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Week of January 26, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of January 26th include PRESUMED GUILTY by Scott Turow, which marks Rusty Sabich's return to the courtroom as he defends his girlfriend's son against first-degree murder charges; Walter Mosley's BEEN WRONG SO LONG IT FEELS LIKE RIGHT, an emotionally stirring and pulse-pounding mystery in which a family member’s terminal illness leads P.I. Joe King Oliver to the investigation of his life; GOOD DIRT, a moving novel from Charmaine Wilkerson that finds the daughter of an affluent Black family piecing together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom; HEARTWOOD by Amity Gaige, which takes readers on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time after a woman mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail; and Marianne Richmond's IF YOU WERE MY DAUGHTER, a powerful memoir about overcoming a mother's emotional neglect and finding the courage to reclaim the story of your life.

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Week of January 19, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of January 19th include NEMESIS, the 10th installment in Gregg Hurwitz's stellar Orphan X series, in which Evan Smoak --- having lived his life by the assassin’s Ten Commandments --- finds himself at odds with his oldest friend in the world; THE OLIGARCH'S DAUGHTER by Joseph Finder, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of "Succession" with the tense and disorienting spycraft of "The Americans"; Eric Puchner's DREAM STATE, an ambitious ode to the power of friendship, the weird weather of marriage, and the beauty of impermanence; A FORTY YEAR KISS, an exquisitely written, small-town story from Nickolas Butler about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, 40 years after their divorce; and RAISED BY A SERIAL KILLER by April Balascio, an unforgettable memoir that traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards.

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Week of January 12, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of January 12th include THE JACKAL'S MISTRESS by Chris Bohjalian, a heart-stopping novel about the wife of a missing Confederate soldier who discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger; THE JFK CONSPIRACY, in which Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch tell the true yet little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration; BROOKE SHIELDS IS NOT ALLOWED TO GET OLD, an intimate and empowering exploration of aging from Brooke Shields and Rachel Bertsche that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older; Kira Jane Buxton's TARTUFO, a fantastically funny story featuring a cast of colorful characters in a dying Italian village --- and a giant truffle that changes their fate forever; and the paperback original WOMAN DOWN by Colleen Hoover, a twisty thriller about a frustrated author who looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations...and reality.

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Week of January 5, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of January 5th include THE LIST by Steve Berry, a gripping novel of suspense about a lawyer in a small Georgia town who finds himself at odds with his new employer; KISS HER GOODBYE, the fourth installment in Lisa Gardner's addictive Frankie Elkin series, in which Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger --- before it is too late; Lisa Genova's MORE OR LESS MADDY, a riveting page-turner about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally “normal” life for a career in stand-up comedy; SAVE OUR SOULS by Matthew Pearl, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck and betrayal; and FIRST IN THE FAMILY, a deeply moving and lyrical memoir from Jessica Hoppe, who shares an intimate, courageous account of what it means to truly interrupt cycles of harm.    

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January 2026

January's Books on Screen roundup includes the films People We Meet on Vacation on Netflix and H Is for Hawk in theaters; the series premieres of "Harlan Coben's Run Away," "His & Hers" and "Agatha Christie’s Sevel Dials" on Netflix, along with "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" on HBO Max; the season premieres of ABC's "Will Trent," Hallmark Channel's "When Calls the Heart," Netflix's "Bridgerton," Prime Video's "The Night Manager" and Hulu's "Tell Me Lies"; the season finales of "Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale" on AMC+ and "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" on Disney+ and Hulu; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Wicked: For Good, One Battle After Another and Afterburn.

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December 20, 2025

My book group had our last meeting of the year on Monday night. It’s become a tradition that our final get-together of the year is an appetizers and dessert evening. We barely talk about who is bringing what in advance, so there is no rhyme or reason to the menu, except that we were discussing LAST CALL AT THE SAVOY by Brisa Carleton. Since the book is set at the American Bar in the Savoy Hotel, cocktails were in order. 

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Andrew Miller, author of The Land in Winter

December 1962: In a village deep in the English countryside, two neighboring couples begin the day. Local doctor Eric Parry commences his rounds in the village, while his pregnant wife, Irene, wanders the rooms of their old house, mulling over the space that has grown between the two of them. On the farm nearby lives witty but troubled Rita Simmons, who is also expecting. She spends her days trying on the idea of being a farmer’s wife, but her head still swims with images of a raucous past that her husband, Bill, prefers to forget. When Rita and Irene meet across the bare field between their houses, a clock starts. When the ordinary cold of December gives way --- ushering in violent blizzards of the harshest winter in living memory --- so do the secret resentments harbored in all four lives.

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Marisa Kashino, author of Best Offer Wins

Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband, Ian, Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed and the masses descend. A little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary. As Margo infiltrates the homeowners’ lives, her tactics grow increasingly unhinged. But just when she thinks she’s won them over, she hits a snag in her plan. Undeterred, Margo will prove again and again that there’s no boundary she won’t cross to seize the dream life she’s been chasing.

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