Publishing This Week: Including Eight Debuts

Publishing This Week

Hello,

Among this coming week’s 17 new and notable books are eight debuts, including two that BookBrowse members reviewed glowingly for our First Impressions Program: Homestead by Melinda Moustakis, set in 1950s Alaska and Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood by Tanya Frank.

Also, Black Candle Woman by Diane Marie Brown about four generations of Black women living under one roof who must reckon with a family curse.

You'll find 10 books below, and full information on all 17 in our New This Week section (under the "New" menu tab).

Our "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists; if you want to look forward in time to see what's coming soon, or back to previous months, check it out! You can sort each month by publication date, genre and title.

Enjoy!

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher

This Week's New and Notable Books

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.

More about how we pick and rate books.

Homestead: A Novel
by Melinda Moustakis

Debut Author
On sale Feb 28 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.4/5

From National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and Flannery O'Connor Award Winner Melinda Moustakis, a debut novel set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders.

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Black Candle Women: A Novel
by Diane Marie Brown

Debut Author
On sale Feb 28 from Graydon House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women living under one roof and the family curse that stems back to a Voodoo shop in 1950s New Orleans.

The Woman Who Climbed Trees: A Novel
by Smriti Ravindra

Debut Author
On sale Feb 28 from HarperVia
Genre: Literary Fiction. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A young bride must leave her life in India behind when she moves to Nepal with her new husband and his family in this incandescent, poignant debut novel which examines the sorrow and deep sense of loss experienced when we abandon our former selves and our dreams.

Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories
by Thomas Mann

On sale Feb 28 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: Short Stories. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann's best stories - including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a century.

Nightbirds
by Kate J. Armstrong

On sale Feb 28 from Nancy Paulsen Books
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In a dazzling new fantasy world full of whispered secrets and political intrigue, the magic of women is outlawed but four girls with unusual powers have the chance to change it all.

The Magician's Daughter
by H. G. Parry

On sale Feb 28 from Redhook
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In the early 1900s, a young woman is caught between two worlds in H. G. Parry's spellbinding tale of miracles, magic, and the adventure of a lifetime.

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
by Simon Garfield

On sale Feb 28 from William Morrow
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the "deliriously clever" (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comes the wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the present day.

Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry
by Kathleen McLaughlin

Debut Author
On sale Feb 28 from Atria Books
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Invisible Kingdom meets Empire of Pain in this explosive and deeply personal account of an underground for-profit medical industry and the American underclass it drains for blood and profit.

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
by Kate Zernike

On sale Feb 28 from Scribner
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixteen female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years—sparking a nationwide reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science.

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