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Week of May 18, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of May 18th include Daniel H. Wilson's THE ANDROMEDA EVOLUTION, a gripping sequel to Michael Crichton's THE ANDROMEDIA STRAIN that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant; HOW TO FORGET, actress Kate Mulgrew's profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents; DOXOLOGY by Nell Zink, a moving and original novel about two generations of an American family that come of age --- one before 9/11, one after; Daniel Okrent's THE GUARDED GATE, the powerful, definitive and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America close the immigration door to “inferiors” in the 1920s; THE BODY LIES, a work of riveting psychological suspense from Jo Baker that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world --- or in the pages of a book --- when the stakes are dangerously high; and THE YANKEE WIDOW by Linda Lael Miller, a richly layered, emotional novel about one woman’s courage and the choices she must make in the face of a dangerous war.