Publishers Weekly - October 30, 2017

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Discover the
Hidden Mystery
of History

SPIES in plain sight!

978-1-63440-

297-2

Harriet Tubman UNION SPY

by Jeri Cipriano illustrated by Scott R. Brooks

978-1-63440-

293-4

Benedict Arnold

by Aaron Derr illustrated by Scott R. Brooks

978-1-63440-

296-5

Nathan Hale

AMERICA’S FIRST SPY

by Aaron Derr illustrated by Tami Wicinas

Moe Berg

SPY CATCHER by Jeri Cipriano illustrated by Scott R. Brooks

978-1-63440-295-8

Rose Greenhow

CONFEDERATE SP Y

by Joanne Mattern illustrated by Scott R. Brooks

Ages 9-12 32 pages 8” x 10”

$8.99

Softcover List:

978-1-63440-

294-1

OF 2017
Ill Will

Dan Chaon (Ballantine)

Chaon expertly realizes his singular vision of American dread in this extraordinary novel about Ohio psychologist Dustin Tillman, whose parents and aunt and uncle were murdered when he was 13—and whose testimony helped put his adopted brother, Rusty, in prison for the crime. Rusty, who has just been exonerated through DNA evidence, reaches out to Dustin’s troubled son, a teenage junkie sliding into Cleveland’s underground.

In the Distance

Hernán Díaz (Coffee House)

In Díaz’s brilliant debut, a young Swedish immigrant named Håkan is separated from his brother en route to America. Håkan lands in San Francisco knowing only that he must get to New York, but his journey becomes a series of increasingly dangerous episodes. This suspenseful novel is a potent depiction of loneliness, a memorable immigration narrative, and a canny reinvention of the old-school western.

Grief Cottage

Gail Godwin (Bloomsbury)

After 11-year-old Marcus’s mother dies, he goes to live with his great-aunt Charlotte, a reclusive painter, on a small South Carolina island. There, during a summer that will change his life, Marcus becomes obsessed with the island’s supposedly haunted beach shack. This coming-of-age novel is a moving depiction of a boy who must decide how to grieve: to raze his identity completely or memorialize his tragedies.

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)

Ward’s blistering novel unpacks a stark legacy of hatred as a drug-abusing young mother drives into the dark reaches of Mississippi to pick up her husband after he’s released from prison. Her mother’s on her deathbed, her son sees the ghost that haunts her father, and everything, everywhere is drenched with creeping doom. Ward’s Mississippi is an unforgiving place, and she draws even her most troubled characters with a remarkable empathy.

White Tears

Hari Kunzru (Knopf)

In this astute take on gentrification culture, 20-something white roommates Carter and Seth are audiophiles who record an old chess player singing in the park and remix it into a counterfeit blues song by a black singer they make up named Charlie Shaw. When a collector insists Charlie Shaw is real and Carter is left in a coma, Seth travels from New York to Mississippi to unravel Kunzru’s fast-paced, ambitious, hallucinatory mystery.