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New Books Publishing August 5
By Katy Hershberger

This week’s fiction releases include novels by Jason Mott, Sarah Pekkanen, and Elaine Castillo, while new nonfiction includes work from Alexis Okeowo, Robert B. Reich, and Michael Thomas. Among August’s children’s releases is a new graphic novel by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux. Also publishing this week are books by Louis Sachar, Emma Nanami Strenner, and Hester Steel, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer anthology. Watch Louis Sachar discuss THE MAGICIAN OF TIGER CASTLE, his first book for adults, in our engaging Buzz Books panel. 31 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-august-5       14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-august-5     …

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Author of FIRST, WE MAKE THE BEAST BEAUTIFUL and THIS ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE Sarah Wilson's I EAT THE STARS, an adapted version of the author's Substack serialization about how to live fully and meaningfully in an age of collapse, a primer for everyday people on the precarity of our global systems and a rallying call to embrace our fragile humanity, to Amy Sun at Penguin Life, in a significant deal, for publication in June 2026, by Stacy Testa at Writers House (world English). UK/ANZ: Skhan@penguinrandomhouse.com Translation: … read more
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