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Books to Fall in Love With 2020

Congratulations to the five winners of our Valentine's Day contest! These readers received all five of our featured books. Those who entered had the option of responding to the question “Who is your all-time literary crush?” which many of you answered, much to our delight. We had so much fun compiling your top 10 “Literary Loves and Lusts,” which you can see below. Many thanks to all who participated!

Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Grown Ups

Jenny McLaine’s life is falling apart. Her friendships are flagging. Her body has failed her. She’s just lost her column at The Foof because she isn’t the fierce voice new feminism needs. Her ex has gotten together with another woman. And worst of all: Jenny’s mother is about to move in. Having left home at 18 to remake herself as a self-sufficient millennial, Jenny is now in her 30s, and nothing is as she thought it would be. Least of all adulthood. Told in live-wire prose, texts, emails, script dialogue and social media messages, GROWN UPS is a neurotic dramedy of 21st-century manners for the digital age.

Week of February 1, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of February 1st include one of the most talked-about books of 2020, DEAR EDWARD, Ann Napolitano's novel about a 12-year-old boy who struggles with the worst kind of fame --- as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash; MY DARK VANESSA, Kate Elizabeth Russell's debut novel that explores the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher; FAIR WARNING by Michael Connelly, in which Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar --- until now; A CONSPIRACY OF BONES, a Temperance Brennan mystery from Kathy Reichs that finds the forensic anthropologist having to use all her skills to discover the identity of a faceless corpse and its connection to a decade-old missing child case; and FACEBOOK: The Inside Story, Steven Levy's definitive history --- packed with untold stories --- of one of America’s most controversial and powerful companies.

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