B&N Spring 2017 Discover Picks

opens in a new window opens in a new window opens in a new window opens in a new windowBarnes & Noble’s Spring 2017 Discover Great New Writers program includes four Macmillan titles!

A HOPE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SEA by Melissa Fleming
An extraordinary portrait of Doaa Zamel, a Syrian refugee who managed to survive the horrendous September 2014 Mediterranean shipwreck that claimed almost 500 lives, from the Head of Communications and Chief Spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

INSOMNIAC CITY by Bill Hayes
A moving celebration of what Hayes calls “the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected” of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.

MARLENA by Julie Buntin
An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades. “Buntin’s prose is emotional and immediate, and the interior lives she draws of young women and obsessive best friends are Ferrante-esque.” — Booklist, starred review

SCHADENFREUDE, A LOVE STORY by Rebecca Schuman
The tale of a teenage Jewish intellectual who falls in love with all things German, including a boy (who breaks her heart), a language (that’s nearly impossible to master), a culture (that’s nihilistic, but punctual) and a landscape (that’s breathtaking when there’s not a wall in the way).