New Book Releases this November

Now that we are entering the bright lights, cheerful spirits, and cosy moods, we can also look forward to all the new great books being released this month in November! Calling all bookworms, the new additions to your bookshelf will not only be a new treat to read, but the following recommended books have all received more than four out of five stars by critics and reviewers, so no fear of purchasing a new book and not liking it!

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Fiction

Release date: 9^th November

A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day, but she simply will not leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones

Non-fiction

Release date: 2^nd November

Sam Quinones travelled from Mexico to main streets across the U.S. to create Dreamland, a ground-breaking portrait of the opioid epidemic that awakened the nation. As the nation struggled to put back the pieces, Quinones was among the first to see the dangers that lay ahead: synthetic drugs and a new generation of kingpins whose product could be made in Magic Bullet blenders. In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths—at the same time as Mexican traffickers made methamphetamine cheaper and more potent than ever, creating, Sam argues, swaths of mental illness and a surge in homelessness across the United States.

You’ll Be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus

Young adult

Release date: 30^th November

Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. Type A Ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she must face the school, humiliated. Heartthrob Mateo is burned out ­– he has been working two jobs since his family’s business failed. And outsider Cal just got stood up again, so when Cal pulls into campus late for class and runs into Ivy and Mateo, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn a bad day around. They ditch and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Except they have barely left the parking lot before they run out of things to say until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school and follow him to the scene of his own murder. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it is about to get worse. It turns out Ivy, Mateo, and Cal still have some things in common. They all have a connection to the dead kid. And they are all hiding something. Now they are all wondering – could it be that their chance reconnection was not by chance after all?

5 Worlds Book 5: The Emerald Gate by Alexis Siegel and Mark Siegel

Children

Release date: 16^th November

In the epic conclusion to the 5 Worlds series, the final battle looms as Oona, Jax, and An Tzu travel to the treacherous world of Grimbo (E)! There, Oona must light the last beacon to save the 5 Worlds, but first she must find it! When Jax saves an old friend, Oona is given a clue to the green beacon’s location. Unfortunately, the journey to lighting it on this strange, watery planet is the most dangerous yet. Meanwhile, Stan Moon has one more trick up his sleeve as his frightening powers and mysterious connection to An Tzu continue to grow. How can Oona ever hope to beat him? Can she count on her friends, or will a terrible betrayal mean the 5 Worlds will be lost to evil forever?

Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival by Tom Clavin

History

Release date: 2^nd November

On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin’s Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser’s journey into hell began. Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment… until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them.

All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris

Mystery

Release date: 2^nd November

Ellice seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a “for fun” relationship with a rich, charming executive – her white boss Michael. But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice goes to meet Michael and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head. And then she walks away like nothing has happened. Why? Ellice has been keeping a cache of dark secrets, including a small-town past and a kid brother who has spent time on the other side of the law. She cannot be thrust into the spotlight again. But instead of grieving this tragedy, people are gossiping, the police are getting suspicious, and Ellice, the company’s lone black attorney, is promoted to replace Michael. While the opportunity is a dream-come-true, Ellice just can’t shake the feeling that something is off. When she uncovers shady dealings inside the company, Ellice is trapped in an impossible ethical and moral dilemma. Suddenly, Ellice’s past and present lives collide as she launches into a pulse-pounding race to protect the brother she tried to save years ago and stop a conspiracy far more sinister than she could have ever imagined

This season is the cosiest time to curl up with a new book and get captured into the worlds of the characters, so find some time after dinner, before bed, or in the morning and pick up something new to read using this recommended reading list! If you enjoyed these, be sure to come back for more releases next month!