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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 tragedies she endured in her personal life, and

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