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Fall Preview 2020

Fall is known as the biggest season of the year for books. The titles that release during this latter part of the year often become holiday gifts, and many are blockbusters. While our series of 24-hour contests have ended, we encourage you to take a look at our featured titles. These are just some of the outstanding books that we know people will be talking about over the next few months.

Romy Hausmann, author of Dear Child

A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare. She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn’t their Lena. The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn’t sharing, and Lena’s devastated father is trying to piece together details that don’t quite fit. Lena is desperate to begin again, but something tells her that her tormentor still wants to get back what belongs to him…and that she may not be able to truly escape until the whole truth about what happened in the woods finally emerges.

Week of August 23, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of August 23rd include ROBERT B. PARKER’S FOOL’S PARADISE by Mike Lupica, which revolves around the murder of an unknown man in Paradise and Police Chief Jesse Stone's investigation into who he was --- and what he was seeking; Emily Gray Tedrowe's THE TALENTED MISS FARWELL, an electrifying page-turner of greed and obsession, survival and self-invention, that is a piercing character study of one unforgettable female con artist; SISTERS, a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache --- a taut, powerful and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other’s darkest impulses; and DEAR CHILD by Romy Hausmann, a twisty and psychologically clever thriller that the publisher describes as "GONE GIRL meets ROOM," in which a woman held captive finally escapes --- but can she ever really get away?

September 2023

September's Books on Screen roundup includes the season premieres of "The Morning Show" on Apple TV+, "The Wheel of Time" on Amazon Prime Video, and "Virgin River" on Netflix; the series premieres of AMC's "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon," Hulu's "The Other Black Girl," Apple TV+'s "The Changeling," and Netflix's "Dear Child"; the season finales of "Harlan Coben’s Shelter" on Amazon Prime Video and "Dark Winds" on AMC; the Netflix film Love at First Sight, along with the theatrical releases of Dumb Money and A Haunting in Venice; and the DVD releases of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, God Is a Bullet and Corner Office.

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