Publishers Weekly - 02.03.2020

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London Title Showcase


U.S. agencies will be highlighting these books at LBF


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Bend You to Remain
by Tsering Lama
U.S. publisher: Bloomsbury,
fall 2021
A debut novel from the storytelling
advisor for Greenpeace International
tells the 60-year tale of a Tibetan fam-
ily’s journey through exile, from
Nepal to North America, following
three women and a fatherless boy whose fates are changed by
the mysterious appearance of a statue of a nameless saint.

Immediate Family
by Ashley Nelson Levy
U.S. publisher: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, spring 2021
Levy’s debut novel, told as a letter
from the narrator to her younger
brother on the eve of his wedding,
outlines a fracture in their relation-
ship as she contemplates the speech
she’ll give on his big day and explores questions of infer-
tility, race, adoption.

The Sisterhood by Liza Mundy
U.S. publisher: Crown, spring 2022
The newest book from the author of
Code Girls will be an account of the
multi-decade effort by a network of
women CIA analysts who began
tracking al-Qaeda in the 1990s, only to
see their warnings of imminent threat

ignored by the CIA’s male leadership until the 9/11 attacks,
and who ultimately led the successful hunt for bin Laden and
other al-Qaeda leaders.

Baror International
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
U.S. publisher: Park Row,
winter 2021
This #OwnVoices debut follows a
young black woman just finishing her
PhD in astronomy, who impulsively
gets married in Las Vegas and decides
to leave her perfectly ordered life for a
summer in New York City with the
wife she barely knows.

Moon Fall by James Rollins
U.S. publisher: Tor, summer 2021
Sigma series author Rollins switches from thriller to fantasy
with the launch of a new series set in a twilight land between
burning brightness and frozen darkness, where a girl foretells
a new apocalypse approaching and is charged with heresy,
punishable by death.

The Sirens of Mars
by Sarah Stewart Johnson
U.S. publisher: Crown, June
In this book, timed to release with the
next NASA rover mission to Mars,
Johnson, an assistant professor of plan-
etary science at Georgetown University,
tells the story of scouring Mars for
signs of life.

Tsering Lama

Liza Mundy

Ashley Nelson Levy

Morgan Rogers

Sarah Stewart Johnson

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