TRENDING NEWSENTERTAINMENTFOOD & DRINKPETSSHOPPINGHEALTHY NOW HOME BEST READS ON PARADE BOOK PICKS SEE MOREBest New Book Releases is Week: May 7-13, 2024 Parade’s book editor Michael Giltz shares his picks for the best new titles out this week.</p><p> MICHAEL GILTZ • MAY 6, 2024 Here are the best new books in every genre coming out the week of May 7-13.</p><p> A sequel to Brooklyn by bestselling author Colm TĂłibĂn? I was lucky enoug h to interview TĂłibĂn for his breakout book The Master (about writer Henry James) just before Brooklyn turned the Irish author into a superstar.</p><p> I’m ready . (The Oscar-nominated lm starring Saoirse Ronan was marvelous too.) A novel about Ella Fitzgerald? I just did a deep -dive into the First Lady of Song’s body of work last year, listening to dozens of her albums I’d never heard before (and I’d heard a lot) so I am so ready for that.</p><p> Great new histories about the women in Teddy Roosevelt’s life? Brittany Griner’s story in her own words? Beach read romances? Ti any Haddis h? I’m ready .</p><p> Are you? Let’s get reading.</p><p> And at the head of the Parade is….</p><p> Best New Releases is Week Long Island by Colm TĂłibĂn Irish author Colm TĂłibĂn enjoyed much acclaim before his lovely novel Brooklyn.</p><p> But that stunner about a young woman named Eilis brave enoug h to take the leap and move from Ireland to America on her own in the 1950s captured the world’s imagination.</p><p> It enjoyed acclaimed and best-seller status and was even turned into a marvelous lm starring Saoirse Ronan in 2015.</p><p> Now TĂłibĂn returns to Ellis twenty years later in Long Island.</p><p> She still feels like a newcomer in America and is surrounded by her Italian- American husband’s extended family and their two children.</p><p> Then she discovers he has cheated on her….</p><p> Ronan is only 30, so perhaps they should wait ten years before making the lm? Happily, you won’t have to wait to nd out the surprising ways Ellis deals with this betrayal.</p><p> Long Island by Colm TĂłibĂn ($28; Scribner) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org e Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean A Lonesome Place for Dying by Nolan Chase e Lady Waiting by Magdalena Zyzak Three new thrillers to enjoy.</p><p> Stephen King blurbs a fair deal, but he’s always discriminating–the guy just reads a lot! And he heartily endorses The Return of Ellie Black, the story of the reappearance of a person who vanished twenty years earlier.</p><p> More questions are raised than answered, naturally.</p><p> A Lonesome Place For Dying is the debut of author Nolan Chase and presents us with Ethan Brand, the new chief of police in a sleepy small town in Washington state.</p><p> Sleepy until Brand receives ominous threats and a dead body is discovered on train tracks.</p><p> A lonesome place to die and a lonesome place to live, apparently, especially for Brand.</p><p> Finally, the literary crowd is out in force to acclaim a loopy, imaginative caper about a Polish Ă©migrĂ© hornswoggled into a nutty con job (maybe?) involving a stolen Vermeer painting.</p><p> Writers Percival Everett and Victor LaValle are among the many singing the praises of author Magdalen a Zyzak and her new book The Lady Waiting.</p><p> The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean ($28.99; Simon & Schuster) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org A Lonesome Place for Dying by Nolan Chase ($29.99; Crooked Lane Books) ($28; Riverhead Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Lady Waiting by Magdalena Zyzak ($28; Riverhead Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Related: Princess Diana, Detective? New Novel Finds Diana Impersonator Solving Crime Coming Home by Bri ney Griner I Will Show You How It Was by Illia Ponomarenko Russia is in the headlines for many reasons.</p><p> Americans were trans xed when basketball star Britttney Griner was wrongfully imprisoned in Russia for around ten months.</p><p> Now she’s home and telling her story.</p><p> And the Russian attack on Ukraine continues–it’s the biggest land war in Europe since World War II.</p><p> Journalist Illya Ponomarenko is bravely covering events.</p><p> Here you can read their personal memoir combined with war reportage that is gripping in its immediacy.</p><p> Coming Home by Brittney Griner ($30; Knopf) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org I Will Show You How It Was by Illia Ponomarenko ($28.99; Bloomsbury Publis hing) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski Ella by Diane Richards Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor It seems like every celebrity is endorsing books, starting an online book club or in the ultimate move starting their own literary imprint.</p><p> Actor Sarah Jessica Parker is the latest, with her modestly named Zando–SJP Lit. (No need for her full name; you know who she is.) And just like that she oversees the release of a buzz worthy title called Women and Children First, which is not so much about who killed a woman as it is about the ten people and their lives after this violent tragedy occurs.</p><p> Diane Richards–a one-time backup singer for Whitney Houston–captures the hard-scrabble early life of Ella Fitzgerald.</p><p> The singer was a homeless escapee from a brutal prison when a winning performance at the Apollo Theater’s famous Amateur Nights launched her to stardom.</p><p> Richards imagines this chapter of Ella’s life into being, though Fitzgerald herself almost never talked about it.</p><p> And in Whale Fall, a young woman on a remote Welsh island in 1938 feels quite trapped when two outsiders come to “study” their world.</p><p> All she wants to do is escape it.</p><p> Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski ($28; Zando–SJP Lit) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Ella by Diane Richards ($28; Amistad) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor ($27; Pantheon) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Le for Dead by Eric Jay Dolin e Jazzmen by Larry Tye e Loves of e odore Roosevelt by Edward F.</p><p> O’Keefe Three histories to savor, covering the dangers of the sea, the joy of music and the impact of loved ones on a great President.</p><p> In Left For Dead, historian Eric Jay Dolin delivers another nautical gem.</p><p> This one is about three Americans and two Brits who nd themselves stranded on the Falklands in the midst of the War of 1812.</p><p> Awkward! And dangerous.</p><p> In The Jazzm en, Larry Tye deliv ers the inspiring, remarkable successes of three titans of popular music as one triumph of endurance and integrity: the elegant Duke Ellington, the irresistible big band drive of Count Basie and the world-spanning joy of Louis Armstrong.</p><p> Finally, in The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt, biographer Edward F.</p><p> O’Keefe demonstrates the remarkable impact on Teddy Roosevelt by the many powerful women in his life.</p><p> Left for Dead by Eric Jay Dolin ($29.99; Liveright) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Jazzm en by Larry Tye ($32.50; Mariner Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward F.</p><p> O’Keefe ($30.99; Simon & Schuster) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Bits and Pieces by Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi has an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy and a Tony.</p><p> Maybe now she'd like a Pulitzer.</p><p> The actor, comic and View mainstay opens up about her childhood. sharing deeply personal stories about her brother and the mother who raised them, who made their lives magical and uplifting even under the most di cult circumstances.</p><p> No one really makes it on their own and Whoopi's memoir is a testament to the family that surrounded her with love.</p><p> Bits and Pieces by Whoopi Goldberg ($28.99; Blackstone Publishing) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Summe rs at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews Summe r A er Summe r by Lauren Bailey You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian Bestseller Mary Kay Andrews is back with a new novel.</p><p> In Summers at the Saint, Traci Edding s is determined to revive the fortunes of her late husband’ s hotel on the coast of Georgia, if only interfering in-laws, a motley sta , an unexpected death and long-ago scandals don’t stop her.</p><p> In Summer After Summer, Jane Austen’s Persuasion proves an inspiration for this modern retelling set in the Hamptons.</p><p> And Cat Sebastian excels at queer romances, this time the unlikely but inevitable (?) sparks ying romance between a closeted baseball player in 1960s New York and the lonely arts reporter somehow assigned to write a pro le.</p><p> But who will be brave enoug h to reveal more in You Should Be So Lucky? Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews ($29; St.</p><p> Martin’s Press) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Summer After Summer by Lauren Bailey ($29.99; Alcove Press) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebas tian ($18.99; Avon) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org I Will Curse You With Joy by Ti any Haddish The Last Black Unicorn is back with a new collection of comic, soul-baring essays.</p><p> Haddis h stormed the bestseller list with her last book and a lot has happened since then, like winning an Emmy for hosting Saturday Night Live and becoming only the second Black female comedian to win a Grammy (after Whoopi Goldberg) for Best Comedy Album.</p><p> Just to name two! That’s the sort of curse anyone might wish for.</p><p> I Will Curse You With Joy by Ti any Haddish ($28.99; Diversion Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org e Downloaded by Robert J.</p><p> Sawyer e Ministry o f Time by Kaliane Bradley Writer Robert J.</p><p> Sawyer is not a household name, even among science ction and fantasy bu s.</p><p> But he’s one of the few writers to win three top awards in those genres: the Hugo, the Nebula and the John W Campbell Memorial Award. (And the only Canadian to do so.) The Downloaded was rst available as an Audible exclusive read by red-hot actor Brendan Fraser.</p><p> And now that exclusivity is over so Sawyer is publishing the novel about convicted murderers and astronauts preparing for an interstellar mission who must combine forces to save the Earth.</p><p> Meanwhile, Kaliane Bradley has what might turn into the unclassi able debut of the year: a time-traveling /workplace comedy/romance between a civil servant in the near future and her unexpected roommate: an Arctic explorer who perished back in 1845…at least until the Ministry of Time got a hold of him.</p><p> Nutty, surprising and just as easily led under Romance or Literary Fiction, for the snobs who can’t bear to read sci- , even if it is as acclaimed as this is proving to be.</p><p> The Downloaded by Robert J.</p><p> Sawyer ($14.95; Shadowpaw Press) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley ($28.99; Avid Reader Press/S&S) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Lion of the Sky by Ritu Hemnani Dispatches From P arts Unknown by Bryan Bliss e Secret Library by Kekla Magoon Three promising books geared towards kids and young adults, but really ideal for anyone.</p><p> Keeping up with what your kids or nieces/nephews or children of friends are reading? A pleasure.</p><p> Lion of the Sky brings to mind The Kite Runner with its cover art.</p><p> But it’s set in India–not Afghanistan– and tells the story of two best friends (one Muslim and one Hindu) whose friends hip is sundered by the Partition in 1947, when India is divided into India and Pakistan.</p><p> Closer to home, Bryan Bliss captures the unique grief of a teenag e girl in Dispatches From Parts Unknown.</p><p> Our hero copes with the death of her father by poring over his old VHS copies of classic pro wrestling…and nds the voice of her dad’s favorite in her head, narrating every aspect of her life.</p><p> Not helpful! Or maybe it is.</p><p> And in The Secret Library, Kekla Magoon…well, actually she had me at “secret library.” In this case, it’s one where an eleven year old girl named Dally (sorry, eleven and a half!) discovers books that can transport her to speci c times and places in history.</p><p> Lion of the Sky by Ritu Hemnani ($19.99; Balzer + Bray) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Dispatches From Parts Unknown by Bryan Bliss ($19.99; Greenwillow Books) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon ($18.99; Candlewick) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Related: Author Kate DiCamillo on the Book That Changed Her Life and Other Favorites Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy e Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson Two gentle charmers.</p><p> Sipsworth nds an elderly woman named Helen who has lost both her husband and her son returning home to die.</p><p> She just wants to slip away.</p><p> But somehow a tiny mouse intrudes on Helen’s waiting-for-death routine and reawakens a desire to live.</p><p> Think Fredrik Backman.</p><p> And surely you’re already a fan of Helen Simonson.</p><p> She takes her time, but over the past 14 years she’s delivered three gems.</p><p> Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand is a contemporary story about a sti upper lip Brit falling in love with the Pakistani woman running his local food shop.</p><p> It has old-fashioned written all over it.</p><p> So it was no surprise when Simonson explored earlier eras.</p><p> In the delightful The Summer Before The War, she captures romance in East Sussex just as World War I is about to break out.</p><p> Simonson knows a good era when she sees one, so Hazelbourne is set in a seaside town just after World War I, with romance and women cha ng under the constraints of society since war showed them what is possible when they’re given the chance.</p><p> Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy ($26.95; David R.</p><p> Godine, Publisher) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Hazelbourne L adies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson ($29; The Dial Press) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Up High by Ma Hunt This delig htful picture book captures the various perspectives of a little boy on a walk with his Dad, from holding his hand and peering up at all the adults at a crosswalk to perching high on Dad’s shoulders and getting closer than ever to the branches of trees and birds and so much more.</p><p> Up High by Matt Hunt ($18.99; Nosy Crow) Buy now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 15 Books You Must Read if You’re Obsessed With Taylor Swi ’s New Album Read MoreContent continues below Courtesy of Scribner Content continues below Courtesy of Simon & Schuster, Crooked Lane Books, Riverhead Books Content continues below Courtesy of Knopf, Bloomsbury Publishing Content continues below Courtesy of Zando–SJP Lit, Amistad, Pantheon Content continues below Courtesy of Liveright, Mariner Books, Simon & Schuster Content continues below Courtesy of Blackstone Publishing Content continues below Courtesy of St.</p><p> Martin’s Press, Alcove Press, Avon Content continues below Courtesy of Diversion Books Content continues below Courtesy of Shadowpaw Press, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster Content continues below Courtesy of Balzer + Bray, Greenwillow Books, Candlewick Content continues below Courtesy of David R.</p><p> Godine, Publisher; The Dial Press Content continues below Courtesy of Nosy Crow Sponsored Stories Here Are 23 of Coolest Gifts for This 2024 23 Insanely Cool Gadgets You'll Regret Not Getting Before They Sell Out Trending Gadgets | SponsoredFresh Sourdough Starter Where else can you nd FRESH sourdough starter - not dried? 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