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USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week.
1Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant ( Knopf, non- fiction, on sale Monday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Sandberg, whose husband, Dave Goldberg, died in 2015, and her friend, psychologist Grant, write a book about recovering from grief.
Facebook executive THE BUZZ: Sandberg coined a phrase and had a No. 1 USA TODAY best seller with her 2013 book for women, Lean In.
2 Beartown
by Fredrik Backman ( Atria, fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S
A hockey ABOUT: coach in a small town has to deal with the fallout when his star player Backman gets in trouble.
Backman’s sleeper THE BUZZ: hit A Man Called Ove is still selling and shows no signs of slowing.
3 Anything Is Possible
by Elizabeth Strout ( Random House, fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Explores characters from Strout’s 2016 best seller, My Name Is Lucy Barton.
It’s THE BUZZ: an Indie Next pick. “I loved this marvelous book,” says Jill Zimmerman of Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich..
4 Golden Prey
by John Sandford ( Putnam, fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Lawman Lucas Davenport returns, on the trail of a murderer tied to a drug cartel. THE BUZZ: The last thriller in the series, Extreme Prey, hit No. 1 on USA TODAY’s Best- Selling Books list in 2016.
5 I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories
by F. Scott Fitzgerald; edited by Anne Margaret Daniel ( Scribner, fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Collects stories Fitzgerald wrote, many during the 1930s, that were never published. Interest in THE BUZZ: Fitzgerald remains high in the 21st century; The Great Gatsby is a perennial seller, and Amazon just streamed the series Z: The Beginning of Everything, with David Hoflin portraying the writer.