Impossible mission that flew us : Live Updates Every Minute from 25K+ News Agencies Across the Globe

It’s cold out! Stay home and read! Here are six fresh paperbacks, all of which might go nicely with a mug of tea and an armchair.
“The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Random House, $15.99). Author of the National Book Award-winning essay collection “Between the World and Me,” Coates makes his fiction debut with this bestselling and acclaimed novel, centered on a gifted 12-year-old slave on a Virginia plantation. “As with Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Coates balances the horrors of slavery against the fantastical,” wrote Esi Edugyan in The New York Times. “But ‘The Water Dancer’ is very much its own book, and its gestures toward otherworldliness remain grounded. In the end, it is a novel interested in the psychological effects of slavery, a grief that Coates is especially adept at parsing.”