The New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World series  welcomes the 21st and 22nd additions to the collection this fall: I AM ANNE FRANK and I AM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. The inception for this series, now with more than 3.5 million copies in print, came from a personal place for Brad Meltzer: he wanted to give his own children heroes of character, kindness, and compassion – he did not want his children to emulate someone simply “famous for being famous” on social media. From his love of history, Brad knew there were better heroes for his children to look up to, and he decided to write about them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heroes for My Son, Heroes for My Daughter, a dozen suspense novels like The Escape Artist, and non-fiction books like The First Conspiracy. He is also the host of the History Channel television shows Brad Meltzer's Decoded and Brad Meltzer's Lost History (which he used to help find the missing 9/11 flag). He is the co-creator of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum – and of course, the inspiration for Brad. He lives in Florida with his wife and their three children.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Christopher Eliopoulos began his illustration career at Marvel Comics, and has worked on thousands of comics, including Cosmic Commandos, Monster Mayhem, Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius, Pet Avengers, and Cow Boy, all of which he wrote and illustrated. The Yawns Are Coming!, Christopher’s first picture book as both author and illustrator, is on-sale now. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their identical twin sons (when the boys are home from college).

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of MINDHUNTER and THE KILLER ACROSS THE TABLE returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer and one of the most disturbing psychopaths he has ever encountered.

Author Bio:

John Douglas, the legendary FBI criminal profiler, special agent, and veteran author of true crime books, has spent more than three decades hunting, researching, analyzing, and confronting America’s most disturbing criminals. A veteran of the United States Air Force, he has directly worked and/or had overall supervision in over 5,000 violent crime cases over the past 48 years. He is currently chairman of the board of the “Cold Case Foundation.” One of the foremost experts and investigators of criminal minds and motivations, he currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

Mark Olshaker is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of eleven nonfiction books and five novels, including Einstein’s Brain and The Edge. His books with former FBI Special Agent and criminal profiling pioneer John Douglas, beginning with Mindhunter and, most recently, Law & Disorder, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into many languages. Mindhunter is now a dramatic series on Netflix, directed by David Fincher. He and his wife Carolyn, an attorney, live in Washington, D.C.

Whether you know her from her million-copy and #1 New York Times bestselling phenomena Then She Was Gone or her Good Morning America book club pick The Family Upstairs, or even if you haven’t read her at all, Lisa Jewell’s INVISIBLE GIRL (Atria Books) should be your must-read suspense novel of the fall.

From her very first novel, Ralph’s Party, which was published in the States way back in 1999 and was the bestselling debut novel in her native UK that year, Lisa has consistently written stories that are “spellbinding and impossible to put down” (Minneapolis Star Tribune on The Family Upstairs) and “touching, insightful, and gripping” (Sophie Kinsella on After the Party). INVISIBLE GIRL is Lisa’s eighteenth novel, and while she has transitioned from ‘chick-lit’ mainstay to ‘queen of domestic suspense’ in the last five years, selling over 5 million copies globally at the breakneck pace of publishing one book a year, she has never sacrificed quality for quantity. Her books only seem to get better and more compelling with each word that she writes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eighteen novels, including The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone, as well as Watching You and I Found You. Her novels have sold more than 4.5 million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into twenty-five languages. Connect with her on Twitter @LisaJewellUK, on Instagram @LisaJewellUK, and on Facebook @LisaJewellOfficial.

Over the past months, viewers have watched Clarissa Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent, report  from the Syria-Turkish border as Kurdish families fled Turkish artillery; Ukraine, where she went to the front lines of the Ukrainian army’s fight against Russian-backed separatists; from inside a Russian troll factory in Ghana; and most recently on COVID-19 vaccine human trials at the University of Oxford—while eight months pregnant, from her living room home base. With her deep empathy for those suffering and her fearless dedication to speaking truth to power, Ward is world-renowned as a conflict reporter. The recipient of  multiple Peabody, Murrow, and Emmy awards, she has spent the past fifteen years reporting for four major  networks and moving from one hot zone to the next, her journalism defined by this age of extremism. In her gripping new memoir, ON ALL FRONTS: The Education of a Journalist (Penguin Press), Ward tells the story of her singular career and how she has documented the violent remaking of the world from close range.

About the Author

Clarissa Ward is CNN’s chief international correspondent. In her fifteen-year career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Ward has reported from front lines across the world. She has received five Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for distinguished journalism, honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association, the 2016 David Kaplan Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Excellence in International Reporting Award from the International Center for Journalists. She graduated with distinction from Yale University, and in 2013 received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Middlebury College in Vermont. She lives in London.

David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American history, understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography ABE: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (Penguin Press) is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War, and a framework for understanding the politics of our own divided age.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award. His other books include Beneath the American Renaissance (winner of the Christian Gauss Award), John Brown, Abolitionist, and Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. He is a regular book reviewer for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The Wall Street Journal.

In this breathtaking new publication, James Rollins brings together twelve thrilling stories that dig deeper into his creative stomping grounds and open vistas into new landscapes and characters. At the center of UNRESTRICTED ACCESS is the never-before-published novella "Sun Dogs.” While trekking through the Sonora desert, a gunshot thrusts Tucker and Kane into an adventure that challenges their considerable skills. The discovery of secrets known only to the native tribes of Arizona threatens to unleash an ancient force that could irreparably alter the future. It also forces Tucker to make a terrible choice that will shatter his relationship with his soul-bonded companion Kane. As these partners learn, nothing remains buried forever and old debts must be paid, no matter the cost.

About the Author:

JAMES ROLLINS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. His Sigma series has been lauded as one of the "top crowd pleasers" (New York Times) and one of the "hottest summer reads" (People magazine). In each novel, acclaimed for its originality, Rollins unveils unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs, and historical secrets-and he does it all at breakneck speed and with stunning insight.

Seldom has our free press faced so great a threat, and yet, the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself. George Washington, upon seeing an unflattering caricature of himself in a local newspaper “got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself,” according to then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Every president since has been tested by the American media.

Since the Founding Era, almost everything about access and expectation, literacy and technology has changed, but in THE PRESIDENTS VS. THE PRESS (Dutton), acclaimed scholar and Lincoln Prize winner Harold Holzer chronicles the eternal battle between the core institutions that define the republic, revealing that the essence of this confrontation is built into the fabric of the nation.

About the Author:

Harold Holzer is the recipient of the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, Holzer was appointed chairman of the US Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission by President Bill Clinton and awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. He currently serves as the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, City University of New York.

About Confessions on the 7:45:

New York Times bestselling author Tana French is that rare breed of writer who creates great excitement with

the publication of each of her crime novels. Her eighth novel and second standalone, THE SEARCHER

(Viking), has already become a standout and a critic favorite.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tana French is the author of seven previous books, including In the Woods, The Likeness, and The Witch Elm. Her novels have sold over three million copies and won numerous awards, including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry Awards, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family.

Based on new archival discoveries, the first biography of a man who was at

the center of U.S.  foreign policy for a generation

Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did—in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that influence under presidents of both parties. For three decades, he was at the center of American foreign policy, serving as advisor to five presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Gerald Ford, and as ambassador to the United Nations, Vietnam, West Germany, and the Vatican.

In The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War (Yale University Press), Luke A. Nichter brings to light previously unexamined material in telling, for the first time, the full story of Lodge’s life and significance.

About the Author . . .

Luke A. Nichter is professor of history at Texas A&M University–Central Texas and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for 2020-21.

Nichter is a noted expert on Richard Nixon’s 3,432 hours of secret White House tapes. He is the New York Times best-selling coauthor (with Douglas Brinkley) of The Nixon Tapes: 1971–1972. A sequel volume, The Nixon Tapes: 1973, was published in 2015. His work on the Nixon tapes was the winner of the Arthur S. Link–Warren F. Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His website, nixontapes.org, offers free access to the publicly released Nixon tapes as a public service.

Nichter’s other books include Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World, which was based on multilingual archival research in six countries. He is a former founding executive producer of C-SPAN’s American History TV, launched in January 2011 in 41 million homes, and his work has appeared in or has been reported on by theNew York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, New Republic, Financial Times, and the Associated Press.

For more information, including video and audio clips of recent interviews, visit his website at http://lukenichter.com/.