TRENDING NEWS ENTERTAINME NT FOOD & DRINK PETS SHOPPING HEAL THY NOW HOME BEST READS ON PARADE BOOK PICKS SEE MOREBest New Book Releases is Week: April 9-15, 2024 Parade’s book editor Michael Giltz shares his picks for the best new titles out this week.</p><p> MICHAEL GILTZ •UPDATED: APR 12, 2024 Don’t panic! If you want a book to read, to gift, to recommend or just want to know what everyone's talking about, Parade’s resident bookologist Michael Giltz is ready for you.</p><p> He’s traveled the globe interviewing writers–like fantasy author Philip Pullman at his home in Oxford–reading books every step of the way.</p><p> Did you know the week of April 9-15 in history includes novel excitement like the releas e of the classic picture book Where The Wild Things Are (on April 9, 1963) and The Great Gatsby (on April 10, 1925; bad reviews but a stage production proved a hit) and Bond, James Bond thanks to the public ation of Casino Royale on April 13, 1953? Michael knew! And he knows the best books coming out this we ek (April 9-15) in every genre.</p><p> At the head of the Parade is… Best New Book Releases is Week e Wives by Simone Gorrindo Military spouses often hear, “You know what you signed up for.” But debut author Simone Gorrindo wonders in her memoir if anyone ever really knows what they’re signing up for, whether it’s having children, choosing a career or marrying a man who then says ever since 9/11 he’s felt drawn to serving in the military.</p><p> Gorrindo’s husband joins an elite Army unit and she nds herself moving from New York City to Columbus, Georgia.</p><p> Her story of hardship, endurance, family and the erce friendship of the wives she bonded with is a powerful look at the sacri ces made not just by those who serve but by those in their lives.</p><p> The Wives by Simone Gorrindo (Gallery/Scout Press, April 9, 2024) Buy now: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org e Familiar by Leigh Bardugo ($29.99; Flatiron Books) Best-selling author Leigh Bardugo outdoes herself with this fantasy novel set during Spain’s Golden Age.</p><p> A kitchen maid uses bits of magic to make her dull work easier.</p><p> But when her talent is discovered, she becomes a pawn in the hands of her social-climbing mistress and then an aide to the King desperate to get back in good graces after a disastrous defeat to England.</p><p> Our heroine enters a high stakes world of intrigue and plotting and deception.</p><p> As the Inquisition looms she wonders what is more dang erous: her Jewish blood or the immortal “familiar” she depends on that strikes an ever-harder bargain.</p><p> How To End A Love Story by Yulin Kuang ($18.99; Avon) Not-quite-friends turned enemies turned...writing partners on a TV show? That's the premise of red-hot screenwriter Yulin Kuang's romance.</p><p> She's adap ted a novel by bestseller Emily Henry for an upcoming lm.</p><p> She's writing and directing the upcoming movie Beach Read.</p><p> And here's her debut novel, the story of a best-selling author of ction for teens.</p><p> After a tragedy and looking for a fresh start, she takes a job in the writers room of a TV show based on one of her books...and nds the man she thought she'd never see again sitting next to her.</p><p> Sparks y, naturally.</p><p> How do you write the ending of a love story, especially when maybe you don't want it to end? My Black Country by Alice Randall ($28.99; Atria/Black Privilege Publishing) The best musicians have great timing and doesn’t Alice Randall prove that! Just as Beyoncé storms the country charts, becoming the rst Black woman to score a #1 album in that genre, here comes Alice Randall with a long-gestating work to celebrate the tangled history of Black artists in country music.</p><p> From the banjo’s roots in Africa to the groundbreaking genius of Ray Charles and his masterpiece Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music right up to today, Randall o ers an inspiring, enriching work.</p><p> And Beyoncé is following a path the author herself blazed.</p><p> Randall was the rst Black woman to cowrite a #1 country hit, Trisha Yearwood’s “XXX’s and OOO’s”! Better than a tour of the Grand Ole Opry, though you should do that too. e Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon ($16.99; Lake Union Publishing) Butch Cassidy in love? That’s the premise for this historical romance.</p><p> Like many outlaws before him, Cassidy decides he’s done with the adrenaline rush of outlawry and goes straight.</p><p> Or tries too, at least.</p><p> He also falls hard for a singer named Jane Toussaint and she falls for him…even after discovering his brutal past.</p><p> Jane convinces Butch to be her bodyguard on a tour of the West and well, if you’ve seen the movie with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, you know where this is headed.</p><p> Dog Vs.</p><p> Strawberry by Nelly Buchet (story) and Andrea Zuill (art) ($18.99; Random House Studio) Anyone who savors the silliness of some mutts will love this showdown between a dog and a strawberry.</p><p> The drama is heightened with narration treating the dog’s maneuvers like a major sporting event while the droll illustrations capture the whimsy of the moment while respecting our canine hero’s determination.</p><p> A Killing On e Hill by Robert Dugoni ($28.99; omas & Mercer) Author Robert Dugoni is ring on all cylinders.</p><p> His best-selling Tracy Crosswhite novels set in the world of the Seattle police number ten (and counting) in the series.</p><p> Dugoni also has a spy series, a legal thriller series and stand- alone novels including one set during the Vietnam War and another spanning decades.</p><p> Now he’s gone deep into historical ction with this crime novel set in the 1930s.</p><p> Seattle is in the grip of the Great Depression and Prohibition.</p><p> So naturally vice is at an all time high.</p><p> Cub reporter William Shumacher stumbles onto a great story: an ex-prize ghter murdered by a mobster, with a gangster’s moll just one of many unreliable witnesses.</p><p> It’ll be the launch of a new series for Dugoni, assuming Shumacher survives.</p><p> Related: Books To Kill For: Parade Picks The 30 Best Serial Killer Titles Of All Time Fi: A Memoir Of My Son by Alexandra Fuller ($28; Grove Press) Acclaimed writer Alexandra Fuller is a memoirist for the ages.</p><p> She shot to fame with her brilliant rst book Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight, a memoir both hilarious and harrowing of growing up in war-torn Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe.) Fuller’s parents were larger than life gures, so it’s no surprise that among other novels and memoirs she did her best work writing about them.</p><p> Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness told her mother’s story and Travel Light, Move Fast focused on her dad.</p><p> Now Fuller has the unenviable, unnatural task of telling the story of her son, who unexpectedly died in his sleep at the age of 21.</p><p> She begins a journey of healin g, trying anything and everything to gure out how to grapple with a loss that should never have occurred, but determined to make herself whole for her two daughters.</p><p> Funny–Fuller is always funny– and heartbreaking and memorable. e Gathering by C.J.</p><p> Tudor ($29; Ballantine Books) “High concept.” That’s Hollywood’s term for an idea that bristles with possibility.</p><p> C.J.</p><p> Tudor’s latest crosses vampires with a crime novel.</p><p> In this case, Detective Barbara Atkins specializes in vampyr killings.</p><p> She’s sent to a small Alaska town where a little boy had his throat slashed and all the blood drained out of his body.</p><p> The locals blame someone from the Colony, a settlement of vampyrs living on their own away from others.</p><p> The vampyrs see their very existence threatened in a lust for revenge.</p><p> And then more bodies pile up….</p><p> Somehow: o ughts On Love by Anne Lamo ($22; Riverhead Books) First, people turned to Anne Lamott when they got serious about writing.</p><p> Even if it was just for a personal diary, they found solace and support in her book Bird By Bird.</p><p> Actually , people creating in any way enjoyed her writing.</p><p> The folksy wisdom about life in general felt like a bonus.</p><p> Ove the years, the wisdom moved front and center.</p><p> Today, Lamott shares her thoughts on love in a moving meditation on how love really is the answer.</p><p> It’s wise, warm and witty, just like you expect. e Widow Spy by Megan Campisi ($27.99; Atria Books) We have no idea why a really great movie or TV show hasn’t been made yet about the life of Kate Warne.</p><p> She was the rst female detective in the U.S.</p><p> She worked for the Pinkertons.</p><p> She was key in uncovering a plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln and devising a way to get him safely through Baltimore and into D.C. for the inauguration.</p><p> Oh and she was a Union spy during the Civil War.</p><p> Now we’re guessing you have no idea why a movie or TV show centering on Warne hasn’t happened yet.</p><p> Maybe Megan Campisi’s second novel about Warne’s task to help end the Civil War will break out and prove the perfect launching pad to make this happen. e Secret Lives Of Booksellers and Librarians by James Pa erson and Ma Eversmann ($28; Li le, Brown and Company) It’s no secret James Patterson uses his immense fame and money to tout the cause of literacy and promote both independent bookstores and libraries.</p><p> He uses the spotlight whenever he can to advance their cause.</p><p> Now with co-author Matt Eversmann, Patterson puts the spotlight on librarians and booksellers, the real heroes of the publishing industry.</p><p> They’re the folk who open a bookstore when that’s more of a passion than a pro table concern.</p><p> They’re the people at the library who will track down an errant fact or nd you the perfect book you didn’t know you were looking for.</p><p> If you’ve ever walked the aisles of a used bookstore, spotted a title you want and pounced with an “aha!” then this is the book for you.</p><p> Related: Best New Book Releases April 2-8, 2014 e Fellowship Of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr ($29; Doubleday) A foundling is left on the doorstep of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, a reclusive bunc h who revel in crosswords and ciphers and all things confounding .</p><p> That boy named Clayton Stumper spends more than 20 years in this warm, if oddball cocoon.</p><p> But when he comes of age, Clayton is sent on a scavenger hunt of sorts to unravel the truth about his parentage, about who he is.</p><p> But the real charm is in watching Clayton embrace what really matters: the found family that took him into its home and its heart.</p><p> All the reviews call it endearing or sweet and there’s even an endors ement from Alexander McCall Smith, so you know what to expect–a cozy mystery but without even a little blood. e King Of Diamonds by Rena Pederson ($28.95; Pegasus Crime) Author Rena Pederson set out to catch a thief in this true crime book about a daring burglar of precious gems.</p><p> But what she really caught was the dazzling w orld of Texas high society in the Swinging Sixties, a decade before the primetime soap Dallas would make it known around the world.</p><p> The dapper criminal often broke into estates when he knew people were home and escaped the grasp of Interpol and Scotland Yard (not to mention America’s law enforcement).</p><p> It travels from Dallas to Las Vegas, from the super rich to the criminal underworld all in a desire to nally unmask the King of Diamonds. e Book a t Broke e World by Mark Lawrence ($29; Ace) The Book That Wouldn’t Burn didn’t just have a great title.</p><p> The 2023 fantasy also had a great setting–a vast and mysterious library of ancient age that dwarfs most cities–and a boy and girl at its heart.</p><p> Their story continues in The Book That Broke The World.</p><p> The boy Evar grapples with outside forces while the girl Livira struggles inside to recover the book she wrote, the book that might break the library’s grip once and for all.</p><p> George R.R.</p><p> Martin for one says Mark Lawrence is “an excellent writer,” and that’s good enough for us.</p><p> Even if we do need some convincing that a library vaster than most cities is scary rather than our idea of heaven.</p><p> Daughter Of Mine by Megan Miranda ($28.99; Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci Books) The climate crisis impacts water all over the world.</p><p> Ships have been stranded on the Mississippi, capacity reduced at the Panama Canal and major cities like Cape Town threaten to run out of water completely.</p><p> But drought can also reveal long buried secrets.</p><p> In Megan Miranda’s latest thriller, the daug hter of the town’s local detective reluctantly heads back home.</p><p> Hazel Sharp returns just when Mirror Lake’s water level drops precipitously…and secrets long lost in the muddy deep slowly resurface.</p><p> The biggest secret of all? 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