30 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out March 16 - 22

Take it from a central banker: our thinking has gotten way too market-oriented. In Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Mark Carney, former Governor of the Banks of England and Canada (not at the same time) makes a case for a thorough reorientation of society. In his view, we lost our way around the time of the financial crisis of 2008, and started shifting from a society that employs market economies to set prices, to a “market society” that erroneously equates price with value. The social problems we need to solve collectively -- systemic racism, climate change, disinformation and anti-intellectualism -- don’t have price tags attached. To solve them Carney argues we need to look beyond markets to “human values” and act based not on what things cost, but on what they are worth.

In Firekeeper’s Daughter, Daunis Fontaine, a young woman of mixed Ojibwe and settler heritage, witnesses a horrible drug-related crime -- and goes undercover to solve it. Employing her knowledge of chemistry and traditional Ojibwe medicine, two conflicting ways of understanding the world become in the right hands the best hope the community has for solving the mystery. And if that sounds like it would make a great movie or TV series, it is indeed coming soon to Netflix, courtesy of Barack and Michelle Obama’s film production company Higher Ground. Also notable: Angeline Boulley, the novel’s 55-year-old author came through the We Need Diverse Books’ mentorship program where she submitted an earlier draft of this book, proving that it’s never too late to start a new chapter.

It’s a matter of record that some of us at Kobo are huge fans of Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen series, so we’re excited to pick up the new novella Fiends of Nightmaria. It’s got the political intrigue we’ve come to expect from the series, with fantastical twists like an ambassador who also happens to be a necromancer, as well as a poet and bard rebellion brewing in the royal dungeon. It’s short. It’s snappy, and we might just have to add it to our recent list of short books for jump-starting 2021 reading goals.

More books coming out March 16 - 22

💭 Big Ideas

• This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism by Don Lemon
• Value(s): Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney
• Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab
• The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone by Dr. Steven R Gundry, MD
• Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton, MBA

🗣 True Stories

• Crossroads: My Story of Tragedy and Resilience as a Humboldt Bronco by Kaleb Dahlgren
• So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin' True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports by Devin Gordon
• In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire by Laurence Bergreen
• Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour
• Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream by Tung Nguyen

💘 Romance

• Bonaparte's Belle by Dale Mayer
• The Games Lovers Play by Stephanie Laurens
• Holding You Close by Kennedy Fox
• Last Strand by Jennifer Estep
• The Dating Plan by Sara Desai

🗡️ Thrillers, Action, and Crime fiction

• Picture Perfect Frame by Lynn Cahoon
• Win by Harlan Coben
• The Cook of the Halcyon by Andrea Camilleri
• The Night Gate by Peter May
• The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson

🖊️ Literary Fiction

• The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Mona by Pola Oloixarac
• The Sweet Taste of Muscadines by Pamela Terry
• Body of Stars by Laura Maylene Walter
• Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley

✨ Fantastical tales of Other Worlds and Other Times

• Outcasts in Time (The After Cilmeri Series) by Sarah Woodbury
• Namesake by Adrienne Young
• Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs
• Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Fiends of Nightmaria by Steven Erikson