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Discover 24 exciting new titles this week, including a powerful mystery of identity, justice, and haunting secrets.
In The Bone Thief by Vanessa Lillie, "Lillie goes even deeper and darker than she did in the previous installment, folding powerful questions about who gets to write history into a crackling mystery plot." (Publishers Weekly)
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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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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The Bone Thief
by Vanessa Lillie
On sale Oct 28 from Berkley Books
Genre: Thrillers. 368 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 3.7/5
When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town—a place with dark ties to an elite historical society—archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate...from bestselling author Vanessa Lillie.
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Sacrament: A Novel
by Susan Straight
On sale Oct 28 from Counterpoint Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, a captivating new novel about a group of nurses fighting through the first year of a pandemic and the beloved California community they will risk their lives to protect.
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The Devil Is a Southpaw: A Novel
by Brandon Hobson
On sale Oct 28 from Ecco
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances, from the acclaimed writer of The Removed.
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Wreck: A Novel
by Catherine Newman
On sale Oct 28 from Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned.
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The Black Wolf: Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #20
by Louise Penny
On sale Oct 28 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Mysteries. 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.
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An Unlikely Coven: Green Witch Cycle #1
by AM Kvita
Debut Author
On sale Oct 28 from Orbit
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The outcast daughter of a powerful family of witches returns home to New York City and is immediately embroiled in a supernatural power struggle in this wickedly funny fantasy debut from AM Kvita.
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Right Where We Belong
by Farrah Penn
On sale Oct 28 from Viking Books for Younger Readers
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 432 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
Past and present collide in this swoony romance when a girl searching for a sense of belonging may have found it in an unexpected—and undeniably charming—visitor from the nineteenth century.
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The Uncool: A Memoir
by Cameron Crowe
On sale Oct 28 from David Fickling Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 352 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe—one of America's most iconic journalists and filmmakers—revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith's Just Kids with a dash of Moss Hart's Act One. The Uncool is a joyful dispatch from a lost world, the real-life events that became Almost Famous, and a coming-of-age journey filled with characters you won't soon forget.
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The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life
by Amy Bowers Cordalis
On sale Oct 28 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The Yurok Tribe and an Indigenous family share a moving multigenerational story of their fight to undam the Klamath river—the largest river restoration project in history—and save the planet.
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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
by Joseph J. Ellis
On sale Oct 28 from Knopf
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 240 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx: an astounding look at how America's founders—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams—regarded the issue of slavery as they drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A daring and important work that ultimately reckons with the two great failures of America's founding: the failure to end slavery and the failure to avoid Indian removal.
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