Books
10 Must-Read New Books Out This Week
Including a Practical Magic sequel and the latest from Gregory Maguire.
by K.W. Colyard
‘Her Name Is Knight’ by Yasmin Angoe
Loyalty Bookstores
Yasmin Angoe’s Her Name Is Knight centers on Nena, an assassin who learns that the man who killed her family and destroyed her village now works as a leader in her organization.
$24.95
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The daughter of a British Grim Reaper and a Japanese Shinigami must move to Japan after she accidentally uses her Shinigami powers in the presence of her fellow Reapers. There, she makes a pact with the Goddess of Death, and agrees to undertake a dangerous quest.
$18.99
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Bethany Ball’s sophomore novel pulls back the curtain on a handful of eccentric families living in the same New England town. Their children all attend the same private school, but their lives couldn’t be any more different.
$27
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Alice Hoffman’s long-awaited sequel to Practical Magic is finally here. The story follows the Owens women, who — after learning that their beloved Aunt Jet has one week to live — travel to their ancestral English home, hoping to find a means of breaking the family curse.
$27.99
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'Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement' by Toufah Jallow and Kim Pittaway
Underground Books
The latest installment in the Eyewitness Memoirs series is Toufah: the story of a young woman who fled Gambia after she was raped by President Yahya Jammeh, and later found the courage to speak out against him.
$16.95
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Wicked fans will love Gregory Maguire’s new novel, which kicks off a series of books about Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain. The Brides of Maracoor follows Rain as she recovers in a community of women on a foreign island, preparing to return to Oz.
$28.99
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In this sequel to the acclaimed Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, the two eponymous lovers take on their senior year of high school.
$19.99
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Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner beams into stores this week with this based-on-a-true-story novel about a young actor — Spiner himself — who’s thrown into a topsy-turvy adventure after a few strange pieces of mail land at his feet.
$27.99
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From author Margaret Verble comes this story about a Cherokee horse-driver working at a haunted zoo in 1920s-era Nashville. After a series of strange events, Two Feathers finds herself pulled into a century-spanning mystery.
$27
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For more than 60 years, Marvel Comics has both shaped and held a mirror to American culture. In All of the Marvels, Douglas Wolk unravels the tangled threads of Marvel’s rich legacy.
$28
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