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Week of September 7, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of September 7th include THE SECRET OF SECRETS, the sixth entry in Dan Brown’s iconic series starring esteemed professor of symbology Robert Langdon, who uncovers a shocking truth about a secret project that will forever change the way we think about the human mind; THE PROVING GROUND, Michael Connelly's eighth Lincoln Lawyer novel, in which Mickey Haller files a lawsuit against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl; SOME BRIGHT NOWHERE by Ann Packer, an intimate and profoundly moving look at a long marriage and the ways in which a startling request can change a couple’s understanding of who they are, together and apart; and Kiran Desai's THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY, a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years.

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John Boyne, author of The Elements

In THE ELEMENTS, acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne has created an epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a different perspective on crime: the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim. The narrative follows a mother on the run from her past, a young soccer star facing a trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and a father on a transformative journey with his son. Each is somehow connected to the next, and as the story unfolds, their lives intersect in unimaginable ways.

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