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This announcement section offers readers a selected preview of notable new titles for young adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the spring or summer 2022 [...]

* The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye. By Briony Cameron. June 2024. 368p. Atria, $28.99 (9781668051023); e-book (9781668051047). From starting out as a poor shipwright forced to pay her father for [...]

Kissing Girls on Shabbat. By Sara Glass. June 2024. 304P. Atria/One Signal, $27.99 (9781668031216); e-book (9781668031230). 810. Love takes many forms, including love for oneself, a partner, family, community, and [...]

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I. By Douglas Brunt. Sept. 2023. 384p. Atria, $28.99 (9781982169909); e-book (9781982169923). 940.3. Brunt [...]

The Scrolls of Deborah. By Esther Goldenberg. Feb. 2024. 384p. Row House/ioo Block, paper, $18.99 (9781955905411). What does it mean to know YHWH, the god of all? Furthermore, what does [...]

This announcement section offers readers a selected preview of notable new tides for young adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the spring or summer 2021 [...]

This announcement section offers Booklist readers a selected preview of especially notable new titles for young adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the fall 2020 [...]

This announcement section offers Booklist readers a selected preview of especially notable new titles for young adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the spring or [...]

The Safekeep. By Yael van der Wouden. May 2024. 272p. Simon 81 Schuster/Avid Reader, $28 (9781668034347). The year is 1961, and ever since her mother died, Isabel's routine has been [...]

Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres. By Alison Pouliot. Sept. 2023.320p. Univ. of Chicago, $26 (9780226829630). 579.6. An ecologist and nature photographer, Pouliot has travelled the globe [...]

Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester: The Shipwreck That Shocked Restoration Britain. By Nigel Pickford. Feb. 2023. 312P. illus. Pegasus, $27.95 (9781639363209). 942. In 1682, King Charles [...]

This announcement section offers Booklist readers a preview of notable new titles for young-adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the upcoming fall 2019 season. YOUNG [...]

The Tomb of the Mili Mongga: Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality. By Samuel Turvey. Apr. 2024. 304p. Bloomsbury, $28 (9781399409773). 398.2454. A British biologist with extensive [...]

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland. By Troy Senik. Sept 2022.384p. Simon 8i Schuster/Threshold Editions, $32-99 (9781982140748); e-book, $16.99 (9781982140786).973-8. 'Grover Cleveland's name [...]

The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba, 1962. By Max Hastings. Oct. 2022. 528p. Harper, $35 (9780062980137). 972. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was a frightful Cold War confrontation that easily [...]

How the World Really Works: The Science behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going. By Vaclav Smil. May 2022. 384p. Viking, $28 (9780593297063). 500. The author of may [...]

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity. By Michael Meyer. Apr. 2022. 368p. illus. HMH, $28.99 (9781328568892). 973.3092. Civic-minded founder Benjamin [...]

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War. By Roger Lowenstein. Mar. 2022. 432p. illus. Penguin, $30 (9780735223554). 973.7 War is expensive, and the [...]

Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better America. By Paul Krugman. Jan. 2020.480p. Norton, $29.95 (9781324005018). 330. Economist Krugman, a New York Times columnist for two [...]

The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783. By Joseph J. Ellis. Oct. 2021.320p. Norton/Liveright, $30 (9781631498985). 973.3. Distinguished historian Ellis (American Dialogue, 2018) briskly summarizes the crisis provoked [...]

The Adventure Zone: The Crystal Kingdom. By Clint McElroy and others. Illus. by Carey Pietsch. July 2021. 272p. First Second, $27.99 (9781250232663). 741.5. The fourth title in The Adventure Zone [...]

The Pueblos: My Quest to Run 101 Bull Runs in the Small Towns of Spain. By Bill Hillmann. May 2021.432p. Tortoise, paper, $19.99 (9781948954174). 599. Hillmann chronicled his participation, inspired [...]

Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us. By Heino Falcke. May 2021. 368p. HarperOne, $27.99 (9780063020054). 523.8. German astrophysicist Falcke was key to the project known as [...]

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World. By Vaclav Smil. May 2021. 368p. Penguin, paper, $18 (9780143136224). 510. Prolific author, environmental scientist, and policy analyst [...]

The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917. By Philip Zelikow. Mar. 2021.352p. PublicAffairs, $30 (9781541750951). 940.3. World War 1 could have ended in 1916 [...]

Captain Putnam for the Republic of Texas. By James L. Haley. Mar. 2021.368p. Putnam, $28 (9780593085110). This fourth of Haley's popular historical naval novels, following The Devil in Paradise (2019), [...]

Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice. By Bruce Levine. Mar. 2021.320p. Simon & Schuster, $28 (9781476793375). 328.73. Civil War expert Levine (The Fall of the House of [...]

The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas. By Eric Rutkow. Dec. 2018.448p. Scribner, $30 (9781501103902); e-book (9781501103926). 388.1.Visions [...]

Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car. By Alex Davies. Jan. 2021.304p. Simon & Schuster, $28 (9781501199431). 629.22209. The driverless automobile exists, but it is not yet the commercial [...]

Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You): A How-to Guide from the First Family of Podcasting. By Justin McElroy and others. Jan. 2021.272p. illus. HarperPerennial, $22.99 (9780062974808). 006.7876. Everybody Has a [...]

* Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation. By Peter Cozzens. Nov. 2020. 560p. illus. Knopf, $35 (9781524733254). 977.004. Acknowledging scholarly debt to Tecumseh, by John [...]

The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science. By Michael Strevens. Oct. 2020.352p. illus. Norton/Liveright, $30 (9781631491375). 500. A still unresolved debate about how science functions reaches back to the [...]

The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System. By Paul Murdin. Oct. 2020. 288p. Pegasus, $27.95 (9781643133362). 523.2. In this highly readable survey of the [...]

* Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. By Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Oct. 2020. 400p. Bloomsbury/Sigma, $28 (97814729374901. 573. A paleoanthropologist who has studied Homo neanderthalensis, Sykes summarizes current knowledge [...]

* The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal. By Clint Mcelroy and others. Illus. by Carey Pietsch. July 2020.272p. First Second, paper, $19.99 (9781250232632). 741.5. The third installment of The [...]

The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. By Keith Cooper. Jan. 2020.336p. Bloomsbury/Sigma, $28 (9781472960429). 559. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has not detected [...]

Balloons and Airships: A Tale of Lighter Than Air Aviation. By Anthony Burton. Dec. 2019. 216p. illus. Casemate/Pen&Sword, $49.95 (9781526719492). 629.1. A British writer on transportation, Burton here surveys the [...]

The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again. By Brin-Jonathan Butler. Nov. 2018. 224p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (9781501172601); e-book (9781501172625). 794.1. This is not the [...]

Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage. By Brian Castner. Mar. 2018.336p. Doubleday, $28.95 (9780385541626). 979.7. In 1789, Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie set out to search for a waterway [...]

From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West. By Heidi Blake. Nov. 2019. 336p. illus. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $30 (9780316417235); e-book, $15.99 [...]

Deep Space Warfare: Military Strategy beyond Orbit. By John C. Wright. Dec. 2019.159p. illus. McFarland, paper, $45 (9781476679266). 358.8. Already an arena of military activity, the potential for outright warfare [...]

Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression. By Christopher Knowlton. Jan. 2020. 368p. Simon & Schuster, $30 (9781982128371). 333.3309759. [...]

Sandworm: The New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. By Andy Greenberg. Nov. 2019.368p. Doubleday, $28.95 (9780385544405). 364.16. Wired journalist Greenberg recounts recent cyberattacks [...]

The Devil in Paradise: Captain Putnam in Hawaii. By James L. Haley. Oct. 2019.432p. Putnam, $27 (9780399171123). Haley (A Darker Sea, 2017) continues his string of naval adventures starring Captain [...]

* The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz. By Jack Fairweather. June 2019. 528p. Morrow/Custom, $28.99 (97800625614111.940.5318092. Following the German conquest of Poland [...]

Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy. By Dan Abrams and David Fisher. May 2019. 320p. Hanover Square, $26.99 197813350164471.973.91. In 1915, Theodore Roosevelt was [...]

The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years. By John Paul Stevens. May 2019. 560p. illus. Little, Brown, $35 (9780316489645); e-book, $16.99 (9780316489676). 340. Retired from the [...]

Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings. By Roger D. Launius. May 2019. 288p. illus. Smithsonian, $27.95 (9781588346490). 629.45. Five decades after the Apollo 11 mission, space-flight historian Launius surveys [...]