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Week of February 20, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of February 20th include DREAM TOWN, the third thriller in David Baldacci's Nero Award-winning series starring private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer, who heads to Los Angeles and is ensnared in a lethal case; THE PARIS APARTMENT, a fiendishly clever locked room mystery from Lucy Foley, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide; FRENCH BRAID by Anne Tyler, a funny, joyful and brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles; Amy Bloom's powerful memoir, IN LOVE, an illuminating story of two people whose love leads them to find a courageous way to part --- and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss; and the paperback original THE WOMAN WITH THE CURE by Lynn Cullen, a riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic.

Lynn Cullen, author of The Woman with the Cure

In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. Some of the world’s best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god. But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure. Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor, she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood. This discovery of hers, and an error by a competitor, catapults her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale, she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine --- and to decide what is forgivable, and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure.