by Susan Roberts
Now that it is 2025, I'm looking at books that will be published in early 2025. Here are the books I am most looking forward to in the first quarter of the new year.
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JANUARY
Let's Call Her Barbie by Renee Rosen
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| January 21; Berkley; 978-0593953631 audio, ebook, print (432 pages); historical fiction |
She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel
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The Girls of the Glimmer Factory by Jennifer Coburn
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| January 28; Sourcebooks Landmark; 978-1728277288 audio, ebook, print (480 pages); historical fiction |
A poignant and inspiring tale of resistance, friendship, and the dangers of propaganda, based on the real story of Theresienstadt
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FEBRUARY
Come Fly with Me by Camille Di Maio
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| February 18; Lake Union; 978-1662523946 audio, ebook, print (347 pages); historical fiction |
It’s 1962, the dawn of the jet-set era. Hope takes flight for two Pan Am stewardesses navigating an adventurous new life in a novel about love, friendship, and escape.
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Every Precious and Fragile Thing by Barbara Davis
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| February 18; Lake Union; 978-1662514470 audio, ebook, print (431 pages); women's fiction |
A mother and daughter try desperately to reconcile just as a decades-old secret threatens to shatter their relationship forever in this powerful story
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Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
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| February 11; Knopf; 978-0593803486 audio, ebook, print (176 pages); women's fiction |
A socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.
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MARCH
The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry
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| March 18; Atria; 978-1668011874 audio, ebook, print (352 pages); historical fiction |
Inspired by a true literary mystery with the sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both.
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The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian
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| March 11; Doubleday; 978-0385547642 audio, ebook, print (336 pages); historical thriller |
In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger
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One more 2025 book that I'm really looking forward to doesn't publish until May 2025. It's been a nine-year wait for a new book by Wally Lamb.
The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb
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| May 6; S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books; 978-1668006399 audio, ebook, print (432 pages); literary fiction |
From Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.
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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is two hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west. She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction. You can connect with her on Facebook.
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Nice picks, thanks for sharing
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