With less than one week until its US release, NERUDA ON THE PARK by Cleyvis Natera continues to accumulate critical acclaim. Elle magazine featured the book on its list of must-read books for this summer, and Zibby Owens selected the book as a Good Morning America May Book Club pick: “The inventive structure makes Cleyvis Natera's debut novel immediately stand apart from others; section sub-heads in each fictitious chapter keep the reader (well, me!) completely engaged as we follow one Dominican family in New York trying to stop the construction of a new high-rise in their neighborhood…NERUDA ON THE PARK is a creative, original work.” Natera also sat down for an interview with Refinery29 Somos, where she discussed “character development, the tension of being a so-called successful person in a low-income immigrant neighborhood, what it means to be home, Dominican beauty standards, and more.” Ballantine Books will publish the novel on May 24, 2022.

THE MOVEMENT MADE US by David Dennis, Jr. in collaboration with his father, David Dennis, Sr., continues to amass strong press following its publication. In an interview with Atlanta Magazine, Dennis, Jr. discusses “the national impact that activists such as his father had,” and the importance of sharing his stories: “The value is in writing something that shows what can be done in this country, and what has been done, for us to read, remember, and realize this is exactly what we can do and build upon.” Dennis, Jr. also participated in speaking engagements with Mississippi Free Press, WGNO in New Orleans, and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum as part of his book tour through the American South. Harper published THE MOVEMENT MADE US on May 10, 2022.

Publishers Weekly ran an exclusive ten-page excerpt of Afropunk co-founder James Spooner’s graphic memoir, THE HIGH DESERT. Harper will publish the book on May 17, 2022.

Joseph Earl Thomas’ debut memoir SINK is a Publishers Marketplace “Buzz Books” pick for Fall/Winter 2022. Grand Central Publishing will publish the book on February 21, 2023.

STRANGERS TO OURSELVES, the highly anticipated debut non-fiction by Rachel Aviv, is a Publishers Marketplace “Buzz Books” pick for Fall/Winter 2022. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish the book on September 13, 2022.

Debutiful included Peter C. Baker’s forthcoming novel PLANES on its list of “10 Can’t Miss Debut Books You Should Read in May.” They praise: "Using a major and global event as the backdrop, Baker focuses in on how the event changes the lives of individuals in subtle ways. Baker effortlessly tackles what it means to be human in the face of inhumane events." Knopf will publish the book on May 31, 2022.

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Colleen Kinder after selecting LETTER TO A STRANGER as its May book club pick. Interviewer Martin Wolk praises the essay collection for “remind[ing] us of the wondrous ways can strike when we leave familiar surroundings behind…[i]n a season when many pandemic-weary humans are daring to travel again, or at least dreaming of long-delayed adventures. Kinder herself said the book “feels like something of a time capsule,” adding: “So many of these essays conjure up a pre-COVID era, when we didn’t even realize how free we were.” Meanwhile, later this month, travel writer Christopher Richards will be in conversation virtually with Kinder and three of the book’s contributors: Pico Iyer, Maggie Shipstead and Michelle Tea. Algonquin Books published the collection on March 22, 2022.

The mass market edition of NINE LIVES by Danielle Steel debuted at #1 on The New York Times Mass Market Monthly Bestseller list for May 2022. Delacorte Press originally published the hardcover edition on July 6, 2021, and Dell published the mass market edition on March 29, 2022.

NERUDA ON THE PARK by Cleyvis Natera continues to accumulate positive press in the weeks leading up to its release. The novel was selected as a must-read title for May by TIME magazine (“Natera deftly explores what it means to call a place home, especially when that place is under threat”), Goodreads (“This extremely buzzy debut novel from author Cleyvis Natera…is earning affectionate early reviews for its compelling story and lyrical prose”), and Bustle (“A Dominican American mother and daughter clash when gentrification arrives on their doorstep in this stellar debut”). It was also chosen as Book Riot’s May Astrology Book Club pick for Leos. Ballantine Books will publish the novel on May 24, 2022.

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, BEAUTIFUL, will make its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list for the week of May 8, 2022. It will debut at number 2 on both the Hardcover Fiction and the Combined Print & E-book Fiction lists. Delacorte Press published the book on April 19, 2022.