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Discover 29 new releases this week, including a twist-filled thriller about a devoted mom with a deadly secret.
In Somebody Worth Killing by Jessica Payne, “Payne has managed a smart and fun thriller with a protagonist who makes psychopathy likeable. Readers will be curious about what comes next for Nadia.” (Booklist)
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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There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.
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Somebody Worth Killing
by Jessica Payne
On sale Jun 16 from Berkley Books
Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.2/5
Meet Nadia Davis, a doting mom and loving wife who has a big secret: she's actually an assassin. And she really needs a babysitter who shows up on time.
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Arrivals and Departures: A Novel
by Amanda Eyre Ward
On sale Jun 16 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters comes a witty and wonderful new novel about one unforgettable family and the journeys we take—across oceans and through heartbreak—to find our way back to love.
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As If: A Novel
by Isabel Waidner
On sale Jun 16 from FSG Originals
Genre: Literary Fiction. 192 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Two men meet in an apartment in London. They are strangers to one another, and yet they look remarkably alike.
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Ghost-Eye: A Novel
by Amitav Ghosh
On sale Jun 16 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Past and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a "case of the reincarnation type."
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Good Company: A Novel
by Kate Christensen
On sale Jun 16 from Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From the brilliant Kate Christensen, winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for The Great Man, comes a compelling, searing, funny novel about women, sex, power, and self-reckoning.
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Voyagers: A Novel
by Meg Charlton
Debut Author
On sale Jun 16 from Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
When the Signal—a mysterious transmission pulsing from the edge of the solar system— arrives, the world changes overnight. Planes are grounded, satellites fail, and speculation abounds.
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Self-Help for Serial Killers: A Novel
by Asia Mackay
On sale Jun 16 from Bantam Books
Genre: Thrillers. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
In this rollicking sequel to A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage, two (mostly) reformed serial killers discover something more deadly than murder: living in suburbia.
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Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
by Lauren Hough
On sale Jun 16 from Pantheon Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From The New York Times bestselling author of a Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing comes an update of John Steinbeck's trip in Travels with Charley, a cross-country journey exploring modern America with Lauren Hough's signature observational wit, searing social commentary, and perspective as someone who knows what it's like to truly exist on the margins in this country.
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Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat?and the American Revolution?Transformed Britain
by Danielle Allen
On sale Jun 16 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 464 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
An explosive, deeply revisionist work that reveals how a renegade English Duke and Thomas Paine, the firebrand polemicist, almost brought the American Revolution to Britain.
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Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex
by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland
On sale Jun 16 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The secret sex lives of animals are not so secret anymore, thanks to this brilliant, punchy illustrated guide to how the other 99.99% get it on.
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