Drs. David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele return to the show to discuss their new book, OATHBREAKERS: THE WAR OF BROTHERS THAT SHATTERED AN EMPIRE AND MADE MEDIEVAL EUROPE, the follow-up to their brilliant THE BRIGHT AGES.

Author Jessica James debuts with FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, a second chance friends to lovers to enemies to lovers romance about Valerie, a former pop punk star who gets the band back together and finds herself falling all over again for Caleb, her bandmate and first love.

LET'S CALL HER BARBIE is a fab fiction novel about the people who made Barbie a star: Ruth Handler, Jack Ryan, and Charlotte Johnson (Barbie’s Fashion designer!). Renée Rosen pulls back the curtain on all the obstacles that stood in the way of one of the boldest toy lines in history, and how how Handler made the Mattel company what it is.

Leah Konen returns to Turn the Page to chat about LAST ROOM ON THE LEFT, a thriller involving a writer, a snowstorm, a revitalized motel – and a dead body.

Shannon Ives stops by to talk about her lush debut, THOSE FATAL FLOWERS, which seamlessly blends Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony when a siren washes ashore on the North Carolina island in the 16th century.

Jenn chats with Cynthia Weiner about her arresting debut A GORGEOUS EXCITEMENT, her experiences growing up on the Upper East Side in the 1980s, the “preppy” murder that haunted the summer of 1986, and crafting fiction out of lived experience and “current” events.

Evelyn got a chance to chat with Zeeva Bukai about THE ANATOMY OF EXILE. The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart.

ESPN Sports Journalist Kate Fagan joins us to chat about THE THREE LIVES OF CATE KAY, the story of an author who has lived under pseudonyms to run from a past that she is only now coming to terms with.

Jenn chats with Elaine Neil Orr about DANCING WOMAN, a beautiful novel about a young expat artist in Nigeria, torn between two men and two cultures, struggling to find her passion and her purpose.

Friend of the show Alex Segura is back to talk about two incredible books released in late 2024: ALTER EGO, the standalone sequel to his award-winning SECRET IDENTITY, and ENCANTO: NIGHTMARES & SUEÑOS (we DO talk about Bruno!!).