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Week of May 8, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of May 8th include Emma Cline's debut novel and instant bestseller, THE GIRLS, an indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong; NIGHT SCHOOL, in which Lee Child takes readers back to 1996, when Jack Reacher, who is still in the army, teams up with an FBI agent and a CIA analyst to prevent an epic act of terrorism from occurring; PAUL McCARTNEY: The Life, the definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by biographer Philip Norman; and VALIANT AMBITION by Nathaniel Philbrick, a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.

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June 2016

June's roundup of History titles includes COMMANDER IN CHIEF, the sequel to Nigel Hamilton's THE MANTLE OF COMMAND, which recounts the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as World War II raged in Africa and Italy; NEVER A DULL MOMENT, David Hepworth's rollicking look at 1971 --- the busiest, most innovative and resonant year of the '70s, defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Joni Mitchell; DOUGLAS MacARTHUR: AMERICAN WARRIOR by Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman, the definitive biography of the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation’s great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim; and HOW THE POST OFFICE CREATED AMERICA, Winifred Gallagher's examination of the postal service's surprising role in our country's political, social, economic and physical development.

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