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Leif Enger, author of I Cheerfully Refuse

Set in a not-too-distant America, I CHEERFULLY REFUSE is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. As his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.

Week of March 31, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of March 31st include the #1 global bestseller and inspiration for the hit Apple TV+ series of the same name, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus, which introduces readers to Elizabeth Zott, a one-of-a-kind scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show; TOM LAKE, a beautiful and moving novel from Ann Patchett about youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born; Janet Skeslien Charles' MISS MORGAN'S BOOK BRIGADE, a brilliant work of historical fiction based on the true story of Jessie Carson, the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France; and the paperback original THE FOURTH GIRL by Wendy Corsi Staub, a twisty suspense novel in which three friends face a deadly hometown reunion on the anniversary of a teen’s disappearance.