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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 October 19, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of October 19th include THE BOY FROM THE WOODS, a shocking thriller from Harlan Coben about a man with a mysterious past who must find a missing teenage girl; NINTH HOUSE by Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite; THE OLD SUCCESS, the 25th mystery in Martha Grimes' Richard Jury series, in which an unlikely trio of detectives teams up to solve three puzzling murders that span three counties across England; MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN, an essay collection from Leslie Jamison that explores the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession; and ATTICUS FINCH, in which historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee's father provided the central inspiration for each of her books.

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Week of October 12, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of October 12th include A MRS. MIRACLE CHRISTMAS, an uplifting holiday tale from Debbie Macomber, whose beloved protagonist, Mrs. Miracle, shows an ordinary family that they are blessed beyond belief; HOME WORK, a follow-up to Julie Andrews' critically acclaimed memoir, HOME, in which she reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and Victor/Victoria; THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA, a continuation of Martin Cruz Smith's series featuring Arkady Renko, who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist Tatiana Petrovna; NO STOPPING US NOW, a lively social history of American women and aging from acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins, who illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries; and JANIS, Holly George-Warren's intimate biography of Janis Joplin that establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.

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Week of October 5, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of October 5th include WALK THE WIRE, the sixth entry in David Baldacci's Memory Man series, which finds Amos Decker --- the FBI consultant with a perfect memory --- trying to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town; GRAND UNION, Zadie Smith's debut short story collection, which is about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us; IMAGINARY FRIEND, Stephen Chbosky's first novel since 1999's THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, an epic work of literary horror about a young boy who is haunted by a voice in his head; A SINGLE THREAD by Tracy Chevalier, the story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War; and Susan Ronald's CONDÉ NAST: The Man and His Empire, the first biography in over 30 years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst.

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Week of September 28, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 28th include KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM CRY, a thriller from Mary Higgins Clark that revolves around allegations of sexual misconduct at a high-profile television news network --- and the ensuing deaths of two of the accusers; FURIOUS HOURS, in which Casey Cep masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, who tried to write his story; Preston & Child's CROOKED RIVER, which finds Agent Pendergast facing the most inexplicable challenge of his career as he races to uncover the mystery of several severed feet found floating in the Gulf of Mexico; and THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century --- a tale of adolescence, transgression and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right.

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Week of September 21, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 21st include Thomas Harris' CARI MORA, a pulse-pounding thriller from the author of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS in which a resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath; FRANKISSSTEIN by Jeanette Winterson, an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence and queer love; Julia Kelly's latest historical novel, THE WHISPERS OF WAR, which follows three friends who struggle to remain loyal as one of them is threatened with internment by the British government at the start of World War II; and CLEAR MY NAME by Paula Daly, a page-turning work of psychological suspense about an investigator who, in order to free her client, must confront secrets she has struggled a lifetime to hide.

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Week of September 14, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 14th include WHAT HAPPENS IN PARADISE, the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Elin Hilderbrand's WINTER IN PARADISE, in which secret lives and new loves emerge under the bright Caribbean sky; THE ROAD HOME, the dramatic conclusion to Richard Paul Evans' riveting Broken Road trilogy --- a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66; Benjamin Moser's Pulitzer Prize winner SONTAG, the definitive portrait of one of the American century’s most towering intellectuals --- her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face; and CHASING THE BEAR by Lars Anderson, a dual biography of two coaching legends --- Bear Bryant and Nick Saban --- who built the Alabama Crimson Tide into a true football dynasty.

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Week of September 7, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 7th include FULL THROTTLE, a collection of 13 relentless tales of supernatural suspense from Joe Hill, including “In the Tall Grass,” one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King and the basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix; DEATH IN FOCUS by Anne Perry, the start of an all-new mystery series set in pre–World War II Europe, in which an intrepid young photographer carries her dead lover’s final, world-shattering message into the heart of Berlin as Hitler ascends to power; CILKA’S JOURNEY, a novel based on a riveting true story of love and resilience, from the author of the multi-million-copy bestseller THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, Heather Morris; and two books commemorating September 11, 2001 --- FALL AND RISE, Mitchell Zuckoff's mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day that masterfully weaves together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania; and THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY by Garrett M. Graff, the first comprehensive oral history of 9/11, deftly woven and told in the voices of ordinary people grappling with extraordinary events.

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Week of August 31, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of August 31st include THE TESTAMENTS, the long-awaited sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic 1985 novel, THE HANDMAID’S TALE, in which the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results; THE INSTITUTE, Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win; Alice Hoffman's THE WORLD THAT WE KNEW --- on the brink of World War II, and with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother’s act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival; NOTHING TO SEE HERE by Kevin Wilson, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability; and YEAR OF THE MONKEY, Patti Smith's profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

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Week of August 24, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of August 24th include WHEN WE WERE VIKINGS by Andrew David MacDonald, an uplifting debut about an unlikely heroine whose journey will leave you wanting to embark on a quest of your own...because, after all, we are all legends of our own making; Angie Cruz's DOMINICANA, a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world; THE STRANGER INSIDE, a psychological thriller from Lisa Unger that takes readers deep inside the minds of both perpetrator and victim, blurring the lines between right and wrong, crime and justice, and showing that sometimes people deserve what comes to them; and PRINCE ALBERT, a companion biography to the acclaimed VICTORIA, in which A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert.

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Week of August 17, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of August 17th include IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY? by Candace Bushnell, which follows a cohort of female friends --- Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn and Candace --- as they navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships; THE LAST ODYSSEY, the 15th installment in James Rollins’ Sigma Force series --- to save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present; TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE, a suburban mystery from Susan Isaacs that finds a retired FBI agent turned Long Island housewife tapping into her investigative past when she begins to suspect that her neighbor is harboring criminal secrets; and THEIR LITTLE SECRET, the 16th entry in Mark Billingham's series featuring DI Tom Thorne, whose investigation into a seemingly straightforward suicide turns into a chilling story of obsession, deception and murder.

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