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New in Paperback

Whether it's a hardcover reprinted in paperback, or a new book that just released in paperback, we're rounding up fiction and nonfiction titles worthy of your attention in our New in Paperback feature. Feel free to dog-ear the pages and fold back the covers!

Week of January 21, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of January 21st include THE GIRLS IN THE PICTURE, Melanie Benjamin's fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood’s earliest female legends --- screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford; AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN by Susan Meissner, which takes place in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 and tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love; and Nancy Goldstone's DAUGHTERS OF THE WINTER QUEEN, the thrilling saga of four spirited sisters and their glamorous mother, Elizabeth Stuart, granddaughter of the martyred Mary, Queen of Scots.

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Week of January 14, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of January 14th include LOVE AND RUIN, in which Paula McLain brings to life the story of Martha Gellhorn --- a fiercely independent, ambitious woman ahead of her time, who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century; NO TIME TO SPARE, the collected best of Ursula K. Le Guin's blog that presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world and her wonder at it; THE RECOVERING by Leslie Jamison, which turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself; and Sara Shepard's debut novel for adults, THE ELIZAS, a Hitchcockian double narrative composed of lies, false memories and a protagonist who must uncover the truth for survival.

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Week of January 7, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of January 7th include THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT by Chris Bohjalian, a spellbinding psychological thriller in which a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man --- and no idea what happened; MACBETH, Jo Nesbø's retelling of Shakespeare’s dark and tragic play, which centers on a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem; THE LARGESSE OF THE SEA MAIDEN, a story collection from Denis Johnson finished shortly before his death that finds him contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves; and Dave Eggers' THE MONK OF MOKHA, the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana’a by civil war.

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Week of December 31, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of December 31st include THE BISHOP'S PAWN by Steve Berry, in which a young Cotton Malone happens upon an explosive secret about what really took place in Memphis the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated; OPERATOR DOWN, former Special Forces officer Brad Taylor's heart-pounding thriller that centers on Pike Logan's search for a Mossad agent and ally, which puts him on a collision course with a ruthless military coup in Africa --- and tests his loyalties to the Taskforce; and TRUST ME, a chilling novel of psychological suspense and manipulation from award-winning author and renowned investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan that poses an intriguing question: Who can you trust when you can't trust yourself?

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Week of December 24, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of December 24th include THE WANTED by Robert Crais, which finds investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, taking on the deadliest case of their lives; CAVE OF BONES, in which Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this third installment of the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series; and ONE STATION AWAY, Olaf Olafsson's intimate yet sweeping story of a New York neurologist and the three women who change his life.

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Week of December 17, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of December 17th include THE POPE OF PALM BEACH, Tim Dorsey's diabolically madcap adventure featuring the indomitable Serge A. Storms and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, told in alternating flashbacks between Serge and Coleman’s childhoods and the present day; THE NINE OF US by Jean Kennedy Smith, in which the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof; and FRESHWATER, Akwaeke Emezi's debut novel that centers on a young Nigerian woman who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side."

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Week of December 10, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of December 10th include TEXAS RANGER by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle, a Western thriller in which a Texas Ranger fights for his life, his freedom and the town he loves as he investigates his ex-wife's murder; WALLIS IN LOVE, Andrew Morton's captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne; and THE LAST MAN IN TEHRAN, the continuation of CIA analyst Mark Henshaw's Red Cell series following agent Kyra Stryker, who must work to save the CIA from being torn apart by a mole at the highest echelons, with the help of recently retired analyst Jonathan Burke.

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Week of December 3, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of December 3rd include Danielle Steel's ACCIDENTAL HEROES, a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco; I’LL BE YOUR BLUE SKY, an emotionally evocative novel from Marisa de los Santos that probes the deepest recesses of the human heart and illuminates the tender connections that bind our lives; THE WINTER STATION by Jody Shields, in which an aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria --- before it spreads to the rest of the world; and Sam Wasson's IMPROV NATION, a richly reported, scene-driven narrative that charts the meteoric rise of improv from its unlikely beginnings in McCarthy-era Chicago.

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Week of November 26, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of November 26th include HELLBENT, the third installment in Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X series, featuring government assassin gone rogue Evan Smoak; Jennifer Chiaverini's latest work of fiction, ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS, which illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace --- Lord Byron's daughter and the world's first computer programmer; and THE AFFLICTION, the continuation of Beth Gutcheon's clever romp of a mystery series combining social comedy and dark-hearted murder --- a novel set at a girls’ boarding school in a picturesque Hudson River town with more than its share of secrets.

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Week of November 19, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of November 19th include PROMISE ME, DAD, Joe Biden’s deeply moving memoir that chronicles the year following his son Beau’s devastating diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor that ultimately took his life in May 2015; THE GATE KEEPER, the 20th installment in Charles Todd's mystery series featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge, whose encounter with a frightened woman standing over a body launches an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories; and THE WAY IT WAS, a candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Frank Sinatra's life told by his longtime manager and friend, Eliot Weisman.

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