PRH Library Staff Picks Fall 2021
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Beautiful Country
Peter Heller
Qian Julie Wang
HC: 978-0-525-65776-7 eBook: 978-0-525-65777-4 Knopf | 75,000 On Sale August 24, 2021
HC: 978-0-385-54721-5 eBook: 978-0-385-54724-6 DN: 978-0-593-45553-1 Doubleday | 125,000 On Sale September 7, 2021
The bestselling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
An incandescent and heartrending memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
How to Live. What to Do
Wole Soyinka
HC: 978-0-593-31620-7 eBook: 978-0-593-31621-4 DN: 978-0-593-45615-6 Pantheon | 35,000 On Sale October 26, 2021
HC: 978-0-593-32016-7 eBook: 978-0-593-32017-4 DN: 978-0-593-45959-1 LP: 978-0-593-46034-4 Pantheon | 50,000 On Sale September 28, 2021 The first Black person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. Learn More About the Book.
Lore Olympus: Volume One
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Rachel Smythe
Ai Weiwei
HC: 978-0-593-16029-9 TR: 978-0-593-35607-4 Del Rey | 200,000 On Sale October 5, 2021
HC: 978-0-553-41946-7 eBook: 978-0-553-41947-4 CD: 978-0-399-56752-0 DN: 978-0-399-56755-1 Crown | 100,000 On Sale November 2, 2021
Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love—witness what the gods do after dark in this In his widely anticipated stylish and contemporary memoir, Ai Weiwei—one of the reimagining of one of mythology’s world's most famous artists and best-known stories from creator activists—tells a century-long Rachel Smythe. epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary Learn More About the Book. life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Learn More About the Book.
The 1619 Project Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones & The New York Times Magazine HC: 978-0-593-23057-2 eBook: 978-0-593-23058-9 DN: 978-0-593-45229-5 LP: 978-0-593-50171-9 One World | 100,000 On Sale November 16, 2021 A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. Learn More About the Book.
Josh Cohen
Focusing on some of the bestknown characters in all of literature—chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age—a brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction. Click to Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.
The Maid Nita Prose HC: 978-0-593-35615-9 eBook: 978-0-593-35616-6 LP: 978-0-593-51084-1 Ballantine Books | 150,000 On Sale January 4, 2022 A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.
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