New Releases This Week
By Bookshop.org
By Bookshop.org
Awesome Books Out Today
Kick off your October with these great picks, including a unique body-switching novel about partnership and commitment, a helpful guide for communicating professionally under stress, and a sequel from one of the biggest names in historical fiction.
Land of Milk and Honey
C. Pam Zhang
$28.00 $26.04Editor's Pick: C Pam Zhang is back with her sophomore novel following the award-winning How Much of These Hills Is Gold. She continues to explore displacement and privilege in this lush and provocative book, this time following a chef with a mysterious employer in a world where climate change induced food deserts become the new norm.
Lies and Other Love Languages
Sonali Dev
$28.99 $26.96"How do we define love between friends, and how far would we go for that love? Sonali Dev's book peels back one unexpected surprise after another as she blurs the lines between the family we make and the family we are born into, between altruism and selfishness, and between truth and lies." —Jodi Picoult, author of Leaving Time
Devil Makes Three
Ben Fountain
$31.99 $29.75"Ben Fountain's powerfully written novel is many things at once--a spy thriller, a family saga, a love story, a treasure hunt, and a tale of brutal political repression, all set in the charged atmosphere of early 1990s Haiti. By succeeding at all of these, Devil Makes Three reminds us not only of the ways an ambitious, fully engaged novel can further our understanding of the world, but also of how pleasurable and satisfying reading such a novel can be." —Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers
Undiscovered
Gabriela Wiener
$24.00 $22.32"Reading Undiscovered, I wondered what so captivated me about this novel. Was it Gabriela's innate ability to plunder all sorts of convention? Her persistent exploration of our deepest despairs-the weight and falsehoods of the stories and imperatives we inherit? All this, but Undiscovered is also spurred on by a yet more profound and radical strength: the spirit of fury. Powerful and searing, this novel snaps, bucks, heals, and snaps again..." —Samanta Schweblin, author Seven Empty Houses
The Museum of Failures
Thrity Umrigar
$28.00 $26.04"There's no powder keg like a family secret. And when it explodes, nothing in the past is ever as it was, and nothing in the future is ever the same. The Museum of Failures is a symphony of secrets and lies, love and hate, regret and forgiveness, but more than that, the unraveling of everything one holds dear to find something more precious and elusive: oneself. Powerful and engrossing." —Marlon James, author of Moon Witch, Spider King
People Collide
Isle McElroy
$28.99 $26.96"McElroy is sharp on the collaborative failures endemic to love, and the kind of oneness that creates separation. In People Collide, that separation is explored through the body with wonder and frankness." —Raven Leilani, author of Luster
The Unsettled
Ayana Mathis
$29.00 $26.97"The Unsettled crosses generations and landscapes, digs in the Southern soil and walks mean Northern city streets. Expansive and explosive, this beauty of a novel showcases Ayana Mathis's grace on the page, as writer, as storyteller. A book to be read and re-read." —Jesmyn Ward, author of Let Us Descend
Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot
Matt Abrahams
$27.99 $26.03"Matt Abrahams shows us how to overcome the challenges of having to speak unexpectedly. He does so by providing a remarkably helpful and specific set of recommendations, which I certainly plan to follow." —Robert Cialdini, author Influence and Pre-suasion
The Armor of Light
Ken Follett
$38.00 $35.34The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.
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