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Local and Popular Reviews Books reviewed in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe or People WeeklyJune 16, 2019
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Summer of '69
by Elin Hilderbrand
A pregnant eldest sibling, a middle-sister civil rights activist, an infantry soldier brother deployed to Vietnam and a lonely 13-year-old youngest child find their lives upended by troubling family secrets.
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
by Claire Lombardo
The four adult daughters of two Chicago parents who have been madly in love for decades recklessly ignite old rivalries, until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they built.
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Patsy : a novel
by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described. By the award-winning author of Here Comes the Sun.
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Searching for Sylvie Lee : a novel
by Jean Kwok
The best-selling author of Girl in Translation draws on a personal family tragedy in the story of three women from a Chinese immigrant family who navigate complicated secrets when an elder daughter goes missing.
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Big sky
by Kate Atkinson
Investigating a new client's suspicions about an unfaithful spouse, iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie is catapulted by a chance encounter into a sinister network of secrets and lies. By the award-winning author of Case Histories.
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Backlash : a thriller
by Brad Thor
Far from home and surrounded by enemies in the wake of an unforgivable betrayal, Scot Harvath tests the limits of his training in an effort to escape and exact revenge. By the award-winning author of Spymaster. 500,000 first printing
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Cari Mora
by Thomas Harris
A ruthless man driven by unspeakable appetites to pursue a fortune in cartel gold finds his efforts challenged by a war survivor with unusual talents. By the award-winning author of Silence of the Lambs. 600,000 first printing
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Before I Wake by David MorrellFourteen stories from the author of First Blood and the Thomas De Quincey series encompass a range of themes, settings and approaches.
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Rogue strike
by David Ricciardi
Organizing a missile attack on a gathering of al Qaeda leaders in Yemen, CIA agent Keller and his partner discover they have been set up when the missiles stop responding to their signals and land on a civilian group.
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Star path : people of Cahokia
by W. Michael Gear
A latest entry in the Cahokian story cycle finds the former matron of the Four Winds Clan and her master thief companion navigating treacherous elements and hostile barbarians when an old enemy reemerges America's greatest pre-Columbian city.
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Crossing by Pajtim StatovciMourning the loss of his father, Enver Hoxha leaves the ruins of Communist Albania with his fearless best friend, Agim, who is questioning his own sexuality, and the pair set off for Italy where they struggle to feel at home.
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My life as a rat : a novel
by Joyce Carol Oates
Exiled from her family and church since the age of 12 for testifying honestly about a racist murder, a young woman reflects on the wrenching choice she was forced to make between her family and the truth. 40,000 first printing.
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On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel
by Ocean Vuong
A first novel by the award-winning author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds is written in the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read about the impact of the Vietnam war on their family.
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The porpoise : a novel
by Mark Haddon
The award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time presents a fantastical novel about the theft of female agency by rapacious men and the ways in which archetypal stories can warp history and the present.
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