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New Arrivals for the Week of April 7

This week’s standout releases include Katie Kitamura’s razor-sharp new novel, powerful nonfiction from Pulitzer winner Andrea Long Chu and finalist Vauhini Vara, and a fresh take on the Lennon–McCartney genius that changed music forever.

16 books
Book Cover for: Audition, Katie Kitamura
Kick off spring reading with one of the most anticipated novels of 2025

Audition

Katie Kitamura

“Kitamura’s novels are short, sharp, and deadly. I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today,” declared The Guardian in their roundup of fiction to watch in 2025. In Audition, an accomplished actress and an attractive younger man meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. As the encounter unfolds, competing narratives emerge, questioning the roles we play and the truths we conceal.

Priscilla GilmanHamilton CainPriscilla Gilman & Hamilton Cain

Hardcover, 2025

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, Vauhini Vara
A Pulitzer Prize finalist explores the role of technology in shaping human connection

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

Vauhini Vara

In a book that Booklist calls “provocative, challenging, and concerning,” Pulitzer finalist Vauhini Vara unpacks how tech companies have both fulfilled and exploited our desire for understanding and belonging.

BelletristAlta JournalBelletrist & Alta Journal

Hardcover, 2025

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Happy Land, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A multi-generational novel about the stories that shape us and the dazzling courage it takes to dream

Happy Land

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

The bestselling author of Take My Hand returns with an intergenerational epic inspired by true events. When a woman visits her estranged grandmother in the North Carolina hills, she uncovers the story of a lost kingdom of freed people—and her family’s deep ties to it. As she unearths the past, she must fight to protect its legacy before it disappears forever.

charley burlockVictoria Christopher Murraycharley burlock & Victoria Christopher Murray

Hardcover, 2025

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Heart Lamp: Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize, Banu Mushtaq
Nominated for the 2025 International Booker Prize

Heart Lamp: Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize

Banu Mushtaq

Banu Mushtaq, a lawyer, activist, and champion of Muslim women, uses literature to highlight the struggles of marginalized communities in India. Heart Lamp, her first collection in English and recently nominated for the 2025 International Booker Prize, was praised by judges for its "unforgettable characters" and its ability to "speak truth to power, slicing through fault lines of caste, class, and religion while exposing the rot within: corruption, oppression, and injustice."

Fiammetta RoccoFiammetta Rocco

Paperback, 2025

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, Ian Leslie
A Tertulia Staff Pick for April!

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs

Ian Leslie

From their earliest days to the height of Beatlemania and beyond, John Lennon and Paul McCartney shaped the sound of a generation. In this groundbreaking book, writer and human behavior expert Ian Leslie uses their songs to explore the evolution of their artistry—before, during, and after The Beatles. Drawing on newly released recordings and footage, Leslie offers a fresh, insightful portrait of two cultural icons and the creative force that changed music forever.

Nigella LawsonNigella Lawson

Hardcover, 2025

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: These Days, Lucy Caldwell
Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint brings us the winner of the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

These Days

Lucy Caldwell

The prize-winning Irish author of Where They Were Missed whisks readers to war-ravaged Belfast in 1941, where two sisters try to carry on amid the bombing and the rubble. SJP hailed this “intimate celebration of sisterhood and a moving tribute to childhoods cut short by war. Rich in voice and beautifully rooted in place, Lucy Caldwell's characters leap from the page in all their joy and devastation. The result is a novel of stunning ambition."

Sarah Jessica ParkerSarah Jessica Parker

Hardcover, 2025

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Authority: Essays, Andrea Long Chu
A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic explores authority in an age of endless opinion

Authority: Essays

Andrea Long Chu

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu explores the question of authority in today’s world, where everyone has an opinion on everything. Authority gathers her essays on novels, TV, theater, and more, including two major pieces that trace the history of criticism from the Enlightenment to the present. "Intellectually rigorous and lucidly argued, this affirms Chu's status as one of the most incisive critics working today," raved Publishers Weekly.

Hardcover, 2025

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Open Up: Stories, Thomas Morris
This prize-winning Welsh author’s latest short story collection is being compared to a Joyce classic

Open Up: Stories

Thomas Morris

In these five short stories from the We Don't Know What We're Doing author, a boy's first football match is complicated by family and magic; a young man's vacation comes under threat from a dark visitor, and a family of seahorses struggles to understand their place in the world. "Across the collection, the clarity and feeling with which Morris writes about south Wales, and his broader commitment to using short fiction to examine a place and its people, put me in mind of James Joyce's landmark 1914 collection Dubliners," hailed the Financial Times.

Hardcover, 2025

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Float Test, Lynn Steger Strong
Named one of the month's Most Anticipated Books by The New York Times

The Float Test

Lynn Steger Strong

Set in the heavy heat of a Florida summer, this layered novel follows four adult siblings reuniting after their mother’s death. "Not only does the story yield a fascinating meditation on the nature of fiction, but it exhibits profound empathy for each of the characters," praised Publisher's Weekly. "This is Strong’s best yet."

Hardcover, 2025

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: My Documents, Kevin Nguyen
A chilling novel of detention, disconnection, and survival for one Vietnamese American family

My Documents

Kevin Nguyen

In a speculative twist on recent history, a national panic leads to government-run camps for Vietnamese Americans. Four cousins face separation, surveillance, and survival as ambition, journalism, and family bonds collide. Rolling Stone calls it “no better, or scarier,” for this political moment.

Lauren LeBlancLauren LeBlanc

Hardcover, 2025

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book