6 Fantastic Books New in Paperback This March

March 11 2019
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If you have no reading plans this month, we can help with that. These fantastic books may have flown under your radar when they first came out, but there’s a chance for you to jump on the wagon this time around. On this month’s round-up of new paperback books, we’ve got everything you could ever want in a reading list—a sports novel for non-sports fans, a moving cross-cultural novel, an empowering memoir, and more.

Us Against You
by Fredrik Backman

The story didn’t end with BEARTOWN. US AGAINST YOU is Fredrik Backman’s sequel to the beloved novel about a small community tucked deep in the forest, called Beartown. US AGAINST YOU tells the heart-wrenching tale of the ways loyalty, friendship, and love carry the town through its darkest days. If you were engrossed in BEARTOWN, whether you’re a fan of hockey or not, don’t miss this lyrical sequel.

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Us Against You
Fredrik Backman

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A Place for Us
by Fatima Farheen Mirza

A gorgeous debut about family, love, identity, and belonging, A PLACE FOR US is one novel you and your book club must not miss. In it, we meet a family who gather to celebrate the nuptials of the eldest daughter. The reunion is wrought with deep-seated wounds, family secrets, and betrayals. As the estranged son Amar returns to take his place as brother of the bride, the family must come to terms with the choices they all have made.

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A Place for Us
Fatima Farheen Mirza

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Laura & Emma
by Kate Greathead

Hey, book clubbers, Kate Greathead’s unputdownable debut was a Belletrist Book Club pick and should be your next read too. In the vein of the film Lady Bird and perfect for fans of Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s big-hearted debut THE NEST, LAURA & EMMA follows Laura as she raises her daughter, Emma, as a single mother in 1980s New York City. Born into old money, Laura is awarded many privileges but burdened with many expectations. Featuring a cast of quirky and effervescent characters, LAURA & EMMA takes on topics like class, single motherhood, and privilege.

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Laura & Emma
Kate Greathead

“Masterly deftness, funny sentence by funny sentence...a moving and intricately braided story of two mothers.”JONATHAN FRANZEN, The Guardian

This “beguiling, addictive read” (People, Book of the Week) and Belletrist Book Club pick about a blue-blooded single mother raising her daughter in rarefied New York City is a “carefully observed family story [that] rings true to life” (The New York Times Book Review).

Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets a man. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she’s pregnant.

Enter: Emma.

“Unputdownable” (Library Journal) and “wryly observed” (Vogue), Laura & Emma follows Laura as she raises Emma in New York City over the next fifteen years. With wit and compassion, Kate Greathead explores the many flaws and quirks that make us human. Laura’s story hosts a cast of effervescent and original characters, including her eccentric mother, who informs her society friends and Emma herself that she was fathered by a Swedish sperm donor; her brother, whose childhood stutter reappears in the presence of their forbidding father; an exceptionally kind male pediatrician; and her overbearing best friend, whose life has followed the Park Avenue script in every way except for childbearing.

“Kate Greathead’s debut novel gamely takes on class conflict, single motherhood, and the discreet pretension of the 1980s Upper East Side” (New York magazine) and is a “layered story about mothers and daughters and identity” (Entertainment Weekly). Told in vignettes whose every “restrained and understated sentence has been polished to glittering brightness” (Vox), Laura & Emma is “an incisive comedy of manners about class divides and the ‘burdens’ of being born privileged” (Esquire) and “a thoughtful novel of trying to find oneself despite an assigned place in the world” (Publishers Weekly).

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Make Trouble
by Cecile Richards

MAKE TROUBLE is the inspiring and empowering memoir by former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards. Richards reflects on her long career as an activist, beginning with the time she was sent to the principal’s office in the seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. From the time she was young, Growing up in ultraconservative Texas, Richards was always encouraged by her parents to “make trouble.” Today, Richards is known for confronting unjust systems. This memoir details the lessons that have gotten her through good times and bad, and inspires readers to hope and action.

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Make Trouble
Cecile Richards

From Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood for more than a decade, daughter of the late Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, and “the heroine of the resistance” (Vogue), comes “an enthralling memoir” (Booklist, starred review) filled with “practical advice and inspiration for aspiring leaders everywhere” (Hillary Rodham Clinton).

Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal’s office in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. Richards had an extraordinary childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her civil rights attorney father and activist mother taught their kids to be troublemakers. She had a front-row seat to observe the rise of women in American politics and watched her mother, Ann, transform from a housewife to an electrifying force in the Democratic party.

As a young woman, Richards worked as a labor organizer alongside women earning minimum wage, and learned that those in power don’t give it up without a fight. She experienced first-hand the misogyny, sexism, fake news, and the ever-looming threat of violence that constantly confront women who challenge authority.

Now, after years of advocacy, resistance, and progressive leadership, she shares her “truly inspiring” (Redbook) story for the first time—from the joy and heartbreak of activism to the challenges of raising kids, having a life, and making change, all the while garnering a reputation as “the most badass feminist EVER” (Teen Vogue).

In the “powerful and infinitely readable” (Gloria Steinem) Make Trouble, Richards reflects on the people and lessons that have gotten her through good times and bad, and encourages the rest of us to take risks, make mistakes, and make trouble along the way.

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Sorority
by Genevieve Sly Crane

This novel of interwoven tales is a voyeuristic exploration of “Greek life” and the many secrets–laden female friendships inside your favorite sororities. PREP meets GIRLS IN WHITE DRESSES, SORORITY details the undercurrent of tension in a world where perfection comes at a cost.

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Sorority
Genevieve Sly Crane

Sisterhood is forever…whether you like it or not.

Prep meets Girls in White Dresses in Genevieve Sly Crane’s deliciously addictive, voyeuristic exploration of female friendship and coming of age that will appeal to anyone who has ever been curious about what happens in a sorority house.

Twinsets and pearls, secrets and kinship, rituals that hold sisters together in a sacred bond of everlasting trust. Certain chaste images spring to mind when one thinks of sororities. But make no mistake: these women are not braiding each other’s hair and having pillow fights—not by a long shot.

What Genevieve Sly Crane has conjured in these pages is a blunt, in-your-face look behind the closed doors of a house full of contemporary women—and there are no holds barred. These women have issues: self-inflicted, family inflicted, sister-to-sister inflicted—and it is all on the page. At the center of this swirl is Margot: the sister who died in the house, and each chapter is told from the points of view of the women who orbit her death and have their own reactions to it.

With a keen sense of character and elegant, observant prose, Crane details the undercurrents of tension in a world where perfection comes at a cost and the best things in life are painful—if not impossible—to acquire: Beauty. A mother’s love. And friendship…or at least the appearance of it. Woven throughout are glimmers of the classical myths that undercut the lives of women in Greek life. After all, the Greek goddesses did cause their fair share of destruction….

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The Punishment She Deserves
by Elizabeth George

Elizabeth George’s latest Lynley novel might contain the most compelling mystery yet! When the deacon of a cozy town—suspected of a serious crime—dies while in custody, all the evidence points to suicide. However, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and her partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are convinced that’s not the case. But as they delve deeper and deeper into this mysterious death (or murder?), they discover that everyone in this quiet, bucolic town has something to hide.

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The Punishment She Deserves
Elizabeth George

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