It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a new batch of book releases! Here are a few of the books out today you should add to your TBR. This is a very small percentage of the new releases this week, though, so stick around until the end for some more Book Riot resources for keeping
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In a powerful confluence of history, culture and color, poet and author Jackie Kay tells the story of the legendary American singer and songwriter Bessie Smith, known in her day as the Empress of the Blues. As an orphaned child, born in 1894 (or 1895; statistics about Black Americans were not considered important enough to
by Robert Greene ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1998 The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter
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Lights out. Can’t get to sleep. My wife’s voice in the darkness: “Tell me a story.” This happens a lot, and every time Wyatt asks me I feel a touch of panic—performance anxiety, I guess you’d call it. Finally I came up with: “Once upon a time, there was, let’s see, a cobbler who made
I chose these 20 must read coming out stories for their uniqueness, the charm of the characters, and the varied experiences that they represent. Coming out is an ephemeral act, because as soon as you’ve told one person, there’s another who doesn’t know yet. And even when you are out to everyone in your life,
When I finally let my mother read Struts & Frets, she called me up and said, “I’m not an alcoholic.” “Mom, it’s fiction,” I said. “Well, I was going to buy a bunch of copies and put them in my waiting room, but I don’t see how I can do that if the mother character
In this thriller, an investigative journalist gets unwittingly caught up in a conspiracy when someone seems to be killing misogynistic Silicon Valley men. Lou McCarthy prides herself on reporting the truth, even if it means exposing a man with power and connections. Her latest article for the Bay Area Herald centers on the CTO of Raum,
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by Suzanne Lang ; illustrated by Max Lang ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 2018 It’s a wonderful day in the jungle, so why’s Jim Panzee so grumpy? When Jim woke up, nothing was right: “The sun was too bright, the sky was too blue, and bananas were too sweet.” Norman the gorilla asks Jim why
I’m a firm believer that books find you at the right time in your life. I put The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk on hold at my library months before it became available to me. And, somehow, I was notified it was ready for download just days before I needed it
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by Anthony Doerr ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 28, 2021 An ancient Greek manuscript connects humanity’s past, present, and future. “Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you” wrote Antonius Diogenes at the end of the first century C.E.—and millennia later, Pulitzer Prize winner Doerr is his fitting heir. Around Diogenes’ manuscript,
On Wednesday, Deadline announced that Sue Grafton’s beloved Alphabet Series, which tragically ended with Y Is for Yesterday after Grafton’s unexpected passing in late 2017, will be adapted for television by A + E Studios. Book-to-screen adaptations, with the rise of streaming service production companies, have certainly grown in popularity, making this a prime property
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by Caroline Adderson ; illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 7, 2020 Sweet Street had just one baker, Monsieur Oliphant, until two new confectionists move in, bringing a sugar rush of competition and customers. First comes “Cookie Concocter par excellence” Mademoiselle Fee and then a pie maker, who opens “the divine Patisserie Clotilde!”
Is keeping up with all of the attacks on intellectual freedom getting tiring? Of course it is. But to keep these conversations going and ignite change, we need to continue bringing up challenges and books being pulled in order to highlight exactly how wide spread and endemic this is. Each of these stories hit the
The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” The Tanzanian author, who now resides in the United Kingdom, is the author of 10
by Junot Díaz ; illustrated by Leo Espinosa ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 13, 2018 A young girl’s homework assignment unravels the history and beauty of her homeland. Lola and her classmates are assigned to draw pictures of their respective origin countries. With excitement, the others begin sharing what they will draw: pyramids, a long canal,