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Joan Rivers

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Jocelyn McClurg
USA TODAY
'The Invention of Wings' by Sue Monk Kidd

This month's critic's pick is The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, fiction, reprint)

Reviewer Patty Rhule called this best-selling story of a white girl given a 10-year-old slave in 19th-century Charleston a "searing and soaring" tale. An Oprah's Book Club 2.0 pick. **** out of four.

Also recently released:

Love Life by Rob Lowe (Simon & Schuster, non-fiction, reprint)

The actor's sequel to his best-selling memoir Stories I Only Tell My Friends.

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster, non-fiction, reprint)

Clinton's 2014 memoir about her time as secretary of State arrives as she begins her presidential run.

Diary of a Mad Diva by Joan Rivers (Berkley, non-fiction, reprint)

A dishy "diary" by the comedian, released not long before she died last September.

The Children Act by Ian McEwan (Anchor, fiction, reprint)

A London judge must rule in the case of a boy refusing medical treatment for religious reasons.

'Love Life' by Rob Lowe

Tibetan Peach Pie by Tom Robbins (Ecco, non-fiction, reprint)

A memoir subtitled "A True Account of an Imaginative Life."

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine, fiction, reprint)

A 13-year-old girl searches for her mother, who disappeared a decade earlier.

Euphoria by Lily King (Grove, fiction, reprint)

Historical fiction about a love triangle, inspired by the life of anthropologist Margaret Mead.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (Vintage, fiction, reprint)

A Tokyo man tries to unravel why he was rejected years earlier by his high school friends.

Part Swan, Part Goose by Swoosie Kurtz (Perigree, non-fiction, reprint)

The actress writes about her family, work and "womanhood."

All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner (Washington Square Press, fiction, reprint)

A pill-popping mom struggles to cope.

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris, 1932 by Francine Prose (HarperPerennial, fiction, reprint)

Set in the demimonde of Paris in the 1930s as the Nazis gain power.

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