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Local and Popular Reviews Books reviewed in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe or People WeeklyOctober 7, 2018
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A spark of light : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis..
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The Witch Elm : a novel
by Tana French
Left for dead by burglars while partying with friends, a happy-go-lucky charmer takes refuge at his dilapidated ancestral home before a grisly discovery reveals an unsuspected family history. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Trespasser.
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Man of war : an Eric Steele novel
by Sean Parnell
An intelligence operative draws on the elite skills he learned as a Special Forces soldier when an adversary from his past steals a nuclear weapon. A first novel by the author of the best-selling Outlaw Platoon.
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The last cruise : a novel
by Kate Christensen
A final voyage for a 1950s vintage ocean liner is disrupted by strife and malfunctions above and below decks, unexpectedly testing a former journalist, a sous-chef and a violinist. By the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man.
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Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami
An epic novel of love, war and art stands as an imaginative homage to The Great Gatsby. By the award-winning author of Colorless Tsukuro Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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What if this were enough? : essays
by Heather Havrilesky
Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification ofsuffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism.
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All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up--facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn't see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from--she wondered if the story she'd been told was the whole truth. With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child.
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Presidents of War
by Michael R Beschloss
The best-selling author of The Conquerors charts the controversial leadership, public reputations and evolving political powers of American wartime presidents from the War of 1812 through Vietnam, including Lincoln, Wilson and LBJ. Illustrations. Tour
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