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Publishing This Week
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This week's 21 notable new books include novels from Jess Row, Jeannette Walls, Victor LaValle, and Colleen Oakley, whose The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise proved a hit with the great majority of the 73 members who reviewed it for BookBrowse's early reader program First Impressions. We also cover seven works of nonfiction and three debut novels.

As always, you'll find brief details on ten books below (if we include more, some email services will cut the message short) and information on all, including early reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu). Our "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists. So, this is the place to be if you want to see what's coming soon or look back to previous months; you can sort each month by publication date, genre and title.

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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.
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise book jacket
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise
by Colleen Oakley


On sale Mar 28 from Berkley Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.3/5

A "wildly surprising, entertaining" (Jodi Picoult) novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman on the run from the law, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island.

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Saints of the Household book jacket
Saints of the Household
by Ari Tison


Debut Author
On sale Mar 28 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer - that will take your breath away.

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The New Earth book jacket
The New Earth: A Novel
by Jess Row


On sale Mar 28 from Ecco
Genre: Literary Fiction. 592 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row

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Hang the Moon book jacket
Hang the Moon: A Novel
by Jeannette Walls


On sale Mar 28 from Scribner
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.

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A Brief History of Living Forever book jacket
A Brief History of Living Forever: A Novel
by Jaroslav Kalfar


On sale Mar 28 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Speculative, Alt. History. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

In this "ingenious, funny, and chilling" novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from the author of Spaceman of Bohemia, two long-lost siblings risk everything to save their mother from oblivion in an authoritarian near-future America obsessed with digital consciousness and eternal life—a story that "packs a walloping punch" (Esquire).

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Spin book jacket
Spin
by Rebecca Caprara


On sale Mar 28 from Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The Song of Achilles and Circe get a sapphic, young adult twist in this gorgeously lush, feminist retelling of the myth of Arachne spun in moving verse.

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White Cat, Black Dog book jacket
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
by Kelly Link


On sale Mar 28 from Random House
Genre: Short Stories. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world, from one of today's finest short story writers—MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble.

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Humanly Possible book jacket
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
by Sarah Bakewell


On sale Mar 28 from Penguin Press
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.

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Weathering book jacket
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
by Dr. Arline T Geronimus


On sale Mar 28 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, "monumental" book (Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning) exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people.

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Birdgirl book jacket
Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future
by Mya-Rose Craig


On sale Mar 28 from Celadon
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet.

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