Books
9 Must-Read New Books Out This Week
Including new books from Jesse Q. Sutanto and Camilla Sten.
by K.W. Colyard
‘Sweep of Stars’ by Maurice Broaddus
Underground Books
Maurice Broaddus launches an all-new Afrofuturist trilogy this week with Sweep of Stars. In this 2121-set space opera, the Muungano empire must fight a war on two fronts, as aggressors both human and alien threaten to destroy them.
$27.99
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Finch Chamberlain should have died, but something saved her. Something ancient. Something deep. And ever since she woke up, she’s been drawn to an elite school on a remote island. But has Finch been called to Ulalume Academy to destroy it from its very roots?
$10.99
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Hannah Gadsby’s 2017 stand-up special, Nanette, took the world by storm when it premiered on Netflix in June 2018. Now, Gadsby’s fans can read all about the comedian’s journey toward writing the show in her new memoir.
$28
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‘Survive the Dome’ by Kosoko Jackson
Mahogany Books
From the author of I’m So (Not) Over You comes this YA thriller about three young people — a rookie journalist, a hacker, and an AWOL soldier — all trapped together when Baltimore’s militarized police force drops a dome over the city to prevent news of civil unrest from escaping.
$18.99
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Teamaker Ning accidentally poisoned her mother and sister. Now, with her mother dead and her sister poised to suffer the same fate, Ning must travel to the capital of the empire, where the princess has promised to bestow a favor upon the best teamaker the land.
$18.99
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One of the year’s best suspense novels, The Resting Place follows Eleanor, a woman with prosopagnosia, as she navigates an increasingly dangerous world in the wake of her grandmother’s murder. Eleanor saw the killer, and reasons it must have been someone she knew... but who?
$27.99
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Meddy Chan’s dream wedding is about to turn into a nightmare. She’s accidentally hired vendors from a mafia family, and they might be planning to whack someone at her wedding! Thankfully, her meddling aunties are ready to save the day, in this follow-up to Dial A for Aunties.
$26
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Jonathan, a trans man, joins up with an interwar polar expedition to kickstart his new life. But when disaster forces the men to stay on land for the remainder of the winter, Jonathan and the rest of the crew find themselves hunted by an unknowable force.
$27
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If you’ve been waiting for the sleeper agent beauty queen book of your dreams, you’ll be thrilled to hear about Monarch. The story follows former pageant queen Jessica, who goes on a hunt for answers when she learns that she was part of an MKUltra offshoot.
$26
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