Kimberly Brock is the award-winning author of THE RIVER WITCH and her latest novel,
THE LOST BOOK OF ELEANOR DARE, a sweeping tale in which the answers to a real-life mystery may be found in the pages of a story that was always waiting to be written. It’s only fitting that Kimberly’s Mother’s Day blog post is about stories --- more specifically, the ones that her mother told her. Although her mother read all kinds of stories to her and her siblings, including the
Little House on the Prairie series, there was one story in particular that Kimberly will never forget. Because it’s the most important story in the world.
Paperback releases for the week of May 30th include ANIMAL, Lisa Taddeo's depiction of female rage at its rawest, and a visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society; TRAVELS WITH GEORGE, in which Nathaniel Philbrick argues for George Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all 13 former colonies, which were now an unsure nation; Kristin Arnett's WITH TEETH, a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood and love; LOVE AND FURY, Samantha Silva's richly imagined reckoning with the life of literary legend Mary Wollstonecraft, arguably the world’s first feminist; and the paperback original THE BOARDWALK BOOKSHOP by Susan Mallery, a story of friends who become family, giving each other courage to start over.
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Paperback releases for the week of May 23rd include THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, the 17th installment in Louise Penny's bestselling mystery series starring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, which our reviewer calls "perhaps Penny’s most powerful novel as it explores the psychological and emotionally charged national and international conundrums of the post-pandemic world"; THE MAIDENS by Alex Michaelides, a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder and obsession; MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Joshua Henkin's sweeping and compassionate novel about a young woman who falls in love and marries a hotshot young Shakespeare professor --- at which point her life takes a turn she never could have anticipated; and WAR ON THE BORDER by Jeff Guinn, a dramatic account of the “Punitive Expedition” of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations continue in the Southwestern US to this day.
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Paperback releases for the week of May 16th include MALIBU RISING by Taylor Jenkins Reid, in which four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer --- but over the course of 24 hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives forever; FALLING, T. J. Newman's terrifying thriller, the premise of which is this: You just boarded a flight to New York. What you don’t know is that 30 minutes before the flight, your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane; Amanda M. Fairbanks' THE LOST BOYS OF MONTAUK, an immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day; and OLYMPUS, TEXAS by Stacey Swann, a big-hearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology.
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EASY BEAUTY is Pulitzer Prize finalist
Chloé Cooper Jones’ groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. In anticipation of Mother’s Day, Chloé was kind enough to share with us an excerpt from her book. She told us, “I write a lot about my mother in EASY BEAUTY, but this brief section --- a portrait of us on a rare family vacation --- reveals the most about our relationship by simply sketching the intimacy of our everyday conversations and the way we tease, deflect, scold and protect each other. When I’m away from my mother, as I will be this Mother’s Day, I miss our commonplace conversations and how they show me our easy bond and understanding of each other.”
Paperback releases for the week of May 9th include THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, an intimate yet sweeping novel that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era; WALK IN MY COMBAT BOOTS, a compilation of moving and powerful recollections of war, told by the men and women who lived them, crafted from hundreds of original interviews by James Patterson and First Sergeant US Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann; COUNTDOWN BIN LADEN, Chris Wallace's deeply reported, revelatory and thrillingly told account of the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden; Susan Mallery's THE SUMMER OF LOST AND FOUND, a timely, tender and compassionate tale of perseverance, love and the bonds of family in the face of tremendous and sometimes painful upheaval; and KATHARINE PARR, THE SIXTH WIFE, in which Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife.
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Paperback releases for the week of May 2nd include THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED, an edge-of-your seat thriller from Lisa Jewell about a young couple’s disappearance on a gorgeous summer night, and the mother who will never give up trying to find them; Jean Hanff Korelitz's THE PLOT, a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it; THE FOREST OF VANISHING STARS by Kristin Harmel, an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis --- until a secret from her past threatens everything; Ash Davidson's DAMNATION SPRING, a stunning novel about love, work and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future; and THE CODE BREAKER, Walter Isaacson's gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses and have healthier babies.
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