Tamar’s sister-in-law is killed by what looks like a terrorist attack but turns out to be the tragic end of a love affair with a Palestinian poet in this sensitive Romeo and Juliet update. newbooksnetwork.com/the-anatomy-of…

Based on the true story of a 16th century heiress left to die on a deserted island off the coast of what was then called New France (Canada), Isola is historical novel about male dominance, 16th century social norms, perseverance and survival. #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/isola

When her soon-to-be ex-husband is murdered, Hailey Gelman is stunned. But she's the prime suspect. #podast newbooksnetwork.com/we-would-never

Two motherless children get little attention from their narcissistic dad or his followers as he runs his drug empire in this shocking coming-of-age novel about surviving a dysfunctional family. newbooksnetwork.com/janna-brooke-w…

A fun novel about immigrants, family, marriage, trust, and the cuisine and culture of the island of Rhodes. #podcast #http://newbooksnetwork.com/lisa-f-rosenberg-fine-im-a-terrible-person-sibylline-press-2025

Paul Lisicky’s new memoir about being sickly, othered as gay, and obsessed with the music of Joni Mitchell is a love letter to the singer I also adored and listened to every day of high school and beyond. newbooksnetwork.com/song-so-wild-a…

Raised in Shanghai by a single mother, Lin struggles to find friends and feel at home in America in Su Chang’s debut novel about mothers, immigrants, and intergenerational trauma. #China #fiction #immigrants #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/the-immortal-w…

A divorced mother, her gay childhood friend, and the friend’s scheming lover are part of Memory Feather’s tumultuous 1950s Mississippi childhood in this moving and beautifully told coming-of-age tale. #historicalfiction #queerfiction newbooksnetwork.com/beautiful-drea…

Three famous paintings have been stolen in this twisting novel (Discipline, Debra Spark) about art and its value, dysfunctional families, lonely women, and teenagers struggling to survive psychological trauma. #fiction #Maine #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/discipline

LOVED THIS BOOK: The FBI arrests Dr. Kate Deming's husband and she's sure he had nothing to do with the ransomware paralyzing her hospital. He's primary parent of an 8-year-old who loves pirates and a 12-year-old who's on her school’s code-breaking team. Now, Kate's not so sure.

Lionel is sure that the body burned in his apartment is not his lover and writing partner, but it's 1954, they're writing a book about a serial killer/spy protected by the FBI, and now they're in his sight. newbooksnetwork.com/hall-of-mirrors

Maureen Stanton's memoir is a love song to a beautiful man with whom she once shared her heart and soul. newbooksnetwork.com/the-murmur-of-…

River Gold is about hunting, fishing, a much-admired sheriff, an annoying contender for the sheriff’s job, a murder, a villain, and a hunt for the gold sent by France (to interfere in the Civil War) and lost in an 1860s Lake Michigan shipwreck. newbooksnetwork.com/river-gold

Hired to write an opera libretto, Leah Lax interviewed dozens of immigrants from around the world and heard tales of hardship and struggle that remind us: we’ve always been a nation of immigrants - very few of us came from here. #immigrants #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/not-from-here

A young boy sees the inequality between haves and have-nots in NYC, loses his father after the 1929 crash, is a young teen when his mother remarries, gets sent to a British boarding school, and has to figure out who he is and what he believes. newbooksnetwork.com/the-palace-at-…

Gwen is confronted with heartbreaking memories and a battle to preserve the Maine cottage that played a huge role in her family’s life. A beautiful novel by Libby Buck. #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/port-anna

Lacy Fewer inherited sacks of letters from a great aunt who emigrated from Ireland to America in 1908 and turned the letters into a novel. YANKEELAND delves into society and culture, medicine and mental illness, poverty and wealth. #novel #Podcast newbooksnetwork.com/yankeeland

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In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-and…