Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, March 28:
The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse by Tom Verducci (Crown Archetype, $28, 9780804190015) looks at how the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time since 1908.
My Darling Detective by Howard Norman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780544236103) is a noir mystery set in 1970s Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The Women in the Castle: A Novel by Jessica Shattuck (Morrow, $26.99, 9780062563668) follows three German widows at the end of World War II.
It Happens All the Time: A Novel by Amy Hatvany (Atria, $26, 9781476704456) explores a seemingly platonic friendship shattered by a drunken kiss.
The Day of the Lie: A Father Anselm Thriller by William Brodrick (Overlook Press, $27.95, 9781468311167) stars a former lawyer who became a monk/detective.
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley: A Novel by Hannah Tinti (Dial Press, $27, 9780812989885) follows the daughter of a mysterious single father exploring his criminal past.
Old School: Life in the Sane Lane by Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein (Holt, $27, 9781250135797) complains about young people.
Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves (Knopf, $17.99, 9781101935996) is the first in a proposed YA fantasy trilogy set against the romance and political unrest of 19th-century Eastern Europe.
Happy Dreamer by Peter H. Reynolds (Orchard Books/Hachette, $17.99, 9780545865012) is a picture book about creativity and the messes and trouble it sometimes brings.
Paperbacks:
Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi (Soho Press, $16, 9781616957926).
Who You Think I Am by Camille Laurens (Other Press, $14.95, 9781590518328).
Movies:
The Zookeeper's Wife, based on the book by Diane Ackerman, opens March 31. Jessica Chastain stars in this true story of the Warsaw zookeepers who saved people and animals from the invading Nazis. A movie-tie in version (Norton, $15.95, 9780393354256) is available.
The Boss Baby, based on the children's book by Marla Frazee, is an animated film featuring the voices of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow and Tobey Maguire. It opens on March 31.
