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Laila Lalami, author of The Dream Hotel

Sara has just landed at LAX when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for 21 days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes. With every deviation from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facility, their stay is extended. Months pass, and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one day, a new resident arrives, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom.

Week of June 29, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of June 29th include Meg Waite Clayton's TYPEWRITER BEACH, an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star; VERA, OR FAITH by Gary Shteyngart, a poignant, sharp-eyed and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous 10-year-old daughter; THE KING'S RANSOM, the action-packed and steamy sequel to THE RECOVERY AGENT, in which Janet Evanovich takes readers on a global hunt to track down missing masterpieces; and A MARRIAGE AT SEA by Sophie Elmhirst, the electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea --- a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival and partnership stretched to its limits.