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Marie Benedict, author of Her Hidden Genius

Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, Rosalind Franklin feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture --- one more after thousands --- she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins, who would rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens --- the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what unfolds next, Rosalind never could have predicted.

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Week of October 3, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of October 3rd include HER HIDDEN GENIUS by Marie Benedict, a powerful novel that shines a light on a woman who sacrificed her life to discover the nature of our very DNA, a woman whose world-changing contributions were hidden by the men around her but whose relentless drive advanced our understanding of humankind; Jonathan Franzen's CROSSROADS, a tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense that tells the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis; BOTH/AND, a beautifully written and propulsive memoir from Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s famously private top aide and longtime advisor, who emerges from the wings of American political history to take command of her own story; Andy Weir's PROJECT HAIL MARY, an incredible science-based thriller in which a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster; and THE ATTIC ON QUEEN STREET, the hauntingly spectacular finale to Karen White's Tradd Street series featuring psychic medium Melanie Trenholm.

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