NEW BOOK TIME! There are GREAT new books out today, including Supernova, the sequel to Lightless, which I am SOOOOO excited about. (Run, don’t walk, to Lightless if you haven’t read it yet!) And on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about some more great new releases out today, such as The Unseen World, Good as Gone, and Gemini.
This week’s newsletter is sponsored by Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble.
Now in paperback, this Pulitzer Prize finalist chronicles the life and loves of a headstrong and magnetic heroine and belongs on shelves alongside Jim Harrison and Sherman Alexie.
Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Maud Nail lives on an allotment parceled out by the U.S. Government to the Cherokees. Maud’s days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures but often marked by violence and tragedy. Her prospects for a better life are slim, but when a book-peddler shows up at her door, she finds herself facing a series of high-stakes decisions that will determine her future and those of her loved ones.
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
Katie and Eric Knox have devoted their whole lives to helping their gymnast daughter, Devon, achieve her dreams of making the Olympics, even if it has meant giving up their own dreams. But when a violent death rocks their small community, they are about to learn they may not know their neighbors – or each other – as well as they thought they did. We are in the age of the always-amazing Abbott. Her books are contemporary tales of family and society with delightfully nasty twists and turns. And you can expect to see a couple of them on the screen in the coming years!
Backlist bump: Dare Me by Megan Abbott
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniels
The inhabitants of Breathed, Ohio are experiencing a summer heatwave like the town has never seen before. So it only makes sense that the devil would find it a great place to live. He shows up in the guise of Sal, a thirteen-year-old boy who claims he was invited there by someone in town. The son of a local prosecutor takes him home, suspecting he’s just a troubled runaway. But when word gets out that the devil may be in Breathed, tensions and temperatures will rise, and soon the town will find itself enveloped in full-blown hysteria. A fantastic Jackson-esque debut about rumors, fears, and beliefs.
Backlist bump: The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell
Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott
Now in paperback: A group of unusual tenants in a Brooklyn brownstone have been living quiet lives together, each dealing with their own problems and pains, but when their kind elderly landlord’s mental capacity begins to weaken, the tenants are faced with eviction when her greedy estranged son takes over the building. They have always found solace in each other, but now must decide what they will do back out in a world that has always treated them cruelly. It’s a beautiful story of living on the outside of society and what it means to choose your own family. (Also, does the cover make anyone else want to play Q-bert? No? Just me?)
Backlist bump: The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets by Kathleen Alcott
YAY, BOOKS! That’s it for me. If you want to learn more about books (and see lots of pictures of my cats), or tell me about books you’re reading, you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
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Liberty