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DAW books has been sold to Astra Publishing House, according to Locus Magazine. Tor.com also covers this news.

The July EarlyWord GalleyChat is out, featuring titles that are "heating up."

Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing (Putnam), is “wanted for questioning about a murder in Africa,” People reports.

A library in Iowa is “closed for the foreseeable future” due to a controversy with LGBTQ staffing issues, as reported by the Iowa Starting Line. 

Author Khaled Hosseini publicly embraces his transgender daughter via social media, as covered by The Los Angeles Times.

NYT publishes an opinion piece on how supporing librarians will help against book banning.

Kyiv Post reports that Ukrainian Libraries are sending free books to refugees. 

USA Today explores the week's best sellers.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction

Rising Tiger by Brad Thor (Atria: Emily Bestler Books) roars to No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf; LJ starred review) starts at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.

Nonfiction

Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger (Penguin Pr.; LJ starred review) rises to No. 7 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD by Jason Kander (Mariner) debuts at No. 9 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson (Farrar; LJ starred review): “what Wilkinson achieves by the end isn’t so much a command over mathematics as some humility toward it — a willingness to accept it, despite his frustrations, in a kind of détente.” Plus, Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich (Penguin Pr.): “concentrates less on the MAGA true believers — the likes of Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Greene — than on the twisted and tormented souls in the Republican establishment who could have prevented Trump’s hostile takeover of the party but didn’t.” Also, Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels by Paul Pringle (Celadon: Macmillan): “a master class in investigative journalism, explaining how a reporter wrestles information and documents from reluctant sources and government officials.”

The Washington Post reviews the newly released translation of Mr. President by Miguel Ángel Asturias (Penguin Classics): "Reading “Mr. President,” it’s impossible not to think about the current, sad situation in Guatemala, where endemic corruption, lawlessness, savage drug traffickers, heartless human smugglers and staggering economic inequality — combined with climate change-induced agricultural woes — have driven hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans to attempt risky illegal entry into the United States."

Tor.com reviews A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Tordotcom; LJ starred review): “gentle, hopeful, and fundamentally queer in how it conceives of care and family. Accessible and propulsive, it’s a sort of modern parable for anyone who feels somewhat adrift, even when they’re not sure they should.”

Lit Hub has "5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

The Los Angeles Times interviews Chrysta Bilton, Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings (Little, Brown; LJ starred review), about writing her life of “secrets, lies and many half siblings.”

Vulture interviews Patrick deWitt about his “rare laugh-out-loud novel” The Sisters Brothers (Ecco).

As part of The New York Times Magazine’s T Book Club articles and events, Sigrid Nunez revisits Paula Fox’s Desperate Characters (Norton).

Fashion model Jeremy Meeks, otherwise known as “Prison Bae,” has signed a book deal with Kingston Imperial for his memoir, according to Lit Hub. 

Tor.com offers an excerpt of The First Binding (Tor: Macmillan). Also, a cover reveal for Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory (Tor: Macmillan).

CrimeReads lists 10 "locked room" mysteries.

Lit Hub shares “a reading list of fictional bars, bartenders, and bar flies.”

Authors on Air

Lydia Conklin discusses “discarding the conventions of queer storytelling” in her story collection Rainbow Rainbow (Catapult) on the Thresholds podcast.

The Washington Post explores the "moment" that Jane Austen's Persuasion is having in current popular culture, especially with adaptations.

Alice Elliott talks about her new book Fellowship Point (Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books) and Katherine Chen chats about her novel Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc (Random) on the NYT Book Review podcast.

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