The best new books out this week 📚
| Hello, book lovers! Each week, dozens of new releases hit the shelves. Here are our favorites. ❤️📚 –The BuzzFeed Books team
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Credit: Berkley, Avon Donut Fall in Love by Jackie Lau
After the sudden death of his mother, not to mention the strained relationship with his father and years of being overworked, actor Ryan Kwok decides to take some much-needed time off to try to work through his grief. He finds himself in Lindsay McLeod's bakery...where he accidentally knocks over two dozen cupcakes. Needless to say things between them get off to a rocky start, but when he signs up for an episode of Baking Fail, Ryan asks Lindsay to teach him to bake. As they spend time together in the kitchen, it gets harder to deny their chemistry. Soon, dessert isn't the only sweet thing cooking up between them. —Shyla Watson
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The Lady Gets Lucky by Joanna Shupe
Heiress Alice Lusk is tired of being perceived as a wallflower. If she doesn't break out of her shell, she'll never find a man to marry who's interested in anything other than her fortune. So, she decides to become an irresistible siren...but needs a little help to do it. She recruits the popular and handsome Kit Ward to teach her how to behave in the bedroom. In exchange, she'll get him access to the chef he wants to hire for his somewhat shady supper club. But their "lessons" work a little too well and soon every eligible bachelor has their eye on Alice...including Kit, himself. —Shyla Watson
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Credit: Orbit Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
This character-driven locked-room murder mystery set in space is as intriguing as the title. Michelle "Shell" Campion is a young captain of the colony ship Ragtime. However, human captains helm spaceships in name only, as the ship's AI does all the work. After 10 years, she awakens from stasis, ready to deliver the thousand-plus colonists to the planet Bloodroot, and discovers that 32 people have been murdered and cut into tiny pieces. On top of that, Ragtime's AI isn't responding appropriately to her commands. Meanwhile, on Bloodroot, detective Fin has been declared off duty after a disaster on the job. When word reaches Bloodroot of Shell's little murder issue, Fin's superiors put him on the job. If he can figure out who the murderer is, he'll have his job back. However, Fin hates space, and he has depression. With aliens, androids, too-curious politicians, and a rogue AI, this new novel from Tade Thompson manages to be both a romp and a puzzle. —Margaret Kingsbury
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Credit: Delacorte Press Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults) Edited by Alice Wong
This essay collection, now adapted for young adults, features 17 first-person accounts from disabled writers about their complex and diverse disability experiences, collected by Alice Wong. The collection delves into community, ableism, celebration, history, and more. —Rachel Strolle
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Credit: Little, Brown and Company The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller
In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves his hectic life in Stockholm to become a miner in Svalbard, where it's dark four months out of the year and polar bear attacks are as common as the northern lights. But when Sven is disfigured by a mining accident, he further flees society to huddle in a homemade hut on an uninhabited fjord with only his dog for company. Years later, an unlikely visitor draws Sven out of his isolation and into a found family of fellow castoffs. Surprisingly humorous, this heartwarming story reminds us that love can reach the iciest depths of our hearts, even in the most inhospitable locations. —Kirby Beaton
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Credit: Atria Books Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest
Professionally, Leda Foley is a travel agent Foley's Flights of Fancy. In her personal life, she's a psychic, whose abilities are on the fritz and completely unreliable in helping her figure out who murdered her fiancé. (Though she does try to hone her powers at Klairvoyant Karaoke, where she sings the first song that comes to mind after holding someone's personal belongings.) She books a flight for Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt, but changes it at the last minute. When Grady watches his original plane blow up before his very eyes, he recognizes Leda's abilities and enlists her to help him solve a cold case that's been haunting him for years. The duo, along with the help of a rag-tag group of bar patrons, team up to catch a killer, and realize their two unsolved cases just might be connected. —Shyla Watson
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