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Mitch Albom, author of The Little Liar

Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to “new homes” where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he loved --- and all the others --- to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico never tells the truth again.

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Week of April 7, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of April 7th include Michael Connelly's complex, satisfying and twisty thriller, THE WAITING, in which LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter; THE LITTLE LIAR by Mitch Albom, an unforgettable story of truth and lies set during the Holocaust; KNIFE, Salman Rushdie's searing, deeply personal account of enduring --- and surviving --- an attempt on his life 30 years after the fatwa that was ordered against him; Genevieve Kingston's DID I EVER TELL YOU?, the most extraordinary, life-affirming memoir you will ever read about the power of love; and the paperback original THE PAGE TURNER by Viola Shipman, a sharp, witty and entirely delightful family drama about a young romance writer who makes a discovery that throws her elitist family into chaos.

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