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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 February 5, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of February 5th include George Saunders' Man Booker Prize-winning novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented; BEARTOWN, Fredrik Backman's instant New York Times bestseller about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything; UNRAVELING OLIVER by debut novelist Liz Nugent, a complex and disturbing psychological thriller about how and why a human being transforms into a sociopath; and Lynne Olson's LAST HOPE ISLAND, a groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler.

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Week of January 29, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 29th include THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, which chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South; Jo Nesbø's THE THIRST, in which Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims...on Tinder; A PIECE OF THE WORLD, Christina Baker Kline's novel of friendship, passion and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World; and THE STRANGER IN THE WOODS by Michael Finkel, the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years --- not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.

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Week of January 22, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 22nd include THE LATE SHOW, in which Michael Connelly introduces his readers to Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat --- the Late Show; TWO NIGHTS, Kathy Reichs' first novel to feature Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer instinct; and THE TRUE FLAG by Stephen Kinzer, which brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the 20th century and beyond.

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Week of January 15, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 15th include KISS CARLO by Adriana Trigiani, the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change; INSOMNIAC CITY, a moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks; and David Grossman's A HORSE WALKS INTO A BAR, winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one evening’s performance.

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Week of January 8, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 8th include LONG BLACK VEIL, Jennifer Finney Boylan's novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past; MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES by Brad Ricca, the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up; and J. M. Lee's THE BOY WHO ESCAPED PARADISE, an astonishing story of the mysteries, truths and deceptions that follow the odyssey of Ahn Gil­mo, a young math savant, as he escapes from the most isolated country in the world and searches for the only family he has left.

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Week of January 1, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of January 1st include THE LOST ORDER, Steve Berry's 12th Cotton Malone novel, a perilous adventure that illuminates our country’s dark past and the risks of a potentially darker future; THE GIRL BEFORE by JP Delaney, an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death and deception; THE PERFECT STRANGER, Megan Miranda's gripping story of a journalist who sets out to find her missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all; and Jessica Shattuck's THE WOMEN IN THE CASTLE, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined, set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society.

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Week of December 25, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of December 25th include ANY DREAM WILL DO by Debbie Macomber, a powerful stand-alone novel about a woman forced to start her life anew, embarking on the most courageous journey of all --- to a place where she learns what love and trust really mean; THE WICKED CITY, the first book of a trilogy by Beatriz Williams, in which two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment --- a flapper hiding an extraordinary past and a modern-day Manattanite forced to start her life anew; and GINNY MOON, Benjamin Ludwig's debut novel that introduces the lovable, wholly original Ginny Moon, who discovers a new meaning of family on her unconventional journey home.

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Week of December 18, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of December 18th include RING OF FIRE by Brad Taylor, in which Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill come face-to-face with an insidious threat to strike terror into the heart of America; MAN OVERBOARD, an Ali Reynolds thriller from J.A. Jance that centers on two tech geniuses who face off --- one intent on saving lives, the other on ending them; and Anne Valente's debut novel, OUR HEARTS WILL BURN US DOWN, in which the lives of four teenagers are capsized by a shocking school shooting and its aftermath.

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Week of December 11, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of December 11th include 16th SEDUCTION, the latest installment in James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Women's Murder Club series, which finds Detective Lindsay Boxer facing a heart-stopping threat; A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN, a compelling collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of THE BLAZING WORLD and WHAT I LOVED; and WHO KILLED PIET BAROL? by Richard Mason, a funny, sexy, irreverent and intensely moving portrait of what unites human beings when their sacred mysteries are blown apart.

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Week of December 4, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of December 4th include THE BLOOD OF EMMETT TILL, Timothy B. Tyson's reexamination of a pivotal event of the civil rights movement --- the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till; DUST BOWL GIRLS by Lydia Reeder, the true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team that the publisher describes as "THE BOYS IN THE BOAT meets A League of Their Own"; DEATH'S MISTRESS, which launches Terry Goodkind's entirely new series, The Nicci Chronicles, featuring a cast of characters centered on one of his best-loved characters in the now-concluded Sword of Truth; and CURTAIN OF DEATH, book three in W.E.B. Griffin's Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency --- and a new breed of warrior.

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