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The 20 Most-Anticipated Books of 2020

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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

By Jerry Mitchell

FEBRUARY | SIMON & SCHUSTER | $28

With a title that could not be more apt, Race Against Time is an expansion of Jerry Mitchell’s work as an investigative reporter. It reads like a fictional thriller, but is an all-too-true account of horrifying past crimes and those who perpetrated them.

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Anne Glenconner

MARCH | HACHETTE | $28

Royal obsessives and casual observers alike will devour this memoir by the confidante—a noble herself—of Princess Margaret. Glenconner candidly writes about the unimaginable

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