This week’s best new books
Brene Brown ( nonfiction, Random House )
The bestselling author of titles like “ Dare to Lead ” takes the subscriber on 87 ( 87 ! ) of the emotions that define us as humans and exploring how to build connections with each other .
Michael Daly ( nonfiction, Twelve )
This tells the history of the city ’ s transformation thanks to the efforts of bomber cops that helped change “ Fear City ” into what was ( until recently ) one of the safest big cities in the area .
Ted Bell ( fabrication, Berkley )
M16 legend Alex Hawke is looking forward to a spot of down clock time with his son while cruising the seas in his custom-made built yacht. But international villains are determined to interrupt his vacation with their plan to attack western democracies .
Lisa Harding ( fiction, HarperVia )
Sonya used to be a success, person who went to glamorous parties and dated the right kind of men. All of that was lost in the haze of alcohol addiction, but these days, the only thing keeping her going is her son Tommy .
Best book releases that hit shelves last week
Meg Waite Clayton ( fabrication, Harper )
From the generator of “ The last aim to London ” comes a novel about beautiful Naneé, an american heiress with a taste for venture. As german tanks roll into Paris, she joins the Resistance — and become known as “ the Postmistress ” when she delivers information to those in obscure .
James Kestrel ( fabrication, Hard Case Crime )
It ’ s December 1941, and Honolulu police detective Joe McGrady has put on a homicide case that takes him across the Pacific while ( unbeknown to him ), a japanese fleet makes its means towards Pearl Harbor. A great blend of crime, war, and history .
Michael Stewart Foley ( nonfiction, Basic Books )
Johnny Cash was an american english music icon — but he was besides, in his own alone way, a major political activist, despite not fitting easily into any one political class of Democrat or Republican, mortarboard or dove. rather, the writer points out, Cash was driven by empathy in a way that seems very modern and relevant .
Joseph Knox ( fabrication, SourceBooks )
Ten years ago, Zoe Nolan left her Manchester dormitory room and was never seen again. The character goes cold until Evelyn Mitchell, a writer looking for modern ideas, begins interviewing Zoe ’ s friends and relatives and sending chapters to her acquaintance Joseph as she works through the case, which becomes more dismay by the sidereal day .
Nick Davis ( Nonfiction, Knopf )
When Herman Mankiewicz headed to Hollywood in 1926 and met with about immediate success in the movie business, he sent his brother Joe back east a telegram : “ MILLIONS ARE TO BE GRABBED OUT HERE AND YOUR ONLY COMPETITION IS IDIOTS. DON ’ T LET THIS GET AROUND. ” He heeded his brother ’ south advice ; together, the two brothers would become Hollywood ’ s most celebrated brothers, known for classics like “ Citizen Kane ” and “ All About Eve. ”
Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson ( fiction, GP Putnam ’ second Sons )
In the 9th episode of the Presidential Agent series, the American Secretary of State has been kidnapped by Islamic extremists. The entirely matter left for President Natalie Cohen to do ? Revive the presidential Agent course of study and rescue the Secretary before it ’ second besides deep .
Best book releases from the week of November 28th
Flora Collins ( fiction, MIRA )
When 20-something Sue Keller runs into Annie one day, it seems like destine : Annie was her live-in nanny when she was a little girlfriend. Sue is cook for association in the wake of her father ’ second death ( her mother died hanker ago ). But as she starts to spend more time with Annie, she wonders about the truth behind Annie ’ south time as their nanny .
Mel Brooks ( memoir, Ballantine )
At 95, Mel Brooks is a caption who has pretty much done it all. immediately, for the beginning time, the EGOT ( Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony winner ) and all-around funny story man shares his incredible liveliness story .
Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen ( nonfiction, Knopf )
Working from base has been all the rage these past 18 months, but even before the pandemic, the issue of work-life balance wheel was in the national conversation. A intrigue look at the future of oeuvre — not only where we will work when the recovery from the pandemic is complete, but how .
Hannah Morrissey ( fiction, Minotaur Books )
Hazel Greenlee is a police arranger, dream of becoming a novelist and getting out of her cold Wisconsin town. When she learns about a leery death that ’ s linked to a ill-famed drug dealer in town named Candy Man, she embarks with her emboss on a dangerous operation to take him down .
Best book releases from the week of November 21st
Ken Follett ( fabrication, Viking )
Ken Follett is a victor storyteller, serving up thick tomes ( this one clocks in at 816 pages ). While he ’ south best known for his medieval Kingsbridge novels, “ Never ” is set in stage day, as an escalating global crisis threatens to unleash a world war .
Ann Patchett ( essays, Harper )
The bestselling novelist of “ Bel Canto ” and “ State of Wonder ” reflects on themes of family, friendship, life and death .
Tom Rosenstiel ( fiction, Ecco )
When the incumbent president of the united states — who has vowed to be a kind of disrupter in foreman — turns to Washington fixers, the couple is thrown into a chaotic world of cyberattacks, spies, and more .
Will Smith and Mark Manson ( memoir, Penguin Press )
The actor reflects on his transformation from West Philly kid to rap leading to actor — while recognizing that Hollywood wasn ’ t the end stop consonant in his travel of self cognition and awareness .
Heather Hansman ( nonfiction, Hanover Square Press )
The history of american ski takes us down the slopes from the Tenth Mountain Division in World War II to the contemporary ski town. “ Power Days ” offers an in-depth look at a fascinate sports culture from a respected ski journalist .
Best book releases from the week of November 14th
Louise Erdrich ( fiction, Harper )
A little indie bookshop in Minneapolis is being haunted — no, literally — by its most annoy customer. Flora dies on All Soul ’ s Day, but from November 2019 to November 2020, she digs in her heels and does her apparitional best. Tookie, a bookseller at the store, must solve the mystery .
By Teachers, Students & Parents ( nonfiction, Six Word Memoirs )
What ’ s your six-word pandemic fib ? The 10th episode in the Six-Word Memoirs serial explores the worst class ever, acting as a compendious kind of time capsule to a sincerely bizarre and severe fourth dimension .
Corey Mintz ( nonfiction, PublicAffairs )
The restaurant industry was in flux even before the pandemic, with the proliferation of meal rescue apps putting many places out of business. The pandemic put everything into overuse. A count at what could happen adjacent in the restaurant business, and an examination of aspects of the industry that are urgently due for a change.
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Naomi Krupitsky ( fiction, GP Putnam ’ s Sons )
Sofia and Antonio are best friends, growing up inseparable in Red Hook, Brooklyn, each workweek capped off with Sunday dinner. But the biggest character is always left unexpressed : Their fathers ’ positions in the italian Mafia, and their loyalty to The Family .
John C. McManus ( nonfiction, Dutton Caliber )
From the award-winning generator of “ Fire and Fortitude ” comes this look at the american Army ’ second odyssey in the Pacific in 1944, as the Army pursued japanese forces, island by island .
Brian Kilmeade ( nonfiction, Sentinel )
Having written about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Kilmeade turns his attention to the little-known history of how two men — Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln — moved from strong discrepancy to close friendship, bonded by a reciprocal love for the area and a desire to make it live up to its democratic ideals.
