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Week of October 17, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of October 17th include THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS, in which Stephen King assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book, and introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it; DESTINY AND POWER, a biography of George Herbert Walker Bush from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, who paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times; and YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST, a debut novel by Sunil Yapa that asks profound questions about the power of empathy in our hyper-connected modern world, and the limits of compassion, all while exploring how far we must go for family, for justice and for love.

Kate Clifford Larson, author of Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful daughter, Rosemary, attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet, Rosemary was intellectually disabled --- a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family. Kate Larson reveals both the sensitive care Rose and Joe gave to Rosemary and then the often desperate and duplicitous arrangements the Kennedys made to keep her away from home as she became increasingly intractable in her early 20s.