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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 August 2, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of August 2nd include THE GUEST LIST by Lucy Foley, a deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie about a wedding celebration that turns dark and deadly; AFTERSHOCKS, a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through; C. J. Box's DARK SKY, which finds Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett accompanying a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip --- but he soon learns that he himself may be the hunted; V2, Robert Harris' WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a former actress turned British spy, and the Nazi rocket program; and THE SMALLEST LIGHTS IN THE UNIVERSE, a probing and invigoratingly honest book from Sara Seager, an MIT astrophysicist who must reinvent herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth.

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Week of July 26, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of July 26th include FAITHLESS IN DEATH, the 52nd installment in J. D. Robb's series starring NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas, which revolves around a supposed lover’s quarrel turned fatal that has larger --- and more terrifying --- motives behind it; WHITE IVY by debut novelist Susie Yang, in which a young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience; THE KINGDOM, a tense and atmospheric stand-alone thriller from Jo Nesbø about two brothers, one small town and a lifetime of dark secrets; Liz Nugent's LITTLE CRUELTIES, a biting and masterful novel of psychological suspense that explores the many ways families can wreak emotional havoc across generations; and AGENT SONYA, Ben Macintyre's page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers.

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Week of July 19, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of July 19th include THE WIFE WHO KNEW TOO MUCH by Michele Campbell, a decadent summer thriller about the lives of those who will do anything for love and money; HEAVEN AND EARTH, a powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death and faith in a sweeping story by Paolo Giordano, the international bestselling author of THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS; THE BONES OF WOLFE, James Carlos Blake's fifth Wolfe family adventure, in which Rudy and Frank Wolfe are engaging in routine miscellaneous business --- some legitimate and some less so --- for their family when they stumble upon a stash of high-quality pornographic films in a raid; and Rachel Cohn's AUSTEN YEARS, a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism and biographical and historical material about Jane Austen herself.

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Week of July 12, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of July 12th include SPIN, a heart-pounding thriller from Patricia Cornwell, in which Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance; Lisa Unger's CONFESSIONS ON THE 7:45, a riveting work of psychological suspense about a chance encounter that unravels a shocking web of lies; A VERY PUNCHABLE FACE, a collection of hilarious essays from "Saturday Night Live" head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost, who learns how to take a beating; BETTY, a stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl and the family truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life; and ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz, the haunting story of Eliot Ness' forgotten final case --- his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the Great Depression.

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Week of July 5, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of July 5th include MIGRATIONS, Charlotte McConaghy's ode to a disappearing world and a breathtaking page-turner about the possibility of hope against all odds; ANXIOUS PEOPLE by Fredrik Backman, a charming, poignant novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find that they have more in common than they ever imagined; Christina Baker Kline's THE EXILES, an ambitious, emotionally resonant work of historical fiction that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women’s lives --- two English convicts and an orphaned Aboriginal girl --- in 19th-century Australia; and YALE NEEDS WOMEN, Anne Gardiner Perkins' unflinching account of how a group of young women fought against the backward-leaning traditions of a centuries-old institution and created the opportunities that would carry them into the future.

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Week of June 28, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of June 28th include John Grisham's latest legal thriller, A TIME FOR MERCY, in which Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid 16-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy; ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE, the 16th entry in Louise Penny's series starring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec, who this time is investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light; THE EVENING AND THE MORNING, the thrilling prequel to Ken Follett's THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH, which is set in England at the dawn of a new era --- the Middle Ages; DADDY, a remarkable story collection from Emma Cline, who portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed and daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface; and THE BOOK OF LOST FRIENDS by Lisa Wingate, a dramatic account of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives.

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Week of June 21, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of June 21st include A PRIVATE CATHEDRAL, James Lee Burke's 40th book and his 23rd featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux, who must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered --- a time-traveling superhuman assassin; LOVE YOUR LIFE by Sophie Kinsella, an utterly delightful novel about a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer’s retreat in Italy, only to find that real love comes with its own filters; GHOSTS OF HARVARD, Francesca Serritella's much-talked-about first novel about a Harvard freshman who becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide --- then she starts hearing voices; WHAT’S LEFT OF ME IS YOURS, Stephanie Scott's gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo that charts a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life...and her murder; and BRONTË’S MISTRESS, newcomer Finola Austin's dazzling work of fiction that revolves around the scandalous love affair between Lydia Robinson and Branwell Brontë, brother to novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne.

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Week of June 14, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of June 14th include THE GIRL FROM WIDOW HILLS by Megan Miranda, a riveting novel of psychological suspense about a young lady plagued by night terrors after a childhood trauma who wakes one evening to find a corpse at her feet; Silvia Moreno Garcia's MEXICAN GOTHIC, a brilliant, page-turning romp --- set in glamorous 1950s Mexico --- about an isolated mansion, a chillingly charismatic aristocrat, and a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets; THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, THE WOMEN, Wayétu Moore's engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States; THE DILEMMA, a poignant, heart-stopping novel from B. A. Paris about a woman's 40th birthday party that takes a dark turn; and THE BUDDHIST ON DEATH ROW, in which BEAUTIFUL BOY author David Sheff explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters, who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.

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Week of June 7, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of June 7th include DAYLIGHT, David Baldacci's third Atlee Pine thriller, in which the FBI agent’s search for her sister clashes with a military investigator's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy --- from which neither of them will escape unscathed; DARK TIDES, Philippa Gregory's evocative historical novel tracking the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice and New England; FIFTY WORDS FOR RAIN by Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance in post-World War II Japan; THE SECOND HOME, an assured and affecting first novel from Christina Clancy that captures the ache of nostalgia for summers past and the powerful draw of the places we return to again and again; and CULT OF GLORY, Doug J. Swanson's 21st-century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, oppression and corruption.

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Week of May 31, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of May 31st include IF IT BLEEDS, an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas from Stephen King, each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places; Shari Lapena's fifth domestic thriller, THE END OF HER, in which the well-ordered lives of a young married couple are shattered when a tragic accident from the past is brought into their present, threatening to destroy everything; FLORENCE ADLER SWIMS FOREVER by Rachel Beanland, which finds three generations of a family grappling with heartbreak, romance and the weight of family secrets over the course of one summer; Anna Solomon's THE BOOK OF V., a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power and desire finally converge in the present day; and GROUP by Christie Tate, the refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers --- her psychotherapy group.

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