USA TODAY International Edition
New and noteworthy
USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week.
1 Paris for One and Other Stories by JoJo Moyes ( Pamela Dorman books/ Viking/ fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Moyes’ heroine finds herself alone in Paris when her boyfriend stands her up in the title novella.
THE BUZZ: Moyes is author of the No. 1 USA TODAY best- selling romantic weepie Me Before You, which inspired the movie that starred Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin.
2 The Preston, left, Obsidian and Child Chamber by Douglass Preston and Lincoln Child ( Grand Central, fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Special Agent Pendergast is missing and presumed dead. Then his ward, Constance, is taken captive by a figure from the past.
THE BUZZ: Crimson Shore, the last in the Agent Pendergast action- adventure series, hit No. 6 on USA TODAY’s Best- Selling Books list.
3 The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines ( W Publishing Group/ Thomas Nelson, non- fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The husband- and- wife team behind popular HGTV show Fixer Upper tells the story of their relationship and home- improvement business.
THE BUZZ: Also on Tuesday, fellow HGTV star Nicole Curtis ( Rehab Addict) will release her new book, Better Than New: Lessons I’ve Learned From Saving Old Homes ( and How They Saved Me) ( Artisan).
4 Truevine by Beth Macy ( Little, Brown, non- fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Tells the true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped in the Jim Crow South and displayed in the circus.
THE BUZZ: It’s both an Indie Next pick of independent booksellers and an Amazon Best Book of October.
5 The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith ( Simon and Schuster, fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In this World War II novel, a Venice fisherman rescues a Jewish girl he finds in a lagoon. Smith
THE BUZZ: “A thoughtful and engrossing novel with more than enough action to keep the pages turning,” says Kirkus Reviews.