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Week of December 26, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of December 26th include DARK HORSE, the seventh installment in Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X series, which finds Evan Smoak (aka The Nowhere Man) facing his most challenging mission ever; Christopher Golden's new supernatural thriller, ROAD OF BONES, in which an American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia; HOW THE WORD IS PASSED, Clint Smith's compelling debut work of nonfiction that examines the legacy of slavery in America --- and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives; and the paperback original MS. DEMEANOR by Elinor Lipman, a delicious and witty story about love under house arrest.

We are kicking off this year’s Holiday Author Blog series with New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman. Her new novel, SAM, releases on January 3rd and poses the question: What happens to a girl’s sense of joy and belonging --- to her belief in herself --- as she becomes a woman? For Allegra, the holidays are all about giving. This means going to bookstores and finding the perfect book for each member of her family. Allegra is a self-proclaimed “book fairy” --- but even book fairies have secrets, and she has two confessions to make in her revealing blog post.  

Weeks of December 12 and 19, 2022

Paperback releases for the weeks of December 12th and 19th include BRIGHT BURNING THINGS by Lisa Harding, a devastating and nuanced look at an addict’s journey towards rehabilitation and redemption; THE WHISPERS, an explosive novel about a woman who embarks on a desperate search for her missing best friend and uncovers a twisted web of lies --- from the internationally bestselling author of HER ONE MISTAKE, Heidi Perks; and Brad Ricca's TRUE RAIDERS (billed as “THE LOST CITY OF Z meets THE DA VINCI CODE”), which tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor --- the so-called “most beautiful woman in the world”--- headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant.

Week of December 5, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of December 5th include Brendan Slocumb's THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY, a beautifully rendered and complex debut novel in which a shocking theft sends a Black classical musician on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world; THE DICKENS BOY, a vibrant and engaging novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens’ son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s --- from the award-winning author of modern classics such as SCHINDLER'S LIST and NAPOLEON'S LAST ISLAND, Thomas Keneally; and the paperback original SO LONG, CHESTER WHEELER by Catherine Ryan Hyde, an uplifting novel about looking deeper into the heart and soul to form bonds with the last people we’d expect --- only to discover that they’re the ones who need it most.

December 7, 2022

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this holiday season. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Thursday, December 8th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE QUEEN: Her Life by Andrew Morton, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

December 6, 2022

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of December 5th and December 12th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our End-of-the-Year Contest featuring Carol Fitzgerald’s Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2022. One Grand Prize winner will be awarded all 40 books, while eight other readers will receive a selection of five of these titles. The deadline for your entries is Friday, January 6th at noon ET.

December 6, 2022

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this holiday season. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Wednesday, December 7th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE LIGHT PIRATE by Lily Brooks-Dalton, which is this month's #1 Indie Next pick and "Good Morning America" Book Club selection. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Editorial Content for The Perfect Assassin: A Doc Savage Thriller

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Reviewer (text)

Ray Palen

James Patterson and Brian Sitts have mined a remarkable legacy and turned it into what hopefully will become a long-running series. Throughout the 1930s and ’40s, one of the most memorable heroes to grace the pages of pulp fiction was Doc Savage. His countless adventures, in which he pledged to right wrongs and fight evildoers, continue to thrill readers and was even the impetus for his own comic book series. Read More

Teaser

Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, “Meed,” is demanding. She’s also his captor. Savage emerges from their intensive training sessions physically and mentally transformed, but with no idea why he’s been chosen and how he’ll use his fearsome abilities. Then his first mission with Meed takes them back to her own training ground, where Savage learns how deeply entwined their two lives have been.

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Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, “Meed,” is demanding. She’s also his captor. Savage emerges from their intensive training sessions physically and mentally transformed, but with no idea why he’s been chosen and how he’ll use his fearsome abilities. Then his first mission with Meed takes them back to her own training ground, where Savage learns how deeply entwined their two lives have been. To prevent a new class of killers from escaping this harsh place where their ancestors first fought to make a better world, they must pledge anew: Do right to all, and wrong to no one.

About the Book

Prof. Brandt Savage --- grandson of the legendary action hero --- is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin.

Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, “Meed,” is demanding. She’s also his captor.

Savage emerges from their intensive training sessions physically and mentally transformed, but with no idea why he’s been chosen and how he’ll use his fearsome abilities. Then his first mission with Meed takes them back to her own training ground, where Savage learns how deeply entwined their two lives have been. To prevent a new class of killers from escaping this harsh place where their ancestors first fought to make a better world, they must pledge anew: Do right to all, and wrong to no one.

Audiobook available, read by Joshua Kane and Suzanne Elise Freeman

Editorial Content for Dune: The Heir of Caladan

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Reviewer (text)

Stephen Hubbard

Interest in the Dune universe has only grown in the days since the release of the most recent film. The second installment is already in production, and authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have remained busy expanding and exploring the stories within the series created by the late Frank Herbert. Now we have DUNE: THE HEIR OF CALADAN, the final entry in the Caladan trilogy, which rounds out the 12-month period before the events of the initial Dune novel. Read More

Teaser

The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides' rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica’s betrayal, will now conclude with Paul becoming the leader that he needs to be on the way to his pivotal role as Muad’Dib. Any Dune fan will devour this tale of a legend coming into his own.

Promo

The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides' rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica’s betrayal, will now conclude with Paul becoming the leader that he needs to be on the way to his pivotal role as Muad’Dib. Any Dune fan will devour this tale of a legend coming into his own.

About the Book

From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson comes DUNE: THE HEIR OF CALADAN, a new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series that shows us Paul Atreides as we've never seen him before.

The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides' rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica’s betrayal, will now conclude with Paul becoming the leader that he needs to be on the way to his pivotal role as Muad’Dib.

Any Dune fan will devour this tale of a legend coming into his own.

Audiobook available, read by Scott Brick