Publishers Weekly ran an exclusive ten-page excerpt of Afropunk co-founder James Spooner’s graphic memoir, THE HIGH DESERT. Harper will publish the book on May 17, 2022.

Joseph Earl Thomas’ debut memoir SINK is a Publishers Marketplace “Buzz Books” pick for Fall/Winter 2022. Grand Central Publishing will publish the book on February 21, 2023.

STRANGERS TO OURSELVES, the highly anticipated debut non-fiction by Rachel Aviv, is a Publishers Marketplace “Buzz Books” pick for Fall/Winter 2022. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish the book on September 13, 2022.

Debutiful included Peter C. Baker’s forthcoming novel PLANES on its list of “10 Can’t Miss Debut Books You Should Read in May.” They praise: "Using a major and global event as the backdrop, Baker focuses in on how the event changes the lives of individuals in subtle ways. Baker effortlessly tackles what it means to be human in the face of inhumane events." Knopf will publish the book on May 31, 2022.

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Colleen Kinder after selecting LETTER TO A STRANGER as its May book club pick. Interviewer Martin Wolk praises the essay collection for “remind[ing] us of the wondrous ways can strike when we leave familiar surroundings behind…[i]n a season when many pandemic-weary humans are daring to travel again, or at least dreaming of long-delayed adventures. Kinder herself said the book “feels like something of a time capsule,” adding: “So many of these essays conjure up a pre-COVID era, when we didn’t even realize how free we were.” Meanwhile, later this month, travel writer Christopher Richards will be in conversation virtually with Kinder and three of the book’s contributors: Pico Iyer, Maggie Shipstead and Michelle Tea. Algonquin Books published the collection on March 22, 2022.

The mass market edition of NINE LIVES by Danielle Steel debuted at #1 on The New York Times Mass Market Monthly Bestseller list for May 2022. Delacorte Press originally published the hardcover edition on July 6, 2021, and Dell published the mass market edition on March 29, 2022.

NERUDA ON THE PARK by Cleyvis Natera continues to accumulate positive press in the weeks leading up to its release. The novel was selected as a must-read title for May by TIME magazine (“Natera deftly explores what it means to call a place home, especially when that place is under threat”), Goodreads (“This extremely buzzy debut novel from author Cleyvis Natera…is earning affectionate early reviews for its compelling story and lyrical prose”), and Bustle (“A Dominican American mother and daughter clash when gentrification arrives on their doorstep in this stellar debut”). It was also chosen as Book Riot’s May Astrology Book Club pick for Leos. Ballantine Books will publish the novel on May 24, 2022.

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, BEAUTIFUL, will make its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list for the week of May 8, 2022. It will debut at number 2 on both the Hardcover Fiction and the Combined Print & E-book Fiction lists. Delacorte Press published the book on April 19, 2022.

The audio edition of VANDERBILT by Anderson Cooper was included on Booklist’s “Listen Up: Long Summer Listens” feature, as one of three titles in the “Family Epic” bundle. Heather Booth writes: “Finish the summer with Anderson Cooper’s family retrospective about how ‘no one can make money evaporate into air like a Vanderbilt’ and you may find yourself more appreciative of simple summer pleasures unencumbered by fame and fortune.” Harper published the book on September 21, 2021.

Esquire included Becky Cooper’s WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE on its 26-title roundup of must-read true crime books. They praise: “Even as Cooper reveals a complicated list of suspects that expands rather than narrows through the book’s unfolding, WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE implicates the institution of Harvard as a whole and the ways its centuries of elitism and discrimination have caused many kinds of violence.” Grand Central Publishing published the book on November 10, 2020.