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| | | November 13, 2017 | Kushner, Ondaatje, Simsion, & More | Barbara's Fiction Picks
Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert
I'm eagerly anticipating Michael Ondaatje's new novel, Warlight, featuring two British teenagers in a troubling situation post–World War II as their parents leave for Singapore. Meanwhile, here are a few surprises: Rachel Kushner shifts to a fierce, tight setting in The Mars Room, Kevin Powers sets his new novel partly during the Civil War in A Shout in the Ruins, and Graeme Simsion joins forces with a coauthor, Anne Buist, to pen a story of love possibly found along the Camino de Santiago in Two Steps Forward. |
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| Chabon, Comey, Gay, Hurston, Russo, Winchester, & More | Barbara's Nonfiction Picks
Lots of amazing nonfiction this month, but here are the biggest titles. James Comey has a memoir forthcoming titled A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. And the never-before-published Barracoon records Zora Neale Hurston's 1927 conversation with the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, who was illegally smuggled from Africa on the final slave ship to arrive in the United States. |
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| Atkins, Griffiths, Indridason, & More | Mystery Previews
Shirley Jackson Award winner Laird Barron leaps into crime fiction with Blood Standard, Barbara Cleverly launches a new series set in 1920s Cambridge, England, with Fall of Angels, and in Elly Griffiths’s The Dark Angel , forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Italy for an assignment. Otherwise, it's business as usual for some mystery greats. |
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| Deadmen, Warriors, & Gods | Fantasy Previews
Fantasy is trending upward, and this month's list is out of this world. Included are big-name authors like Sherrilyn Kenyon and Raymond E. Feist, with Kenyon revisiting the “Deadman’s Cross” series and Feist launching the "Firemane Saga." Also look for retellings like Joanne M. Harris's The Testament of Loki and Danielle Teller's All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother. |
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| Motherhood, Mermen, & Miss Subways | Literary Fiction Previews
Relationships are core: Sheila Heti's Motherhood concerns a woman wondering whether to have a baby, Melissa Broder's The Pisces features a brokenhearted Lucy wondering whether she should fall for a fishy kind of guy, and in Jess Kidd's Mr. Flood’s Last Resort, widower Cathal Flood joins forces with his caretaker to avoid an old age home. All writers to watch. |
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| Key American History Titles | Nonfiction Previews
From Washington's early soldiering in Peter Stark's Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father to Abraham Lincoln's career-defining moment in Dan Abrams & David Fisher's Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency to a deepened portrait of Wendell Wilkie as bipartisan, anti-isolationist, and the first presidential candidate to speak before the NAACP in David Levering Lewis's The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order, here are new insights into American history. |
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| | A Celebration of Fandom-Beloved Stories and Characters
Join Library Journal and School Library Journal for our inaugural LibraryCon Live! We’re excited to offer this day-long virtual festival for book nerds, librarians, and fans of graphic novels, sci-fi, and fantasy. Network online with other fans and explore our virtual exhibit hall where you’ll hear directly from publishers about their newest books and engage in live chats with featured authors. You’ll also learn from librarians and industry insiders on how to plan and host your own Comic Con-style event. |
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