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Week of August 17, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of August 17th include WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE? by Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story --- by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming --- of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew; THE LOST BAKER OF VIENNA, a sweeping saga about survival, loss, love and the reverberating effects of war that was inspired by the experiences of Sharon Kurtzman's own family after the Holocaust; WRECK, a wonderful novel from Catherine Newman about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn’t go as planned; and THAT NIGHT by Gillian McAllister, an electrifying thriller about three siblings torn apart by the cover-up of a death while on a family vacation in Italy, which is now available in the US for the first time and was adapted earlier this year as a limited series on Netflix.

Catherine Newman, author of Wreck

If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry --- and relate.) Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband, Nick, and their daughter, Willa, who's back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky’s widowed father, has moved in. It all couldn’t be more ridiculously normal…until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially affects them --- and with a medical condition that, she hopes, won’t affect them at all.