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Publishing This Week
Hello,

This week brings a dozen new and notable books for your reading pleasure, including The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson which some of our members reviewed for BookBrowse's early reader program, First Impressions, rating it a stellar 4.7 stars.

There's also a new Paula McLain novel, The Stars Go Dark, which I think is her most contemporary tale to date, and a mystery to boot, set in the Northern Californian town of Mendocino in 1993.

Enjoy!

Davina Morgan-Witts, Editor

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 Funny Thing About Norman Foreman: A Novel
by Julietta Henderson

Debut Author
On sale Apr 13 from Mira
Genre: Novels. 416 pages
Members' Rating: 4.7/5
 
Julietta Henderson's delightfully charming, tender and uplifting debut takes us on a road trip with a mother and son who will live in the reader's heart for a long time to come, and teaches us that--no matter the odds--we must always reach for the stars.

Early Morning Riser
by Katherine Heiny

On sale Apr 13 from Knopf
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family.

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Little Pieces of Me
by Alison Hammer

On sale Apr 13 from William Morrow
Genre: Novels. 400 pages
 
Following her acclaimed debut novel, You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer offers a deeply moving story of family and identity. When a DNA test reveals a long-buried secret, a woman must look to the past to understand her mother and herself.

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What Comes After
by JoAnne Tompkins

Debut Author
On sale Apr 13 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Novels. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of those same boys' families - a moving and hopeful novel about forgiveness and human connection.

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The Souvenir Museum
by Elizabeth McCracken

On sale Apr 13 from Ecco
Genre: Short Stories. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date.

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Lady Joker, Volume 1
by Kaoru Takamura

Debut Author
On sale Apr 13 from Soho Crime
Genre: Mysteries. 600 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
One of Japan's great modern masters, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with this two-volume publication of her magnum opus.

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In the Company of Killers
by Bryan Christy

Debut Author
On sale Apr 13 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Thrillers. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
In this intricate and propulsive thriller--from National Geographic's founder of Special Investigations--Tom Klay an investigative reporter leading a double life as a CIA spy, discovers that he has been weaponized in a global game of espionage pitting him against one of the world's most ruthless men.

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One Got Away: Nikki Griffin #2
by S. A. Lelchuk

On sale Apr 13 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Thrillers. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
PI Nikki Griffin – a badass bookseller who punishes abusers – is back in S. A. Lelchuk's One Got Away…

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The Good Sister
by Sally Hepworth

On sale Apr 13 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law, delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister.

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When the Stars Go Dark
by Paula McLain

On sale Apr 13 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Thrillers. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined destinies and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal?

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Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
by Guido Tonelli

Debut Author
On sale Apr 13 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Science. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
 
A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life - drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos.

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Sensational: The Hidden History of America's
by Kim Todd

On sale Apr 13 from Harper
Genre: History. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
 
A vivid social history that brings to light the "girl stunt reporters" of the Gilded Age who went undercover to expose corruption and abuse in America, and redefined what it meant to be a woman and a journalist—pioneers whose influence continues to be felt today.

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