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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 February 26, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of February 26th include EXIT WEST, Mohsin Hamid's astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands; HOUSE OF SPIES by Daniel Silva, which finds legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon determined to hunt down the world’s most dangerous terrorist, a shadowy ISIS mastermind known only as Saladin; THIS CLOSE TO HAPPY, Daphne Merkin’s rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression; and Helene Cooper's MADAME PRESIDENT, the harrowing but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf --- leader of the Liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.

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Week of February 19, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of February 19th include SMALL GREAT THINGS, a page-turning novel from Jodi Picoult that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power and race; THE LAST TUDOR by Philippa Gregory, which features one of the most famous women in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen; THE IDENTICALS, Elin Hilderbrand's novel about identical twin sisters who couldn't look more alike...or live more differently; and CORETTA, the life story of Coretta Scott King as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to the Reverend Dr. Barbara Reynolds.

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Week of February 12, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of February 12th include NEW BOY, in which Tracy Chevalier brings Shakespeare’s harrowing drama of jealousy and revenge to a 1970s-era elementary school playground; DEAD JOKER, the fifth book in Anne Holt's Edgar-nominated mystery series featuring the whip-smart detective Hanne Wilhelmsen; THE HOPE CHEST by Viola Shipman, in which the discovery of one woman’s heirloom hope chest unveils precious memories and helps three people who have each lost a part of themselves find joy once again; and WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE CASABLANCA, film historian Noah Isenberg's rich account of the movie’s origins, the myths and realities behind its production, and the reasons it remains so revered today, more than 75 years after its premiere.

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Week of February 5, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of February 5th include George Saunders' Man Booker Prize-winning novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented; BEARTOWN, Fredrik Backman's instant New York Times bestseller about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything; UNRAVELING OLIVER by debut novelist Liz Nugent, a complex and disturbing psychological thriller about how and why a human being transforms into a sociopath; and Lynne Olson's LAST HOPE ISLAND, a groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler.

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Week of January 29, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 29th include THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, which chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South; Jo Nesbø's THE THIRST, in which Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims...on Tinder; A PIECE OF THE WORLD, Christina Baker Kline's novel of friendship, passion and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World; and THE STRANGER IN THE WOODS by Michael Finkel, the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years --- not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.

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Week of January 22, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 22nd include THE LATE SHOW, in which Michael Connelly introduces his readers to Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat --- the Late Show; TWO NIGHTS, Kathy Reichs' first novel to feature Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct; and THE TRUE FLAG by Stephen Kinzer, which brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the 20th century and beyond.

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Week of January 15, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 15th include KISS CARLO by Adriana Trigiani, the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change; INSOMNIAC CITY, a moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks; and David Grossman's A HORSE WALKS INTO A BAR, winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one evening’s performance.

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Week of January 8, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 8th include LONG BLACK VEIL, Jennifer Finney Boylan's novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past; MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES by Brad Ricca, the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up; and J. M. Lee's THE BOY WHO ESCAPED PARADISE, an astonishing story of the mysteries, truths and deceptions that follow the odyssey of Ahn Gil­mo, a young math savant, as he escapes from the most isolated country in the world and searches for the only family he has left.

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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.

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Week of December 25, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of December 25th include ANY DREAM WILL DO by Debbie Macomber, a powerful stand-alone novel about a woman forced to start her life anew, embarking on the most courageous journey of all --- to a place where she learns what love and trust really mean; THE WICKED CITY, the first book of a trilogy by Beatriz Williams, in which two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment --- a flapper hiding an extraordinary past and a modern-day Manattanite forced to start her life anew; and GINNY MOON, Benjamin Ludwig's debut novel that introduces the lovable, wholly original Ginny Moon, who discovers a new meaning of family on her unconventional journey home.

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