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On Sale the Week of January 23rd in Hardcover January 23rd HEFT by Liz MooreFormer academic Arthur Opp hasn't left his Brooklyn home in a decade. In Yonkers, 17-year-old Kel navigates life as a poor kid in a rich school. Kel’s mother, Charlene, is a former student of Arthur’s and calls him with a plea for help after two decades of silence. W. W. Norton & Company * 9780393081503 THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A Biography by John MattesonWriter and social critic Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. But she was also plagued by self-doubt. John Matteson captures Fuller’s longing to become ever better, reflected by the changing lives she led. W. W. Norton & Company * 9780393068054 January 24th ALL I DID WAS SHOOT MY MAN: A Leonid McGill Mystery by Walter MosleyAs his own life unravels, Leonid McGill investigates a complex case. Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man in bed with her friend. Zella didn't remember shooting him, but she didn't deny it either. And the police found $80,000 from a recent heist hidden in her storage space. Riverhead Hardcover * 9781594488245 AN AVAILABLE MAN by Hilma WolitzerWhen Edward Schuyler, a modest 62-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. Edward is still in mourning, but when his stepchildren place a personal ad in the newspaper for him, he is torn between his loyalty to Bee’s memory and his growing longing for connection. Ballantine Books * 9780345527547 BOND GIRL by Erin DuffyA bright, young, newly minted B-school graduate works her way up at one of Wall Street’s most prestigious brokerage firms --- only to confront the possible destruction of her dreams in the infamous 2008 financial bust. William Morrow * 9780062065896 CITY OF FORTUNE: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger CrowleyTracing the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga for the first time, CITY OF FORTUNE is framed around two of the great collisions of world history: the ill-fated Fourth Crusade in 1202 and the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503. Random House * 9781400068203 FAIRY TALE INTERRUPTED: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss by RoseMarie TerenzioRoseMarie Terenzio was John F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal assistant, his publicist, and one of his closest confidantes during the last five years of his life. Here, she recounts the unlikely friendship between a blue-collar girl from the Bronx and JFK. Gallery Books * 9781439187678 THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY by Margot LiveseyThe resonant story of a young woman’s struggle to take charge of her own future, THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY is a modern take on Charlotte Brontë’s classic, JANE EYRE. Harper * 9780062064226 MR G by Alan LightmanMR G is the story of Creation as told by God, or “Mr g.” Mr g is all powerful but not all knowing, and he does much of his invention by trial and error. As he watches his favorite universe grow, he begins to understand how the act of creation can change himself, the Creator. Pantheon * 9780307379993 PINEAPPLE GRENADE by Tim DorseyGloriously unrepentant Florida serial killer Serge Storms is back --- and he’s finagled his way into becoming a secret agent in Miami. The incomparable Serge takes up spying for the president of a Banana Republic, and now Homeland Security wants to bring him down. William Morrow * 9780061876905 TAKEN by Robert CraisWhen the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike --- and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken by professional border kidnappers. Putnam Adult * 9780399158278 January 25th A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY by Joshilyn JacksonFifteen-year-old Mosey is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. Jenny, Mosey's grandmother, holds together the strands of the three women's past, and will stop at nothing to defend their future. Grand Central Publishing * 9780446582353 WHY JESUS?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spiritualityby Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias believes that movements like New Age spirituality and society's obsession with human potential have combined like a "perfect storm" to redefine for popular culture what has been for centuries the classic biblical definition of the person, work and teaching of Jesus Christ. FaithWords * 9780892963195 Source: BookReporter.com email list