Publishing This Week: The Last Chance Library and a Mad Woman in the Supermarket

Publishing This Week

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Among this week's new and notable books is The Last Chance Library by debut novelist Freya Sampson. Twenty-three fortunate BookBrowse members got to read and review it ahead of publication for our First Impressions Program, giving it a very good average rating of 4.4 stars. To quote Library Journal's starred review, "Fans of libraries and heartfelt, humorous women's fiction with a powerful message and a hint of romance won't want to miss this one! It's so good that readers may very well devour it in one sitting."

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”.

The Last Chance Library
by Freya Sampson

Debut Author
On sale Aug 31 from Berkley Books
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.4/5

June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way.

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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
by Hilma Wolitzer

On sale Aug 31 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Short Stories. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout.

You Can Run : A Novel
by Karen Cleveland

On sale Aug 31 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A CIA analyst makes a split-second decision that endangers her country but saves her son - and now she must team up with an investigative journalist she's not sure she can trust in this electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know.

These Toxic Things
by Rachel Howzell Hall

On sale Sep 1 from Thomas & Mercer
Genre: Thrillers. 430 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A dead woman's cherished trinkets become pieces to a terrifying puzzle.

The Sisters of Auschwitz : The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
by Roxane van Iperen

On sale Aug 31 from Harper
Genre: Biography. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured by the Nazis, and ultimately survived the Holocaust.

Fear of a Black Universe : An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
by Stephon Alexander

On sale Aug 31 from Basic Books
Genre: Science & Current Affairs. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this important guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong.

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