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Week of February 7, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of February 7th include Tara Westover's EDUCATED, an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University; GOLDEN GIRL, a beach book unlike any other from Elin Hilderbrand, whose protagonist is a Nantucket novelist who has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl; THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEAR, the 16th installment in Jacqueline Winspear's mystery series featuring Maisie Dobbs, who investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war efforts as Europe buckles under Nazi occupation; Alex Berenson's THE POWER COUPLE, a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep; and SPARKS LIKE STARS, a brilliant and compelling novel in which an Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives.

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Jacqueline Winspear, author of The Consequences of Fear: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. When he arrives at the delivery address, he’s shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering a message: Maisie Dobbs. While Maisie wants to help the boy, she must maintain extreme caution: she’s working secretly for the Special Operations Executive, assessing candidates for crucial work with the French resistance. Her two worlds collide when she spots the killer in a place she least expects. She soon realizes she’s been pulled into the orbit of a man who has his own reasons to kill --- reasons that go back to the last war.

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