The Best New Book Releases Out February 13, 2024

In this Sense and Sensibility retelling, Nora’s life has been stressing her out as of late. Her father simply died, and what’s extra, she discovered he had a complete different second household throughout the studying of the desire. On high of that, a leaked spicy tape of hers simply went viral. Maybe that’s why she’s so keen to attempt to work with the forgotten seaside home inn in a spot in Maine the place she and her sister are the one Black folks for miles. But when she comes throughout “Bear” Freeman, the man giving excursions all throughout her newly inherited property, she sees him as a (good-looking) annoyance. He sees her as a fairly metropolis woman who will pack it up by week’s finish. But everyone knows that’s not the way it’ll go down.

More romance to get you proper this week of Valentine’s: lesbian sports activities romance How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly, spiteful rom-com At First Spite by Olivia Dade, spy rom-com The Spy and I by Tiana Smith, and YA up to date romance This Is How You Fall in Love by Anika Hussain.

Arden had me in a vice grip together with her Winternight Trilogy, so I do know this one goes to hit. During WWI, Laura is a proficient subject nurse who turns into wounded and later discharged. After she returns dwelling and hears of her brother Freddie’s demise throughout fight, one thing doesn’t sit fairly proper together with her. To unravel what’s occurring, she returns to the struggle by volunteering as a nurse in Belgium. There, she hears of haunted trenches and a mysterious wine that makes troopers’ worries disappear. Through one other timeline, we study that months in the past, Freddie did occur upon a mysterious man who might make the phobia of the trenches evaporate. What occurred after this assembly is the query.

When Gutierrez was 15, she felt like issues have been going fairly properly. As a freshman in highschool, she was high of her class and searching ahead to school. But then her father or mother’s visas expired, they usually have been compelled again to Mexico. This left Gutierrez’s brother in her care, and each of them parentless. As an unaccompanied, homeless youth, she turned one of many statistics she wished to keep away from, however she and her brother persevered to make it within the land of so-called goals.

Ghana declared 2019 The Year of Return — a time 400 years because the first slave ships sailed from Ghana when the nation opened its doorways to the Black diaspora to present them an opportunity to reconnect with their roots. It’s throughout one in every of these returns to dwelling that Americans Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive in Accra. They wish to discover historic transatlantic slave commerce websites and get a bit style of the queer scene. But a homicide occurs, and thru the narration of their two guides — the disparate Kobby and Nana — we’re walked by the who and why in a typically humorous, typically spicy story.

Carrie Sun has all the time labored exhausting. She excelled in class, graduated early from MIT, and entered the company world, all within the title of the American Dream her mother and father wished for her after they immigrated to the U.S. from China. But as soon as she hits 29, she begins feeling like one thing’s lacking. So, she drops out of a grasp’s program and quits her job. When she will get the chance to work for probably the most revered hedge funds on the earth, she jumps at it. Soon, luxurious and privilege like she’s by no means identified are opened as much as her, however it additionally begins to swallow her entire.

Neferuru joins the opposite historic girlies — Kaikeyi, Medea, and Circe for starters — who’re having their tales informed from from contemporary, new views. The titular Neferuru was a princess and excessive priestess of Kemet, whose mom was the Pharaoh. When she learns of a plot to overthrow her mom, she is aware of she should act. But the alliance she kinds with a highly effective and enigmatic tattooed smart lady comes at the next value than she first imagined.