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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring McCarthy, Chen, Samatar, and More

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Cormac McCarthyKevin ChenSofia Samatar, and more—that are publishing this week.

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The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

Here’s what  about : “McCarthy returns 16 years after his Pulitzer-winning  with a rich story of an underachieving salvage diver in 1980 New Orleans, the first in a two-volume work. Bobby Western, son of a nuclear physicist who worked on the atomic bomb, is tasked with investigating a private plane crash in the Gulf. The plane’s crew is dead, the black box is

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