1942. Everywhere around the world, the Allies are losing the war. Nowhere is this felt more completely than in thePacific, where Japanese sea and ground forces claim victory after victory. Singapore falls. Then the Philippines. The vaunted American Navy fights to a draw with the Japanese at the Battle of Coral Sea. America's lone moral victory is ColonelJimmy Doolittle's bombing raid on Tokyo—though even that is tinged with tragedy as two crew members are shot down and beheaded.

Meanwhile in Honolulu, a brilliant young naval officer isdetermined to break Japan's top secret communication codes. Lt. Commander Joseph Rochefort is inches away from cracking the code by April. He is then startled to learn that the Japanese are planning yet another major invasionsomewhere in the Pacific. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is planning to send four aircraft carriers to complete this task, in a bold attack that will be even larger than the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

About the Author | Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, among them Taking London, Taking Paris, Taking Berlin, the Killing series, and The Explorers.

In LOUD AND CLEAR: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection (St. Martin’s Press) journalist Brian Anderson interviewed hundreds of people associated with the band and the construction of the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound itself, including band members, roadies, tech wizards, fans and many more, to tell the full story of the unprecedented and since unparalleled speaker system that was as tall as a school bus is long and more than a hundred feet wide.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BRIAN ANDERSON has been a Webby Award-winning senior features editor, writer, and producer at VICE in New York City (2011-2019). More recently, Anderson did a stint running the Science desk at The Atlantic (2020), where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team for early pandemic coverage, and was later a senior editor at Vox (2021-2022). His 2015 VICE feature on "The Wall of Sound” served as the jumping off point for his first book Loud and Clear. He currently lives and works in Chicago, where a piece of the Wall of Sound sits in his living room.#gratefuldead #braandersonian

In 2005, Kim Crespi had what she later described as “the perfect life.” She and her husband, David—a gentle giant of a man, devoutly religious, a loving father, and a proven star in the world of finance—had five healthy, happy children. No one, least of all Kim, ever suspected that the life the Crespis had lovingly woven together could bedestroyed in less than forty minutes.

In January of 2006, while Kim was getting a haircut, Davidmurdered their five-year-old twin daughters during a game of hide and seek. In the aftermath, family, friends, and even David had more questions than answers.

In Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder, Edward L.Jones III chronicles David Crespi’s struggles with insomnia and depression, the role SSRI antidepressants may have played in the killings, and Kim’s unimaginable journey of trauma, suffering, and eventual forgiveness as documented by her journal entries.

Using letters and other forms of personal communications with David, plus excerpts from scholarly articles and more, Jones takes readers on a journey into the dark heart of psychosis, of North Carolina’s penal and mentalhealth systems, and of Big Pharma.

EDWARD L. JONES III has been an award-winning writer in advertising and higher education. During his ad career, he won more than 350 awards for creativity. In his time away from advertising, Ed served as a community columnist for the Charlotte Observer. He lives in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina area. This is his first book.

As a professional cleaner, Abi Mariano never thought her apartment would have any sort of infestation, but because of a building-wide outbreak, she now needs somewhere to stay for a week. As a part-time student with two jobs, she doesn’t have many options. Then the solution presents itself: the owner of the penthouse she cleans is out of town for the week. She normally wouldn’t consider it, but he’s literally never around (she’s never even met him). It goes great…until she comes out of the bedroom one morning to find two strangers in the kitchen. They’re the parents of the penthouse owner and they seem to think they’ve heard all about Abi—not as their son’s maid, but as his girlfriend.

Declan Powell has always put his career first, working his way up to executive vice president at Hathaway Holdings, but he still has his eyes set on the next level. When his parents mention they met his girlfriend Abi, he all but chokes on his escargot. As great as it sounds that she was just darling, he doesn’t actually have a girlfriend—he made her up to get everyone off his back. When Dex finds out who Abi really is, he makes her a proposition: pretend to date him, and he’ll provide everything she needs during their little arrangement. What harm would it do? It’s purely business, no pleasure…right?

Lynn Painter is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies and Mr. Wrong Number, as well as the co-creator of five obnoxious children who populate the great state of Nebraska. When she isn't reading or writing, she can be found binge-watching rom-coms and obsessing over Spotify playlists.

#lynnpainter #usatoday

In THE UNRAVELING OF JULIA, the latest page-turner from #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline , we’re transported tothe captivatingly beautiful hills of Tuscany, where a crumbling villa hides a long-buried family secret. With her trademark combination of vivid, cinematic settings, pulse-pounding suspense, and wonderfully relatable characters, Scottoline delivers an unforgettable story of mystery and psychologicalintrigue.

Lisa Scottoline is a #1 bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 37 novels. She has also written a series of humorous memoirs, co-authored with her daughter, novelist Francesca Serritella. Lisa is President of Mystery Writers of America and she reviews fiction for the New York Times, WashingtonPost, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. A former trial lawyer, shegraduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and cum laude from its law school, where she taught Justice & Fiction. There are 30 million copies of her books in print, and she is published in 35 countries. Shelives on a Pennsylvania farm with an array of disobedient pets, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.

The definitive biography of William F. Buckley Jr., written by prize-winning biographer Sam Tanenhaus. This monumental work, more than two decades in the making, tells the compelling story of America’s greatest conservative andthe rise and fall of the movement he led. BUCKLEY vividly captures its subject in all his facets and phases, offering an authoritative account of an American giant and the world he made.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Sam Tanenhaus, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is the author of the national bestseller Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His feature articles and essays have appeared in the Atlantic, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. He is currently a contributing writer for the Washington Post.

The View From Lake Como is everything an immersive summer read should be—fresh, funny and heart-wrenching, with perfectly imperfect characters that readers will feel deeply connected to. With its vivid depiction of the complexities of familial relationships, this contemporary novel is a love letter to big Italian American families, Old World roots, and daughters who learn to live life on their own terms. ABOUT ADRIANA TRIGIANI Adriana Trigiani is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Good Left Undone, The Shoemaker's Wife and Lucia, Lucia. Her work has been published in thirty eight languages around the world. An award winning playwright, TV writer/producer, and filmmaker, Trigiani wrote and directed the major motion picture of her debut novel, Big Stone Gap, adapted her novel, Very Valentine, for television, and directed the award-winning documentary, Queens of the Big Time, among others. Adriana grew up in the mountains of southwest Virginia, where she co-founded The Origin Project, a year-round, in-school writing program that has served over 25,000 students since its inception in 2014. In 2023, Adriana Trigiani was named Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia by President Sergio Mattarella of Italy. In 2024, The Library of Virginia awarded her the Patron of Letters degree, their highest honor. A sought-after speaker, Trigiani is as engaging on the stage as she is on the page. She regularly speaks to book clubs, classrooms, libraries, literary festivals, and conducts writing workshops with women’s groups across the country. She has made regular appearances on NBC’s Today show and Good Day New York, and has been profiled by publications around the world, including The New York Times, Virginia Living, Publishers Weekly, and Writer’s Digest. Trigiani is honored to serve on the New York State Council on the Arts. She lives in Greenwich Village with her family. Listen to Adriana and the luminaries of our times discuss the books that built their souls on her You Are What You Read podcast, available everywhere. #adrianatrigiani #lakecomo

Richard Kopley, Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, Penn State DuBois, has written and edited books that focus on nineteenth-century American literature, with particular attention to Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. They are accessible and revealing works of analysis and discovery.