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New in Paperback

Whether it's a hardcover reprinted in paperback, or a new book that just released in paperback, we're rounding up fiction and nonfiction titles worthy of your attention in our New in Paperback feature. Feel free to dog-ear the pages and fold back the covers!

Week of November 16, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of November 16th include THE WATER DANCER, National Book Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates' dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men and children --- the violent and capricious separation of families --- and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved; INSIDE OUT, actress Demi Moore’s bold memoir that lays bare the trials and traumas of her youth in an effort to better understand herself and her damaged family’s history; TOUCHED BY THE SUN, Carly Simon's loving chronicle of the late friendship that she and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis shared --- an intimate, vulnerable and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between these iconic and starkly different American women; and THE BIG LIE by James Grippando, which finds Miami attorney Jack Swyteck fighting for a “faithless elector,” caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent.

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Week of November 9, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of November 9th include NANAVILLE, a bighearted book of wisdom, wit and insight, celebrating the love and joy of being a grandmother, from beloved author Anna Quindlen; THE FALL OF RICHARD NIXON, Tom Brokaw’s up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president; TELL ME A STORY, in which Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature; A GOOD AMERICAN FAMILY, a riveting work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss, who captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family’s ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication; and FOLLOWERS by Megan Angelo, an electrifying story of two ambitious friends and the dark choices they make to become internet famous.

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Week of November 2, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of November 2nd include OLIVE, AGAIN, in which Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions; EDISON by Edmund Morris, the first major life of Thomas Alva Edison in more than 20 years, which portrays the unknown Edison --- the philosopher, the futurist, the chemist, the botanist, the wartime defense adviser, the founder of nearly 250 companies --- as fully as it deconstructs the Edison of mythological memory; POSTSCRIPT, the long-awaited sequel to Cecelia Ahern's PS, I LOVE YOU, which follows Holly Kennedy as she helps strangers leave their own messages behind for loved ones; and WHEN TIME STOPPED, a remarkably moving memoir from Ariana Neumann, who dives into the secrets of her father’s past --- years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.

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Week of October 26, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of October 26th include ME, the first and only official autobiography of music icon Elton John, who reveals the truth about his extraordinary life --- from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend; Jeff Lindsay's JUST WATCH ME, which introduces readers to Riley Wolfe --- a master thief and an expert at disguise who is not averse to violence when it’s needed --- as he plots an impossible crime: stealing the Iranian Crown Jewels; THE MUSEUM OF DESIRE by Jonathan Kellerman, which finds psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggling to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre; Nancy Thayer's LET IT SNOW, in which a Nantucket shopkeeper discovers that Christmas is the perfect occasion to make unexpected friendships, warm the coldest of hearts, and maybe even find love; and THE QUEENS OF ANIMATION by Nathalia Holt, the untold story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations.

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Week of October 19, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of October 19th include THE BOY FROM THE WOODS, a shocking thriller from Harlan Coben about a man with a mysterious past who must find a missing teenage girl; NINTH HOUSE by Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite; THE OLD SUCCESS, the 25th mystery in Martha Grimes' Richard Jury series, in which an unlikely trio of detectives teams up to solve three puzzling murders that span three counties across England; MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN, an essay collection from Leslie Jamison that explores the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession; and ATTICUS FINCH, in which historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee's father provided the central inspiration for each of her books.

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Week of October 12, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of October 12th include A MRS. MIRACLE CHRISTMAS, an uplifting holiday tale from Debbie Macomber, whose beloved protagonist, Mrs. Miracle, shows an ordinary family that they are blessed beyond belief; HOME WORK, a follow-up to Julie Andrews' critically acclaimed memoir, HOME, in which she reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and Victor/Victoria; THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA, a continuation of Martin Cruz Smith's series featuring Arkady Renko, who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist Tatiana Petrovna; NO STOPPING US NOW, a lively social history of American women and aging from acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins, who illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries; and JANIS, Holly George-Warren's intimate biography of Janis Joplin that establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.

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Week of October 5, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of October 5th include WALK THE WIRE, the sixth entry in David Baldacci's Memory Man series, which finds Amos Decker --- the FBI consultant with a perfect memory --- trying to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town; GRAND UNION, Zadie Smith's debut short story collection, which is about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us; IMAGINARY FRIEND, Stephen Chbosky's first novel since 1999's THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, an epic work of literary horror about a young boy who is haunted by a voice in his head; A SINGLE THREAD by Tracy Chevalier, the story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War; and Susan Ronald's CONDÉ NAST: The Man and His Empire, the first biography in over 30 years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst.

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Week of September 28, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 28th include KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM CRY, a thriller from Mary Higgins Clark that revolves around allegations of sexual misconduct at a high-profile television news network --- and the ensuing deaths of two of the accusers; FURIOUS HOURS, in which Casey Cep masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, who tried to write his story; Preston & Child's CROOKED RIVER, which finds Agent Pendergast facing the most inexplicable challenge of his career as he races to uncover the mystery of several severed feet found floating in the Gulf of Mexico; and THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century --- a tale of adolescence, transgression and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right.

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Week of September 21, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 21st include Thomas Harris' CARI MORA, a pulse-pounding thriller from the author of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS in which a resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath; FRANKISSSTEIN by Jeanette Winterson, an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence and queer love; Julia Kelly's latest historical novel, THE WHISPERS OF WAR, which follows three friends who struggle to remain loyal as one of them is threatened with internment by the British government at the start of World War II; and CLEAR MY NAME by Paula Daly, a page-turning work of psychological suspense about an investigator who, in order to free her client, must confront secrets she has struggled a lifetime to hide.

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Week of September 14, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of September 14th include WHAT HAPPENS IN PARADISE, the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Elin Hilderbrand's WINTER IN PARADISE, in which secret lives and new loves emerge under the bright Caribbean sky; THE ROAD HOME, the dramatic conclusion to Richard Paul Evans' riveting Broken Road trilogy --- a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66; Benjamin Moser's Pulitzer Prize winner SONTAG, the definitive portrait of one of the American century’s most towering intellectuals --- her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face; and CHASING THE BEAR by Lars Anderson, a dual biography of two coaching legends --- Bear Bryant and Nick Saban --- who built the Alabama Crimson Tide into a true football dynasty.

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