New Book Releases: January 19, 2021

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

THE DIVINES, Ellie Eaton. Decades after the elite boarding school she attended closed following scandal, a woman returns to uncover secrets at the center of the school’s demise. Bookshop.

BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED, Lisa Gardner. A private detective and recovering alcoholic begins an obsessive search for a missing Haitian teenager. Bookshop.

REMOTE CONTROL, Nnedi Okorafor. A young girl searches for the alien artifact that turned her into Death’s adopted daughter. “Readers will be blown away,” writes Publisher’s Weekly in a starred review. Bookshop.

AT THE EDGE OF THE HAIGHT, Katherine Seligman. A homeless twenty-year-old San Franciscan witnesses a murder and is seen by the killer. Bookshop.

THE RIB KING, Ladee Hubbard. The story of a Black family whose beloved rib sauce recipe is stolen by the wealthy white family they…