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Brad Meltzer, author of The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy — and Why It Failed

John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is often ranked among Americans’ most well-liked presidents. Yet what most Americans don’t know is that JFK’s historic presidency almost ended before it began --- at the hands of a disgruntled sociopathic loner armed with dynamite. On December 11, 1960, shortly after Kennedy’s election and before his inauguration, a retired postal worker named Richard Pavlick waited in his car on a quiet street in Palm Beach, Florida. Pavlick knew the president-elect’s schedule. He knew when Kennedy would leave his house. He knew where Kennedy was going. From there, Pavlick had a simple plan --- one that could’ve changed the course of history.

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Week of January 12, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of January 12th include THE JACKAL'S MISTRESS by Chris Bohjalian, a heart-stopping novel about the wife of a missing Confederate soldier who discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger; THE JFK CONSPIRACY, in which Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch tell the true yet little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration; BROOKE SHIELDS IS NOT ALLOWED TO GET OLD, an intimate and empowering exploration of aging from Brooke Shields and Rachel Bertsche that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older; Kira Jane Buxton's TARTUFO, a fantastically funny story featuring a cast of colorful characters in a dying Italian village --- and a giant truffle that changes their fate forever; and the paperback original WOMAN DOWN by Colleen Hoover, a twisty thriller about a frustrated author who looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations...and reality.

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