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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 December 12, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of December 12th include EVEN DOGS IN THE WILD by Ian Rankin, which finds John Rebus coming out of retirement...to save his nemesis; MARLENE, C. W. Gortner's biographical novel of one of the most glamorous and alluring legends of Hollywood’s golden age, Marlene Dietrich; STORIES I TELL MYSELF, Juan F. Thompson's personal account of his father, Hunter S. Thompson, and of their getting to know each other during their 41 fraught years together; and THE LOVERS by Rod Nordland, the story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women’s rights in the Muslim world.

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Week of December 5, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of December 5th include FAMILY JEWELS, yet another thrilling installment in Stuart Woods' Stone Barrington series; THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS, Edan O'Brien's first novel in 10 years, about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal; THE ABSOLUTION, the mesmerizing finale to Jonathan Holt's Carnivia Trilogy, following THE ABOMINATION and THE ABDUCTION; and BROWSINGS by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda, a collection of 50 of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves.

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Week of November 28, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of November 28th include THE PASSENGER by Lisa Lutz, the story of a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past; the latest Danielle Steel bestseller, PROPERTY OF A NOBLEWOMAN, in which a woman’s legacy --- shaped by tragedy, fortitude and undying devotion --- transforms lives and hearts long after she is gone, and fulfills at last her most precious bequest; and series additions such as THE STEEL KISS: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel by Jeffery Deaver and THE PROMISE: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel by Robert Crais.

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Week of November 21, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of November 21st include Joyce Maynard's UNDER THE INFLUENCE, a poignant story about the true meaning --- and the true price --- of friendship; MAKE 'EM LAUGH by Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway, an entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes and random musings from a woman who has seen it all --- and done most of it; and HUBRIS, in which Sir Alistair Horne revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait that links them all: hubris.

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Week of November 14, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of November 14th include TO HELL AND BACK, acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw’s long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II; THE QUALITY OF SILENCE, Rosamund Lupton's gripping, moving story of a mother and daughter's quest to uncover a dark secret in the Alaskan wilderness; and YOUNG ORSON by Patrick McGilligan, a groundbreaking biography of Orson Welles' early years --- from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane.

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Week of November 7, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of November 7th include 15th AFFAIR by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, a Women's Murder Club thriller that finds Detective Lindsay Boxer chasing an elusive, possibly very dangerous suspect --- her husband, Joe; THE RISE OF GERMANY, a masterful book by James Holland, who draws on his many years of research to reconsider the strategy, tactics, and economic, political and social aspects of the Second World War; and Kliph Nesteroff's THE COMEDIANS, a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped and changed American culture over the past 100 years.

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Week of October 31, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of October 31st include Carly Simon's memoir BOYS IN THE TREES, which reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, and ultimately delving into her meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top 40 hits, including the #1 song "You're So Vain"; ORPHAN X, the opening installment of Gregg Hurwitz's series that introduces readers to Evan Smoak, aka the Nowhere Man, whose personal mission it is to help those with nowhere else to turn; THE GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS, which finds Eric Weiner traveling the world to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times; and KNITTING PEARLS, a volume edited by Ann Hood in which two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting.

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Week of October 24, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of October 24th include THE GUEST ROOM by Chris Bohjalian, the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong --- two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams; THE SWANS OF FIFTH AVENUE, Melanie Benjamin's novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s --- and the scandalous, headline-making and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley; THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING, the much-anticipated follow-up to NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND, in which Iowa native Bill Bryson --- now a British citizen --- sets out again to rediscover his adopted country; and PACIFIC, Simon Winchester's biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world.

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Week of October 17, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of October 17th include THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS, in which Stephen King assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book, and introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it; DESTINY AND POWER, a biography of George Herbert Walker Bush from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, who paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times; and YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST, a debut novel by Sunil Yapa that asks profound questions about the power of empathy in our hyper-connected modern world, and the limits of compassion, all while exploring how far we must go for family, for justice and for love.

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Week of October 10, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of October 10th include THE LAST MIDWIFE by Sandra Dallas, which tells a story of family, community, and the secrets that can destroy and unite them; Elizabeth Strout's MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON, in which a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter; HEART OF GLASS, Wendy Lawless' follow-up memoir to CHANEL BONFIRE, the darkly funny story of a girl without a roadmap for life who leaves her disastrous past to find herself in the gritty heart of 1980s New York City; and RAZZLE DAZZLE, Michael Riedel's account of the rise, fall and redemption of Broadway --- its stars, its biggest shows, its producers, and all the drama, intrigue and power plays that happened behind the scenes.

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