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Popsugar 2020 - Books Published in April

Top 10 Popsugar 2020 - Books Published in April : A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, Howl's Moving Castle, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Valentine: A Novel, The Department of Sensitive Crimes, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers, A Prince on Paper, The Overstory, Lilac Girls

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
AuthorC.A. Fletcher
ISBN0316449458
When a beloved family dog is stolen, her owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of our world to bring her back in this fiercely compelling tale of survival, courage, and hope. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and The Girl With All the Gifts.

My name's Griz. My childhood...
Howl's Moving Castle
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
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Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a...
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
AuthorMeaghan O'Connell
ISBN0316393843
Operating Instructions for the Millennial set: a fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up.

Meaghan O'Connell always felt totally alienated by the cutesy, sanctimonious, sentimental tone of most writing about motherhood. After getting accidentally...
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
AuthorFrans de Waal
ISBN0393353664
A New York Times Bestseller: “Astonishing…has the makings of a classic—and one fantastic read.” —People

What separates your mind from an animal’s? Maybe you think it’s your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future—all traits that have...
Valentine: A Novel
AuthorElizabeth Wetmore
ISBN0062913263
Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.

Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .

It’s February 1976,...
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN1524748218
The Department of Sensitive Crimes is Scandinavian Blanc, vastly different from Scandinavian Noir. There is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, Detective Inspector in the Sensitive Crimes Department of the Criminal Investigation Authority for the city of Malmö, Sweden. Ulf is concerned...
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
AuthorDeborah Heiligman
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend, Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in life. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments,...
A Prince on Paper
AuthorAlyssa Cole
ISBN0062685600
The Reluctant Royals series returns with a good girl searching for the life that’s not too big, and not too small, and the bad boy prince who might be just right for her…

Nya Jerami fled Thesolo for the glitz and glamour of NYC but discovered that her Prince Charming only exists in her virtual...
The Overstory
AuthorRichard Powers
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from...
Lilac Girls
AuthorMartha Hall Kelly
ISBN1101883073
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this debut novel reveals a story of love, redemption, and secrets that were hidden for decades.
 
New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world...
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
AuthorJennifer Ashley
ISBN0843960434
The year is 1881. Meet the Mackenzie family—rich, powerful, dangerous, eccentric. A lady couldn't be seen with them without ruin. Rumors surround them—of tragic violence, of their mistresses, of their dark appetites, of scandals that set England and Scotland abuzz.

The youngest brother,...
Space Opera
AuthorCatherynne M. Valente
ISBN1472115074
IN SPACE EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SING

A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together...
The Wild Robot
AuthorPeter Brown
ISBN0316381993
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. Why is she there? Where did she come from? And, most important, how will she survive in her harsh surroundings? Roz's only hope is to learn from the island's hostile animal inhabitants. When she tries...
Under the Table
AuthorStephanie Evanovich
ISBN0062850334
3.5 Stars..rounded up!

In the end it was Tristan who taught Zoey the most important lessons. About what love really looked like and how it was supposed to be shown. It was the unwavering, unflinching ability to support a partner throughout their changes. Or no changes at all.

Zoey...
Breathing Underwater
AuthorAlex Flinn
ISBN0064472574
Like father, like son.

Intelligent, popular, handsome, and wealthy, sixteen-year-old Nick Andreas is pretty much perfect--on the outside, at least. What no one knows--not even his best friend--is the terror that Nick faces every time he is alone with his father. Then he and Caitlin fall...
The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors
AuthorDrew Daywalt
ISBN0062438891
You’ve played the game. Now read the legend of how it all began . . .

Long ago, in an ancient and distant realm called the Kingdom of Backyard, there lived a warrior named ROCK.

Meanwhile in the Empire of Mom’s Home Office, a second great warrior sought the glory of battle. And his name...
The Sympathizer
AuthorViet Thanh Nguyen
ISBN0802123457
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los...
The Sisters Brothers
AuthorPatrick deWitt
ISBN0062041266
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't...
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
AuthorJoshua Hammer
ISBN1476777403
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.

In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger...
Yiddish for Pirates
AuthorGary Barwin
ISBN0345815513
Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion.     

From a present-day Florida nursing home, this wisecracking...
The Wright 3
AuthorBlue Balliett
ISBN0439693675
From the New York Times bestselling team behind Chasing Vermeer comes another thought-provoking art mystery--featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house!

Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and...
The Binding
AuthorBridget Collins
ISBN0008272115
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate...
The Editor
AuthorSteven Rowley
From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break, with a little help from the most famous woman in America.

After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major...
Brute: Poems
AuthorEmily Skaja
ISBN1555978355
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets

Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from...
Soft Science
AuthorFranny Choi
ISBN1938584996
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness―how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation....
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