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Local and Popular Reviews Books reviewed in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe or People WeeklyFebruary 10, 2019
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The silent patient
by Alex Michaelides
A therapist becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering the truth about what prompted his client, an artist who refuses to speak, to murder her husband in a way that triggers mass public speculation. A first novel.
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The girls at 17 Swann Street
by Yara Zgheib
A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders. A first novel.
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Bowlaway : a novel
by Elizabeth McCracken
An unconventional New England family faces scandal, inheritance battles and questions of paternities as viewed through three generations of their owning and operating a candlepin bowling alley in Salford, Massachusetts.
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More than words
by Jill Santopolo
A woman mourning the death of her hotel-owner father and reeling from an astounding secret finds herself caught between the world of her longtime boyfriend and her passionate boss. By the author of The Light We Lost
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The Black Ascot : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery
by Charles Todd
An unexpected tip lands Inspector Ian Rutledge on the trail of a suspect behind a royal horse-race murder, only to find his own sanity brought into question by shocking events. By a New York Times best-selling author. 100,000 first printing
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
Hired to find a mysterious boy who disappeared three years before, Tracker joins a search party that is quickly targeted deadly creatures in the first novel of a new trilogy from the author of A Brief History of Seven Killings. (fantasy). Simultaneous
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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
by Stephanie Land
An economic-hardship journalist describes the years she worked in low-pay domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them. 75,000 first printing.
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Young Benjamin Franklin : the birth of ingenuity
by Nick Bunker
The Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of Making Haste from Babylon presents an account of Ben Franklin's early life to share insights into the challenges he overcame in a harsh colonial world and the passion for knowledge that inspired his scientific achievements
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