We are in for a treat with 29 exciting new arrivals, including a witty mystery that pairs a celebrated detective with a fame-seeking assistant in a story full of heart and humor.
The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant by Liza Tully, “succeeds through memorable characters at odds with each other (and sometimes themselves) across generational divides. A solidly entertaining read, especially for lovers of traditional mysteries.” (Kirkus)
You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and 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 World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
by Liza Tully
On sale Jul 8 from Berkley Books
Genre: Mysteries. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.1/5
A great detective's young assistant yearns for glory, but first they have learn to get along in this delightful feel good mystery.
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Slanting Towards the Sea: A Novel
by Lidija Hilje
Debut Author
On sale Jul 8 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Spanning across twenty years and one life-altering summer in Croatia, Slanting Towards the Sea is at once an unforgettable love story and a powerful exploration of what it means to come of age in a country younger than oneself.
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The Rabbit Club: A Novel
by Christopher J. Yates
On sale Jul 8 from Hanover Square Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
The author of Black Chalk, "the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for" (NPR), returns with a mesmerizing new novel about a dangerous secret society at Oxford University, and the first-year Literature student whose life begins to unravel in its shadow.
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These Summer Storms: A Novel
by Sarah MacLean
On sale Jul 8 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms is a razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family's long-overdue reckoning ... and the one week that threatens to tear them apart.
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Vera, or Faith: A Novel
by Gary Shteyngart
On sale Jul 8 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends.
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The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick
by S. Isabelle
On sale Jul 8 from Storytide
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Bridgerton meets The Davenports in this wildly entertaining standalone romance, following a young Black woman trying to balance her independence with her future in 1860s London's high society.
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The Rebel Girls of Rome
by Jordyn Taylor
On sale Jul 8 from HarperCollins Publishers
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
From the author of The Paper Girl of Paris comes Rebel Girls of Rome, a thrilling and heartfelt dual POV novel about Lilah, a girl looking to reconnect with her grandfather over his mysterious past during a trip to Rome, and Bruna, a queer Jewish woman who escapes the Nazis in Italy and joins the resistance during World War II.
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Fools for Love: Stories
by Helen Schulman
On sale Jul 8 from Knopf
Genre: Short Stories. 208 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection—featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes.
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Love Spells Trouble
by Nia Davenport
On sale Jul 8 from Bloomsbury YA
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
You Should See Me in a Crown meets Black girl magic—literally—in this cozy romantasy about a reluctant witch caught up in a faking dating scheme.
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On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports
by Christine Brennan
On sale Jul 8 from Scribner
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 272 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female team-sport athlete in history—by award-winning USA Today columnist and television commentator Christine Brennan.
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