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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 24, 2012

In CATCH ME by Lisa Gardner, Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant tells a chilling story: Each year at 8:00 p.m. on January 21st, a woman has died. The victims have been childhood best friends from a small town in New Hampshire; the motive remains unknown. Now only one friend, Charlie, remains to count down her final hours --- and she’s hiring Detective D. D. Warren to investigate the case after she’s killed.

Week of December 17, 2012

In Anne Holt's latest Hanne Wilhelmsen novel, the criminal investigating officer is sent to a macabre crime scene on the outskirts of Oslo: an abandoned shed that is covered in blood. On one wall is an eight-digit number written in blood. There is no sign of a victim. Is it just a kid’s prank, or foul play?

Week of December 10, 2012

Dana and Julie were bonded by sisterhood and separated by a devastating secret. When Dana returns to Black Bear, Minnesota, in Carla Buckley's INVISIBLE, some people remember her as a troublemaker while others remember her as the one who got away. Dana comes back for her sister's funeral, but stays to help Peyton, her teenaged niece. What she finds in her old hometown will blow open a Pandora's box of tightly-held secrets, and put everyone she loves in jeopardy.

Week of December 3, 2012

In PRIVATE LONDON by James Patterson and Mark Pearson, young women are being abducted off the street of central London. When the bodies are found some days later, they have been mutilated in a particularly mysterious way. Former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter’s ex-wife, DI Kirsty Webb, is involved in the investigation, and it looks likely that the two cases are gruesomely linked.

November 2012

November’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes MIDDLE SCHOOL, THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts, which is about Rafe Khatchadorian's first day at Hills Village Middle School...and a  plan for the best year ever; PETER NIMBLE AND HIS FANTASTIC EYES, Jonathan Auxier's debut novel, which follows Peter Nimble as he steals a box that contains three pairs of magical eyes;

October 2012

October’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes Matthew Cody's THE DEAD GENTLEMAN, where the Dead Gentleman is dead set on conquering earth and bringing all the dead to life and present and past collide in order to save the future; THE WINTER PONY by Iain Lawrence, which follows a white pony who is chosen to accompany Robert Falcon Scott's quest to the South Pole and finds himself caught up in one of the greatest races of all time; and Richard