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1 week ago | bookreporter.com | Janelle Brown

Janelle Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of PRETTY THINGS and WATCH ME DISAPPEAR, delivers her most gripping, thought-provoking and haunting novel yet. In this ripped-from-the-headlines domestic drama, a girl raised by her isolationist, conspiracist father discovers that while the bars of her gilded prison may have protected her from his version of the world, they have robbed her of everything else.

2 weeks ago | bookreporter.com | Susan Choi

Readers cannot expect that the simple accident they think they saw happen in the opening passages of Susan Choi’s latest novel will take off into a beautiful and touching mystery that addresses the hot-button topics of racial identity and the need for greater empathy from human to human. In 1978, in a touristy coastal town in Japan, 10-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach at night. Their way is lit only with the flashlight that he carries.

3 weeks ago | bookreporter.com | Will Leitch

For 20 years, Lloyd McNeil has been a cop with the Atlanta PD. Unfortunately, he’s not going to make it to 21. It has nothing to do with his job and everything to do with the brain tumor growing in his head. And it’s not just any brain tumor but a glioblastoma, the mother of all brain tumors. His doctor told him that he probably has just three months left, so it’s time to get his affairs in order.

3 weeks ago | bookreporter.com | James B. Comey

Waterside Pier, which is located off of the FDR Drive in New York City, is rocked one day by the sound of explosions. They are the result of suicide bombers with connections to Middle Eastern terrorist groups. As soon as law enforcement and the military respond, their fear as they see the half-body corpse of one of the bombers is that they are heading to the United Nations and targeting a global unity parade taking place there with thousands of unsuspecting civilians.

3 weeks ago | bookreporter.com | Molly Jong-Fast

“I am the only child of a once-famous woman…. To say my mother and I are close doesn’t really express the full magnitude of the relationship. We are painfully, inexorably, chronically close, the way magnets are. Sometimes when I lie in bed at night, staring at the ceiling, I’m not even sure I exist without her. She created me and I enabled her.”And so it begins. HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is the newly published memoir of Molly Jong-Fast, the only child of FEAR OF FLYING author Erica Jong.