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Week of November 17, 2025

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Week of November 17, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of November 17th include CITIZEN, a powerful, candid and richly detailed memoir from Bill Clinton, revealing what life looks like after the presidency --- triumphs, tribulations and all; TOOTH AND CLAW by Craig Johnson, an action-packed novella set in the Alaska Tundra that pushes Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear to their limits as they face powerful enemies who will do anything to get what they want; Christopher Bollen's HAVOC, a twisty, atmospheric psychological suspense about a meddlesome elderly guest at a decadent luxury hotel who believes she has left her problematic past behind --- until she decides to interfere in the lives of a young mother and her eight-year-old son, and finally meets her wicked match; and the paperback original THE FERRYMAN AND HIS WIFE by Frode Grytten, the story of a quiet, yet utterly profound, life told in reverse --- ferry driver Nils Vik’s last route along the fjord, on what he knows will be his last day alive.

And Then There Was You by Sophie Cousens - Romantic Comedy

November 18, 2025

Stuck in a Production Assistant job and living at home with her parents after a painful breakup, 31-year-old Chloe Fairway isn’t where she wants to be in life. The last thing she needs is to face the people who once voted her "most likely to succeed" at her upcoming 10-year college reunion. And she definitely doesn’t want to see her former best friend, Sean Adler, who is now a hotshot film director living the life Chloe dreamed of. Desperate to make a splash --- and to save face in front of the man who might be the one that got away --- she turns to a mysterious dating service. Enter Rob, her handsome, well-read and charming match, the perfect plus-one to take to her reunion. The more she gets to know him, the more perfect he appears to be. As Chloe reconnects with old friends, she begins to question everything she thought she wanted.

Citizen: My Life After the White House by Bill Clinton - Memoir

November 18, 2025

On January 20, 2001, after nearly 30 years in politics --- eight of them as president of the United States --- Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only 54 years old, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all he’d learned in a lifetime of politics. Just days after leaving the White House, the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India, and Clinton hit the ground running. Over the next two decades, he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work --- from Indonesia to Louisiana, Northern Ireland to South Africa --- and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world. CITIZEN is Clinton’s front-row, first-person chronicle of his post-presidential years and the most significant events of the 21st century.

Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck - Romance

November 18, 2025

At 26, Sam Pulaski expected to be thriving in her academic career. But she has massive student loan debt from studying art history and a dead-end service industry job. If she can finally get accepted into a PhD program, the adult life that’s been on hold will finally begin. Her mom’s new neighbor, Nick, is the ultimate grown-up. His adult life began the moment his nine-year-old daughter, Kira, was born. Her happiness is Nick’s only priority, especially in the wake of divorce. There’s nothing he won’t do for Kira, including giving up his globe-trotting career for something more stable, like managing a chain restaurant. Sam has zero interest in an ultra-dependable guy pushing 40. But as her unexpected connection with him heats up, she finds herself falling fast for a man whose life is steady and settled --- while hers is anything but.

The Ferryman and His Wife written by Frode Grytten, translated by Alison McCullough - Metaphysical Fiction

November 18, 2025

Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, and looks around the empty house one last time, before stepping onto his beloved boat. His dog, dead these many years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to emerge --- from the woods along the fjord, from each of the ferry stops along the route, from his logbook full of memories and quotations and jotted-down notes about the weather conditions. The people from the past accompany him now, prodding him, showing him what he might have missed before, as he waits for his Marta, his late, remarkable wife, to finally join him on the boat again.

Havoc by Christopher Bollen - Psychological Thriller

November 18, 2025

Eighty-one-year-old widow Maggie Burkhardt came to the Royal Karnak to escape. But not in quite the same way as most other guests who are relaxing at this threadbare luxury hotel on the banks of the Nile. Maggie, a compulsive fixer of other people’s lives, may have found herself in hot water at her last hotel in Switzerland and just might have needed to get out of there fast. But here at the Royal Karnak, she has a handful of sympathetic friends, similar “long-termers” who understand her still-vivid grief for her late husband. One morning, however, Maggie notices a new arrival at check-in: a mournful-looking young mother named Tess and her impish eight-year-old, Otto. Eager to help, Maggie invites them into her world. But it isn’t long before Maggie realizes that she has let in an enemy much stronger than she bargained for.

Her Prodigal Husband by Becky Masterman - Domestic Thriller

November 18, 2025

Alice Einstein --- known as “Malice” to her former schoolfriends --- likes to tell herself stories. There’s a good one she’s workshopping about how, despite once being a critically acclaimed literary novelist, she’s ended up blocked and uninspired, living in her timid, conflict-averse sister Liesl’s spare room. But then Liesl sends her an SOS worthy of a thriller novel. The horror! The horror! Sam is back. Sam, Liesl’s wealthy ex-husband, vanished 10 years ago and now claims he’s sick. But Alice knows a liar when she sees one. So she engages the services of Brigid Quinn, a hardboiled local private investigator with a shady past, to help her get rid of Sam for good. But as the plot thickens, Alice begins to wonder if she knows anyone involved --- most of all herself --- quite as well as she thinks.

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin - Thriller/Dark Humor

November 18, 2025

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules: He cannot look inside the box. He cannot ask questions. He cannot tell anyone. They must leave immediately. He must leave all trackable devices behind. As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war. The truth promises to be even stranger and may change how you see the world.

My Ex-Husband's Ex-Husband by Rachel Cohn and Melissa de la Cruz - Fiction

November 18, 2025

Audrey and Ian were best friends --- until they fell in love with the same man. To be precise, they fell in love with, married and divorced the same man. Twenty-odd years later, they’re right back at the beginning: Vienna, where their university study abroad turned into a love triangle from which they never quite recovered. But it’s Christmas, and Audrey’s daughter is getting married. Time to let bygones be bygones. Not for the sake of the holiday or even because they’ve matured with age…but because their mutual ex is nowhere to be found. It’s up to Audrey and Ian to track him down. As wedding plans go further awry, the former besties race to find the father of the bride.

Not Dead Yet: A Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis Mystery by Jeffrey Siger - Mystery

November 18, 2025

Wealthy Greek businessman Dimitris Onofrio is known to be corrupt to the core, but the police have never been able to make his crimes stick. Onofrio is not a man to cross, and every witness prepared to come forward against him has died before they could testify. So when Onofrio’s private jet crashes, seemingly with no survivors, the police breathe a sigh of relief --- quickly replaced by horror when Onofrio is found alive but catatonic on a remote Ionian beach, beside the body of his beloved wife. Was the crash an accident...or sabotage? Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis, head of Athens’ Special Crimes Unit, knows that unless he can discover the truth before Onofrio recovers, the tycoon will be out for bloody revenge on all involved. Including Kaldis’ own beloved wife, who is more mixed up in the accident than anyone ever would have suspected.

The Shadowed Land by Signe Pike - Historical Fiction

November 18, 2025

Scotland, AD 580: A queen has risen. A battle has been won. Loved ones who were lost have been reunited. But in a land of power-hungry kings, peace is precarious and cannot last for long. All too soon, circumstance pulls both Britons and Scots back to their own destinies. The warrior Artúr receives a mysterious summons from his father in Dalriada. Queen Languoreth and her brother must return to Strathclyde with the dangerous former bishop Mungo in tow, determined to maintain the fragile balance between the Christians and the people of the Old Way. Meanwhile, the young priestess Angharad must travel deep into the shadowed land of the Picts, hoping to become the initiate of Briochan, a druid who practices the secret Celtic art of weather work. As they rise to meet their fates, they are pushed to impossible new frontiers.

Shot Clock by Andrew Bourelle - Thriller

November 18, 2025

Caitlin Glass had aspirations of becoming a professional basketball player until an injury ended her college career. Now a small-town police officer with a husband and young son, she’s watched with envy as her ex-boyfriend, Garrett Streeter, became a star. But as Garrett leads his team to the NBA Finals, he suddenly shows up at her door, asking for help. Garrett’s brother has been kidnapped. If Garrett wants Jake to survive, he has to do the unthinkable: cheat and fix the championship series. If they don’t track Jake down before the final buzzer, he’ll be dead. Putting aside her deep misgivings, Caitlin dives into the dark, criminal underbelly of glitzy Las Vegas while the clock is ticking, and the seconds Jake has to live are running out.

Slow Gods by Claire North - Science Fiction/Space Opera

November 18, 2025

My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself. In telling my story, there are certain things I should perhaps lie about. I should make myself a hero. Pretend I was not used by strangers and gods, did not leave people behind. Here is one truth: out there in deep space, in the pilot's chair, I died. And then, I was reborn. I became something not quite human, something that could speak to the infinite dark. And I vowed to become the scourge of the world that wronged me. This is the story of the supernova event that burned planets and felled civilizations. This is also the story of the many lives I've lived since I died for the first time. Are you listening? 

Tooth and Claw: A Longmire Story by Craig Johnson - Mystery

November 18, 2025

TOOTH AND CLAW follows Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear up to Alaska as they look for work after they both returned from serving in Vietnam. While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, they soon encounter a ferocious polar bear that seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it’s not too long until they realize that the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaska tundra, but with their co-workers, who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it.