'Hope Is Our Only Wing' Tackles Tough Issues With Straightforward Style September 22, 2019 • Rutendo Tavengerwei's YA debut is a glimpse into the lives of two struggling teens: Shamiso, who moves to Zimbabwe after her father dies in a suspicious car accident, and cancer survivor Tanyaradzwa.
First Second Kick Off Fall With This Trio Of Innovative YA Graphic Novels September 22, 2019 • This month sees the arrival of a handful of bold new graphic novels aimed at young adult readers, with unexpected topics and settings from a contemporary Chinese American community to the Old West.
A Stitch In Time Saves A Life In 'A Single Thread' September 21, 2019 • Tracy Chevalier's new novel follows a woman left alone after her fiance and brother died in World War I. She decides to make her mark on the world by joining a guild of embroiderers at a cathedral.
'A Cosmology Of Monsters' Blends Freaky Frights And Family Feels September 21, 2019 • Shaun Hamill's new novel uses the lens of horror to examine the ways we interact and fail to interact with each other, and the way a family can be held together by the very things that tear it apart.
'They Will Have To Die Now' Is A Bare-Knuckles Account Of The Fight Against ISIS September 20, 2019 • James Verini's book will stand up with some of the best war reporting, as he takes an unblinking look at the dirtiest kind of battle — urban combat — and the human wreckage it leaves in its wake.
Take A Dark Ride On The 'Night Boat To Tangier' September 20, 2019 • In Kevin Barry's grim but compassionate new novel, two weary Irish ex-crooks sit waiting in a run-down Spanish ferry terminal, waiting for one man's estranged daughter who may or may not show up.
'Heaven, My Home' Is A Complicated Place September 20, 2019 • Attica Locke returns to the world of Highway 59 in Heaven, My Home, which finds Texas Ranger Darren Mathews dealing with the disappearance of the young son of an imprisoned white supremacist leader.
'Coventry' Touches On Gender, Self-Definition In Taking Control Of One's Narrative September 19, 2019 • In her first essay collection, Rachel Cusk writes like someone who has been burned and has reacted not with self-censorship but with a doubling-down on clarity.
In 'Doxology,' The Comedy Is Never Quite In Tune September 19, 2019 • Nell Zink is a very funny writer, but the comedy never quite works in her new novel, which follows two aging punks and their daughter, from the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the '80s to D.C. today.
In 'Savage Gods,' An Author Finds That Pondering Being Leads To An Inability To Write September 18, 2019 • Paul Kingsnorth moved to a small farm in Ireland to be closer to the land and to reconnect with the essence of being. Instead of contentment, he found that it was tough to find meaning in writing.
'Red At The Bone' Cuts Close To The Bone September 17, 2019 • Jacqueline Woodson's exquisitely wrought new novel follows two black families of different classes whose lives become intertwined when their only children conceive a child together in their teens.
'The Undying' Catalogs The Unceasing Losses Of A Breast Cancer Diagnosis September 17, 2019 • Arriving the year before an election that could set healthcare and disability policy for decades, Anne Boyer's memoir warns us of the human costs of any system that prioritizes profit over lives.
In 'Wildhood,' Scientists See Similarities In Adolescent Humans And Other Animals September 16, 2019 • Understanding the lives of animals can illuminate our own — and those of loved adolescents too. But authors Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers at times push cross-species links too far.
3 Crackling Young Adult Reads To Welcome Fall September 16, 2019 • Time to put down the beach reads and pick up some substantive, immersive new young adult books — from a monstrous fantasy, to a refugee's tale, to a story that brings new meaning to haunted houses.
'Homesick' Is A Boundary-Expanding Story Of Devotion And Growing Up September 15, 2019 • Accomplished translator Jennifer Croft's first non-translated work is a hybrid, mixing photography and impressionistic autobiographical writing to tell the story of Croft's artistic coming of age.
'The Divers' Game' Depicts An Unimaginably Unjust, All Too Believably Cruel World September 15, 2019 • In author Jesse Ball's universe, which runs too closely parallel to our own, human worth has been reduced, negated, argued out of existence. But it has left an echo, one with a haunting symphony.
'Don't You Forget About' This Charming, Deliciously Dramatic Romance September 14, 2019 • Mhairi McFarlane's latest follows the unfortunate, aimless Georgina as she deals with her father's death, a bad boyfriend and a worse job — until her first love unexpectedly walks back into her life.
What Happened To The American Dream? 'Transaction Man' Aims To Explain September 14, 2019 • Nicholas Lemann's book seeks to put into context the turn that, little more than a decade ago, led to a caving economy — and takes a look at where things have gone since.
You'll Want To Open Every One Of 'The Ten Thousand Doors Of January' September 14, 2019 • Alix E. Harrow's debut novel, about a young woman growing up in a mysterious mansion at the turn of the last century, will lead you on a journey through books within books and worlds within worlds.
In 'Something Deeply Hidden,' Sean Carroll Argues There Are Infinite Copies Of You September 13, 2019 • The physicist dives into fraught territory, taking up the age-old debate over quantum mechanics — aiming to convince readers that the Many Worlds interpretation is the one that describes reality.
'The Accusation' Tracks The False Narrative Of Blood Libel September 13, 2019 • Edward Berenson looks at what led up to the false narrative that Jewish people murder Christian children and use their blood, its perpetuation, and the single 1928 U.S. allegation of blood libel.
In 'Permanent Record,' Edward Snowden Says 'Exile Is An Endless Layover' September 13, 2019 • In his memoir, the former NSA contractor says he believes he has been proven right as the U.S. has amended laws regarding government surveillance. But the government still wants to prosecute him.
Carina Press Love Wins Out In These 3 September Romances September 13, 2019 • This month, we're bringing you a suffragist who takes on a duke, love at the Renaissance Faire (bodices make everyone look good) and two writers on a retreat that quickly turns into something more.
Samantha Power Tells Of The Not-So-Simple 'Education Of An Idealist' September 11, 2019 • In her memoir, the former U.N. ambassador aims to show how she kept true to her idealistic nature despite facing the realities of foreign policy and world atrocities.
