This week in picks: fiction dominates, from Italian import Divorce Islamic Style by Amara Lakhous to Owen Laukkanen’s buzzed-about thriller The Professionals (which has been garnering comparisons to Scott Smith’s A Simple Plan) to the historical-scifi-freakout of Liminal States by Zack Parsons (see our Q&A) to Tessa Dare’s latest mass market romance A Week to Be Wicked (see our other Q&A)—and much more. In nonfiction, TV news pundit Rachel Maddow releases her first book and Diana L. Eck investigates the sacred geography of India. And for kids, there’s The False Prince, fantasy from Jennifer A. Nielsen, dystopian adventure After the Snow from S.D. Crockett, contemporary paranormal Slide from Jill Hathaway, and a stirring account of the Titanic disaster from Deborah Hopkinson. Plus: a dragon in the library. And more!
Adults
March 27
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow (Crown, $25; ISBN 978-0-307-46098-1).
India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L. Eck (Harmony, $27; ISBN 978-0-385-53190-0).
Pocket Kings by Ted Heller (Algonquin, $13.95; ISBN 978-1-56512-620-6).
Divorce Islamic Style by Amara Lakhous, trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Europa, Penguin dist., $15; ISBN 978-1-60945-066-3).
Hemlock Grove by Brian McGreevy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15; ISBN 978-0-374-53291-8).
The Truth of All Things by Kieran Shields (Crown, $25; ISBN 978-0-307-72027-6).
Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, trans. from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton (Minotaur, $14.99; ISBN 978-0-312-64174-0).
Games Traitors Play by Jon Stock (St. Martin's/Dunne, $25.99; ISBN 978-0-312-64477-2).
Three A.M. by Steven John (Tor, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-7653-3116-8).
A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare (Avon, $7.99; ISBN 978-0-06-204987-2).
March 29
The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen (Putnam, $25.95; ISBN 978-0-399-15789-9).
April 1
Imperial Scandal by Teresa Grant (Kensington, $15; ISBN 978-0-7582-5424-5).
Western Avenue and Other Fictions by Fred Arroyo (Univ. of Arizona, $15.95; ISBN 978-0-8165-0233-2).
Liminal States by Zack Parsons (Kensington/Citadel, $14.95; ISBN 978-0-8065-3364-3).
Children’s/YA
March 27
Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child (Candlewick, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-7636-5120-6).
After the Snow by S.D. Crockett (Feiwel and Friends, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-312-64169-6).
Slide by Jill Hathaway (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-207790-5).
Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-59643-397-7).
April 1
The Library Dragon by Carmen Agra Deedy (Peachtree Publishers, $16.95; ISBN 978-1-56145-091-6).
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-545-28413-4).
Titanic: Voices From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson (Scholastic, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-545-11674-9).
The List by Siobhan Vivian (Scholastic/Push, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-545-16917-2).
