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Erica Bauermeister, author of No Two Persons

Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives. Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways.

Week of July 8, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of July 8th include ALL THE SINNERS BLEED, a powerful and unforgettable novel from S. A. Cosby that revolves around a Black sheriff, a serial killer and a small town ready to combust; DIRTY THIRTY, the appropriately titled 30th installment in Janet Evanovich's mystery series starring bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, who is on the trail of a stolen cache of dirty diamonds; HOW TO SAY BABYLON, the stunning story of Safiya Sinclair’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet; and NO TWO PERSONS by Erica Bauermeister, which reveals how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways --- and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.