A FEW WORDS IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY by Robert Hilburn received a fantastic blurb from filmmaker Cameron Crowe, who writes: “It's more than a great read, it's an invitation to re-visit Randy Newman's work with renewed appreciation for the man who uniquely defined the American Experience just when we needed it most." Hachette Books will publish the memoir on October 22, 2024.

JOY by Danielle Steel debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of September 1, 2024, appearing at #4 on the Fiction Hardcover list and #7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction list. Delacorte Press published the book on August 13, 2024.

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The audiobook of BROTHERS will be narrated by Alex Van Halen himself, and will feature the previously unreleased song “Unfinished,” the last piece of music written by Van Halen and his brother Eddie. Harper will publish the memoir on October 22, 2024.

SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS by Kailee Pedersen published to fantastic reviews this week. From Los Angeles Times, Heather Scott Partington writes: “Pedersen’s grisly tale joins many distinct threads together into a terrifying end. SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS is remarkable in its keen barbarism, the author’s blending of the ordinary violence of rural life with the gravity of a Chinese myth. Her characters live ‘only for the ferocious hunt, the glorious betrayal. The suffering of others is its own delicacy,’ she writes — ‘more pleasurable than that of even raw flesh.’” Meanwhile, a review in Paste Magazine calls SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS “a masterclass in measured horror storytelling” and an “astonishing feat, a horror debut that announces Pedersen as a major new talent in the genre and in fiction at large.” St. Martin’s Press and Titan Books (U.K.) published SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS on August 20, 2024.

PEARL by Sherri L. Smith and Christine Norrie enjoyed a very successful release this week. Parade featured the graphic novel on its list of “22 Best New Book Releases This Week: August 20-26, 2024,” along with the following praise: “Anyone who thinks comic books are just for kids can start right here.” More noteworthy features include Book Riot’s “New Releases and More,” WGBH’s “The big list of summer 2024 book recommendations from your local librarians,” Ebony’s round up of August books by Black authors, SLJ Teen Librarian Toolbox’s list of new titles, and Comic Crusader’s “What’s on the Shelf, August 21st—Independent Publishers” round up. Graphix published the book on August 20, 2024.

THE BOOKSHOP by Evan Friss debuted at #9 on The New York Times Bestseller list for Hardcover Nonfiction for the week of August 25, 2024. Viking published the book on August 6, 2024.

Keith Rosson's THE DEVIL BY NAME received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, including praise for his previous novel, FEVER HOUSE: "Rosson’s stellar sequel to 2023’s FEVER HOUSE maintains that book’s artful combination of chilling postapocalyptic worldbuilding and fully developed characters... Rosson’s sophisticated plotting manages to toggle between these perspectives without ever slackening the tension. This is literary horror at its finest." THE DEVIL BY NAME comes out September 10, 2024, from Random House.

Lit Hub included CJ Leede's AMERICAN RAPTURE on its list of the "21 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2024," declaring: "MAEVE FLY was one of my favorite reads of last year and I have the highest hopes for this one." In The New York Times, Stephen Graham-Jones also name-dropped the novel as one of the books currently on his night stand. AMERICAN RAPTURE comes out October 15, 2024, from Tor/Nightfire.

Emily Hamilton's debut novel THE STARS TOO FONDLY received a starred, rave review in Shelf Awareness: "Debut author Emily Hamilton bursts onto the scene like a supernova with THE STARS TOO FONDLY, a dazzling, heartfelt space adventure novel about chosen family and the ache of existence... With humor, sweetness, and force, Hamilton's blend of sci-fi caper and slow-burning romance conveys the importance of never giving up on one another, even when lost in space and time. THE STARS TOO FONDLY marks Hamilton as an author to watch." The novel was recommended by Burlington Free Press and Book Riot ("The Best Books We Read April-June 2024"), and indie booksellers will be highlighting THE STARS TOO FONDLY in stores throughout the fall as one of its "Indies Introduce" picks. The audiobook, narrated by Vico Ortiz, won an AudioFile Earphones Award and got a nod from Lit Hub, where it was praised as " a raucous space adventure rom-com with infectious energy" and a "lively story of friendship and queer romance [that] is full of interdimensional danger and is heaps of fun on audio." THE STARS TOO FONDLY was published by Harper Voyager in the US and Gollancz in the UK on June 11, 2024.