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Neon Prey by John Sandford leads holds this week. Get ready for Avengers: Endgame. Mueller hits Amazon's bestseller list. Game of Thrones teases episode three.
Mitch Albom offers his first nonfiction in over a decade, Deirdre Bair revisits the writing of her Beckett and de Beauvoir biographies, Susannah Cahalan examines an experiment that changed our understanding of madness, Karine Jean-Pierre encourages political engagement, and Riad Sattouf continues his best-selling graphic memoir. In fiction, Allen Eskens looks at a splintered Ozarks community, and Erin Morgenstern takes us to a magical, underground world through an ancient library.
Veterans from Spenser to Alex Cross, plus lots of female gumshoes (Agatha Raisin, Stephanie Plum, Lady Dunbridge).
Five book-based films and TV shows debut today and Stephen King has yet another adaptation in the works. There are new reading lists for Beyoncé, baseball, and SFF and new coverage about the printing of the Mueller report.
Sixteen new bestsellers arrive. The Mueller Report will be released today, and will be rushed to the shelves. The Time 100 List features a number of authors.
More award news breaks today, helping readers of comics and genre readers, as well as those who are drawn to landscape. Ann Petry gets attention in the NYT and Morgan Jerkins interviews Claudia Rankine for Vulture. State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts by Nick Hornby will publish in May. It is the source for the Sundance TV show of the same name.
The Pulitzer Prize winners are out. The Bride Test by Helen Hoang tops the May LibraryReads list. Several sites consider Notre Dame and Victor Hugo. Poems and books are discovered. Gene Wolfe has died.
Mega-hit comedy duo Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal create Southern town with dark edges, Jojo Moyes does something a little different as she visits the Depression-era Horseback Librarians of Kentucky, and librarian and Alex Award winner Racculia takes her heroine on a wild treasure hunt.
From the Civil War to World War II to the 1983 Beirut bombing but also the Reverse Underground Railroad and kidnapping poor children for illegal adoptions.