The long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is on this week’s shelf along with a book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuses.   Akin by Emma Donoghue A funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy, born two generations apart, who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together. At Death’s Door…

  After the Flood by Kassandra Montag A tale set in an anarchic near-future America of mountaintop colonies surrounded by rising oceans finds an independent woman trading for supplies and information about the daughter who was stolen from her eight years earlier. Cold Storage by David Koepp A debut novel by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park follows the desperate mission of a Pentagon bioterror operative…

Serious topics are on this week’s shelf of new books including domestic violence, impeachment, and mosqitoes which have had a deadly impact on humanity through the ages, along with the latest from Louis Penny, Danielle Steel, and David Lagercrantz.   The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri A beekeeper and his artist wife have their lives upended and must flee after war destroys their home…