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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 3, 2014

Releases for the week of February 3rd include SEE NOW THEN, Jamaica Kincaid's first novel in 10 years; Bill Cheng's SOUTHERN CROSS THE DOG, a debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927; and WHISTLING PAST THE GRAVEYARD by Susan Crandall, a coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip.

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January 2014

January’s roundup of New in Paperback includes the latest in Penguin’s Who Was…?

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Week of January 27, 2014

Releases for the week of January 27th include THE SON by Philipp Meyer, an epic of the American West and a multigenerational saga of power, blood, land and oil that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family; UNSEEN, the ninth thriller in Karin Slaughter's Georgia Bureau of Investigation series featuring Will Trent; and AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF US, Aria Beth Sloss's debut novel about a confession of what passed between two women who met as girls in 1960s Pasadena, California.

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Week of January 20, 2014

Releases for the week of January 20th include FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND, a continuation of Mary Jane Clark's Piper Donovan mystery series; THE VANISHING, a new Gothic thriller from Wendy Webb; and BIG GIRL PANTIES by Stephanie Evanovich, in which a young widow decides to get in shape...and winds up getting her groove back --- and a whole lot more.

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Week of January 13, 2014

Releases for the week of January 13th include Kent Haruf's BENEDICTION, a story of life and death, and the ties that bind; VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE, Karen Russell's collection of stories that was named Best Book of the Year by O, The Oprah Magazine and Huffington Post, and was an NPR Great Read of 2013; and SOME GIRLS, SOME HATS AND HITLER: A True Love Story by Trudi Kanter, the astonishing memoir of a woman whose courage and resourcefulness kept her and her beloved safe after the Nazis invaded Austria.

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Week of January 6, 2014

Releases for the week of January 6th include A WEEK IN WINTER, the late Maeve Binchy's final novel; TENTH OF DECEMBER, a short story collection from George Saunders and a National Book Award finalist; THE DESCENT, the conclusion to Alma Katsu's The Taker trilogy; and LIFE AFTER LIFE, Kate Atkinson's vision of the first half of the 20th century as witnessed --- and lived --- by one woman.

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December 2013

December's roundup of New in Paperback includes Newbury Honor winner THREE TIMES LUCKY by Sheila Turnage, where a girl who washed ashore a small North Carolina town 11 years ago must save the only family she's ever known from an accusatory lawman; FANCY NANCY: JUST MY LUCK!

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Week of December 30, 2013

Cotton Malone and his 15-year-old son, Gary, are headed to Europe in Steve Berry's THE KING'S DECEPTION. As a favor to his former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a teenage fugitive back to England. But after he is greeted at gunpoint in London, both the fugitive and Gary disappear, and Malone learns that he’s stumbled into a high-stakes diplomatic showdown --- an international incident fueled by geopolitical gamesmanship and shocking Tudor secrets.

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Week of December 23, 2013

After only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay Boxer is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career in James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's new Women's Murder Club novel, 12th OF NEVER. A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, an eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and is convinced it’s real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a shooting is called in --- and it fits the professor's description perfectly.

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Week of December 16, 2013

Facing his 63rd winter, Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations --- both pleasurable and painful. Thirty years after the publication of THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir, WINTER JOURNAL, in which he writes about his mother's life and death.

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