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Erin Morgenstern, author of The Starless Sea

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead.

Week of August 3, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of August 3rd include THE STARLESS SEA, Erin Morgenstern's long-awaited second novel following THE NIGHT CIRCUS, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world --- a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars and ships that sail upon a starless sea; FIND ME by André Aciman, which revisits the characters of Elio and Oliver decades after their first meeting in 2007’s CALL ME BY YOUR NAME; Elizabeth Berg's THE CONFESSION CLUB, an uplifting novel about friendship, surprising revelations and a second chance at love; LONG RANGE, the 20th installment in C. J. Box's series featuring Joe Pickett, in which the Wyoming game warden must investigate a murder that happens on his turf --- a murder committed from a confoundingly long distance; and THE NANNY, a dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets from Gilly Macmillan that explores the lengths people will go to hurt one another.