Top 10 April 2022 Book Releases
In comes spring, in comes a fresh wave of hot new book releases. If you're wondering what to read next, check out the top 10 April 2022 book releases below.
The Younger Wife - Sally Hepworth
The Children on the Hill - Jennifer McMahon
Insomnia - Sarah Pinborough
The No Show - Beth O'Leary
The Lifeguards - Amanda Eyre Ward
Memphis - Tara M. Stringfellow
In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence, seeking refuge at her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighbourhood of Douglass--only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory, and she knows it won't be the last. Longing to become an artist, Joan pours her rage and grief into sketching portraits of the women of North Memphis--including their enigmatic neighbour Miss Dawn, who seems to know something about curses. Unfolding over seventy years through a chorus of voices, Memphis weaves back and forth in time to show how the past and future are forever intertwined.
Such Big Dreams - Reema Patel
Rakhi is a twenty-three-year-old haunted by the grisly
aftermath of an incident that led to the loss of her best friend eleven years
ago. Rakhi lives alone in a Mumbai slum, working as a lowly office assistant at
Justice For All, a struggling human-rights law organization headed by the
renowned lawyer who gave her a fresh start. That is, until Rubina Mansoor, a
fading former Bollywood starlet, tries to edge her way back into the spotlight
by becoming a celebrity ambassador for Justice For All. Steering the
organization into uncharted territories, she demands an internship for Alex, a
young family friend from Canada and Harvard-bound graduate student. Alex
persuades Rakhi to show him "the real" India. In exchange, he'll do
something to further Rakhi's dreams in a transaction that seems harmless, at
first.
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the
Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived
diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of
the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an
airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is
on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon
colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within
the text of Olive's bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man
plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as
the trees of a forest rise around him.
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the Night City,
is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he
uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to
madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a
childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed
the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the
universe.
A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is
intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and
metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
The Drowning Summer - Christine Lynn Herman
Six years ago, three Long Island teenagers were
murdered—their drowned bodies discovered with sand dollars placed over their
eyes. The mystery of the drowning summer was never solved, but as far as the
town’s concerned, Evelyn Mackenzie’s father did it. His charges were dropped
only because Evelyn summoned a ghost to clear his name. She swore never to call
a spirit again. She lied.
For generations, the family of Mina Zanetti, a former friend
of Evelyn, has worked as mediums, using the ocean’s power to guide the dead to
their final resting place. But as sea levels rise, the ghosts grow more
dangerous and Mina has been shut out of the family business. When Evelyn
performs another summoning that goes horribly wrong, the two girls must
navigate their growing attraction to each other while solving the mystery of
who was really behind the drowning summer…before the line between life and
death dissolves for good.
Wild and Wicked Things - Francesca May
In the aftermath of World War I, a naive woman is swept into
a glittering world filled with dark magic, romance, and murder in this lush and
decadent debut.
On Crow Island, people whisper, real magic lurks just below
the surface.
Neither real magic nor faux magic interests Annie Mason. Not
after it stole her future. She’s only on the island to settle her late father’s
estate and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent best friend, Beatrice,
who fled their dreary lives for a more glamorous one.
Yet Crow Island is brimming with temptation, and the biggest
one may be her enigmatic new neighbor.
Mysterious and alluring, Emmeline Delacroix is a figure
shadowed by rumors of witchcraft. And when Annie witnesses a confrontation between
Bea and Emmeline at one of the island's extravagant parties, she is drawn into
a glittering, haunted world. A world where the boundaries of wickedness are
tested, and the cost of illicit magic might be death.
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