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Spring Preview 2024

The arrival of spring signals the end of our Spring Preview contests. Many thanks to all who entered --- and a big congratulations to our winners! Below are the books that we believe you will be talking about over the next few months.

» Click here to see the winners of this year's Spring Preview contests.

Allison Pataki, author of Finding Margaret Fuller

After Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends, she becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists. However, Margaret craves more than poetry and interpersonal drama, and her restless soul needs new challenges and adventures. When legendary editor Horace Greeley offers her an assignment in Europe, Margaret makes history as the first female foreign news correspondent. But it is in Rome that she finds a world of passion, romance and revolution, taking a Roman count as a lover --- and sparking an international scandal. Evolving yet again into the roles of mother and countess, Margaret enters the fight for Italy’s unification.

Week of March 17, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of March 17th include CAMINO GHOSTS, the third installment in John Grisham's Camino Island series, in which popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel; Megan Miranda's DAUGHTER OF MINE, an explosive, twist-filled mystery set in a small town suffering the effects of a drought that threatens to bring all of its secrets to the surface…and the harsh light of the truth; FINDING MARGARET FULLER by Allison Pataki, an epic imagining of the life of Margaret Fuller, America’s forgotten leading lady and the central figure of a movement that defined a nation; LUCKY, a soaring, soulful novel from Jane Smiley about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times. and Simone Gorrindo's THE WIVES, a profoundly intimate memoir about marriage, friendship and the power of human connection that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job.