6 Thrillers, Simone de Beauvoir’s Lost Manuscript and Astrological Book Recs

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Here’s what’s pulsing this week:

All Proceeds From Penguin Random House’s New Cookbook, Which Features 50 Easy Recipes, Will Benefit The Restaurant Workers’ COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund — Penguin Random House

At Their Father’s Wake, Three Tight-Knit Sisters Are About to Become Four with the Emergence of an Unknown Sibling in Lian Dolan’s The Sweeney Sisters — BookTrib

Comics: If Telecommuting is Our Present, What Does Our Future Commute Have in Store? — The Paris Review

Book Sales Are Holding Steady, But The Pandemic Has Altered Our Book Buying Patterns — Publisher’s Weekly

Author Lawrence Wright Watches Horrified as the 2020 Pandemic Unfolds in an Eerily Similar Manner to the Fictional Pandemic Featured in His Novel The End of October — NPR

John Sandford is Back with #30 in His Prey Series and He’ll Show Us Just How Difficult Cyberspies and Hackers are to Escape — BookTrib

If It’s Not Travel, What’s The Women Who Travel Podcast Talking About Nowadays? Spoiler Alert: It’s Books! — Conde Nast Traveler

John Grisham, Lisa Scottoline and Hank Phillippi Ryan Know a Thing Or Two About the Dark Side of the Law: Here are Six Legal Thrillers That Boast Characters Pushing the Limits of Legality — BookTrib

Don’t Know What to Read Next? Allow Your Astrological Sign Choose For You — LitHub

Simone de Beauvoir’s New Fiction? Adopted Daughter Has Decided to Publish Work From the Archive She’s Inherited — The New York Times

The Best Audiobooks in April! Here Are 10 Editors’ Picks Courtesy of AudioFile Magazine — BookTrib

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