March’s roundup of New in Paperback fiction titles includes POWER PLAY by Joseph Finder, in which executives from an airline company are taken hostage on a corporate retreat --- and the only person who can save them is the one low-level employee who was not originally included on the trip; BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE, the 11th thriller from Lee Child to feature Jack Reacher, whose past collides dramatically with his present when he receives a call for assistance from a member of his former military police investigative unit; BACK ON BLOSSOM STREET, Debbie Macomber’s third novel set on a quiet Seattle street where friendship and knitting go hand in hand; SLIVER OF TRUTH, a follow-up to Lisa Unger’s BEAUTIFUL LIES, in which Ridley Jones is swept into a whirlpool of deceit and danger as she struggles to discover the truth about her father and herself; and NO! I DON’T WANT TO JOIN A BOOK CLUB by Virginia Ironside, a funny yet poignant story about embracing life beyond middle age.
Among our nonfiction highlights are MARLEY & ME, John Grogan’s heartwarming story of a wondrously neurotic dog who ultimately taught him and his family what really matters in life; THE MISTRESS’S DAUGHTER, an absorbing memoir in which noted fiction writer A. M. Homes recounts the unexpected discovery of her birth parents in her early 30s; and MY FATHER’S SECRET WAR, an intimate account of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks coming to know her own father after years of estrangement.