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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 August 29, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of August 29th include MERCY, book four in David Baldacci's breakneck thriller series featuring FBI agent Atlee Pine, whose harrowing search for her long-lost sister, Mercy, reaches a boiling point; SURVIVE THE NIGHT, Riley Sager's instant New York Times bestseller with a premise that's hard to ignore: It’s November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer; FUZZ, Mary Roach's irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet; SONGBIRDS by Christy Lefteri, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan domestic worker and how the most vulnerable people find their voices; and Shea Ernshaw's A HISTORY OF WILD PLACES, a spine-tingling thriller in which three residents of a secluded, seemingly peaceful commune investigate the disappearances of two outsiders.

Week of August 22, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of August 22nd include END OF DAYS, the 16th installment in Brad Taylor's explosive, action-packed thriller series featuring Taskforce operator Pike Logan, who must stop a deranged killer hell-bent on igniting an international conflagration; ROBERT B. PARKER’S STONE’S THROW by Mike Lupica, the 20th novel starring legendary police chief Jesse Stone, whose town of Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death; THE BURNING, a riveting, emotional thriller from the father-son team of Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman, whose protagonist, Deputy Coroner Clay Edison, must deal with a murder that hits close to home; A PLACE LIKE HOME, a spellbinding collection of short stories by internationally bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, never before published in book form; and WHAT A DOG KNOWS, another heartwarming novel from Susan Wilson about humans and the dogs that change our lives.

Week of August 15, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of August 15th include THE NAMELESS ONES, which marks the return of John Connolly's white-knuckled series starring Charlie Parker, who is involved in a heart-pounding race to hunt down the deadliest of war criminals; FRIENDS LIKE THESE, a relentlessly twisty literary thriller from Kimberly McCreight, in which a desperate intervention brings together a group of college friends 10 years after graduation --- a reunion marked by lies, betrayal and murder; Mary Dixie Carter's THE PHOTOGRAPHER, a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that seeing is ever believing; and TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, a riveting memoir from Ellen McGarrahan, a private investigator who revisits the case that has haunted her for decades and sets out on a deeply personal quest to sort truth from lies.

Week of August 8, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of August 8th include HARLEM SHUFFLE, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s from Colson Whitehead, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and THE NICKEL BOYS; WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS, Lisa Scottoline's pulse-pounding thriller with a tagline that will intrigue you: Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Now you have to choose between law...and justice; THIS WILL ALL BE OVER SOON, a powerful memoir from "Saturday Night Live" cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin --- and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her --- amid the coronavirus pandemic; and THE READING LIST by Sara Nisha Adams, an unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.

Week of August 1, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of August 1st include BILLY SUMMERS by Stephen King, a can't-put-it-down novel about a top-tier assassin with a heart of gold who suddenly gains a completely unexpected and unlikely companion who opens his heart and becomes his future partner in vengeance; James Lee Burke's ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN, a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s; THE WISH, an emotional work of fiction from Nicholas Sparks about the enduring legacy of first love and the decisions that haunt us forever; WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women --- one Black and one white --- whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event; and THE SPECKLED BEAUTY, the warmhearted and hilarious story of how Rick Bragg's life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog.

Week of July 25, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of July 25th include THE RUNAWAY, the seventh installment in Nick Petrie's powerful thriller series featuring war veteran Peter Ash, who rescues a stranded woman and finds she’s in far deeper trouble than he ever could imagine; THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE, the second gripping novel in Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series starring everyone’s favorite mystery-solving quartet; GOLDEN BOY, in which journalist John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the handsome and charming New York socialite accused of murdering his father, a Manhattan millionaire and hedge fund founder; and SWAN DIVE, a page-turning, one-of-a-kind memoir from award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin (aka the Rogue Ballerina), who gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet --- the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don’t see from the orchestra circle.

Week of July 18, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of July 18th include THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER, James Patterson and Bill Clinton's highly anticipated second collaboration (following THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING), in which a madman abducts the teenage daughter of one-time Navy SEAL and past president Matthew Keating --- turning every parent’s deepest fear into a matter of national security; ONE STEP TOO FAR by Lisa Gardner, a chilling thriller about a young man gone missing in the wilderness of Wyoming…and the secrets uncovered by the desperate effort to find him; APPLES NEVER FALL, a scandalous, page-turning novel from Liane Moriarty that looks at marriage, siblings and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest; and QUICKSILVER, which finds Dean Koontz taking readers on a surprising and exhilarating road trip with a man in pursuit of his strange past --- mile by frightening mile.

Week of July 11, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of July 11th include GAME ON, the 28th installment in Janet Evanovich's wildly popular series featuring bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, who returns to hunt down a master cyber-criminal operating out of Trenton; THE PARTY CRASHER, Sophie Kinsella's humorous and heartwarming novel about family, set against the backdrop of the most fabulous party you’ve ever snuck into; Liv Constantine's THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR, a diabolically twisty, psychologically unsettling novel about a woman with no recollection of her past; BATTLE FOR THE BIG TOP by Les Standiford, the untold story of three Golden Age titans and the confrontations, cutthroat business strategies and eccentric personalities that built the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus; and the paperback original THE EDGE OF SUMMER, a captivating summertime escape from Viola Shipman set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past.

Week of July 4, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of July 4th include LIGHTNING STRIKE, a powerful prequel to William Kent Krueger's acclaimed Cork O’Connor series, which is about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo through youth and shape our lives forever; SILVERVIEW, the last completed novel by John le Carré, who turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past 60 years --- the secret world itself; COUNT THE WAYS by Joyce Maynard, a mesmerizing story of a family, from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives; and Hayley Mills' fascinating memoir, FOREVER YOUNG, in which the iconic actress shares personal memories from her storied childhood, growing up in a famous acting family and becoming a Disney child star, trying to grow up in a world that wanted her to stay forever young.

Week of June 27, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of June 27th include STATE OF TERROR, a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise, cowritten by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny; Katie Couric's GOING THERE, a heartbreaking, hilarious and brutally honest memoir that shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name; the paperback original THE SECOND HUSBAND by Kate White, a twisty psychological thriller in which a woman’s seemingly perfect second marriage is rocked by a discovery about the death of her first husband; Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara’s eye-opening and poignant mystery, CLARK AND DIVISION, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death; and THE LAST COMMANDMENT, the third novel by acclaimed screenwriter and producer Scott Shepherd, in which a Scotland Yard detective tracks a serial killer from London to New York City.