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The River We Remember – William Kent Krueger

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What could be more comforting than to travel back in time to a place where things were less frightening, American…

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A Line in the Sand – Kevin Powers

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Set some time after the Iraqi invasion and occupation, it features a Kurdish former military translator given a fast-track visa…

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Halcyon – Elliot Ackerman

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This tale of family, pride, power, and human weakness is set in a slightly bifurcated revisionist history with Gore as…

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The Peacock and the Sparrow – I.S. Berry

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This espionage thriller features Shane Collins, a worn-out CIA agent on his last posting in Bahrain. Berry has achieved a…

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Murder in Matera – Helene Stapinski

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In 1892, Stapinski’s great-great-grandmother Vita left Southern Italy for America with three children and no husband.  All that remained of…

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The Queen of Dirt Island – Donal Ryan

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In a series of short two page chapters, written in dense, elegant, flowing prose, Ryan recounts the tightly intertwined lives…

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Somebody’s Fool – Richard Russo

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In Part 3 of Russo’s continuing saga of North Bath, NY, the characters are overseen by the lingering spirit of…

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Small Mercies – Dennis Lehane

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Using the forced integration of the South Boston High School in 1974 as the ominous backdrop, he details the tragic…

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