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 Author of Factory Man and Truevine Beth Macy investigates the opioid crisis in Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Little, Brown and Company, 8/7).
The late Hans Rosling, along with co-authors Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund, gives ten reasons why we are wrong about the world around us in Factfulness (Flatiron, 8/3)*. Bill Gates recommends it as “one of the most important books I’ve ever read.” |
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This month we spotlight ten key young adult titles, including:
- Brandy Colbert, Finding Yvonne (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 8/7)
- Somaiya Daud, Mirage (Flatiron Books, 8/28)
- John Feinstein, The Prodigy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 8/28)
- Kit Frick, See All the Stars (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 8/14)
- Zach Hines, Nine (HarperTeen, 8/7)
- Kody Keplinger, That’s Not What Happened* (Scholastic, 8/28)
- Lindsey Klingele, The Truth Lies Here (HarperTeen, 8/21)
- Maggie Lehrman, The Last Best Story (Balzer + Bray, 8/7)
- Gretchen McNeil, #MurderTrending (Freeform, 8/7)
- Linsey Miller, Ruin of Stars (Sourcebooks Fire, 8/28)
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Literary Favorites and Emerging Talents
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Among titles sure to attract attention are:
- Catherine Lacey, Certain American States: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 8/7)
- Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 8/7)
- Talley English, Horse (Knopf, 8/7)
- Kevin Wilson, Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine: Stories (Ecco, 8/7)
- Susan Froderberg, Mysterium (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 8/14)
- Vanessa Hua, A River of Stars (Ballantine Books, 8/14)
- Marina Perezagua, The Story of H (Ecco, 8/14)
- Paula Saunders, The Distance Home (Random House, 8/7)
- Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement (Doubleday, 8/14)
- Olga Tokarczuk, Flights (Riverhead Books, 8/14)
- Koren Zailckas, The Drama Teacher (Crown, 8/7)
 Among the new writers with the most anticipated first works of fiction in the early part of August:
- Caz Frear, Sweet Little Lies (Harper, 8/14)
- Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me (William Morrow, 8/7)
- Ling Ma, Severance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 8/14)
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The big names with new books out in the first half of the month include:
- Dathan Auerbach, Bad Man (Doubleday, 8/7)
- Louise Candlish, Our House* (Berkley, 8/7)
- T. Greenwood, Rust & Stardust (St. Martin’s Press, 8/7)
- Linnea Hartsuyker, The Sea Queen (Harper, 8/14)
- Kristan Higgins, Good Luck With That* (Berkley, 8/7)
- Nuala O’Connor, Becoming Belle (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 8/7)
- James Patterson, Texas Ranger (Little, Brown, 8/13)
- Lori Rader-Day, Under a Dark Sky (William Morrow, 8/7)
- M.J. Rose, Tiffany Blues (Atria Books, 8/7)
- Lisa Scottoline, Feared (St. Martin’s Press, 8/14)
- Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman (Minotaur Books, 8/7)
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Prominent and notable authors with new nonfiction releases:
- J. Reuben Appelman, The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit’s Most Notorious Serial Killer (Gallery Books, 8/14)
- Joshua Cohen, Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction (Random House, 8/14)
- C.J. Chivers, The Fighters (Simon & Schuster, 8/14) –Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist on Americans in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- Arne Duncan, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (Simon & Schuster, 8/7)
- Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History (Atria Books, 8/7)
- William Giraldi, American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring (Liveright, 8/7)
- Astrid Holleeder, Judas: How a Sister’s Testimony Brought Down a Criminal Mastermind (Mullholland, 8/14)
- Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man (Scribner, 8/14)
- Jeanne McCulloch, All Happy Families: A Memoir (Harper Wave, 8/14)
- David Quammen, The Tangled Tree:A Radical New History of Life (Simon & Schuster, 8/14)
- Adrienne Rich, Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry (Norton, 8/14)
- Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling, Brazil: A Biography (FSG, 8/7)
- James L. Swanson, The Great Crime (William Morrow, 8/15)
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