Books
10 Must-Read New Books Out This Week
Including new titles from Isabel Allende, John Darnielle, and Gish Jen.
by K.W. Colyard
Bestselling author Isabel Allende returns this week with Violeta, a novel about an elderly woman who tells the story of her life, recounting the effects of disease and war, and the love that grew in the most unlikely places.
$28
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From the author of The Lady Brewer of London and The Locksmith’s Daughter comes The Good Wife of Bath, a new novel that gives a voice to one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most famous characters.
$16.99
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In this debut novel, a magical outcast searches for the secret to a protective spell that will shield her people from a coming war — only to find that it comes at a terrible cost.
$14.99
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A middling true-crime writer gets the gig of a lifetime when he’s hired to investigate the eponymous Devil House, where a Satanic Panic-related double murder occurred decades earlier.
$28
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'D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding' by Chencia C. Higgins
Enda's BOOKtique
For the chance to win $100,000 — and widespread fame — two women fake a relationship for a wedding-themed reality TV show.
$14.99
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Set on the Korean peninsula in the mid-18th century, June Hur’s The Red Palace follows Hyeon, a nobleman’s illegitimate daughter, as she tries to solve a murder mystery and clear her mentor’s name.
$18.99
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This short story collection from the author of The Resisters explores the evolving, complex relationship between the U.S. and China — and how it’s affected citizens of both countries.
$28
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‘Goliath’ by Tochi Onyebuchi
Underground Books
Set in a near-future United States, Tochi Onyebuchi’s Goliath imagines a world where the wealthy have moved to off-world colonies, and taken their homes with them.
$26.99
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In Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka’s adult debut, two estranged writing partners must reunite to pen another novel. Should be easy enough ... as long as they don’t dwell on what drove them apart.
$16
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As a detective searches for the murderer who killed her childhood friend, she finds herself wrestling with memories of their shared past.
$27.99
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