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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 June 18, 2012

From Mia March’s THE MERYL STREEP MOVIE CLUB, two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch's inn for a shocking announcement. Suddenly, Isabel, June and Kat are sharing the attic bedroom and barely speaking. But when they join the innkeeper and the other guests for weekly Movie Night --- its Meryl Streep month --- they find themselves sharing secrets and questioning everything they thought they knew about life, love and one another.

Week of June 11, 2012

DOUBLE DEXTER by Jeff Lindsay features Dexter Morgan enjoying his day job as a blood spatter analyst --- but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. When he discovers that someone is shadowing him, observ­ing him, and copying his methods, Dexter is not pleased. But he is not one to tolerate displeasure --- in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.

Week of June 4, 2012

In the intriguing thriller THE SIXES by Kate White, a secret circle of really mean girls --- the dark side of female empowerment --- becomes the nemesis of a gutsy journalist heroine. From the bestselling author of HUSH and the Bailey Weggins mystery series.

Week of May 28, 2012

In her first book since THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Joan Didion has now written with stunning frankness BLUE NIGHTS, a book about her daughter, Quintana Roo, as well as thoughts and fears about having children and about growing old.

Week of May 21, 2012

Patti Callahan Henry’s COMING UP FOR AIR is about Ellie, who is dealing with the sudden loss of her formidable mother, Lillian. Ellie discovers the late woman’s diary, which opens up a whole side to her mother she never knew. She decides to return to the summer house in coastal Alabama where Lillian spent the summer of 1961, in the hopes of learning more about her mother and, perhaps, find some closure for herself.

Week of May 14, 2012

In Janet Evanovich’s EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN: A STEPHANIE PLUM NOVEL, Stephanie is on the way back from a trip to Hawaii, her dream vacation-turned-nightmare, when she is roped into a complex case when her seatmate on the flight is found dead in a garbage can after the L.A. layover --- and she alone may hold critical evidence.

From Lisa Unger, the author of BEAUTIFUL LIES and FRAGILE, comes DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND, a thriller about broken trust that explores our faith in those we rely on --- and how that faith can sustain or shatter us.

Week of May 7, 2012

Mary Kay Andrews’ new book SUMMER RENTAL focuses on Ellis, Julia and Dorie, who have been best friends since grade school, and now find themselves in their mid-30s and at the crossroads of life and love. A month renting an old beach house in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what each of them needs. But will this month in a summer rental steer them on the path to happiness and forgiveness?

Week of April 30, 2012

In Linda Fairstein’s SILENT MERCY, Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to a church in Harlem in the middle of the night. A woman’s decapitated body has been left burning on the steps. Three days later, a second is found in Little Italy. As Alex mines Manhattan’s houses of worship in search of a connection, she uncovers a terrible truth that puts her in the path of danger.

Week of April 23, 2012

ESCAPE by Barbara Delinsky introduces readers to a lawyer who is so fed up with her job and marriage that she runs away. Is there any hope of getting her previous life back on track? Or must she abandon the whole thing?

In Robert Dugoni's MURDER ONE, Barclay Reid is struggling to cope with the death of her teenage daughter from a drug overdose. When she’s accused of murdering a drug trafficker she blamed for the overdose, attorney David Sloane is her chosen defender in his first criminal case.

Week of April 16, 2012

THE SNOWMAN by Jo Nesbø finds antihero police investigator Harry Hole suspecting a link between a menacing letter and the disappearance of a boy's mother --- and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall.

In Anne Perry's TREASON AT LISSON GROVE, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt are called out of London, to Ireland and France respectively, each chasing the person or group behind a sinister plot aimed directly at taking down the British government and Queen Victoria herself.