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Week of November 24, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of November 24th include Georgia Hunter's ONE GOOD THING, a propulsive and heart-wrenching story of a young woman entrusted with a boy’s life as WWII rages in Italy; ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE BOURNE VENDETTA by Brian Freeman, the 20th installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, in which the hunt for a trove of secret information forces Jason Bourne to decide who lives --- and who dies; ORDER OF SWANS, a spellbinding, fantasy-rich romance from Jude Deveraux that finds a woman swept into a world where she has the power to alter fairy tales and change a kingdom’s destiny; Neel Mukherjee's CHOICE, an ingenious, devastating and explosive novel that confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation and the tangled ethics of contemporary life; and REALM OF ICE AND SKY, Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship --- and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.

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One Good Thing by Georgia Hunter

April 2025

Following the success of WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES, I was looking forward to what Georgia Hunter would write next. In ONE GOOD THING, she brings us to World War II Italy in 1940. There, we meet Lili and Esti, both of whom are Jewish and have been friends since they were in school together. They become even closer after the birth of Esti’s son, Theo. Esti’s husband, who is of Greek heritage, has returned to Greece to check on his family as attacks on Greek Jews have begun. I was unaware that over 80% of Greece’s pre-war Jewish population was killed by the Nazis.

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