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Ms. Magazine featured Cleyvis Natera's forthcoming NERUDA ON THE PARK, as a most-anticipated title of 2022. Karla Strand of Ms. Magazine’s Feminist Know-It-All column writes: “Bestselling author Robert Jones, Jr. calls this debut ‘a loud triumph that caresses like a whisper.’ I can’t wait to give it a listen.” Ballantine Books will publish the novel on May 17, 2022.

Fiona Davis’ latest novel, THE MAGNOLIA PALACE, will make its debut on The New York Times Bestseller lists for the week of February 13. The book will debut at number 9 on the Hardcover Fiction list and number 10 on the Combined Print & E-book Fiction list. Dutton published the book on January 25, 2022.

The Today Show featured Cleyvis Natera's NERUDA ON THE PARK on their list of “18 books by Latinx Authors You'll Want to Read in 2022.” Lupita Aquino of “Lupita Reads on Instagram” told Today: "I have a sweet spot for debut authors and every year I keep an extra eye open for their titles, so, when Naima Coster shared her excitement for NERUDA ON THE PARK, I immediately added it to my TRB.” PopSugar also featured the novel on their list of “15 Books by Afro-Latinx Writers You Won't Want to Put Down,” calling it an "intriguing read." Ballantine Books will publish the novel on May 17, 2022.

Tanaïs' literary debut IN SENSORIUM was named one of Vogue's “7 LGBTQ+ Books We Can't Wait to Read This Year.” They write: "This memoir from writer and perfumer Tanaïs is as ambitious as it is wide-ranging, telling the story of their experience as an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme moving around the world in a wise and engaging manner that asks deeply relevant questions about queerness, gender, colonization and South Asian identity." The book was also selected as Lit Hub’s Astrology Book Club pick for “Cancer”: "Everyone knows that smell is the sense most strongly tied to memory, and by extension to emotion—two things that Cancers know a thing or two about. They will happily dive into the pool of sensations that is this memoir by writer and independent perfumer Tanaïs, and if they’re lucky, come out a little bit changed." Harper will publish the book on February 22, 2022.

THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton audiobook was selected for the ALA RUSA Listen List. The committee considered 284 titles and produced a list of 12 winners that "highlight extraordinary narrators and listening experiences that merit special attention by a general adult audience and the librarians who advise them." THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV was also featured on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour “Books We Love.” 37 Ink published the novel on March 30, 2021.

THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE by Tara Isabella Burton is a Harper’s Bazaar “Best, Buzziest New Book of 2022” (“a vortex of dark academia and queer desire”), a most-anticipated book for The Millions (“THE SECRET HISTORY meets FIGHT CLUB, sort of, but younger, more feminine, more queer”), and a most-anticipated crime fiction title for CrimeReads (“Burton’s second novel is just as deliciously involving as her debut SOCIAL CREATURE, but makes rather better use of her doctorate in theology and ongoing religious scholarship.... It’s a book about the nature of and limits of fervor, religious, sexual, and otherwise, and a spellbinding coming of age story that—despite being set in the Instagram-laden present—feels somehow plucked out of time”). Simon & Schuster will publish the book on March 8, 2022.

Hannah Lillith Assadi's latest novel THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS was featured in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted segment. Riverhead Books published the novel on January 11, 2022.

Lucy Corin's novel THE SWANK HOTEL was featured in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted segment. They call the book a “hypnotic, antic novel,” praising the way Corin “conveys a sense that insanity is everywhere.” Graywolf Press published the book on October 5, 2021.

INVISIBLE, the latest novel by Danielle Steel, will make its debut on The New York Times Bestseller list for the week of January 23, 2022. It will debut at number 1 on the Hardcover Fiction list and number 4 on the Combined Print & E-book Fiction list. Delacorte Press published the book on January 4, 2022.

OF WOMEN AND SALT by Gabriela Garcia was NPR’s Book of the Day on January 18. In her conversation with NPR correspondent Sarah McCammon on NPR’s Book of the Day podcast, Garcia discussed the use of the phrase “We are force” throughout her novel, “thinking about all of the multitudes within women – how they’re more than just immigrants or mothers or any of these other labels that are sort of imposed on them.” Flatiron Books published the novel in hardcover on March 30, 2021 and in paperback on January 4, 2022.