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\u201cA Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance,\u201d by Hanif Abdurraqib. (Photo: Random House)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cA Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance,\u201d <\/strong>by Hanif Abdurraqib \u2022 Release date: March 30 \u2022 A personal meditation in essays on Black artistic performance in the U.S. and how its inextricably woven in to the fabric of American culture. <\/p>\n \u201cOf Women and Salt,\u201d <\/strong>by Gabriela Garcia \u2022 Release date: March 30 \u2022 A Cuban immigrant mother and daughter in Miami, grappling with the daughter\u2019s addiction, reckon with their family\u2019s legacy back to a 19th-century Cuban cigar factory. <\/p>\n \u201cLibertie,\u201d <\/strong>by Kaitlyn Greenidge \u2022 Release date: March 30 \u2022 The Whiting Award\u2013winning author of \u201cWe Love You, Charlie Freeman\u201d returns with the story of a young Black girl coming of age in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, inspired by the life of one of the first Black female doctors in the U.S. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Five Wounds,\u201d<\/strong> by Kirstin Valdez Quade \u2022 Release date: March 30\u00a0\u2022 This debut novel from the National Book Critics Circle Award winner is set in a small New Mexico town, where Amadeo Padilla\u2019s daughter Angel shows up unannounced, and pregnant, during Holy Week. <\/p>\n \u201cBroken Horses,\u201d by Brandi Carlile. (Photo: Crown)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBroken Horses,\u201d <\/strong>by Brandi Carlile \u2022 Release date: April 6 \u2022 The singer, songwriter and Grammy winner opens up in an intimate memoir, from her impoverished and dysfunctional childhood through the events that shaped her life and art.<\/p>\n \u201cCaul Baby,\u201d <\/strong>by Morgan Jerkins \u2022 Release date: April 6 \u2022 The \u201cWandering in Strange Lands\u201d author makes her fiction debut with a novel about the Melancon, a powerful Harlem family of female healers known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the source of their power.<\/p>\n ‘We know who the racists are’: <\/strong>Don Lemon talks new book and the bittersweet benefit to Trump<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGood Company,\u201d <\/strong>by Cynthia D\u2019Aprix Sweeney \u2022 Release date: April 6 \u2022 The author of bestselling novel \u201cThe Nest\u201d returns with a tender, bighearted story of the bonds of marriage and friendship. Everything Flora thought she knew about her life is upset when she stumbles across an envelope containing her husband\u2019s wedding ring, which he claimed he lost. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Souvenir Museum,\u201d <\/strong>by Elizabeth McCracken \u2022 Release date: April 13\u00a0\u2022 The author of \u201cThe Giant\u2019s House\u201d and \u201cBowlaway\u201d releases a powerfully written new collection of short fiction that explores the mysterious bonds of family. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Son of Mr. Suleman,\u201d <\/strong>by Eric Jerome Dickey \u2022 Release date: April 20 \u2022 The author\u2019s final novel following his death in January, about Black professor Pi Suleman, whose career is threatened when a white colleague threatens to claim he assaulted her. <\/p>\n \u201cMadam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,\u201d <\/strong>by Susan Page \u2022 Release date: April 20 \u2022 The USA TODAY\u00a0Washington Bureau Chief writes the definitive biography of the Speaker of the House and the most powerful woman in American political history.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMadam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,\u201d by Susan Page. (Photo: Twleve Books)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cProject Hail Mary,\u201d <\/strong>by Andy Weir \u2022 Release date: May 4 \u2022 The clock is ticking, and a lone astronaut \u2013 who can\u2019t remember his assignment and whose crewmates are dead \u2013 must save humanity from an extinction-level threat. <\/p>\n \u201cA Master of Djinn,\u201d<\/strong> by P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark \u2022 Release date: May 11 \u2022 The Nebula Award winning author sets this fantasy novel in an alternate 1912 Cairo and follows the adventures of Fatma el-Sha\u2019arawi, the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities.<\/p>\n \u201cBillie Eilish,\u201d <\/strong>by Billie Eilish \u2022 Release date: May 11 \u2022 The musician takes readers on a visual narrative journey through her life, on stage and off, in a book featuring hundreds of never-before-seen photos. <\/p>\n \u201cYearbook,\u201d<\/strong> by Seth Rogen \u2022 Release date: May 11 \u2022 A collection of personal essays and funny, true-life stories from the \u201cLong Shot\u201d and “This is the End” actor. \u201cI hope you enjoy the book should you buy it, and if you don\u2019t enjoy it, I\u2019m sorry,\u201d Rogen writes. \u201cIf you ever see me on the street and explain the situation, I\u2019ll do my best to make it up to you.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cBetter, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice,\u201d<\/strong> by Yusef Salaam \u2022 Release date: May 18\u00a0\u2022 From a grave miscarriage of justice comes this inspirational memoir and call to action from a prison-reform activist and one of the exonerated Central Park Five. <\/p>\n \u201cWhere the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty,\u201d <\/strong>by Lauren Weisberger \u2022 Release date: May 18 \u2022 From the bestselling author of \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d comes an entertaining story about two sisters \u2013 stylish TV anchor Peyton and stay-at-home-mom Skye \u2013 and the one little lie that cracks their illusions. <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2021\/03\/17\/USAT\/4f9ea790-9e1d-4d63-877a-7e7f2a1c5a76-Brandi_Carlile.jpeg\")
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