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THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton

Kirkus Reviews editors featured THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton on their list of Historical Fiction Headed in New Directions.
37 Ink published the novel March 30, 2021.

BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER by Jamie Figueroa

Keenan Norris, author of The Confession of Copeland Cane recommended Jamie Figueroa's debut novel, BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER in a list of Books by Black Latinx authors for Electric Literature. Catapult published the novel March 2, 2021.

HEAVY: AN AMERICAN MEMOIR by Kiese Laymon

Today.com editors recommended HEAVY by Kiese Laymon in a round-up, calling the memoir "powerful, honest and vulnerable." Scribner published the memoir March 5, 2019.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand chose Georgia Clark’s delightful rom-com, IT HAD TO BE YOU, as the July pick for her Literati book club. Clark and Hilderbrand hosted a live event via Crowdcast to discuss Clark’s book, as well as other smart, elevated beach reads that are perfect for the summer. Emily Bestler Books published the novel on May 4, 2021.

THE ONES WHO DON'T SAY THEY LOVE YOU by Maurice Carlos Ruffin was featured in the AV Club's preview of must-reads for August. The reviewer writes: “Sometimes a story—or any short piece of writing—can get by on the strength of a single scrap of language, be it an unusual description or surprising line of dialogue. In the title short story of Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s debut collection, such a moment comes just after a john approaches a young sex worker on the street and wonders aloud why he’s the only one there. ‘I’m the onliest one you need,’ he hauntingly responds. In THE ONES WHO DON'T SAY THEY LOVE YOU—which follows Ruffin’s novel WE CAST A SHADOW, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner and the PEN/Open Book Awards—the writer traces the lives of a cast of characters living on the margins in his hometown of New Orleans.” One World publishes the book August 17, 2021.

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, NINE LIVES, will make its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list for the week of July 25th. The book will debut at number 2 on the Combined Print & E-book Fiction list, and at number 3 on the Hardcover Fiction list. Delacorte Press published the book on July 6, 2021.

ELECTION MELTDOWN author and UCI law professor Richard Hasen is the co-director of UCI Law’s newly launched Fair Elections and Free Speech Center, along with fellow UCI law professor David Kaye. The Center “will be a driving force to ensure fair elections, vibrant and free debate, and the rule of law in the digital age in the United States and around the world.” Yale University Press published ELECTION MELTDOWN on February 4, 2020.

An excerpt of FLIGHT 149 (titled OPERATION TROJAN HORSE in the UK) by Stephen Davis was featured in the Daily Mail’s Mail On Sunday. PublicAffairs will publish the book in the US on September 7, 2021, and John Blake will publish the book in the UK on July 22, 2021.

THE 22 MURDERS OF MADISON MAY by Max Barry received glowing praise from The Guardian. The reviewer calls the novel “one of the most interesting explorations of the many worlds theory that I’ve read in years,” adding: “Original, intelligent, unputdownable.” G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the novel on July 6, 2021.

Kiese Laymon's LONG DIVISION was praised in The Guardian: “Laymon writes with humour and clarity about what it means to come of age, to be black in the south, to survive a natural disaster, to become an online celebrity, to love for ever...[A] triumphant piece of metafiction.” Laymon was also interviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books about the novel, who describe it as a "story of bone-deep love, enduring racism, a missing girl, the Holy Ghost, loss, sexuality, family (chosen and blood), sacrifice, hope, horror, tenderness, a talking cat, staggering grief, and ridiculous amounts of humor.” Scribner published the reissued novel on June 1, 2021.