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End-of-the-Year Contest 2017

Congratulations to the winners of our 2017 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 40 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2017, while eight others won a selection of five of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2017's Bets On selections.

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The Nowhere Man: An Orphan X Novel by Gregg Hurwitz

January 2017

I confess to having a huge crush on Evan Smoak, the protagonist in Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X series. THE NOWHERE MAN is the second book in the series (ORPHAN X was the first, and it, too, was a Bets On selection), and it’s another winner, though in a different way.

To catch you up, Evan was an orphan selected for the Orphan Program, which trained young kids to become assassins around the world. Evan walked away from the program, but not before amassing a fortune, which he now shares with those who need his help. In THE NOWHERE MAN, the tables turn on Evan as he is captured and now has to put together his smarts and physical talents not just to rescue himself, but to do it in time to save the next person who is calling for his help.

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Week of October 30, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of October 30th include Alec Baldwin's memoir, NEVERTHELESS, in which he chronicles the highs and lows of his life; THE NOWHERE MAN, book two in Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X series featuring Evan Smoak, who was Orphan X until he used everything he had learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man; THE GLASS UNIVERSE by Dava Sobel, the little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy; and Beatrice Colin's historical novel, TO CAPTURE WHAT WE CANNOT KEEP, which charts the relationship between a young Scottish widow and a French engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love.

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The Nowhere Man: An Orphan X Novel by Gregg Hurwitz

Spoken about only in whispers, it is said that when the Nowhere Man is reached by the truly desperate, he can and will do anything to save them.

Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man.

Taken from a group home at 12, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets --- i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. But the new head of the Orphan program hasn’t forgotten about him and is using all of his assets --- including the remaining Orphans --- to track down and eliminate him.

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