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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 January 13, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of January 13th include THE LAST ROMANTICS by Tara Conklin, an unforgettable exploration of the ties that bind us together, the responsibilities we embrace and the duties we resent, and how we can lose --- and sometimes rescue --- the ones we love; C. J. Box's WOLF PACK, which finds Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encountering bad behavior on his own turf --- only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down; THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD, a rich gathering of Toni Morrison's essays, speeches and meditations on society, culture and art, spanning four decades; and THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, a remarkably intimate and insightful memoir that chronicles what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of 50, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life.

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Week of January 6, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of January 6th include THE NEW IBERIA BLUES by James Lee Burke, in which the shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia and the backwoods of Louisiana; Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch's THE FIRST CONSPIRACY, which tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington’s character, but also illuminates the origins of America’s counterintelligence movement that led to the modern-day CIA; WORKING, an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about Robert Caro's experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books; and THE DAUGHTER'S TALE by Armando Lucas Correa, an unforgettable family saga that explores a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children.

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Week of December 30, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of December 30th include VENDETTA IN DEATH by J. D. Robb, in which Lieutenant Eve Dallas must keep the predator from becoming the prey; THE MALTA EXCHANGE, Steve Berry's latest Cotton Malone thriller, which is fueled by a deadly race for the Vatican’s oldest secret; GOOD GIRLS LIE, a pulse-pounding psychological thriller from J.T. Ellison that examines the tenuous bonds of friendship, the power of lies, and the desperate lengths to which people will go in order to protect their secrets; and WE MUST BE BRAVE by Frances Liardet, which spans the sweep of the 20th century and explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure --- beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.

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Week of December 16, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of December 16th include three paperback originals. In THE KILL CLUB, Wendy Heard's latest psychological thriller, Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother. Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens 13-year-old Joaquin’s life. SNAKES AND LADDERS by Victoria Selman features a serial killer who is terrorizing London, removing a body part from each victim and leaving in its place a single pink rose. Dr. Vernon Sange, a multiple murderer awaiting extradition, seems to know the culprit’s identity --- but he’ll only talk to profiler Ziba MacKenzie, the woman responsible for putting him away. And THE NETWORK is L. C. Shaw's thriller involving corruption, secrets and lies at the very deepest levels of government and media. A shadowy group is manipulating society --- and they’ve only just begun.

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Week of December 9, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of December 9th include the second volume of Otto Penzler's Bibliomysteries, a collection of crime for bibliophiles that includes stories about rare books, bookshops, libraries, manuscripts, magical books and collectors --- in short, the wonderful universe that makes this precious object we all love so important and priceless; WHITE HOT GRIEF PARADE by Alexandra Silber, a powerful and luminous story of grief and coming-of-age, and a beautiful tribute to the relationship between a father and daughter; and TRAVELERS IN THE THIRD REICH, Julia Boyd's fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis, which draws together a multitude of expatriate voices --- even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett --- into an intriguing narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon.

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Week of December 2, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of December 2nd include KITCHEN YARNS, a warm collection of personal essays and recipes from Ann Hood, who spins tales of loss and starting from scratch, family love and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home; Bonnie Kistler's HOUSE ON FIRE, a tightly wound and suspenseful novel about a blended family in crisis after a drunk driving accident leaves the daughter of one parent dead --- and the son of the other parent charged with manslaughter; THE PARAGON HOTEL by Lyndsay Faye, a richly imagined work of historical suspense in which a gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel; and John Strausbaugh's VICTORY CITY, the definitive history of New York City during the World War II era.

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Week of November 25, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of November 25th include OUT OF THE DARK, the fourth installment in Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X thriller series starring Evan Smoak; ROBERT B. PARKER’S BLOOD FEUD by Mike Lupica, which marks the return of PI Sunny Randall, who races to protect her ex-husband --- and his Mafia family --- from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival; THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY, W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV's fifth Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War, in which special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows; and AMERICAN DIALOGUE, Joseph J. Ellis' deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.

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Week of November 18, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of November 18th include THE NEXT TO DIE by Sophie Hannah, a disturbing tale of psychological suspense and obsession that hits at the heart of some of our most precious relationships; Philip Norman's SLOWHAND, the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation; NOT OF THIS FOLD, the fourth installment in Mette Ivie Harrison's nationally bestselling Linda Wallheim mystery series, set in Mormon Utah, which explores the effects of alienation, immigration and extortion from the inner workings of the Mormon church; and NEWCOMER, international bestseller Keigo Higashino's latest mindbender, which finds newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga assigned to a perplexing murder.

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Week of November 11, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of November 11th include ELEVATION by Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together --- a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences; RUN AWAY, Harlan Coben's latest novel of domestic suspense, in which a perfect family is shattered by the loss of a daughter who is addicted to drugs, has an abusive boyfriend and doesn’t want to be found; YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME, Sherman Alexie's searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss and forgiveness; and Colm Tóibín’s MAD, BAD, DANGEROUS TO KNOW, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland’s greatest writers --- Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and James Joyce.

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Week of November 4, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of November 4th include Jonathan Kellerman's THE WEDDING GUEST, a gripping psychological thriller in which psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis unravel a shocking crime at a raucous wedding reception; QUEENIE, debut author Candice Carty-Williams' disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place; THE DREAMERS by Karen Thompson Walker, a mesmerizing work of fiction in which an ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep; BOWLAWAY, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken's sweeping and enchanting novel about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley; and THE MAYFLOWER, Rebecca Fraser's vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.

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