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Lisa Unger, author of The New Couple in 5B

Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the Windermere is the epitome of old New York charm. At first, the building and its eclectic tenants couldn’t feel more welcoming. But as the Lowans settle into their new home, Rosie starts to suspect that there’s more to the Windermere than meets the eye. Why is the doorman ever-present? Why are there cameras everywhere? And why have so many gruesome crimes occurred there throughout the years? When one of the neighbors turns up dead, Rosie must get to the truth about the Windermere before she, too, falls under its dangerous spell.

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Week of January 20, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of January 20th include THE NEW COUPLE IN 5B, an unputdownable thriller from Lisa Unger in which a couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past; Laurie Frankel's FAMILY FAMILY, a heartwarming story about how family can come from the most unexpected places and how, when we expand our notions of what is “normal,” the world becomes a better place; RED STAR FALLING by Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood, an action-packed adventure that finds Luke Daniels, in the waning days of the Cold War, embarking on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible --- the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting 200 miles above the earth; and the paperback original LET'S CALL HER BARBIE, a bold novel from Renée Rosen that excavates the fascinating backstory of Ruth Handler, the co-founder of Barbie, and the trailblazing team that created a one-of-a-kind doll that took the world by storm.

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