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Week of June 29, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of June 29th include THE NICKEL BOYS, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, who follows up his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning bestseller THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD with the story of two boys who are sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida; THE YELLOW HOUSE, a haunting memoir from Sarah M. Broom about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East; a newly updated edition of CATCH AND KILL, in which Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost --- from Hollywood to Washington and beyond; and A BETTER MAN, the 15th installment in Louise Penny's long-running series starring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, who returns to the Sûreté du Québec, only to be greeted by catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media and a mysterious disappearance.

November 2022

November's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premiere of FX's "Fleishman Is in Trouble"; the season two premiere of "The Mosquito Coast" on Apple TV+; the conclusion of AMC's "The Walking Dead"; the season finales of "The Handmaid's Tale" on Hulu and "Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire" on AMC; the films The Wonder, She Said, The Noel Diary, Capturing the Killer Nurse, Spirited and The People We Hate at the Wedding; and the DVD releases of The Power of the Dog and The Good House.