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Tamron Hall, author of As the Wicked Watch: The First Jordan Manning Novel

When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she’s one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network. She is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star-power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Again and again, she is called to cover the murders of Black women --- many of them sexually assaulted, most brutalized and all of them quickly forgotten. All until Masey James, a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in an abandoned lot. Putting the rest of her work and her (fraying) personal life aside, Jordan does everything she can to give the story the coverage it desperately requires, and that Black children rarely receive.

Week of August 1, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of August 1st include BILLY SUMMERS by Stephen King, a can't-put-it-down novel about a top-tier assassin with a heart of gold who suddenly gains a completely unexpected and unlikely companion who opens his heart and becomes his future partner in vengeance; James Lee Burke's ANOTHER KIND OF EDEN, a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s; THE WISH, an emotional work of fiction from Nicholas Sparks about the enduring legacy of first love and the decisions that haunt us forever; WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women --- one Black and one white --- whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event; and THE SPECKLED BEAUTY, the warmhearted and hilarious story of how Rick Bragg's life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog.