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This week features 25 new titles to explore.
In Henry Tudor Must Die by Jillian Laine, “Readers who cut their teeth on the YA Tudor tale My Lady Jane and fans of magical revenge will enjoy this tale that allows the wives to fight back.” (Booklist, starred review)
Fans of atmospheric literary fiction will be drawn to Tenderness by Rowan Beaird, where a bride's cult past haunts a 1970s island wedding.
And mystery lovers will be drawn to How to Kill a Crime Writer by Sarah Lotz, where a fictional detective helps solve a real murder.
You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and logged in members will find descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section.
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This Week's New and Notable Books
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Tenderness: A Novel
by Rowan Beaird
On sale Jul 21 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 3.6/5
From the beloved author of The Divorcées comes a novel set in the 1970s during an island wedding, where the bride has recently left a sinister cult that might still be trailing her.
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How to Kill a Crime Writer
by Sarah Lotz
On sale Jul 21 from Berkley Books
Genre: Mysteries. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
After the untimely death of her bestselling crime novelist mother, a young woman teams up with the fictional "ghost" of the heroine from her mother's series in order to solve her mother's murder.
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Henry Tudor Must Die
by Jillian Laine
Debut Author
On sale Jul 21 from Berkley Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.1/5
One queen exiled. Another headed for the gallows. Both hungry for revenge. England's most infamous queens unite in vengeance against Henry VIII.
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Dooneen
by Keith Ridgway
On sale Jul 21 from New Directions Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The astonishing Irish literary magician Keith Ridgway pulls from his hat the 21st-century's Great Dublin Novel.
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Give Me Everything You've Got: A Novel
by Imogen Crimp
On sale Jul 21 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Hot to the touch, a seductive modern gothic about a promising young filmmaker at a famous director's summer home.
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The Shadow Step: A Detective Miller Novel
by Mark Billingham
On sale Jul 21 from Atlantic Crime
Genre: Thrillers. 416 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Detective Miller is back and investigating his most perplexing case yet.
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The Talking Bone: A Novel
by Rene Denfeld
On sale Jul 21 from Harper
Genre: Thrillers. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the revered bestselling author, a compulsive, page-turning thriller inspired by her real life work exonerating innocents, a novel that asks how far we'll go in our pursuit of the truth—an emotionally rich, luminously written book about evil and people trying to do good in the world.
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Armor for Liars
by S. E. Grove
On sale Jul 21 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 432 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A brilliant girl risking it all to infiltrate a secret society of enchanters gets unexpected help from one of their victims—now a vengeful spirit—in this historical dark academia novel by New York Times bestselling author S. E. Grove.
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The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory
by Emily Eakin
On sale Jul 21 from Penguin Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 480 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its unlikely domination of American culture.
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The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
by Joseph Kelly
On sale Jul 21 from Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
An eye-opening work of narrative history tracing the roots of American fascism back to the Antebellum South.
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