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Week of February 13, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of February 13th include WILDE LAKE by Laura Lippman, in which the case of a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death brings up painful memories of prosecutor Luisa Brant's past; Jacqueline Winspear's JOURNEY TO MUNICH, which finds Maisie Dobbs being sent to Hitler’s Germany as she works with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission; NELLY DEAN, a novel by Alison Case that re-imagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws’ loyal servant; and THE BLACK CALHOUNS, in which Gail Lumet Buckley --- daughter of actress Lena Horne --- delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights.

August 2020

August's Books on Screen roundup includes the planned theatrical releases of The Burnt Orange Heresy (which also will be available on DVD later this month), The Personal History of Charles Dickens, Waiting for the Barbarians and The Secret Garden (which also will be available on demand); the series premiere of "Lovecraft Country" and the conclusion of "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" on HBO; and the season finales of HBO's "Perry Mason," TNT's "The Alienist: Angel of Darkness" and AMC's "NOS4A2."

October 2020

October's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "The Undoing" on HBO, "The Good Lord Bird" on Showtime, and "The Right Stuff" on Disney+; the Netflix release of Rebecca and the HBO Max documentary The Soul of America; the season two premiere of "The Spanish Princess" on Starz; the series finales of FX's "A Wilderness of Error" and HBO's "Lovecraft Country"; and the DVD release of The Secret Garden.