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Richard Ford, author of Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book

Through Frank Bascombe, we’ve witnessed the aspirations, sorrows, longings, achievements and failings of an American life in the twilight of the 20th century. Now, in LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU, author Richard Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four narratives, Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity.

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Week of October 12, 2015

Releases for the week of October 12th include Christmas-themed novels from Debbie Macomber (MR. MIRACLE), Mary Kay Andrews (CHRISTMAS BLISS), Sandra Dallas (A QUILT FOR CHRISTMAS) and Elin Hilderbrand (WINTER STREET); VANESSA AND HER SISTER by Priya Parmar, a spellbinding story of the inseparable bond between Virginia Woolf and her sister, the gifted painter Vanessa Bell, and the real-life betrayal that threatened to destroy their family; and STALIN: Volume I: PARADOXES OF POWER, 1878-1928, Stephen Kotkin's biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world, recasting the way we think about the Soviet Union, revolution, dictatorship and the 20th century.

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