

Trade Paperback

On sale: July 13th

ISBN-13: 9780358653257

$15.99

Rachel to the Rescue is a mischievous political satire, with a delightful cast of characters,

from one of America’s funniest novelists.

The Very Nice Box

Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett


Hardcover

On sale: July 6th

ISBN-13: 9780358540113

$25.00

For fans of Elinor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Severance: an offbeat, wryly funny

debut novel that follows an eccentric product engineer who works for a hip furniture

company where sweeping corporate change lands her under the purview of a startlingly

charismatic boss who seems determined to get close to her at all costs.

The Redemption of Bobby Love

Bobby and Cheryl Love, with Lori L. Tharps


Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9780358566052

$28.00

The inspiring, dramatic and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife

of 35-plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on

Humans of New York.

When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky

Margaret Verble


Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9780358554837

$27.00

Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russel in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel

from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble. Set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying

young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must

get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries.

Random House Publishing Group

A Passage North

Anuk Arudpragasam

Hogarth

Hardcover

On sale: July 13th

ISBN-13: 9780593230701

$27.00

In this sweeping sophomore novel from a singular talent, Anuk Arudpragasam’s A Passage North follows a young

man’s journey into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north. The novel opens as Krishan learns of the death of his grandmother’s

caretaker via telephone call. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern

Province for the funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the innermost reaches of a country.

At once a powerful meditation on absence and longing, as well as an unsparing account of the legacy of Sri

Lanka’s 30-year civil war, this journey lays bare the imprints of an island’s past, in what Anthony Marra calls “A

novel of tragic power and uncommon beauty” and Paul Yoon describes as “both an elegy and a love song... a

perfect reading experience.” Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a searing novel of longing, loss

and the legacy of war.

Ghost Forest

Pik-Shuen Fung

One World

Hardcover

On sale: July 13th

ISBN-13: 9780593230961

$26.00

For fans of The Farewell, this graceful and indelible debut about love, grief and family asks:

How do you grieve if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? Told through the perspective of

an unnamed narrator whose father stays in Hong Kong while the rest of the family immigrates

to Canada, Ghost Forest is a slim novel that envelops the reader in joy and sorrow. Fung

writes with a poetic and haunting voice, layering detail and abstraction, weaving memory and

oral history to paint a moving portrait of a Chinese-Canadian astronaut family.

Songbirds

Christy Lefteri

Ballantine Books

Hardcover

On sale: August 3rd

ISBN-13: 9780593238042

$27.00

From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Songbirds is a stunning novel

about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan nanny and how the most vulnerable people find

their voices. Inspired by the real-life disappearance of domestic workers in Cyprus, Christy

Lefteri has crafted a poignant, deeply empathetic narrative of the human stories behind the

headlines. With infinite tenderness and skill, Songbirds offers a triumphant story of the fight

for truth and justice, and of women reclaiming their lost voices.

What’s Done in Darkness

Laura McHugh

Random House

Hardcover

On sale: June 22nd

ISBN-13: 9780399590313

$27.00

Readers of Laura Lippman, Lisa Jewell and Megan Miranda will love Laura McHugh’s new thriller, What’s

Done in Darkness.

Five years after reappearing alongside a highway in a blood-stained dress after being snatched by a masked

man in a cornfield, Sarabeth is struggling to keep her past buried when investigator Nick Farrow calls.

Convinced that her case is connected to the strikingly similar disappearance of another young girl, Farrow

wants Sarabeth’s help, and he’ll do whatever it takes to get it, even if that means dragging her back to the last

place she wants to go --- the hills and hollers of home --- to face her estranged family and all her deepest

fears. In this riveting new novel from Laura McHugh, blood ties and buried secrets draw a young woman back

into the nightmare of her past to save a missing girl, unaware of what awaits her in the darkness.

Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty

Lauren Weisberger

Random House

Hardcover

On sale: May 18th

ISBN-13: 9781984855565

$28.00

New from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons,

Lauren Weisberger.

A seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show. Recognized by millions across the country, an adoring

husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Peyton is that woman. She has it all. Skye, her sister, is a stay-at-home mom

living in a glitzy suburb of New York. She has degrees from all the right schools and can helicopter-parent with the best

of them. But Skye is different from the rest and dreams of a life beyond the PTA and pickup. Max, Peyton’s bright and

quirky 17-year-old daughter, is poised to kiss her fancy private school goodbye and head off to pursue her dreams in film.

She’s waited her entire life for this opportunity.

One little lie. That’s all it takes. For the illusions to crack. For resentments to surface. Suddenly the grass doesn’t look so

green. This book is about sisters…their perfect lives and perfect lies.

Wish You Were Here

Jodi Picoult

Ballantine Books

Hardcover

On sale: November 30th

ISBN-13: 9780593497210

$28.99

#1 bestselling author Jodi Picoult returns with a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the

human spirit in a moment of crisis.

Diana had a schedule for her career and love life, and it was all right on track until a virus that felt

worlds away appeared in New York City and changed everything the night before the trip of a lifetime.

Encouraged to go by her surgical resident boyfriend who has to stay behind, Diana’s dream vacation

in the Galapagos goes awry almost immediately. Stranded until the world opens back up again, Diana

finds herself examining her relationships, her choices and herself — and wondering if when she goes

home, she will have evolved into someone completely different.

© Rainer Hoch 2018

Simon & Schuster

The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris

Atria Books

Hardcover

On sale: June 1st

ISBN-13: 9781982160135

$27.00

The Devil Wears Prada meets Get Out in this thrilling debut about the tension that unfurls

when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City

book publishing. An electric novel for anyone who’s ever felt manipulated or out-

maneuvered at work.

We Are Not Like Them

Christine Pride and Jo Piazza

Atria Books

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781982181031

$27.00

A riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white,

whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event --- a powerful and poignant

exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Perfect

for fans of The Vanishing Half and Leave the World Behind.

The Forest of Vanishing Stars

Kristin Harmel

Gallery Books

Hardcover

On sale: July 6th

ISBN-13: 9781982158934

$28.00

A coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the

wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis --- until a secret from her past

threatens everything.

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

Scribner

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781982168438

$30.00

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See comes a hauntingly

beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship --- of the book, of the Earth, of the

human heart --- and follows children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find

resilience and hope.

T.J. Newman

Falling

Avid Reader Press

Hardcover

On sale: July 6th

ISBN-13: 9781982177881

$28.00

You just boarded a flight to New York. What you don’t know is that 30 minutes before the

flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must

die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the

plane. Enjoy the flight.

The Book of Magic

Alice Hoffman

Simon & Schuster

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781982151485

$27.99

Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a

spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid

characters.

Soho Press

The Bombay Prince

Sujata Massey

Soho Crime

Hardcover

On sale: June 1st

ISBN-13: 9781641291057

$27.95

Bombay’s first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of

a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British

colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installment to the Agatha and Mary

Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay.

Clark and Division

Naomi Hirahara

Soho Crime

Hardcover

On sale: August 3rd

ISBN-13: 9781641292498

$27.95

Set in 1944 Chicago, Edgar Award-winner Naomi Hirahara’s eye-opening and poignant

new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older

sister’s death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released

from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II.

The House of Ashes

Stuart Neville

Soho Crime

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781616957414

$27.95

When a blood-soaked old woman beats on Sara’s door, insisting the house is hers, Sara

begins to understand that her new home has a terrible history her husband never intended for

her to discover. Through the counterpoint voices --- one modern Englishwoman, one Northern

Irish farmgirl speaking from half a century earlier --- Stuart Neville offers a chilling and

gorgeous portrait of violence and resilience in this chilling story of a murder 60 years buried.

Blue-Skinned Gods

SJ Sindu

Soho Press

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781641292429

$26.00

In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy born with blue skin is believed to be the 10th human

incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. Traveling from India to the underground rock scene of

New York City, Blue-Skinned Gods explores ethnic, gender and sexual identities, and

spans continents and faiths, in an expansive and heartfelt look at the need for belief in our

globally interconnected world.

This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing

Jacqueline Winspear

Soho Press

Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9781641292948

$16.95

The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply

personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the face of war and privation. An eye-opening

and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We’ll Be

Laughing chronicles a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability

and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.

Three Hours in Paris

Cara Black

Soho Crime

Trade Paperback

On sale: March 30th

ISBN-13: 9781641292580

$16.95

In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of

Light --- abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. New York Times

bestselling author Cara Black is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life

in this masterful, pulse-pounding story about one young woman with the temerity --- and

drive --- to take on Hitler himself.

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Samira Ahmed

Soho Teen

Trade Paperback

On sale: July 6th

ISBN-13: 9781641292313

$10.99

Discover New York Times bestseller Samira Ahmed’s romantic, sweeping adventure

through the streets of Paris told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, continents

and the lives of two young Muslim women fighting to write their own stories. As one

woman’s long-forgotten life is uncovered, another’s is transformed.

Sourcebooks

All the Little Hopes

Leah Weiss

Sourcebooks Landmark

Trade Paperback

On sale: July 27th

ISBN-13: 9781728232744

$16.99

From the acclaimed author of If the Creek Don’t Rise comes a Southern story of friendship,

mystery, and the complex nature of right and wrong. At a time when girls’ aspirations are

limited, Lucy and Bert seek adventure, searching for mysteries in Riverton, North Carolina.

Their chance arises when the quiet town becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, and the once

gentle place now ripples with tension.

The Last Mona Lisa

Jonathan Santlofer


Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9781728240763

$16.99

What really happened to the Mona Lisa when she disappeared from the Louvre? A gripping

novel exploring the 1911 theft and the present-day underbelly of the art world, The Last Mona

Lisa is a suspenseful tale from a bestselling author whose own replications of iconic art are

highly sought.

In Every Mirror She’s Black

Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström


Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781728240381

$26.99

Three Black women --- a powerhouse executive, a former model and a Somali refugee --- are linked

in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm. Told through the perspectives of

each of the three women, In Every Mirror She’s Black is a fast-paced, richly nuanced, contemporary

social novel that touches on important topics of racism, classism, fetishization and tokenism, and

what it means to be a Black woman navigating a white-dominated society.

Dark Things I Adore

Katie Lattari


Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781728229843

$26.99

Art professor Max Durant arrives at his protégé's remote home to view her graduate thesis

collection. What he doesn't know is that Audra has engineered every aspect of their

weekend together --- because only Audra knows what happened the summer of 1988.

Max’s secret, and the dark things that followed. And even though it won’t be easy, Audra

knows someone must pay.

Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words

Annika Sharma

Sourcebooks Casablanca

Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9781492665403

$14.99

A fresh, smart series featuring besties of Indian descent who find love in the big city. Three

best friends. Three loves. Three cultural explosions waiting to happen. Kiran Mathur knows

how dangerous love can be. Her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family.

So she's decided to redeem romance herself --- by not falling for anyone who might

disappoint her parents. That is, until she meets her new neighbor, Nash Hawthorne...

The Vanished Days

Susanna Kearsley


Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9781492650164

$16.99

The long-awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is

a sweeping story set in Scotland and a companion novel to the bestseller The Winter Sea.

Told in two timelines that interweave the troubled weeks in Edinburgh in 1707 with the tales

of a woman who lived through the Killing Times, a revolution, and Scotland’s loss of a

colony in the Americas.

Ingram Publishing GroupGodine

Keylight Books

Spiegel & Grau

Two Dollar Radio

Night Came with Many Stars

Simon Van Booy

David R. Godine

Hardcover

On sale: June 8th

ISBN-13: 9781567927030

$25.95

In Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol’s daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards.

Award-winning author Simon Van Booy’s spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the

story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change

course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to

a night blessed with light.


Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship

Catherine Raven

Spiegel & Grau

Hardcover

On sale: July 6th

ISBN-13: 9781954118003

$28.00

An unforgettable memoir about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox.

Fox and I is a poignant and remarkable tale of friendship, growth and coping with inevitable

loss --- and of how that loss can be transformed into meaning. It is both a timely tale of

solitude and belonging as well as a timeless story of one woman whose immersion in the

natural world will change the way we view our surroundings --- each tree, weed, flower,

stone or fox.

I Will Die in a Foreign Land

Kalani Pickhart

Two Dollar Radio

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781953387080

$25.00

Kalani Pickhart’s debut novel follows four individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian

winter, as their lives are forever changed by the Euromaidan protests. While unfolding an

especially moving story of quiet beauty and love in a time of terror, I Will Die in a Foreign

Land is an ambitious, intimate and haunting portrait of human perseverance and empathy.


The Secret of Rainy Days

Leslie Hooton

Keylight Books

Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9781684427048

$17.99

Nina Barnes Enloe, "Little Bit," grew up in the shadow of her imposing grandmother and

her best friend Win --- who did, in fact, win at everything. Bit thought she had escaped her

grandmother's grip by starting over in New York City, but an unexpected death takes her

back to the colorful town and people of Erob, Alabama. Bit's world turns upside down as

she faces who she was and learns who she is becoming.

William Morrow

Dream Girl

Laura Lippman

William Morrow

Hardcover

On sale: June 22nd

ISBN-13: 9780062390073

$28.99

Following up on her acclaimed and wildly successful New York Times bestseller Lady in

the Lake, Laura Lippman returns with a dark, complex tale of psychological suspense with

echoes of Misery involving a novelist, incapacitated by injury, who is plagued by

mysterious phone calls.

Island Queen

Vanessa Riley

William Morrow

Hardcover

On sale: July 6th

ISBN-13: 9780063002845

$27.99

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy

Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the

wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies.

Sisters in Arms

Kaia Alderson

William Morrow Paperbacks

Trade Paperback

On sale: August 3rd

ISBN-13: 9780062964588

$16.99

Kaia Alderson’s debut historical fiction novel reveals the untold, true story of the Six Triple

Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps, who made the dangerous

voyage to Europe to ensure American servicemen received word from their loved ones

during World War II.

The Last Checkmate

Gabriella Saab


Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9780063141933

$16.99

Readers of Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s

Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish

resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange

for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice.

All Her Little Secrets

Wanda M. Morris


Trade Paperback


ISBN-13: 9780063082465

$16.99

In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a Black lawyer

who gets in over her head after the sudden death of her boss. A debut perfect for fans of

Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away

with Murder and John Grisham’s The Firm.

The Lost and Found Bookshop

Susan Wiggs


Trade Paperback

On sale: June 1st

ISBN-13: 9780062914118

$16.99

In this thought-provoking, wise and emotionally rich novel, New York Times bestselling

author Susan Wiggs explores the meaning of happiness, trust and faith in oneself as she

asks the question, "If you had to start over, what would you do and who would you be?"

The Exiles

Christina Baker Kline

Custom House

Trade Paperback

On sale: July 6th

ISBN-13: 9780062356338

$16.99

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious,

emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in 19th-

century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and

freedom in a new society.

W. W. Norton

New York, My Village

Uwem Akpan

W. W. Norton & Company

Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9780393881424

$27.95

A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition --- both buoyant comedy and

devastating satire --- by the author of the bestselling story collection Say You’re One of

Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent

history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is

thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in

Manhattan while learning the ins and outs of publishing. Searingly observant about the

myriad ways that tribalism defines life everywhere from the villages of Africa to the villages

within New York City, New York, My Village is nevertheless full of heart, hilarity and hope.

Bewilderment

Richard Powers


Hardcover

On sale: September 21st

ISBN-13: 9780393881141

$27.95

A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times

bestselling author of The Overstory. With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its

tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious

love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’ most intimate and moving novel. At its heart

lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled

planet?

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach


Hardcover


ISBN-13: 9781324001935

$26.95

Join “America’s funniest science writer” (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on

an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and

entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach discovers,

the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of

human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife

biology.

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