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All the Acorns on the Forest Floor is a book of connections between people, connections lost and found, across time and space. There are stories of women who never became mothers (by choice or by fate), women who became mothers in unexpected or nontraditional ways, and women who gave up or lost babies. There are emotional aftershocks with each character’s personal earthquake, aftershocks that shake their lives and force them to consider who they are, what they want, and how they love. Bonus chapters from Hooper’s next book, There’s No Hiding in Boise, included at the end of this audiobook!
Hey, welcome to the best day of the week, aka New Book Tuesday! This week has a load of amazing new releases that I’m super excited for, and I know I won’t be able to even begin to name them all. But I’m excited to get my hands on copies of Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez and The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah (the new authorized Poirot novel).
Make sure you catch me and Liberty squealing about some new books, such as Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour and Piranesi by Susannah Clarke on today’s episode of All the Books!
And now, here are three more great books to get on your radars!
Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro
Mark Oshiro’s second novel is here! This is a fantasy about Xochitl, a young woman who is destined to wander through the arid desert and tell stories about her people. She’s painfully alone, and she wishes more than anything for a companion, but she’s surprised when she gets her wish in Emilia, the daughter of the man who conquered Xochitl’s village. They must undertake a perilous journey through the desert, and along the way they must just find that they’re meant to be together.
Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre
Calling all spy fans! This is a nonfiction account of Agent Sonya, a woman who worked as a Soviet spy throughout the West during WWII and beyond. She spent time undercover in the English Cotswolds while runny a sophisticated spy ring across the country, and then went on to evade multiple intelligence agencies and foreign entities bent on tracking her down. This book not only explores her life and movements, but how she represented ideals of the time, and the clash of those ideals.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
The Eragon author has turned his hand to sci-fi! In this new book for adults, Paolini explores first contact and colonization. Kira is a surveyor in deep space, and she’s elated when she discovers an alien artifact on an uncolonized planet. But then the dust around her begins to move, and she realizes that she’s set off a chain of events that will lead to all out war in her galaxy–and Kira can either doom or save humanity.
Happy reading!
Tirzah