Books

8 Must-Read New Books Out This Week

Including new books from Louise Penny and Kira Jane Buxton.

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The First Sister sequel, Kat Chow’s debut memoir, and more great books are out this week.

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When her overnight journey to Amsterdam goes awry, Hannah is stranded in Paris without her boyfriend or her cell. To make matters worse, she’s stuck with Léo, a prickly Frenchman. But as he shows her around Paris, she begins to suspect that France is where she truly belongs.
$16
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In the long-awaited sequel to 2019’s Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton’s Feral Creatures centers on S.T. and Dennis — a crow and his bloodhound BFF — as they do their best to protect what may be the only hope for humanity’s threatened future.
$28
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Kat Chow’s lauded debut memoir revolves around a handful of untimely deaths in the author’s family — including her older brother, who died a few hours after birth, and her mother, who died of cancer when Chow was 13 years old.
$28
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It’s every mother’s worst nightmare. Whitney arrives to pick her teenage daughter up from a sleepover, only to discover that no one in the house knows Amelia or her friends. Racing against the clock, she’ll have to dig into Amelia’s secret double life if she wants to find her.
$16.99
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Talking to the dead is a lucrative business. Katrell needs the money, so why should she heed the warnings of one ornery doomsayer of a ghost? Maybe because she’s about to raise a little hell...
$17.98
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Linden A. Lewis’ follow-up to The First Sister is The Second Rebel. As Astrid works behind enemy lines to dismantle an oppressive sect, her allies navigate their own webs of intrigue in this stunning sci-fi novel.
$27
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In The Madness of Crowds, the leading homicide detective in Québec finds himself tasked with protecting a problematic professor. But when he encourages the local university to cancel her speaking engagement, he comes under fire from her enthusiastic followers.
$28.99
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In the wake of her mother’s death, Edie, the teenage heir to a witchy legacy, goes on a scavenger hunt — seeking out tiny treasures, each of which once belonged to her mother and now holds dear memories of the woman she lost... and glimpses of the woman she may yet become.
$18.99
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