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So many incredible stories...

A RIVETING, NONFICTION THRILLER

From the bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers comes the story behind the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the most intense manhunt in U.S. history. Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished material, Hampton Sides presents the story of racist drifter James Earl Ray and the man he stalked and ;nally caught up to on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

With his incredible gift for storytelling, Sides illuminates one of the darkest hours in American history, giving us a look at the assassin’s chase, his crime and the 65-day manhunt that followed, from Doubleday.

Hardcover on sale April 27

PREPARE FOR AN INTENSE 61 HOURS When a tour bus crashes in a snowstorm, Jack Reacher is thrown into the center of a deadly confrontation. One brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town, and if she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Her enemies are strong but so is she, and in 61 quick hours Reacher ;nds himself risking his own life to keep her alive. With tension building from page to page, Lee Child’s 61 Hours (Delacorte Press) is a ticking time bomb of suspense.

Hardcover on sale May 18

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Hardcover on sale May 4

A GREAT AMERICAN VINTAGE

Todd Kliman takes
readers on a romp
through the untold
American history of
the Norton grape,
the country’s singular
claim to ;ne-wine
fame. More than the
story of the DNA of
an unknown grape
variety, The Wild Vine (Clarkson Potter) is
about heartbreak, determination, courage
and humanity—a delicious page-turner.

BECOME A WEIGH T;LOSS WINNER Let Jillian Michaels, the outspoken, driven strength trainer and life coach who has helped so many lose weight on TV’s The Biggest Loser, help you take control and ;x

Hardcovers on sale April 27

your metabolism. Her new three-phase plan will help you win the battle of the bulge by engaging weight-loss hormones that are keeping you from your goals. And The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook (Crown) provides recipes, snacks and cooking advice to make the very most of the Master diet plan.

A MASTERPIECE FROM A GREAT AMERICAN WRITER

When Leopold Bloom King’s family is shattered by unimaginable tragedy, he ;nds friendship and love among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders—orphans, runaways and socialites. The group grows together and supports one another though the years, and a ;nal test of their friendship brings them all to San Francisco, where they encounter something none of them is prepared for. Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad (Dial Press) has been worth the wait and is Pat Conroy at his very best.

Paperback on sale May 4

A RIVETING NEW MASTERPIECE David Martin is a struggling pulp ;ction writer who moves into an abandoned

mansion in the heart of Gothic Barcelona as
he hopes to get his story from his head to
the page. However, after
a visit to the Cemetery
of Forgotten Books, he
realizes that there may
be a connection between
his book and the dark
shadows that surround
his unusual home in The
Angel’s Game (Anchor),
now in paperback.
Paperback on sale
May 18

A POR TRAIT OF THE MYSTERIES OF MARRIAGE

Margaret May;eld is considered an old maid
in post–Civil War Missouri until she marries
Captain Andrew Early, a naval o;cer and
gifted astronomer.

Hardcover on sale May 4

But as the years go by,
Margaret begins to
realize that she married
a madman. Then, when
World War II becomes a
reality, a national crisis
shrouds the country and
Andrew’s obsessions
take an even darker turn
in Private Life (Knopf),
an unforgettable novel
by the Pulitzer Prize–winning Jane Smiley.