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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!

February 2013

February's roundup of New in Paperback includes IN DISGUISE!: Undercover with Real Women Spies by Ryan Ann Hunter and Jeanette Litte, which detials the lives of some of history's most daring women, all of whom risked their lives to stand up for their beliefs; Tim Green's PINCH HIT, where a movie star who's dreamed of playing baseball like a real kid and a real kid who wants to take a try swing at acting switch places...if they c

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Week of February 25, 2013

Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize winner BRING UP THE BODIES, the sequel to WOLF HALL, picks right up with the saga of King Henry VIII and the infamous Tudors as seen through the eyes of his advisor, Thomas Cromwell. This time, the focus is on Anne Boleyn and her supplanting by the young Jane Seymour of Wolf Hall.

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Week of February 18, 2013

In SO PRETTY IT HURTS by Kate White, crime reporter Bailey Weggins attends a celebrity-filled weekend house party in the New York countryside. The sudden death of supermodel Devon Barr during an impromptu snowstorm lands Bailey in the midst of a murder investigation that threatens her personal safety and the future of her career with the gossip magazine Buzz.

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Week of February 11, 2013

In ANOTHER PIECE OF MY HEART by Jane Green, readers are introduced to Andi, who has spent much of her adult life looking for the perfect man. And at 37, she's finally found him: Ethan, a divorced father of two. But in his daughter Emily’s eyes, Andi is an obstacle to her father’s love, and Emily will do whatever it takes to break her down.

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Week of February 4, 2013

In THE FALLEN ANGEL by Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon is called on to investigate the death of a beautiful woman in Rome. He fights against police who have already ruled her death a suicide and the Vatican’s “don’t ask too many questions” rule to uncover the truth. But along the way, he must also penetrate a criminal smuggling network and encounter an old enemy plotting revenge that puts himself and those he holds dear on the razor’s edge of danger.

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January 2013

January's roundup of New in Paperback includes Tony Abbott's LUNCH-BOX DREAM, which presents Jim Crow, racism and segregation from multiple perspectives one of which being a boy who starts to question his assumptions about race; BLISS by Kathryn Littlewood, which follows Rosmary Bliss who yearns to be a true kitchen magician like her parents, but this looks unlikely until her parents are called away from home and a stranger arrives...; and Zoe Barton's Read more »

Week of January 28, 2013

Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, has finally gotten his personal life in order in Karin Slaughter's CRIMINAL. For the first time, he is starting to gain a life outside of solving the hardest --- and often darkest --- cases. But GBI’s newest investigation and its long-buried crimes threaten his new life and change everything he thought he knew about his past.

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Week of January 21, 2013

In Richard Ford's latest bestseller, CANADA, 15-year-old Dell Parsons' sense of a happy, knowable life is forever shattered when his mother and father rob a bank. Undone by the calamity of his parents' criminal actions and arrest, Dell struggles under the vast prairie sky to remake himself and define the adults he thought he knew.

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Week of January 14, 2013

In Karen Thompson Walker's THE AGE OF MIRACLES, Julia and her family awake to discover that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, and the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet, as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life. As she adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.

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Week of January 7, 2013

Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life --- children, careers, bills, chores --- even as their 12-year marriage is falling apart. In HOME FRONT by Kristin Hannah, an unexpected deployment sends Jolene deep into harm’s way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls.

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