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April 2012

April’s roundup of New in Paperback titles includes THE LOST HERO, the first installment in Rick Riordan’s follow-up series to Percy Jackson & the Olympians that brings readers back to the world of Camp Half-Blood, where a new group of heroes will inherit a quest; THEODORE BOONE: THE ABDUCTION, which marks the return of Theo, a young lawyer (in his own mind) who sets out to solve the disappearance of his best friend; BINK & GOLLIE, a chapter book by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee introducing two precocious little girls who are the very best of friends; and FORGE by Laurie Halse Anderson, the sequel to CHAINS that tells of a young slave’s struggle to survive the American Revolution --- and somehow forge a path to freedom.

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.

Week of April 9, 2012

In ONE WAS A SOLDIER, Julia Spencer-Fleming's latest Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery, five veterans try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.

SAY HER NAME is a novel that recounts the story of Francisco Goldman's passionate, if improbable, love affair with a woman two decades his junior and of the nearly insurmountable grief that stalked him after its tragic conclusion.

Week of April 2, 2012

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugh beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.

Acting on behalf of a dead girl found in the suite of nasty Hollywood actor Jumbo Nelson, Spenser finds himself on the wrong side of some very powerful and unpleasant players in Robert B. Parker's SIXKILL.

March 2012

March's New in Paperback roundup includes HALT'S PERIL and THE EMPEROR OF NIHON-JA, the last two installments in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series, which sees Will and his band of Araluens fending off master Senji warriors intent on overthrowing the emperor; SCORPIA RISING, Anthony Horowitz's final Alex Rider novel, in which the teen spy tries to track down the world's most dangerous terrorist organization once and for all (only this time, he might not get away with it); THE DREAMER by Pam Muñoz Ryan, the enchanting tale of a young Chilean boy named Neftalí, who later becomes the famous poet and politician Pablo Neruda; and CRUNCH, a timely family story about sticking together and never giving up hope, from the award-winning author of WAITING FOR NORMAL.

Week of March 26, 2012

Daisy Goodwin's THE AMERICAN HEIRESS tells the story of the beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts'. When she travels abroad with her mother at the turn of the 20th century to seek a titled husband, Cora suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham and married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England.

In Alice LaPlante's TURN OF MIND, a former surgeon suffering from dementia becomes the primary suspect in the murder of her best friend and neighbor.

Week of March 19, 2012

Tiffany glass --- those gorgeously colored turn-of-the-century lamps and other collectibles --- was, it turns out, often designed and produced by a band of unsung female artisans. Their leader, Clara Driscoll, emerges from obscurity in CLARA AND MR. TIFFANY, another art-themed historical novel from the author of GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE and THE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA.

Week of March 12, 2012

The three Beauchamp women live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. Their town seems almost stuck in time, and all three lead seemingly uneventful existences. But, in WITCHES OF EAST END, they are harboring a mighty secret --- they are powerful witches banned from using their magic.

When ballerina Sasha Davis suffers a career-ending injury, she retreats to the home of her youth in Minnesota, where her injuries limit her as much as her mother's recent death haunts her. She hires a temporary live-in aide, and the two women form an unlikely alliance in FINDING OUR WAY HOME.

Week of March 5, 2012

In NEW YORK TO DALLAS, J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name --- and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.

THE WISE MAN'S FEAR, Patrick Rothfuss’s long-awaited sequel to THE NAME OF THE WIND, finds Kvothe searching for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents.

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