N BLOOMSBURY GIRLS
By Natalia Jenner
Releases May 17
The internationally bestselling author of
The Jane Austen Society returns with a
compelling and heartwarming story of postwar
London, a century-old bookstore and
three women determined to find their way
in a fast-changing world. Bloomsbury Books
is an old-fashioned new and rare book store
that has persisted and resisted change for
a hundred years, run by men and guided by
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the general manager’s unbreakable 51 rules.
But in 1950, the world is changing, especially
the world of books and publishing, and at
Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have
plans.
N CITY OF ORANGE
By David Yoon
Releases May 24
A man who cannot remember his own name
wakes up in an apocalyptic landscape,
injured and alone. He has vague memories
of life before, but he can’t see it clearly and
can’t grasp how his current situation came
to be. He must learn to survive by finding
sources of water and foraging for food.
Then he encounters a boy — and he realizes
nothing is what he thought it was, neither the
past nor the present.
N THIS TIME TOMORROW
By Emma Straub
Releases April 17
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life
isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t
exactly the one she expected. She’s happy
with her apartment, her romantic status, her
independence and she adores her lifelong
best friend. But her father is ailing, and
it feels to her as if something is missing.
When she wakes up the next morning she
finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th
birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body
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that shocks her, or seeing her high school
crush, it’s her dad: the vital, charming,
40-something version of her father with
whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new
perspective on her own life and his, some
past events take on new meaning. Is there
anything that she would change if she could?
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