Paperback releases for the week of February 27th include SPARRING PARTNERS, John Grisham's first collection of novellas, the common thread of which is law --- but the master of the legal thriller has several surprises in store; THE LONG WEEKEND, a pulse-pounding thriller from Gilly Macmillan, in which a group of women travel to the most remote place in England for a weekend escape --- only to discover a startling note that one of their husbands will be killed before they return home; PEACH BLOSSOM SPRING by Melissa Fu, a bold and moving story that follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home; Sara Nović's TRUE BIZ, an absorbing novel that chronicles a year of seismic romantic, political and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf; and THE CORRESPONDENTS by Judith Mackrell, the riveting, untold history of a group of heroic female reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II.
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