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Joan Didion, author of South and West: From a Notebook

Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles --- and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. And from a different notebook: the "California Notes" that began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial.

Week of January 1, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 1st include THE LOST ORDER, Steve Berry's 12th Cotton Malone novel, a perilous adventure that illuminates our country’s dark past and the risks of a potentially darker future; THE GIRL BEFORE by JP Delaney, an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death and deception; THE PERFECT STRANGER, Megan Miranda's gripping story of a journalist who sets out to find her missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all; and Jessica Shattuck's THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLE, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined, set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society.