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Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There, Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At 14, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates collide.

Week of April 4, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of April 4th include THAT SUMMER by Jennifer Weiner, a timely and deliciously twisty novel of intrigue, secrets and the transformative power of female friendship; Michael Connelly's masterful thriller, THE DARK HOURS, in which LAPD detective Renée Ballard joins forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year’s Eve; WHEN THE STARS GO DARK, an atmospheric novel of intertwined destinies and heart-wrenching suspense from Paula McLain; Joshilyn Jackson's MOTHER MAY I, an addictive novel of domestic suspense in which a mother must decide how far she is willing to go to protect her child and the life she loves; and SURVIVING SAVANNAH, a breathtaking work of historical fiction from Patti Callahan that revolves around the luxury steamship Pulaski (“The Titanic of the South," as it was called) that sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board.