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10 books we’re looking forward to this spring

A famed graphic novelist returns! A Southern-gothic crime-thriller inspired by The Godfather! An extremely in depth biography of Mark Twain! And more!

6 tales of mystery and mishap — all hitting book stores on April Fools’ Day

New on the shelves this week: An obit writer writes — and drunkenly publishes — his own obituary. A Hungarian teen stumbles into adulthood. And geriatric sleuth Vera Wong returns.

New books this week: Yoko, Elphaba, Amanda Knox and lost connections

This week's new releases include a memoir from Amanda Knox reflecting on her murder case and exoneration, a biography of Yoko Ono, new fiction from Column McCann, and the latest Wicked book Elphie.

New books this week: A foodie memoir, a missing child, witches illustrated, and more

Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective. Plus, Karen Russell's first full-length novel since Swamplandia!

From pointy hats to murder of innocents, ‘The Story of Witches’ revives the past

Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art.

A fall ‘Shattered’ Hanif Kureishi’s life. Dictating his new book gave him purpose

Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. In it, he describes being completely dependent on others — and the sense of purpose he's gained from writing.