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6 New Books to Check Out This February
By Mary Kay McBrayer
Looking for your next favorite read? Look no farther. With a wide variety of books coming out this month, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Here’s a list of six new books that release this month to get you started.
One spring afternoon in Ireland, the pregnant Ciara Fay follows the impulse to take her two daughters and leave her husband. She grabs clothes off the line, straps them into the car, and takes off. It wouldn’t make sense to anyone else because on the surface, everything is perfect… but he flies into rages and emotionally abuses her, even if he’s never actually hit any of them. It’s harder than she even realized, since the broken housing system has the three of them living in a hotel on takeout, washing their clothes in the sink. In a truly devastating examination of gaslighting, her husband relentlessly tries to win her back, and she wonders whether she made the right decision.
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Pauline Sinclair built her house stone by stone from the ruins of a plantation on her land in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village. She has educated herself with stolen books and raised her children by farming ganja. When Pauline is ninety-nine years old, the house starts to rattle and shift, and she knows that she won’t make it to one hundred. Her American granddaughter and nearby teenager Lamont help Pauline search for the people she has wronged, because Miss Pauline has buried many secrets… including some information about the missing Turner Buchanan, a white American who came to claim her land decades ago. Even so, as her team uncovers the stories of her past, Pauline learns secrets that she never could have imagined.
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This memoir by veteran memoirist shares her perception on the intimate relationships of motherhood, divorce, and the marriages that function as one’s models. It poses the paradoxes of grieving one love and celebrating another’s arrival, having hope among the harm we’ve caused, and moving into joy while haunted by loss.
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In this how-to book, social media influencer and entrepreneur Nicholas Crown (famous for the viral series Rich Vs. Really Rich) prescribes an original, ten-point formula for building wealth and happiness. A few of the points to building wealth are to make someone else’s life easier, understand that time is priceless, and quality of life should be the ultimate goal, rather than dollars themselves. This one’s sure to be an interesting read.
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This is the first major nonfiction book to expose the catastrophe that is the multi-billion-dollar global garbage industry. Few people have any idea about what happens to things we “throw away.” That’s why journalist Alexander Clapp roamed the continents to expose the realities of Javanese recycling gangsters, cruise ship dismantlers in the Aegean, Tanzanian plastic pickers, and more… all to share with readers that yes, some trash gets littered or buried. But some of it lives a secret second life, shipped, sold, and smuggled among the world’s poorest nations.
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New York Times reporter Ali Watkins tells the long-buried truth about a key group of families in 1975. That year, Northern Ireland the guerillas known as the Irish Republican Army clashed with the Loyalists in Belfast. This book follows those families of gun-runners, the Philadelphia Five, who armed the IRA at the height of the Troubles… without whom the conflict might have gone very differently. If you’re a true crime reader, you’ll have to add this one to your TBR list.
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Mary Kay McBrayer is the author of Madame Queen: The Life and Crimes of Harlem’s Underground Racketeer, Stephanie St. Clair and America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster. You can find her short works on history, true crime, and horror at Oxford American,Narratively, Mental Floss, and FANGORIA, among other publications. She hosts the podcast about women in true crime who are not just victims, The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. Follow Mary Kay McBrayer on Instagram and Twitter, or check out her author site here.
