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Stephen King, author of The Institute

In the middle of the night, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’ parents and load him into a black SUV. Luke wakes up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents --- telekinesis and telepathy --- who got to this place the same way Luke did. They are all in Front Half, while others graduated to Back Half. In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs.

Week of August 31, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of August 31st include THE TESTAMENTS, the long-awaited sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic 1985 novel, THE HANDMAID’S TALE, in which the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results; THE INSTITUTE, Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win; Alice Hoffman's THE WORLD THAT WE KNEW --- on the brink of World War II, and with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother’s act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival; NOTHING TO SEE HERE by Kevin Wilson, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability; and YEAR OF THE MONKEY, Patti Smith's profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.