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Week of August 31, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of August 31st include THE TESTAMENTS, the long-awaited sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic 1985 novel, THE HANDMAID’S TALE, in which the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results; THE INSTITUTE, Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win; Alice Hoffman's THE WORLD THAT WE KNEW --- on the brink of World War II, and with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother’s act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival; NOTHING TO SEE HERE by Kevin Wilson, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability; and YEAR OF THE MONKEY, Patti Smith's profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.