Publishing This Week: Richard Ford, Elin Hilderbrand, Chris Offutt and Tom Brokaw

Publishing This Week

Hello,

Among this week's 29 new and notable titles are books from Richard Ford, Elin Hilderbrand, Fiona Davis, Dominic Smith, Chris Offutt, Danielle Trussoni and Tom Brokaw. There are also eight debuts including Deborah Willis' Girlfriend on Mars—and we have 30 copies to share as prizes in our current sweepstakes (closing at end of tomorrow, Monday 12).

I've included brief details on 10 titles below, and you'll find more information and on all 29, including early reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu).

The "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, where you can look forward to see what's publishing soon and back to previous months; debuts are indicated by a yellow highlight.

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.

Girlfriend on Mars: A Novel
by Deborah Willis

Debut Author
On sale Jun 13 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a love story of interplanetary proportions.

Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel
by Richard Ford

On sale Jun 13 from Ecco
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature

Loot: A Novel
by Tania James

On sale Jun 13 from Knopf
Genre: Historical Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years. A wildly inventive, irresistible feat of storytelling from a writer at the height of her powers.

Maddalena and the Dark: A Novel
by Julia Fine

On sale Jun 13 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Mexican Gothic, a novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager

Return to Valetto: A Novel
by Dominic Smith

On sale Jun 13 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Historical Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith's Return to Valetto tells of a nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II.

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
by Christian Cooper

On sale Jun 13 from Random House
Genre: Memoir/Nature & Environment. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.

Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
by Rebecca Struthers

On sale Jun 13 from Harper
Genre: History. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An award-winning watchmaker—one of the few practicing the art in the world today—chronicles the invention of time through the centuries-long story of one of mankind's most profound technological achievements: the watch.

The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
by Rachel L. Swarns

On sale Jun 13 from Random House
Genre: History. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

"An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society." —Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth

Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
by David Scheel

Debut Author
On sale Jun 13 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Nature & Environment. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors.

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
by Jennifer Ackerman

On sale Jun 13 from Penguin Press
Genre: Nature & Environment. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls - the most elusive of birds - and why they exert such a hold on human imagination.

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