Paperback releases for the week of February 10th include A CALAMITY OF SOULS by David Baldacci, a courtroom drama set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, where a racially charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully accused Black client; Vanessa Chan's THE STORM WE MADE, a spellbinding novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII --- and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family; THE SECRET LIVES OF BOOKSELLERS AND LIBRARIANS by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, a compilation of stories from various booksellers and librarians who talk about the book business; and SLOW NOODLES, a haunting memoir from Chantha Nguon, a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but found hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.
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