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Week of November 3, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of November 3rd include THE MIGHTY RED, a stunning novel from Louise Erdrich that tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives; CHER: The Memoir, Part One, an intimate account that follows Cher's extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono --- and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous but eventually drove them apart; Jacquelyn Mitchard's A VERY INCONVENIENT SCANDAL, a page-turning family drama that explores the emotional consequences of loyalty, deception and jealousy; RENTAL HOUSE, a sharp-witted, insightful novel from Weike Wang about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations. and the paperback original THE PERFECT HOSTS by Heather Gudenkauf, a gripping thriller in which a couple’s gender reveal party turns deadly, and everyone is a suspect.

Weike Wang, author of Rental House

Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru’s strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection, while Nate’s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife. Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?