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Local and Popular Reviews Books reviewed in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe or People WeeklyOct. 15, 2017
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The floating world
by C. Morgan Babst
Refusing to evacuate when Hurricane Katrina approaches the Louisiana Coast, Cora, the fragile eldest daughter of the Boisdorés family, inadvertently triggers a chain of events that strains her parents' marriage and subjects her to a mysterious act of violence. A first novel.
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The rules of magic
by Alice Hoffman
A prequel to the best-selling Practical Magic traces the story of the children of Susanna Owens, who, in spite of their mother's fierce edicts against witchcraft, develop powerful abilities while struggling to escape the family curse that leads to tragedy if they fall in love.
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Turtles all the way down
by John Green
In his long-awaited return, the author of #1 best-selling The Fault in Our Stars shares the story of Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. Simultaneous eBook.
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When they come for you
by James W. Hall
After her husband and infant son are brutally executed, photographer Harper McDaniel, aided by her Mafioso grandfather and well-connected financier brother, decides to finish her husband’s work by exposing a corporate conspiracy and personally taking down the men responsible for taking everything away from her. Original.
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The last Mrs. Parrish : a novel
by Liv Constantine
A coolly manipulative woman worms her way into the lives of a wealthy golden couple from Connecticut as part of her plot to achieve a privileged life, unveiling dark secrets along the way. 75,000 first printing.
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Testimony
by Scott Turow
Assigned to investigate the unsolved disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp during the Bosnian War, a disillusioned American prosecutor navigates a host of suspects while uncovering disturbing alliances and betrayals. By the best-selling author of Presumed Innocent.
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Fresh complaint : stories
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A first collection of short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides features some of his most acclaimed pieces, including the title story, in which a high school student, desperate to escape the strictures of her immigrant family, makes a drastic decision that upends the life of a British physicist.
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Paris in the present tense
by Mark Helprin
When faced with a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood and home, Jules—a 74-year-old maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widow, veteran of the war in Algeria and child of the Holocaust—must confront his complex past and find a way forward. By the author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War. $100,000 ad/promo.
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Admissions : life as a brain surgeon
by Henry Marsh
A memoir by the award-winning author of Do No Harm traces his post-retirement work as a surgeon and teacher in such remote areas as Nepal and Ukraine, illuminating the challenges of working in difficult regions and finding purposeful work after a career.
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Lady Killers : Deadly Women Throughout History
by Tori Telfer
Based on her popular online series that appeared on Jezebel and The Hairpin, the author, in this first book to examine female serial killers through a feminist lens, delves into the cruel and cunning minds of 14 women who, largely forgotten by history, had a penchant for murder and mayhem. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century
by Jessica Bruder
The author chronicles her time embedded in a pool of transient older Americans who have taken to the road in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads, migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers."
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