More New Book Deals of NoteThis week’s offerings include a fiction twofer from
Jake Maynard, whose forthcoming story collection
Hicksters and novel
Jerry each interrogate the realities of rural America;
Natasha Lester’s
Girl of the Year, which follows a fictional
Vogue intern working to uncover the authorship of a 20-year-old tell-all; and
The Power of Print: The Case for Paper & Ink in the Age of Technology, a defense of analog media by journalist
Stephen Harrison.

The Latest in Children’s and YA DealsNew projects this week include
Something Inside Me Knows by National Book Award winner
Malinda Lo, a debut memoir connecting the author’s childhood in small-town Colorado in the 1980s to her grandmother's experiences in wartime China;
Yamile Saied Méndez’s
No Place Like Home, a contemporary YA romance retelling of
The Wizard of Oz about a teenage girl from Kansas named Dorothy, whose dream trip to Italy falls apart, and the best friend who refuses to let her give up; and
These Twisted Hearts by
Ginny Myers Sain, a Midwestern gothic horror novel about a 17-year-old storm chaser and a smooth-talking boy who claims he can control the weather—and the evil they uncover while investigating killer twisters haunting an Oklahoma town with a brutal past.