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Publishing This Week
Hello,

The week of Labor Day tends to be one of the busiest of the year for publishing. From the plethora of new titles, we've shortlisted 24 to bring to your attention.

Because Gmail and some other email providers truncate long emails, I've included 10 titles below with a link at the bottom to view all 24 on BookBrowse. The week's titles include Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström's debut In Every Mirror She's Black, which we've just started discussing in our book club; and two books our members reviewed for BookBrowse's early reader program, First Impressions: The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet by Maureen Gibbon and Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian.

Also, Sally Rooney's much anticipated third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You; Lauren Groff's Matrix, set in a 12th century abbey; and Colm Toibin's The Magician, about the life of Thomas Mann.

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. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.
In Every Mirror She's Black book jacket
In Every Mirror She's Black: A Novel
by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström

On sale Sep 7 from Sourcebooks
Genre: Novels. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world.

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The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet book jacket
The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet: A Novel
by Maureen Gibbon

On sale Sep 7 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.2/5

A sensual portrait of Manet's last years, and a vibrant testament to the endurance of the artistic spirit.

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Never Saw Me Coming book jacket
Never Saw Me Coming: A Novel
by Vera Kurian

On sale Sep 7 from Prospect Park Books
Genre: Thrillers. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.0/5

Never Saw Me Coming is a dynamic debut thriller about a group of students diagnosed with psychopathy who are being hunted on campus.

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Beautiful World, Where Are You book jacket
Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney

On sale Sep 7 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Novels. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.

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Matrix book jacket
Matrix
by Lauren Groff

On sale Sep 7 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Novels. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.

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The Magician book jacket
The Magician: A Novel
by Colm Toibin

On sale Sep 7 from Scribner
Genre: Historical Fiction. 512 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From one of today's most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga centered on the life of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, spanning a half-century including World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War.

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No Gods, No Monsters book jacket
No Gods, No Monsters: The Convergence Saga #1
by Cadwell Turnbull

On sale Sep 7 from Blackstone Publishing
Genre: Fantasy. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother was shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.

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Beautiful Country book jacket
Beautiful Country: A Memoir
by Qian Julie Wang

Debut Author
On sale Sep 7 from Doubleday
Genre: Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world.

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Poet Warrior book jacket
Poet Warrior
by Joy Harjo

On sale Sep 7 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Memoir. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life.

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Three Girls from Bronzeville book jacket
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
by Dawn Turner

On sale Sep 7 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A "beautiful, tragic, and inspiring" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerful forces at work that allow some to flourish…and others to falter.

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