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Fall Preview 2020

Fall is known as the biggest season of the year for books. The titles that release during this latter part of the year often become holiday gifts, and many are blockbusters. While our series of 24-hour contests have ended, we encourage you to take a look at our featured titles. These are just some of the outstanding books that we know people will be talking about over the next few months.
 

Jodi Picoult, author of The Book of Two Ways

Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband, but of a man she last saw 15 years ago: Wyatt Armstrong, who is now somewhere in Egypt working as an archaeologist. After the crash landing, the airline offers transportation to wherever they want to go. The obvious option for Dawn is to continue down the path she is on and go home to her family. The other is to return to the archaeological site she left years before, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history, and maybe even complete her research on The Book of Two Ways --- the first known map of the afterlife.

Week of September 6, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of September 6th include THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS by Jodi Picoult, a riveting novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives; HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jon Meacham's intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, which links his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present; MAGIC LESSONS, an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, as Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, who is accused of witchcraft in Salem and is the matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in PRACTICAL MAGIC and THE RULES OF MAGIC; and SHE COME BY IT NATURAL, in which National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh focuses her laser-sharp insights on a working-class icon and one of the most unifying figures in American culture: Dolly Parton.