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Week of May 30, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of May 30th include CIRCLING THE SUN by Paula McLain, which brings to life Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, who as Isak Dinesen wrote the classic memoir OUT OF AFRICA; BLUEPRINTS, a riveting novel from Barbara Delinsky, who explores the limits of love and asks what happens when the right man comes along at the wrong time; Don Winslow's THE CARTEL, a gripping, true-to-life, ripped-from-the-headlines epic story of power, corruption, revenge and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican-American drug wars; and CHINA RICH GIRLFRIEND by Kevin Kwan, a wickedly funny novel of social climbing, secret emails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather.

Week of November 28, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of November 28th include THE PASSENGER by Lisa Lutz, the story of a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past; the latest Danielle Steel bestseller, PROPERTY OF A NOBLEWOMAN, in which a woman’s legacy --- shaped by tragedy, fortitude and undying devotion --- transforms lives and hearts long after she is gone, and fulfills at last her most precious bequest; and series additions such as THE STEEL KISS: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel by Jeffery Deaver and THE PROMISE: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel by Robert Crais.

Robert Crais, author of The Promise: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel

When Elvis Cole is secretly hired to find a grief-stricken mother, he's led to an ordinary house on a rainy night in Echo Park. Only the house isn't ordinary, and the people hiding inside are a desperate fugitive and a murderous criminal with his own dangerous secrets. LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, track the fugitive to this same house, coming face-to-face with Mr. Rollins, a killer who leaves behind a brutally murdered body and enough explosives to destroy the neighborhood. Scott is now the only person who can identify him, but Mr.