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Fall/Winter Bests | Debut Novels

LJ’s long-standing debut novels feature draws on news, reviews, and personal reading to determine what new works are best bets for library collections. In this list, “Books To Get” covers September through November titles that have received our reviewers’ imprimatur, while “Books To Anticipate” highlights the most promising titles of the coming season.
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In Conversation with Penguin Random House Authors

A Conversation with Eve Rodsky, Author of Fair Play

Selected as a Hello Sunshine x Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, Eve Rodsky’s bestselling book Fair Play is a revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long.
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A Conversation with Afia Atakora, Author of Conjure Women

Penguin Random House spoke with author Afia Atakora about her novel Conjure Women, a dazzling debut that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and the conjuring of curses.
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A Conversation with Lara Prescott, Author of The Secrets We Kept

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice, this debut is inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.
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