March's roundup of New in Paperback fiction titles includes KILL ME by Stephen White, whose anonymous narrator (a patient of clinical psychologist Alan Gregory) signs on with a company that promises to terminate him should his quality of life drop below a certain level; Lee Child's THE HARD WAY, in which ex-military cop Jack Reacher is thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face; JUDGE & JURY, a heart-pounding legal thriller from James Patterson and Andrew Gross that pits two people against a powerful and vicious mobster; BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS, the seventh installment in Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series; and THE SECRET SUPPER, an historical thriller from Javier Sierra in which Pope Alexander VI realizes that Leonardo da Vinci's painting, The Last Supper, contains clues to a baffling --- and blasphemous --- message.
Among our nonfiction highlights are AMERICAN THEOCRACY, in which former Republican strategist Kevin Phillips examines the coalition of forces that he believes is threatening the United States; THE MIGHTY AND THE ALMIGHTY by ex-secretary of state Madeleine Albright, who looks at the role of religion in shaping America's approach to the world; AMERICA'S BOY by Wade Rouse, a joyful and courageous memoir about a boy learning to embrace his own true nature; and A YEAR IN THE WORLD, in which Frances Mayes trades her familiar Tuscan surroundings for a year of discoveries and delights in extraordinary new destinations.
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18 SECONDS
George D. Shuman
Pocket Star
ISBN-10: 0743277171
ISBN-13: 9780743277174