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Mai Sennaar. Zando/SJP, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-63893-110-2
Sennaar debuts with a remarkable chronicle of a young couple separated by mysterious circumstances and their families’ attempts to forge better lives in the American South and Senegal. In 1969, Bonnie Ndoye, a young African American woman, is pregnant and living in Switzerland with her Senegalese mo... Continue reading »
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Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-56379-6
At the start of Connelly’s unputdownable sixth crime thriller costarring Renée Ballard (after Desert Star), the LAPD detective’s badge and gun are stolen from her car while she’s surfing. In the process of getting them back, she uncovers evidence that an extremist group is planning a terror... Continue reading »
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Nisi Shawl. Rosarium, $14.95 trade paper (164p) ISBN 979-8-9866146-6-3
Shawl (Everfair) wows in this alternate history of the Beat generation told through the diaries of an overlooked Black poet. As a child in the 1940s, Mardou Fox learns she can go “outside”—a dreamlike place beyond reality, ungoverned by space and time—but stifles her ability for fear of mak... Continue reading »
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Kerry Rea. Berkley, $19 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-81564-9
The great outdoors brings peril and passion in this high-octane rom-com from Rea (Lucy on the Wild Side). Emergency room physician Emily Edwards doesn’t like adventure, nature, or taking risks, but she’s determined to visit Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park to spread her father’s ashes a... Continue reading »
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Hanna Harms, trans. from the German by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp. Street Noise, $21.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-951491-36-9
Through elegant yellow and black illustrations, Harms’s powerful English-language debut traces the ecosystems that pollinators inhabit—and exposes the dangers that threaten their existence. A series of overlapping geometric panels shows a single bee’s voyage from a small flower petal to a thriving h... Continue reading »
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Li-Young Lee. Norton, $26 (144p) ISBN 978-0-393-86719-0
Lee’s exhilarating seventh collection (after The Undressing) continues his journey into the sacred. With quicksilver agility, the poet moves between the role of son, father, lover, disciple, and teacher: “Have I said anything you didn’t already know?” A rigorous insistence on apophatic ways... Continue reading »
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Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Revell, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8007-4275-1
In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »
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David Daley. Mariner, $32.50 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-332109-0
In this disturbing exposé, journalist Daley (Ratf**ked) recounts conservatives’ decades-long plan to undermine the Voting Rights Act and disenfranchise people of color. His nearly 10-year investigation—which included interviews with attorneys general, federal judges, Justice Department offi... Continue reading »
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Carolina Gelen. Clarkson Potter, $35 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-58187-2
Foodie influencer Gelen debuts with an eclectic and endlessly appealing collection of recipes for any occasion. Taking inspiration from her experiences working in professional kitchens, she puts a new spin on dozens of classics. For example, she gives chicken nuggets an upgrade with a coconut-panko ... Continue reading »
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Catherine Nixey. Mariner, $32.50 (384p) ISBN 978-0-358-65291-5
In the early days of Christianity, there were many different versions of Christ, according to this scintillating history from journalist Nixey (The Darkening Age). Studying texts that emerged in the centuries after Jesus’s death, Nixey dissects ancient Greco-Roman writings that depict Chris... Continue reading »
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Eoin Colfer, illus. by Steve McCarthy. Candlewick, $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-5362-4066-5
“Everybody in Ireland knows that banshees are supernatural harbingers of doom,” tasked with informing a human about when they will die, begins this moving title. But following a mishap at the moment of meeting, Beanie—a sharp-nosed, green-skinned young “bansheenie” with long black hair—is unable... Continue reading »
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