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Brad Meltzer, author of The Lightning Rod: A Zig & Nola Novel

Archie Mint has led a charmed life. But when he’s killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered --- and then shocked when the other shoe drops. Mint has been hiding criminal secrets none of them could have imagined. While working on Mint’s body before his funeral, mortician “Zig” Zigarowski discovers something he was never meant to see. That telling detail leads him to Mint’s former top-secret military unit and his connection to artist Nola Brown. Following Nola’s trail, he uncovers one of the U.S. government’s most intensely guarded secrets --- an undisclosed military facility that holds the key to something far more sinister: a hidden group willing to compromise the very safety and security of America itself.

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Week of September 26, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of September 26th include Anthony Doerr's CLOUD CUCKOO LAND, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds of peril, who find resilience, hope and a book; SMILE, the extraordinary story of Sarah Ruhl's 10-year medical and metaphysical odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional and spiritual healing; DEAR SANTA, a nostalgic novel from the queen of Christmas stories, Debbie Macomber, which revolves around a special holiday wish list that brings about hope, love and second chances; BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY by   Qian Julie Wang, the moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world;   and THE DOOMSDAY MOTHER, in which bestselling true crime author John Glatt recounts the twisted tale of Lori Vallow, accused of having her two children murdered to start a new life with her new husband, doomsday prepper Chad Daybell.

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