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Sandra Brown, author of Out of Nowhere

At a Texas county fair, children’s book author Elle Portman is enjoying a rare night out with her two-year-old son, Charlie. Just as they’re about to head home, a shooter opens fire into the crowd. Also caught in the melee is corporate consultant Calder Hudson. He’s frustrated and confused when he wakes up in the hospital after undergoing emergency surgery on his arm. The doctor tells him that he was lucky, but others weren’t, which instills in Calder a furious determination to get justice…a goal shared by Elle. Their chance encounter at the police station leads to a surprising and inexplicable gravitation to one another. But Elle and Calder can’t help but wonder if the unimaginable tragedy that brought them together is too painful and too complicated to sustain --- especially while the shooter remains at large.

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Week of August 28, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of August 28th include A SONG OF COMFORTABLE CHAIRS, the 23rd installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which finds Grace Makutsi encountering a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe’s cleverness and generosity to resolve; BABEL by R. F. Kuang, a thematic response to THE SECRET HISTORY and a tonal retort to JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire; Kieran Scott's REGRETS ONLY, a fast-paced domestic thriller about a single mom who goes undercover to investigate a host of disturbing secrets held by the leaders of a local suburban parent-school association; and the paperback original END CREDITS, screenwriter Patty Lin's funny, fresh, eye-opening and inside-Hollywood story that will resonate with anyone trying to please their parents, maintain a love life, and find their way in the world.

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Week of August 21, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of August 21st include OUR MISSING HEARTS by Celeste Ng, an inspiring novel about a mother’s unshakeable love; LONG SHADOWS, the seventh thriller in David Baldacci's series starring “Memory Man” Amos Decker --- an FBI consultant with perfect recall --- who delves into a bewildering double homicide; WAGING A GOOD WAR, an indispensable addition to the literature of racial justice and social change from Thomas E. Ricks, who offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world; A PLACE IN THE WORLD, a lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from Frances Mayes, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home; and the paperback original THE ENEMY AT HOME by Kevin O'Brien, a provocative blend of vivid, richly detailed historical fiction and taut suspense that revolves around a serial killer who preys on women working in Seattle’s factories as World War II rages overseas.

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Week of August 14, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of August 14th include SHATTERED by James Patterson and James O. Born, a Michael Bennett thriller that finds the NYPD detective investigating the murder of Emily Parker, a top FBI abduction specialist who was his partner and best friend; SECLUDED CABIN SLEEPS SIX, a chilling locked-room thriller from Lisa Unger featuring three couples who rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for; Holly Black's stunning adult debut, BOOK OF NIGHT, a modern dark fantasy of betrayals, cabals and a dissolute thief of shadows, in the vein of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern; SAVING FREUD by Andrew Nagorski, the dramatic true story of Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible; and the paperback original SPIN A BLACK YARN, a spine-tingling collection of five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from a master weaver of stories, Josh Malerman.

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Week of August 7, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of August 7th include DREAMLAND by Nicholas Sparks, a powerful novel about risking everything for a dream --- and whether or not it’s possible to leave the past behind; BURNER, the 12th installment in Mark Greaney's electrifying Gray Man series, which finds Court Gentry caught between the Russian mafia and the CIA; B. A. Paris' THE PRISONER, a stunning thriller about a woman wed into a family with deadly intentions; THE NIGHT SHIP by Jess Kidd, an epic historical novel that illuminates the lives of two characters --- a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, 300 years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island; KOSHERSOUL, a remarkable book by Michael W. Twitty, who explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity and food; and the paperback original A DAY OF FIRE, a vividly imagined novel from six bestselling authors that follows the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day that Mount Vesuvius erupts.

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Week of July 31, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of July 31st include NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC by Kevin Wilson, an exuberant, big-hearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever; THE HOUSE GUEST, a diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller from Hank Phillippi Ryan that will have readers asking which character is the cat and which is the mouse; WHEN WE WERE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL by Jillian Medoff, an electrifying, twisty and deeply emotional family drama, set on Manhattan’s glittering Upper East Side, that explores the dark side of love, the limits of loyalty and the high cost of truth; Melissa Bond's BLOOD ORANGE NIGHT, a visceral, propulsive memoir detailing a woman’s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence and the life-threatening impacts of the drugs’ long-term use; and the paperback original WINE PEOPLE by Michelle Wildgen, an intoxicating escape into the cutthroat world of wine and the complicated terrain of women’s friendship.

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August 2023

August's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "Harlan Coben’s Shelter" on Amazon Prime Video, "Painkiller" on Netflix, and "The Winter King" on MGM+; the resumption of season two of Netflix's "The Lincoln Lawyer"; the season seven midseason finale of "Outlander" on Starz; the continuation of AMC's "Dark Winds" and Hallmark Channel's "When Calls the Heart"; the films Red, White & Royal Blue on Amazon Prime Video and Landscape with Invisible Hand in theaters; and the DVD releases of The Flash, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and BlackBerry.

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August 1, 2023

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of July 31st and August 7th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our special contest for THE RIVER WE REMEMBER, a new stand-alone novel from William Kent Krueger that releases on September 5th. We are awarding an advance copy to 25 readers who can read the book by Friday, September 8th and submit a question to Kent for an interview that will be going up shortly after the book’s publication. The deadline for your entries is THIS Friday, August 4th at noon ET.

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Bookreporter.com's Summer Reading 2023 Wrap-up

THANK YOU to all who subscribed to this Summer Reading newsletter and entered our contests! We appreciate your enthusiasm and participation.

This Bookreporter.com SPECIAL Summer Reading Wrap-up newsletter brings you a look at ALL of the titles that were included in our Summer Reading feature. We shared 18 books with you this summer, and we thank our publisher sponsors who made this possible.

Below are all of this year's featured titles, and we've also created a list of these books in a PDF format that you can access here. We know that many of you enjoy checking off what you have read. A list of all the prize winners is here. 

Stay subscribed to this newsletter so you can participate in our 2024 Summer Reading contests, which will begin next May.

This year's Fall Preview Contests and Feature will kick off in late August. If you have not signed up for that newsletter yet, you can do that here.

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July 29, 2023

Last weekend, I floated in the pool and read THE FIVE-STAR WEEKEND by Elin Hilderbrand to prep for my book group meeting. Yes, we went for a beach read this month, and I was hosting with a plan to spend the meeting discussing the book IN the pool. That was before the rainstorm that caused the trees --- the full-grown ones with lots of leaves on them --- to sway in the breeze, and the rain came down sideways. Luckily, there were covers on the couches on the deck so I could tug them off right before the meeting.

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